The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-23
ALABAMA ARRIVES
 READY FOR FRAY Team is in Good Physical
 Condition CAPTAIN sURkS TALKS Says That Alabama Should Win From Sewanee by Two Touchdowns. sewanee Eleven Will Arrive
 In City This Morning.
CAPTAIN sURKS TALKS

Manager Jelks Cabaniss, Coach Leaven-
 worth and fifteen husky sons of old Ala
 bama arrived last night at $40 o'clock
 from Tuscaloosa. They will do battle on
 the gridron with the purple and white | team of Sewanee this afternoon. The ! game will be called at 2:30 o'clock. | The latest dope on Alabama is that the team is In perfect physical condition. Reports were spread yesterday that sev- l eral members of the crimson and white l team were badly crippled and would not | be able to play. among that number be- 1 ing Sims, the mighty tackle, who walked l through the Auburn line so frequently l last Saturday.
 l The manager, coach and captain laugh
 at these reports. They state that the
 Alabama men are in as good condition as they ever were, and that Sewanee will find
 that out this afternoon. Sims was walk i ing around the lobby of the St. Nicholas where the team is quartered, with smile a yard wide on his face, and if there were any bruises that would take him out of | the game, they were carefully concealed.
 Burks Is Confident Captain Burkes Is confident that Alabama will win. At the hotel last night he
 said:
 T do not see any reason why Ala bama should not win. We are certainly in as good condition as we were in the Auburn game. l do not think that we will defeat Sewanee by half as large a 1 score as the one we piled up against Attl,t but -,,1I downs to Sewanee's one.
 T do not look for big score. Scar borough can punt so well that whenever we get the ball near the purple and
 white goal and lose it in any way, he will ''punt it out of danger and Alabama will have to resort to line plunges and carry ! it back down the field again.
 "Sewanee is lighter than Alabama.
 Much lighter according to the informa-
 tion l have received, but the mountain
 boys from Tennessee are always fast and
 they know the game. They have been
 well trained this year. and they are particularly fast in making runs around
 the end. They may be able to make gains
 through the Alabama line but 1 doubt
 it. I believe they will try end runs.
 We are not looking for any snap. In
 fact I think this will be the hardest game Alabama has played this year with ! the exception of the Vanderbilt game
 Sewanee Comes Today. i Sewanee will reach Birmingham this
 morning on the Louisville and Nashville
 train due to arrive from Nashville at S:25
 c clock A large collection of followers
 of the purple and white will be at the | train to meet the team, and 1t is expected
 that number hf the faithful will come from the mountain college with the team
 The supporters of Sewanee are very
 confident that she will win this after noon. They believe that the purple has an even chance to win over the crimson and white Odds are. how
 ever, being laid that Alabama
 will win They are usually. to 5,
 3 to 2, or to 5. A majority of the bets,
 however, have been laid at even money.
 In one or two instances the enthusiastic
 have. let their feelings get the best of
 their judgment and have bet Ia l that Alabama would win.
 The best posted football men in the south do not think that the Alabama team
 has any einch. In fact they believe that | it is an even money bet and that neither side is entitled to any odds The line up of the two teams for this afternoon will be-
 | Sewanee Position. Alabama. c, Watkins ...,..... .Center......... Moody LumplSin ..... Right Guard.... McDaniel Brong ............Left Guard. .......,. Sims M. Watkins ....Rght Tackle ...... Sartain Stone Left Tackle .......... Neill Beatte
 Niles ............ Right End. ........... Lewis Poynor ..... Left End ......... Lanier Scarborough ... Quarter .......... Smith Ward Harris ........ Right Half. Sturdivant Barrett
 Shaffer ............Left Half .......... Burks Sawrie ............ Full. ......... Robertson | The officials will be Harris, referee, | Tutwiler, umpire