The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-10-25

Anna Gay. cloverbottom farm; R. w., Reeves and Broadnax; Buckennedy. s. c. Burpie; Dr. Gray Frank Walton; Tommy Boan, F. B. Johnson; Annie D., w. J. Kurlin.
 Free for all pace-Indiana; Anna Calf fee, F. c. Newell; Strathmeath, w. s. Moughon; Frank Keenen, c. D. Carter; Japo, Jr., R. M. Abram; Baby Kid, R. L. Parker; Manga Pierce, l.. Lawler; Bad News, Jewell and Neagle
 Friday, October 31, free for all trotting Briggs, Chenoworth and Anderson; Vanmeater, Walter Northangton Sum- mer Fern, W. L. Baker.
 Gentlemen's driving race-Harry, w. S. Moughon; Griggs Chennwcrth and Anderson; Katie s, Sunshine, T. M. Eyer; Robert P, D. J. Fox.
 The track is in excellent condition and the meet will it is said. be the finest held in Birmingham and one of the best ever held in the south The track is con sidered to be one of the fastest in the country.
 The judges will be Dr. A. H. French. Eugene F1es and Culpepper Exum; timers. P. G. Shook, Major Anderson and Captain Morson. Secretary of the course. w. B. Flemming.
 Football Teams. The lineup of the football teams which will play today is as follows:
 Marion-Ingn, center; Anderson, right guard; Curry, left guard; Long, right tackle; May, left tackle; Carter, right end Smith, left end stallsworth, right halfback; LanderlSin, left halfback; Will kerson, fullback.
 Howard-Gwinn, center; Upshaw, right guard; cooper left guard; Brown, right tackle; Neetles, left tackle; Ray, right end; Stevens, left end; Martin, right half back; Spruell (capt), left halfback; Rou- ton, fullback
 Howard subs are Counts, Tyrant, Mor rison and Stewart. Coach, Houston Gwinn Auburn's center.
 The colors for Marion are orange and black and for Howard crimson and blue | The team from Marion arrived In the | city last night over the Alabama Great | Southern at 10:30 o'clock and were es- corted to the Florence hotel by a com pany of the Howard college boys It is probable the visitors will outweigh the Howard boys several pounds to the man, but the home team believes it has been trained harder and will more than be able to hold its own. Coach Arthur Stewart has done some hard work with his team since the last game, and has improved 100 per cent.
 The Howard boys go Into the game with one or two men laid out on account of being injured in practice games. The team will average about 140 pounds, and Coach Gwinn thinks his team will be in condition to pass the goal lines more than the out-of-town boys. The grounds in which the game is to be played are not in very good condition. but they will be worked on this morning and Improved so as the men will not be In any extra danger of getting injured. It will be lined up and the goal posts | erected.
 Balloon Ascension. The balloon ascension was attended with more than usual interest yesterday afternoon at the fair grounds, 1t having | been reported that Sam Worcester well known in Birmingham. had taken the place of the aeronaut and would drop in the parachute.
 It is not known where the report com menced, but many of his friends were very much frightened at the report ana were frantic in their endeavors to ina 6AN%7cCS balloon more closely. The report proved to be mistake The report reached the city far in advance of the people coming from the fair grounds and was all over town by 6 o'clock.
 The Baby Show.
 About eleven babies were entered in the baby show. The first prize was won pv Miss Florence Elizabeth Burns. She won the prize two years ago and the judges were very much surprised yesterday when they learned that their choice had been the same as the judges two years previous.
 The prize for the fattest child was won by @ brother of Miss Burns, Robert Bowman Burns. The prize for the hano- somest baby boy was won by Eldridge Query Cabaniss, the son of MT. and Mrs. E. H. Cabaniss. Thelma Moore won sec ond prize for the prettiest baby girl
 The others entered were Mge Loy, Jr, Edward Tutwier Hobson, Wilmer C. Holmes, Joseph Gardner and Ed Odell Smith. Two Indian papooses were en- tered In the show and each won prize No one knows which won first and which won second, but their names are Rosa Prafneailx and Robert Ruffato IJaod