The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-03
Mike Donahue Wishes Team Success On Eve Of Classic Battle At Columbus
THE LINEUP

AUBURN, Ala, Nov. 3.-(Special.) A thousand students. headed by the Auburn band. and as many towns people are busy tonight making preparations for the jump across the Chattahoochee early Saturday morn ing, where they go to witness the Tiger-Bulldog grid battle at Driving Park. Columbus, Ga. The little col lege city is all agog on the eve of the big battle. Advance parties have already left the Plains by rail and automobiles for the electric city. Auburn will be deserted to- morrow. Not enough people will 1e left to constitute volunteer fire brigade.
 When the football special pulls out at S:30s tomorrow morning the town will be. literally on board with one objective, namely, to stay behind the Orange and Blue warriors in their perilous dash for victory over the Woodruff charges. That will be a desperate struggle as no one fa- miliar with the undertaking, hesi- tates to admit An Auburn Georgia classic is never void of the exciting thrills and is always up to the ex- pectations of the most willy grid en- thusiast. The 1923 contest is cer- tain to be up to the standards of previous years. It is the same Tiger
 
 grappled with each other on previ- ous occasions at Driving park, though each has been trained by new coaches in charge. In the first it has been Donahue against Cum ningham and Stegeman at the helm of operations but this time 1t is (Boozer) Pitts and company against (Kid) Woodruff and staff, each de- termined to present winning aggre- gation in the initial class of the new regime.
 (Speep) Lamb, famous Auburn guard a few seasons past, arrived on the Plains tonight to accompany all southern guard in 1910-18.
 Fighting-The Auburn Tiger spirit made famous during the past quar- ter of a century by Mike Donahue and others, which has been far above fever heat for many days, was again shot upward late tonight on the receipt of a telegram from Coach Donahue, now of Louisiana State university. The communication re- ceived is as follows:
 Baton Rouge, La.,
 John E. Pitts,
 Auburn. Ala.
 ''To Captain Reagan and the Au- burn football team: You have my most sincere wishes for success in
 
 so far everything has been merely preparatory to your traditional games. As an Auburn man and with the leadership that you have you know I will live up to the tra- ditions of any Auburn team. You have done remarkably we'll so far and for the future, individually and collectively, I wish you every success possible. MIKE DONAHUE."
 The team and coaches will make the trip to Columbus in a special car attached to the Western of Alabama Auburn Columbus special. The squad, which will be under the manager ship of Student Manager Snapp w.ll includes 80 men. The player contin- gent making the trip includes Capt. Reagan. Lawrence. Williams, Fruit, Petersen, Harrison. Brice, Ford, Sitz, Allen, Harkins, Howe, Lutz, Reese, Self, Sheridan, Huckabee, Ollinger, Green, Spinks, Majors, Crane, Row land, Rox, Campbell. Argo. Yates, Me cFadden, Reeder and Market
 The lineup that will make the opening attack when the big battle starts will probably be: Lawrence, center; Captain Reagan and Sitz, guards; Brice and Harkins, tackles; Ollinger and Pruitt. ends; Petersen, quarter; Williams and Ford, halves, and Howe, fullback