The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-11-28

< Auburn vs. University of Georgia < < at Atlanta. * nessee at Birmingham. * Vanderbilt vs. university of x < Nashville at Nashville. Cornell vs. Pennsylvania at Phil- x * Columbia vs. Carlisle Indians. at < | < New York. isssss $ E $ as @ | This is the day for which most of the college football teams have been work ing since the close of their baseball sea- | son in the fall.
 The Thanksgiving Day football games are usually annual affairs and naturally | the rivalry between the teams makes the l struggle more interesting. The very best men and the strongest possible elev- ems are saved for this day and put in the field by the rival colleges, and it is | always a fight to the bitter end: The game in which Mentgomerians are the most interested Is the Auburn-Georgia game in Atlanta today. and crowd of local football fans will leave this morn ing for Atlanta and take in the game | this afternoon. Both of the teams have been seen in Montgomery this season. and with an unprejudiced, unbiased opinion everyone will agree that the Auburn team has the best of the Georsians as far as speed and teamwork goes. l., Montgomery with the Athens team. how ever. it will be remembered that the team was in a crippled condition and perhaps it would not be fair to compare tnat team with the one that will go against Auburn today. Even with all this con sidered the bets are to l that Auburn wins the game, even money that Auburn | doubles the Georgia score and even money that Georgia does not score. | Another game in which Montgomerians are greatly interested Is the Tuscaioosa- | Tennessee game in Birmingham today, | and several Montgomerians will leave this morning fer Birmingham to take in | that game. Tuscaloosa has a pretty fast team this season. but if Tennessee has anything like the team of L last ,d season so n | the small end of tine final score. | Probably the fiercest and fastest game | that will be played in the South today will be the Vanderbiit-Nashville game in | teams and probably among the fastest ever tuYned out in the South. Nashville | has never been seen here but the people of Montsome,ry fnew what the 'ah0ef- | There will be another annual game in | the East today that will prove interest | ing-the Cornell University of Pennsyl- vania game. On account of the intense | rivalry between the boat crews of Cor | nell and Pennsylvania, the football IT, valry is always high. Pennsylvania has | beaten Cornell nearly every year In the l past but judging from the performances of the two teams this season, the lth- acans will have a virtual walk-over in Philadelphia this afternoon. Pennsylva- nia won last year by score Of ~ to '; but those figures bid fair to be reversed l today.
 The Columbia-C Carlisle game today does | not hold out much promise as far as fast work goes, both teams proving disap, | pointments this season. Columbia won by score of 17 last year, the Indians get ting one touchdown and kicking goal. The usual holiday crowd will be out Tn New York. however, and MontgomseIh,aas sth as
 much interest as the Southern gamee
 for there are several Cornell, West Poin,
 and Annapolis boys in the city. The personnel of the local team for the Southern League of the 1902 season is al r ready being gotten together ana tn' } prospects are that Montsomery VII nav nay, , with any of them. One of the pitohinl
 staff of the local team will probably DC local man-one of the most popular
 ball players in this part of the country
 and for several years a member of the | pitC hing department of one or the Na'
 tional League teams.
 A rumor was prevalent in the city yes
 terday that Eddie Pabst, the hard-hit
 ting, fast-helding first baseman on DicN
 Germans local team of 1886, will manage the locals next season. It would be g
 ten-strike for the packers of the loca
 team if this rumor proves true' fol
 Pabst is undoubtedly one of the most
 popular ball players that ever sported 2
 Montgomery uniform.
 With his unusual height 1t Is almost ar
 impossibiity for a fielding ball or line i, hit towards first to get by him, while ht
 throws around the bases or across tht
 diamond with the velocity and accuracy
 he was at bat 405 times. got 139 hits
 stole 24 bases and scored an even 1O
 runs.
 | crers al 0f them 3-baRRerS and Din
 home runs. That shows his hitting pow
 CTS, his batting average for that seasor
 being 343. In the same number of game
 he got BPS put-outs. 31 assists and only
 IS errors, his fielding average for the sea
 son being 1882.
 It all goes to show that in batting
 fielding and base-running Eddie Pabst Il , way above the average ball player, ant with him wearing the managerial togi
 Montgomery will be pretty safe. Considerable interest is taken in tn local football game between the Athleti
 Club team and the Louisville and Nash
 vile at the ball park this afternoon
 The lineup of both teams contain ex
 members of college teams: Auburn. Tus
 caloosa, Vanderbilt, Sewanee, Princeton Harvard and Cornell being represented
 The game ought to be fast one an
 well worth watching.
 This afternoon the winter meeting (
 the Crescent City Jockey Club at Ne y Orleans begins, and for the next fe ? months the Montgomery sports will hay an opportunity of dallying with tn
 ponies and going broke on good thing
 near home.
 In stuffed init circles the event of tn
 day will be the McGovern-Corbettf figh in Hartford, Conn, tonight-it takes nervy man to get up against Terribl Terry, but Young" Corbett may knov
 his own business A lot of Montgomer!
 money has gone to Hartford at to
 on McGovern- Squire Brown. Squire Brown. INTEREST AT HIGH PITCH.
 Big Crowd of University and Tow