The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-05
FOOTBALL OPENS
 NEXT SATURDAY Several Struggles But None of
 Great Importance HOWARD MEETS ALABAMA Discussion as to Place of Holding Next Golf Championship Tournament.
 Augusta Is Quite Willing.
 Tennis Championship.
HOWARD MEETS ALABAMA
BY PERCY WHITING.

Atlanta, October 4-(Special.)- foot ball season is jared loose in real earn est next Saturday, but at that no really notable games are scheduled.
 The battle between Clemson and the Virginia Polytechnic institute is about the class of the card. Both these teams are strong. On dope it ought to be easy for V. P. l., but you never can tell about those Clemson people.
 Another game of considerable interest in the western end of southern football territory is that between Mississippi and Arkansas. Both teams are said to be strong this season.
 Vanderbilt takes on Rose Polytechnic institute Saturday and the game ought to be a hummer. Other affairs of some promise are the Alabama Howard game and the Mississippi A. and M.-Louisiana contest.
 Not any of these teams met each other last year, save Vanderbilt and Rose Poly technic. The Commodores won that game 65 to 1O
 If anybody who knows where the next championship of the Southern Golf as socation is to be held he would confer a great favor on the executive commit tee of the said body by passing on the info" For the committee hasn't the an swer on its tongues end.
 Just at present the committee Is sus- pected of coyly making motions at At lanta, but the Gate City Is not respond ing with notable enthusiasm.
 Atlanta wants the tournament and wants it badly, but not in 1909. The last time Atlanta had the championship the course wasn't ready. It isn't yet. but 1t will be before Atlanta voluntarily takes the big event.
 Atlanta wants to give an invitation tournament next year and have the cham pionshp in 1910. But maybe the Gate City would waive a point and take it next year if asked.
 This tournament has grown so big that only the largest clubs can swing it. The first tournament ever held by the asso- citation was in Nashville. That club will have a course in shape for the event in 1911 or 1912, but hardly before.
 The second year of the associations life the players went to Asheville. But they are not likely to go back. The course there is not long enough, and Asheville is too far from Texas and Arkansas
 Savannah had the third tournament but as the Savannah course is only nine holes in length it is ineligible for another cham pionship.
 Louisville had the fourth tournament, and will be due again al put 1911. Floods, draughts and other things have knocked the course out as a possibility for next year.
 New Orleans. where the fifth cham pionship was held has an 1S-hole course in good condition, but it is too short and too cramped for the fields of 150 and 2c0 players that face the starters in the quail flying rounds in these days of golf's greatest popularity in the south.
 Atlanta where the championship was played in 1907, does not feel ready for the event And the Memphis course. where the players performed this year. is prac- tically barred on the grounds that the players would not care to go two success sive years to the same course for the main event
 Many Atlanta players are booming Au-i