The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-23
FOOTBALL MEN
 COME TO TOWN TuScaloOSa-Auburn Ready ".s For Game. TO BE CALLED AT 3P. M. Teams Appear to Be in Per-
 feet Condition. Big Crowds Are Expected from Col lsge Towns This Morning. Grounds at Highland Park
 Are Ready.
TO BE CALLED AT 3P. M.

The Auburn and the Tuscaloosa foot bal elevens are in Montgomery to play this afternoon at Highland Park.
 Not in many years has there been the football enthusiasm in Montgomery that magnificent young athletes climbed out of the early evening Mobile and Ohio and Western Railroad trains last night this excitement reached the white-heat stage
 Shortly after o'clock the two trains puffed into the Union Railway Station almost simultaneously, and almost simul- taneousiy about thirty of the huslkiest- % scmery 1. in " 2 ions s time en poured ssn out % on the platform. And then the engines with their hiss of steampipes. the roaring noise of heavily laden baggage trucks. noises of every description sank into despairing oblivion while the cyclonic. .Ra, ra. ra- sig boom-rekatek.. rekatek-Alabama-Au burnt Jolted several of the heavy raft and filled the station with a torrent of sound that swept everything before its resistless force.
 The Tuscaloosa and Auburn football teams had come to town. There was not the shadow of & doubt about 1t.
 As soon as way could be forced through the throng of admiring cham Coach Bates of Auburn, bundled their teams into wagonettes and had them driven at once to their respective hotels After a light supper. as much like their tldihkh6 LdUlCS III tftclT QudI dS pOS- sible, every member of both teams was put to bed, and by o'clock this after noon they will both be in superb physi- cal condition.
 Outside of the fact that the two teams that will battle for the football supremacy of the State represent the two institutions that are the pride of Alabama. the Mont of local interest that is ism needed. On the University team is only one Montgomery boy, ". c: Oates, Jr., son of Gen. Wm. c. Oates of Montgomery. The tap tain of the Auburn team is a Montgom- cry boy, Jim Paterson. son of Prof. W. B.. Paterson of this city. And 1t may be said right here that he Is the man on their hopes this afternoon. While Pierce Is from Coosada, he may be put down from Montgomery, so that not only State but local pride will enter into the game today, and the team that wins will most assuredly deserve every inch of its vic tory.
 While the notice given for the game has been short, still the crowd promises expected from Opelika and Auburn at Il o'clock this morning while something like a hundred people will come in on a spe- cfal train from Tuscaloosa
 General Manager Ginnivan of the Mont gomery Street Railway, has arranged to handle an enormous crowd with the greatest ease and comfort. He virtually has double track out to the grounds, and in case of rush can use both the Jackson Street cut off and the main High land Park line. while every car that can possibly be spared from the regular runs wil be put in service for the same MT. Ginnivan says that the transportation ia cilities will be the most complete ever known at similar affair in Montgomery .tThe social feature will lend an air of beauty that will make the field a pie ture The sponsors of the two teams with their escorts will drive out to the grounds in handsomely decorated traps, from horses to rear wheels being a billoWy mass of crimson and white and orange and blue.
 The young women who will be spon- sors for the University of Alabama will be Misses Annie Welch of Selma and Vir- glnia Norwood. The sponsors for Auburn Vehicles will be parked on the left in the rear of the wire fence, as usual, and bunting and ribbons of every kind Is al- ready at discount
 The game will be called at 3 o'clock, sharp. this afternoon. with the following