Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-11-26
By Percy II. Whiting.
TIME South is fairly hysterica

season game between Au-
burn and Vanderbilt for the foot
ball championship Of the S. l. A. A.
A lot of opposition must be over
come to get the game, but it is
possible to overcome it.
of course, DR.. w. L. Dudley, of
Vanderbilt, president of the 5. l.
a. A. and long the car Of Wander
bilt athletics will oppose it. He
has always been against post-sea-
son games and championships. But
then the time has passed when DR..
Dudley can absolutely control Van
derbilt athletics. Dan McGugin is
now power to be reCkoned with.
And Dan wants a post season
game. If it ever comes to a test Of
strength between McGugin and DIR.
Dudley over the post season game
thing it is likely that McGugin
would turn up winner. For he would
have 95 per cent of the alumni OF
the college behind him.
or course Auburn's attitude Is
uncertain. Naturally they don't
want the game. Still it might be
forced on them in a way that would
make refusal to play quite diff
cult
Time will tell
Anyhow. you can put this down
as cold fact:
Dan McGuein wants q Dost-sea-
son game, and Daniel has a way of
getting the things he. goes out after.
I rs hard to stop writing about
that Vanderbilt Auburn game
last Saturday. More things hap
pened than you could shake a
stick at.
And before anything else is said
we venture the prediction that the
game will not long remain an an
nual fixture in Birmingham. 1t
will be transferred TO some real col
lege town or played on alternate
years at Auburn and Nashville
And this is why:
The game will become the great
booze game" of the whole season.
And 1t viii be discontinued lust
as the Yale Princeton struggle in
New York was discontinued-be
cause ii served too many. people
only as an excuse for a debauch.
It's the logical time and place
for a big time" by all those thus
inclined It's a short nights run
from hundred towns and cities
most OF them dry, or at least most
Of them eminently respectable.
Everything in Birmingham In the
booze line Is as open as a dessert
landscape. So naturally any man
who wants to get away for a big
time will select the Vanderbilt
Auburn game as the excuse. the
Saturday before Thanksgiving as
the time, and Birmingham as the
place.
There We're high old times there
Saturday night.
And it must have been a seedy
lot of individuals that turned out
OF Pullmans Sunday morning.
Even some staid RtIantans were
slightly Illuminated for the occa-
sion.
1t took the station master. or the
yard master. or some such lordly
official, to pry a few of them out of
their hunks when Birmingham
trains arrived in the Gate City.
They laughed at the porter and
they detied the railroad men. The
last we saw as we departed from
the car Sunday morning, the be-
aforementioned officials had gently
grabbed the far end of a sheet and
rolled couple of protesting sleep
eEs into the car aisle.
Oh, surely. surely. 1t was the
sad end of a large time!
And because of things previously
limited at. the game in Birmingham
will not long be an annual affair.
Watch and see If this doesn't turn
out just as predicted.
A LOT of funny things happened
at the game. The press box
in the Birmingham park is located
more than lQ0 yards from the near
est point of the field. Realizing
that fl would be difficult 10 Identify
the Auburn players the peVsnaper