The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-15
Central and |BeSSen1er Tie Up Thursday
Fly @PoNzIv MILLS

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 nance Thursday to witness
 ne of the best and most bit erly fought, prep games of the peal gridiron season, when the
 levens from Central and Bes- |emer lock horns at Redwood Field.
 Both elevens will enter the battle eyed up to the highest pitch, for these wo schools are great rivals and both re anxious to win to make up for the coreless tie they fought last year ron Thanksgiving Day. Also, the team that defeated will be put out of the run ing for the championship. Central en- CTS this game with her goal line 'un- rossed this season, while Bessemer has been scored on only once.
 The Bessemer Tigers enter the game with dope favoring them to win on ac- &ount of the greenness of the Central hen. The majority of the Crimson and White warriors are playing their first ear as regulars on the Central team, While the Tigers are made up almost fntirely of last years men and men who have either played for Bessemer before |Dr are graduates from the Tiger scrubs. They have such stars as Virgil flaw |sins, Salters, Thomas all-state tackle. |.nd Grisby, all men who have been tried |lnd found to be hard fighters and Trained in the rudimentS of the game. |Along with these are men who nave been showing up good this year in the games so far. The Tigers >have been scored on only once this year and thac |was by the Albertville Agricultural |school, whom Bessemer fought to tie |after hard uphill fight.
 With the Central eleven there are only -four last years men able to get into the game-IIood, RoxA Stubbs and M. Yeild- Eng-and it is doubtful if Jimmy Hood Twill be able to get into the game, as his injured foot has mot yet healed. The Crimson was greatly wekeaned by the loss of Fats McNeil, who broke his collar bone in the game with Walker County McNeif was considered by many fans as the best prep center in the south, and Coach Meyers will have hard time filling this hole in the mid- dle of the line at this late date. k EQUAL WEIGHTS
 Roth teams will average 135 pounds
 140 pounds,- so there will De no ad-
 
 fe will be only two or three pounds
 erence.
 ends there is not much to choose
 kveen the Crimson pair-Steel and M
 lding-and the Tiger pair-Grisby ana
 lmgardner. Both pairs are about
 al on the defensive and offensive, and
 there is any advantage, it will DO
 the forward passing game, in which
 e Tiger pair will have the advantage But if Coach Meyers decides to play this kind of game with the Tigers, ne will change his ends and put Niger l4awley on one of them. This VIII asaih make matters even.
 Fhe tackles are about even with the Crimson pair, Shannon and Rex, put ting up just as good game as the Tiger pair. Sheridan and Nolan. and here the slight difference rests with the Crimson, Nlfb have two steady and 'hard-worklng tackles in Jack Shannon and Davis Rox, who are in. every play. They soon let their opponents know that theTeT IS no hole at that part of the line Tor tnclS backs to come through.
 BESSEMER GUARDS STRONG
 At the guard positions there is dil- ferent story to tell, and if this hole IS not plugged before the big game. Cen tral will be hard put to stop the plays that Red Harris has developed for battering at the middle of the line. The Tiger pair, Johnson and Thomas, who have been shifted to guard duty, are SUI perior< to the Crimson pair, Jones and .eon Yielding, on both the defense and offense.
 The backfield is where the main differ ence comes in, and it is difficult to com pare these two machines. Due to in- i,,ries to the Crimson backs, it is doubt full who will start, but If the regular nackfield is ready to go in when the whistle blows. there will be little to choose between the. two and 1t Will pc a battle of wits between the two quar- terbacks.
 Both teams have 2 bunch of good