The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-28
Defense of Auburn.

ball game with Davidson College fp sridiroa snthu.iast think it sSt ap t9 4Sa tbs res interested spectators, I understand, who are able to judge rough from or dinarySplay. found nothing foul in the urday. It Is very likely that those who criticised tbe Orange and Blue squad mistook legitimate playing for be Known what the rules of the game are. and when the game. is played within these bounds, 1t Is unjust to say that the players are doing foully. running wit hthe ball to ward off op- ponents with his elbows, using what Is known in pigskin parlance as the
 Now, it may have been that the Au- burn men who rushed with the ball were using the stiff arm and this was mistaken by the critics for undainty rules committee up East change the rule. If there Is holding of players in the line or on the ends the player held ss sasakns n see%e oose to aosxp ths y ass much condemned in football as in base ball. and usually the. man holding IS thought less of than the man who uses his best force to tear away. For these reasons, the conduct of a football team should be weighed carefully before charges of dirty playing are advanced.
 College boys are not hoodlums or sibilities of other people anywhere"
 Canal Connecting Rivers.
 If Senator Morgan devotes his at- tention for the next few years to the building of canal connecting the Ten nessee and Alabama Rivers, as assidu- ously as he did toward the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal, he will make Alabama his debtor as much as he has made the whole country his debtor in the latter instance" said Montgomery public man. His suggestions are well- times for an urgent and active cam paign for this important work and, should the canal be built, it would practically assure Mobile the position Gulf. Taking this in conjunction with the improvements for deep water na- vigation on the Alabama and the same on the Tennessee, and the construction of the Panama Canal. nothing could head Alabama. Nothing can head Ala bama now, but this work would make her vie with any State in the vast Union for supremacy"
 Exhibits at State Fair.
 Capt William Selden of the State Department Of Agriculture and Indus- tries has returned from Birmingham, where he has been in attendance on the State Fair.
 "In many agricultural products" said Captain Selden yesterday, the exhibits seen In Alabama. The corn potato and grape shows in the Fair are great. There Is also an excellent competition in preserves of all kinds.
 "One of the best exhibits from sim gle place. in my opinion, was set up By Vinemont. But these are just a few of the really magnificent shows of products that are gathered in Birmlng- ham
 Commissioner Poole and Chief Clerk Jesse Adams are still in Birmingham attending the Fair.
 Experience in the Wreck.
 T will never forget my experience in the train wreck near Madison Park on the Western Railway Thursday" thought was for the safety of number of my friends, who had been to Opelika to initiate a number of Ilhorassans;
 When I jumped out l found they Aldermen W. N Cox and J. L. Holloway who were in tho party, were at work trying to get the door opened. George L H. O'Gwynn and other we'll known Montgomery men, who were on the train, did all they could to render as- sistaance to other terror-stricken pas
 When we found that no one had been injured, we had great feeling Of relief. It was most miraculous es- cape from death"
 Rev. Xavier Sutton, C. P, who lec- tured in St. Peter's Church last week with such success. reached Montgom- cry last night en route to Greenville, where he will lecture the coming week Father Sutton has. just concluded a successful course of lectures in West Point. Ga, and will begin a series in the auditorium of the court house at Ope- Iika November 6.
 MT. Jacob Martin, a venerable citi- zen of East Point, Ga, who was post master of Montgomery under President Grant and resided here many years is in the city. Notwithstanding he Is so years old. MT. Martin appears to be iii excellent health.
 Col. Charles P. Jones and his family have returned from North Carolina, where Colonel Jones spent several months for the benefit of his health It will interest his friends to know that his health has been restored.
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