The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-10
BOTH THE TEAMS
 QUITE CONFIDENT
WORD COMES FROM TUSCALOOSA AND AUBURN WHICH INDICATES THAT SATURDAYS GAME WILL BE HARD FOUGHT.

The college athletic managers are get ting everything in shape for the great game between Auburn and Alabama sal urday and force of hands was at work on the grounds all of yesterday. The fence is being moved back so as to allow a five-foot space along the side lines Tor the use of sporting writers, surgeons and other officials of the game.
 The field will be so arranged that no one except the umpire and referee and the timekeeper will be allowed on the gridron. A new gridiron will be laid and when 1t Is finished the owners of the West End park expect to have the pest gridlron In the south.
 Word from Tuscaloosa yesterday an- nounced that Alabama was in great shape and would give Auburn the hard est fight she ever had. They have no idea of giving up the laurels the wrested from the orange and blue striped tigers last season and will make a game fight. On the other hand Auburn sends the most encouraging reports. The boys down there are absolutely certain of win ming, and good crowd of college boys will come along to urge the football giants on to victory.
 As the rules provide for thirty-hve min ute halves in championship games the contest on Saturday will be fixed accord ingly. Consequently the game will have to begin at 2:3O o'clock
  thigh Physicians were secured and the member set.
 Hend-End Freight Collision.
 This morning about 1 80 o'clock there was a disastrous head-end collision at Burnsvile nine miles north of Selma. on the Southern railway On account of this wreck the Southerns passenger train from Birmingham bringing The Age-Herald did not reach the city until nearly noon today, nor did the train from Mobile for Birm- ingham leave until shortly before that hour
 Train No. 80 leaving Selma shortly after midnight had orders to meet trains at Evansville, Fremont and Plantersville, and the engineer, so it is stated, overlook cd the Huntsville meeting point and ran into No 60 coming south. just as the lat- ter reached the northern end of the sta- tion. The impact of the two big iron monsters was something fearful and one l of them turned over. The engineers and firement saved themselves by jumping and with the rest of the crews were not seriously injured.
 l Engineer Pierson Hooks on No. 65 had 1 his back wrenched and Bremen Perry 1 had his leg broken. Conductor Reed Will 1 liams on No. 80 had a hole knocked in the back of his head He was the worst l injured of all the crews Two negro ! 1.,so1 laA flatY fYnJat r17n ambulance was summoned to the depot and conveyed the three whites to their homes the negroes being sent in hacks 1 to their homes. Engineer Clarence Yaw on No. 80 was uninjured.
 Erickson is Chosen.
 At meeting of the Comm ercial and l Industrial association tonight Secretary Jackson resigned and A. A. Edchson was named in his stead.
 Local and Personal.
 Mrs. John A. McKinnon and Mrs. R. E. l.. Mel have gone to Greensboro to at- tend the Woman's Missionary Union con vention of the Tuscaloosa presbytery.
 Last night at the Railroad Y. M. c. A. the General International auxiliary ten dered to the members of the Lanier dvi- sion a banquet. One hundred dollars was | which was greatly appreciated.
 Mrs. Tom Seal of Florida is the guest of her mother, Mrs. Turner Reese. Mrs. Seal was called to Selma by the death of her grandmother, Mrs. T. H. Rosser.
 Misses Elizabeth Wilkins and Kate Bethea of Faunsdale are the guests of Mrs. Edward Graham
 Miss Vera Ellis of Orrville. who has been the guest of Mrs. R. P. Anderson, has gone to Birmingham to visit rela- tives.
 Miss Tina Ullmer, instructor of art at the Judson is the guest of her cousin Mrs. Clement Ritter.
 Miss Rebd Markstein, who has been the guest of her sister, Mrs Iisidore Kayser, has returned to her home in An niston.
 Mrs. John Anderson of Demopo1is pass ed through the city yesterday en route to Montgomery where Judge Anderson will soon take up his home as a member 1 of the supreme court bench of Alabama. Mrs. E. H. Hudson has gone to Mont gomery to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs R. S. Hill
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