The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-02
VETERANS ARE
 BACK WITH TIGERS
Skidmore Reported Dead, But Shows Up at
 Sewanee

Sewanee, Tenn, October 1.-(special) The past week has seen several moleskin warriors of attested qualities joining their running mates at Hardee field. The belated corners are all men who wear the football letter, and were welcomed cherefully by the mountain gladiators, They are none other than Charlie Ham mond, Everett Bancker, Brown Burck and Fletcher Skidmore. Tn addition, new candidates have swelled the squad so that now Coach Abell has no difficulty in lining up three pretty fair sized elev- ems With such wealth of material on hand, the Tigers are quite an imposing crowd.
 There is such an array of back field men that the problem will be no easy one to select definite first-string quar- tet At any rate, it will take several games to determine the men with the call. It looks like cold battle of the sur vival of the fittest. Five letter men and four other splendid football specimens are alternating for the scoring position.
 The reappearance of the letter men has sent the spirits of the Tiger followers soaring, and competition for positions is severe. Hammond dropped in the mid dition from his trip over to Paris, where he competed in the interallied track and held contests. He was in the army last fall, but the season previous he ran a half for the Purple reguarlq. He weighs n1nCa n IpdC md iyaJi fo1 hty his der-path victories, is speedy man. He carries the ball much better this year and will be a dangerous man in the Tiger offensive.
 Bancker is guardsman with two years varsity experience. He is a steady, sure tackler, and quick to diagnose plays aimed at the center of the line. With his 1so pounds he should be one of the Tigers most dependable guards this year Brown Burch had already gone to the University of Missouri with inten- tions of studying agriculture, but the lure of the old mountain and school com panions was irresistible. He played a sterling end for the Purple forces last year. At the aerial game Burch and the flying oval seem to have an affinity which cannot be denied, and he is an energetic man on the defense. He weighs but 140, but his aggressiveness and quickness on the attack offsets this han dicap.
 SKIDMORE BACK
 Skidmore, the giant tackler of the 1s1f team, is the type of man Coach Abel has been waiting for. Last fall wher the Sewanee officials wrote to Skidmort 1 in regard to his return to the univer 1 Sity, the letter was sent back marked
 deceased" The report was current tha
 he had ascended on a charge of gun pow l der in one of the government munitioI | factories. "But "Skid' breezed up on tho
 mountain Saturday and lowed it was al
 wrong about his Ascension day"
 Despite the report of his death, Skid
 more looked very much alive on the grid
 iron. His stalwart frame measures fee
 4 inches, and is amply bolstered by 2l
 pounds of brawn. This titanic Tennes
 sean left his sorghum fields outside O
 Winchester to balance the sided lin' occasioned by "Cooney" Browns 2l
 pounds at right tackle. This gives th'
 Tigers two massive rush men who ough
 to breathe terror to opposing backs Skid
 more has the habit of sending the bal between the goal posts from the kickoff l The Tigers don't mind this. however. 1 The squad was we'll tested last Satur
 day. when the Sewanee Military academ,
 team engaged them in preseason
 match. The academy boys have m meager line, averaging 1S0 pounds iron tackle to tackle. Only after considerable exertion was the varsity able to SCOT, five touchdowns in four short quarters
 Two complete teams were used, both do l ing equally well. Slowness in getting of
 at the snap of the ball cost the varsit,
 many points. The playing was ragged
 and gave Coach Abell worlds of oppor
 tunity for observing fragrant defects.