The Savannah morning news., 1903-11-28
ON NEUTRAL GROUND
GAME BETWEEN SAVANNAH AND
CHARLESTON MAY BE PLAYED.
WILL PROBABLY BE AUGUSTA.
FEAR THAT RIVALRY MAY BRING
UNSATISFACTORY RESULTS.

Augusta Is Anxious to Secure the
Contest, as 1t Will he One of the
Hardest Fought Battles on the
GridirOn of the Ycar-Great Inter-
est Already Centers in the Com
teSt-Seven of CIemsOn's Crack
Team of This Season Will Line Up
with ChnrIestOn-SaVann Line
Up Will BE the Same as That Put
Up Against Georgia.
Negotiations are now pending between
the Savannah and Charleston football
teams TO the end of arranging for the
annual game between these two elev-
ems to be played at Augusta, the Sa-
vannah team advocating neutral
grounds for the contest.
1t is we'll known here that when Sa-
vannah goes up against the Charles
ton eleven. it win practically line up
against Clemson, as seven of this
years team. with additions from for
mer teams. win compose the line up.
No objections will be offered to this,
as the blue and white eleven are anx-
ious to enter the lists with one of the
real irst-class teams of the South, and
interest everywhere is centering in the
game.
The reason for a desire on the part
of the Savannah eleven to play the
game On neutral ground is that the
intense rivalry between the two may
engender i'll feelings, and it is believed
here that it would be far more salts
factory to play the game in Augusta.
Augusta Anxious to Get Game.
Augusta is anxious to get the game.
1t is realized there that if the con-
test is pulled off there that Augusta
people wall have an opportunity of see
ing two of the best teams In the South,
-and will be able to draw distinctions
between a regular college team and
city team.
No attempt has been made to con-
ceal the fact that there is i'll feeling
between the two cities. Charleston has
never forgotten the unpleasantness of
their last game here, and while the
cooler heads of Savannah deeply de-
plored the incident. and would have
done anything to have prevented it,
this would have no effect in the event
revengefu1 spirits were aroused in
Charleston during the visit of the Sa-
Vannah team, as some of the same men
are still in the blue and white line.
Game VIII He Hard Fought.
That the game will be one of the
hardest fought yet played in the South,
all of those. who know the personnel
of the two teams are assured. Savan-
nah, with an unspotted record of three
years. not even having been scored
against in that time, will fight with
all the strength embodied in the heavy
line and sturdy backs. Charleston will
have almost an all star team. 1t will
be picked from the best of the Glenn
son team of this year, one man from
North Carolina, and the rest past
stars on the Clemson team. With a
line up such as they will be able to
place in front of the Savannah men
it will be a toss up which will win.
For this game Capt. Cope will strain
every energy to have his men in perfect
shape. They will be given all of the
hard practice possible, and if possible
a number of games Will be arranged
between now and New Years Day.
An effort will be made to get a game
with the Fort Screven team for an
Macon less than a moth off it is believ-
ed that the team will have worked
itself into championship form.
Furman's Defeat IA Surprise.
The defeat of the heavy Furman
team by Charleston was something of
a surprise, and yet the team that will
be sent against Savannah will be much
stronger.
In the event the Charleston team re-
fuses to agree to meet the blue and
white on neutral ground a special rate
viii be granted by the railroads, and a
large number of Savannah people will
go over to root for the home team.
The line UP of the Savannah team will
be the same as it was with Georgia,
with possibly one exception. Charley
Harris, one of the best all-round men
in the country, and who is justly a Sa-
vannah man, travelling out of this point.
will probably be put in on the Savan-
nah line Harris playing is too well
known in Savannah to need comment.
He weighs 1875 pounds now, and played
the whole game for Macon against the
Jacksonville team Thursday.
Just how the Charleston team will
line up is not yet known. In fact, it
is not even known in Charleston