The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-23
The TECHS WILL Be HERE.
Some Points on The Great American
College Game.

Manager Finney Talks of the Prospects
of Saturdays Game Between the
archaeological Team and Savannah's
Team-The Team Now Hard at Work.
A More General Interest in Athletic
Sports to Be Developed in Savannah.
Manager Finney of the Savannah foot
ball team received a telegram yesterday
from the manager of the archaeological
School team. Mr.. ]. Adgee Stewart, ac-
cepting the terms offered by him and say
ing that the team would be down Sat
urday, bringing with it a large crowd of
students. Capt. Walker has his men out
every night in the Park Extension, where
all who take an interest in the game
are invited to come.
Lovers of the game will have a pleasant
afternoon next Saturday at the base ball
park and college students viii once again
feel the thrills of delight that filled their
hearts in the old days as they hear again
the college yell and see the college colors.
The colors of the association are to be
brown and white. Those of the Tech.
team are white and gold.
The association will meet some time
this week to appoint an advisory COM
mittee, and also to take some steps to-
ward forming a permanent organization
on broader basis than there has been
heretofore. Manager Finney said last
night that it is the hopes and intentions
of the association to arouse and develop
the interest in athletic sports this winter
so that by next year a general athletic
club can be formed.
Savannah" he said, needs just such
an organization, for with the mild win
ters here the outdoor sports could be
carried on from October until May 1t is
the ideal climate for tennis playing Sa-
vannah has already several old champion
tennis players, and it is surprising that
no tennis clubs exist here. The boating
interest, which was so full of promise
here several years ago, has fallen through
owing to lack of organization. Boating
by itself does not pay, as the great col
lege crews of Harvard and Yale have
found out, but carried on in connection
with the other sports which can be made
to pay handsomely, a balance could be
carried over TO help out the boating in
terests."
1.-THE association also hopes to be able
to organize boxing and fencing classes
These sports, especially the latter, are
NpO illuCn lSEltClCu by our young men.
Nothing tends so much to improve the
health and physique, or to give a man
clear head and eye and graceful bear
ing as these sports, apart from the
pleasure and confidence it gives to all
| men, old and young. There is no town in
the north but has its athletic or field club,
and already the movement is spreading
south. Richmond has organized an ath-
letic club that is doing good work, and It
Will never do for Savannah, progressive
as she is in all other lines, to fall behind
in this respect"
The interest in Americas great college
game is growing every year. Over the
whole country men and women are dis
cussing the outcome of the great game
by Yale-Harvard to be played at SPRING
| field Nov. "a, and the greatest of all the
! games, Yale-Princeton, to be played on
| Thanksgiving day in New York. No one
| that has ever witnessed one of these
| games can forget the wild excitement
| While the game to be played here next
! Saturday will not be as well attended
nor, perhaps, as well played, yet it will
probably be hard and exciting contest.
The Tech team last year defeated
| the Athens team, which tied
the Savannahians, but Capt
Walker says his team will be
much stronger this year than last, as
many of the men who played on the team
last year have profited by the expert
ence gained in the two games here, and
the game played in Atlanta, and several
| new men, who are old college players, will
be with them.
IF the Techs win they will have to fight
for it," said Capt. Walker. 1t is the re-
quest of the management that all who
can will come out to the practices in the
evenings, as the team has not definitely
been decided upon, and some positions are
rather weak.