The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-15
RECORD OF SUNSHINE
MONTGOMERY HORSE COMES
 INTO PROMINENCE.
Wholesmoe Respect Created in Geor- gia for Alabama Animals-Squire
 Brovn Gossips of the Sports $ and Sportsmen'

A month or so ago the names Sunshine, Alabama, Butts Kohn and Annie Carey were not very well known down in this section outside of Montgomery. The meeting at Macon last week changed all that, however. and now that quartette of fast steppers are not only thoroughly we'll known but a wholesome respect has been created for them. Sunshine's record in Macon was phenomenal. After win ming in straight heats Wednesday in 2:13 1-2, 2:15 and 214 he started Tn the free-for-all Friday and won the hrst neat in 2:15 after hardly having a breathing spell from Wednesdays hard race. In the free-for- all Annie Caffey made a splendid record. winning two heats ana finishing so close up that It Is questl0n- able if she was not entitled to the decis- ion.
 Now. conditions in Atlanta are entirely different. To begin with, the track over there is a half mile affair and l under stand that it Is not as fast as 1t might be. The meeting there opens Thursday and in some mysterious manner Butts Kohn has been slided into the 2:p pace for the afternoon. There are eleven en- tries in that race but not one or them is known. hear though. that Judge, | a Wilkes gelding from Tocoa. Ga. Is pret- | ty good as is also bay mare from An | niston, Miss Rosa Jones. If any or them | can get down to anywhere close to 2:l4 | they can probably fight MT. Gersons in- | bred Hal horse.
 Saturday there will be a more interest ing affair-a 2:2O pace with ten entries, including Sunshine, Alabama and Annie Caffey. George Starr. the Alimont horse for-all in Macon last Friday, and Sena- tor Vance, the Thomasville. Ga. horse who was to have gone against Butts Kohn in the 2:l3 that was declared off in Macon Friday. are also entered. Harry, an Ohio horse is entered in the 2:40 pace Thursday and also in this 22O pace Sat urday; from what I nave heard l,5l though, ,is h. from Danville, Ky. is pretty fast and altogether the 2:20 promises to be a horse race from the first score down to esting event next Monday when Butts | Kohn, Countess Cecil. Starr Patchen, descendent of the family that produced Starr Pointer and 9arroW, the son of | side on the 29th of last August, got to- gether in a 2:A class pace; If Narrow | can't improve much on the time that ne | made here-2:H 1-4 in his third heat-he | won't stand much show with that bunch, Alabama is in the 2:20 pace Friday with Sunshine and Annie Caffey and the ease with which she got second money in Ma con whenever she wanted 1t, proves that she is good enough for any of them. The Atlanta track is an Association affair. | while Macon and Montgomery tracks are | not and if the judges in Atlanta think that the mare Is not being driven out. why there Is liable to be trouble that all.
 Auburn will have her first college foot | ball game of the 1901 season next Satur- day and 1t promises to be battle royal:
 Saturday they play the University of | Nashville in Birmingham and the Satur- day following Is the game here between | Auburn and Vanderbilt. Last saturday the University of Nashville played the University of Texas: team that is rank- ed as among the fastest in the South
 Texas was the only team in 1898 that was able to hold the fast Sewanee team down and unless they have a poor team this year 1t argues that the University of Nashville has an unusually strong team,
 With the splendid work that the locals
 gave Auburn Saturday. however, and
 week to round up In Auburn should be in good shape Saturday, The enthusiasm
 in Auburn this year Is, l understand greater than ever before. Billy Williams
 has out four complete teams every af-
 ternoon and his thorough coaching Is giv:
 ing them all the work they want ant
 need Martin, last years captain of the
 Auburn team and Tichenor have beer
 helping in the shaping up process and the
 indications are that rattling good team
 will be turned out. Martin left yesterday
 for Tuscaloosa where he will help Mike Harvey shape up the Tuscaloosa team
 Manager Mcclure of the local foot bal
 team has about concluded arrangements
 for game with Mobile to be played 1T
 Mobile on Thanksgiving day. The Moollt
 team is said to be enc of the stronges
 in the South and Is working under the
 direction of a professional coach:
 The plucky manner in which the loca
 team played the strong Auburn eleven or
 last Saturday ju3tifies the prediction thai
 Montgomery can held her own agains
 any Athletic club team in the South.
 While Montgomery had the misfortune to have Lum and Shafer. two of hel
 best players injured in the early part oi
 the game yet in a crippled condition anc
 with light substitutes filled in they play ed the game to finish and repeatedly held the strong Auburn team for downs | A spectator who witnessed the gam' | spoke in the highest terms of brillian
 work of the Montgomery men. Some o
 whose plays were decided features Of th' game.
 Elmore did some sensational tackling a
 end Captain Patterson and Shaferi | games at tackles and Dexter'S work a
 center were of the highest order, whil
 the defensive work interference of Stick
 ney Mcclure and ThoringtOn were very | effective Behind the line Billing showed up in great shape and on one occasion or l an end run succeeded in crossing fou
 chalk lines before he was downed Enthusiasm Is running high and regular
 practice will be kept up from now on. The many friends of Will Lum thu plucky half-hack of the Montgomery team. were happy to learn that his iniu ries were not so bad as at first thought
 as he was ont walking around the day
 after the game, and Is now all right. Squire Brown.