The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-21
'PIGSKIN VS.
 HORSEHIDE A Look at Southern Football. AUBURRs GOOD PROSPECTS Ringers fanished from Georgia
 Teams. Present Will Be Clcanest Season Since Football Was Established in the south--Big Colleges After
 Northern Competitors.
 

1 Pickle. as an East Indian prince, the sport loving public Is alreacy figuring on the dawning football season. the end of the National and American League races being all that stands now between the public and concen : truted inlvrst in football. In this zee two great horsehide wars be- ing waged the end of the South ern Association season has drawn attention away from the hit and going to play full for vandy, and who | will take so-and-so's place at end for Auburn are the questions of the mo- ment.
 Le TO- est mort-vi, e Le roll
 -.uburn takes the feld this season as far as material goes, armed cap a pie. The splendid squad of last season sill only be minus few men whose equals are to be found in the material available this year But for the slight overtraining disctrnabie at the ciose of last season the record made then would have been even better, and there is tttie danger of the same condition obtaining again.
 Tuscaloosa Is said to have enough of l the old squad not to feel its few losses and much is expected of the Alabama | teams.
 Georgia Tech. an old rival, is look ing for an of year. With material de- yeioped last season. now thrown out because of the strict enfOrcemnt of the s. l. A. A. rules, they will be sore put to retain their prestige and few l would be surprised to see the Georgia practical men badly beaten in most of their games
 On the other hand the University of Georgia has a splendid squad this year. the weeding out of the ringers of last year, and there were a bunch of them l for a fact, has left tho squad in bet ter condition, for the material Is fresh CT more enthusiastic, and they have a | TOT fut ion Arn hnlA nd AEwn. INf on their escutcheon to erase that will make them veritabie demons to con I tend with.
 Mercer. another Georgia school. is | looked upon with interest now. AL 1 though the squad is small they have some exceptionally fine new men, and l 1t Is said they will be trained by one l of the Blake boys of Vanderbilt Most omores, Salter and Conser. and last year 1t was predicted these backs would be all Southern men by the close l of this season.
 l Mercer drew a lemon in their coach | last season. The magic name of Yale | Was responsible for a chap named Schenker getting the job of training | the team. and tie result was that al- though they broke evan on the sched- ule, because of some fast men, they did not score a form point all season | Watch Mercer. they will be factor to contend with soon.
 | ONcE III COutn CarOllna Clemson is l about all that seems formidable, and they are not up to the form of a few years ago. but still able to go some l They practically play the season to beat Tech and are therefore losing cast.
 Another school that will be in the limelight is Mississippi A. 6 M, tre- mendoYs fellows that are playing for recognttion 9nd they soon will have to 1 honors.
 oxford. the University of Mississippi, Is also expected to be heard from. but not so prominently as the A. & M.
 North carolina and Virginia teams are are more more and more herdfng together playing their principal games with teams of the lower Northern States. Virginia has of late taken on Bucknell, these are the chief games of their heir schedule. with the exception of the big GGaa5IEssSville Gsa6lfSs Chapel Hil event North for. games and each Year O sameIy saMsiy tack les Pennsylvania in hopes of but a Crippled team to finish the seat season n with and they are drawing less and less Southern interest.
 swinging off into little circles with V. F. l.. and Clemson (S. @ is also dtsta5t sS15son reIatiye at of this family But are playing exceptionally strong games l nova days and If they would turn would do a lot to enliven Dixie a sebedg haSy | ules.
 Virginia has a swarm of small de- great extent to themselves, Randoiph1 College and Hampden- Sidney forming old time each year. occasionally taking a fall out of V. M l.. V P. l.. and once isarn in Way sb,yvs going to Charlottesville to University of virginia's source of sup ply and under the circumstances "Old 'irFFhnia nrFba neohfn should sh9W .S up better:
 usual. keep a great deal to themselves, and no one knows until the season Is l With the Vanderbilt game their piece | de resistance of the season. they to a great extent slight their Southern home from Dixie trip with many boiI in the ,ontsfe smoke of the .epess on the for the smaller Southern teams. and Ike vandy they are turning their at
 Florida is stIll an embryo as a foot spurs, Stetson being in the same fix Tulane is the whats Ann's age?" of Southern football; 0ne of the great south. they are the tail end of the ex- | citement. the only explanation that l Is available being the horrible climate too hot .thereabout for the right kind of training and Tulane seems doomed | to be out of 1t for keeps. Texas Is | coming right along with a few teams but they are little too far off to be Vanderbilt Is looked upon as the team of the South that will eventually they would have tied Michigan but for a little breeze that blew the ball aside. their sailors legs and had not the um- pire been crooked would have won in a walk; but the Blake boys who have been the paladins of the team are % the bavss sea9s s6 go 6y and stars. or drop back. This theory that the Blake boys are the Vanderbilt team | Is being watched with interest. and will settle a puzzling question. Certainly thay have played great games, all of the team? This years results wifi 1 throw no little light on the matter 1 Some day Vandy may play Yale. Tennessee Is coming strong this sea will be some do1ngs" when they take the field against the others. And how will the season end? Who will win the games? Who will have the southsrn chsmpionship7 Well; be heard from in the Southern League I baseball race; he missed it. so after all | the best thing to do Is to wait until Its | all over and then tell what you think. | But listen. they will be playing in- side of a month, and life Is worth liv- 1 ing after all.
 FIRE IN WAREHOUSE.