The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-14
ALAbAMA-TECH
 GAME ATTRACTING
 UNIQUE INTEREST
Birmingham's First Big Battle" Will Be Staged Saturday-Graves Has
 Good Material

With the worlds sores over. interest oi the sporting world shifts again to gridiron activities, where various college elevens already are eliminating rivals in the race for the souths title.
 Rirminshams first big battle of tho year will be staged Saturday at Rick wood Field. when the thin red line Of tho University Of Alabama is scheduled to clash with the brown clad warriors Of the wizard Heisman.
 Tech. since her crushing defeat Of Mer- cer, is favored to win. but according to reports froIl Alabama Coach Graves IS planning to throw a surprise into the camp of tho Yellow Jackets. It is gen riers this fall are heavier than they have been ill several seasons rast and that interspersed at frequent intervals in their lineup are grizzled veterans of many battles. The two clevens will be about evenly matched in weight and experience. Team work and fighting pro- clivities should tell the tale. Alabama s fighting spirit is proverbial If the Grim son squad enters the battle against Tech d Ntii SIObfftbf Wtii biltu ildNiilut, Qops may be upset and Alabama may be able to wipe out the sting of a series of sue cessive defeats.
 Interest in the game in Birmingham is widespread. It will be the first college game of the season here and will give local enthusiasts their first opportunity to estimate the strength of the machine which Graves has been whipping into shape for the past six weeks at Tusca- loosa. With weight and experience at his disposal local alumni of the university are hoping to see the fighting Alabama coach bring the Crimson and White back within the lustre of victorious achieve ment Alabama for several years has been football nonenity. This fall it appears there is 8 chance for better things and university supporters arc pin- ming their faith to Graves to develop this material into winning machine. And, furthermore, they believe he will. s
 The defeat of Sewanee at the hands of the Red and Black of Georgia last Saturday came as large surprise to tho supporters of the Mountain Tigers. Many had been led to believe that Coach Cope had gathered together on the Tennessee mountain one of the most formidable elevens since the days of Brown and Lanier. Georgia, on the other hand, was generally considered weaker than last season The loss of Bob McWhorter and other veterans was believed irreparable Evidently Coach Cunningham has upset the dope Some of the men who are car rying the Red and Black to victory are comparatively unknown in the south but their work against Sewanee evidences the fact that their stay in oblivion IS destined to bc short one.
 Already the Auburn-Vanderbilt struggle is looming up as the classic of the south ern season, and at present it is a toss-up for the winner. Both elevens will be hurt by the loss of veterans but Auburn prob ably will be more handicapped in this regard than will Vanderbilt. Wise ones remember that while the loss of Morgan and Tom Brown will be seriously felt by the Commodores that these two stars were disabled when Auburn and Van derbilt met last season and that ther loss in a way may be discountenanced. Not so, however. with Donahue's eleven.