Hollywood School was a pretty big institution, with a registration of close to four hundred students, and that the visitors held the home team to one touchdown and scored a like number of points spoke well for them. Oddly enough, both the Hollywood left half-back and the Grafton full-back failed at an easy goal and the final score was 6 to 6, a result more satisfactory to Grafton than to Hollywood. All things considered, Grafton had a right to and did consider the tie a virtual victory, while the home team and its friends probably looked on it as closely akin to a defeat. At all events, Grafton went home well contented and a bit vociferous, the only fly in the ointment represented by the fact that Mount Morris had overwhelmingly defeated the St. James Academy team from which Grafton had barely won two weeks before. Still, as Nick declared to Bert and Hugh on the way back to the Junction, St. James had presented a make-shift eleven because of injuries the Saturday previous and Mount Morris had probably had a much easier task than Grafton had experienced. But Nick had to acknowledge that 26 to 3 was a heap different from 12 to 10, by which score Grafton had taken the measure of St. James. Mount Morris had been having an unusually successful season. She had met one more team than Grafton and had so far not only escaped defeat but had won each contest decisively. On the other hand, the Scarlet-and-Gray had been once beaten and once tied; and there was a strong probability of its being defeated again next Saturday when it played Lawrence Textile School. Mount Morris had a big, heavy team, although its back-field had shown itself capable of speed, and was playing this fall almost the same line-up as last; a couple of new linesmen and a new quarter were the only changes in the eleven. But today’s showing against Hollywood was distinctly encouraging to Graftonians, and there were plenty of fellows among players and supporters who refused even to consider the possibility of a win for the green-and-white cohorts of Mount Morris. Captain Ted Trafford was one of them, but Ted had the convenient faculty of being able to believe what he wanted to, and his views had not very much weight with his friends.