The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-13

ATLANTA, Ca, Oct. ,12-FouI
southern conference teams played fol
exercise yesterday so far as results II
the football season are concerned
Florida apd Tech battled through Q
hectic z to Z draw in Atlanta while
v. r. /. and Auburn played a score
less tie at Richmond in game describ
ed as bit listless in spots.
The clash Of Yellow Jacket and Ali
gator was far from incident. There
was action to spare, the most signi
ficant being an inability to coordinate
retentive forces in regard to sthe ball
| The young men engaged in this game
played before crowd in excess Of
10000, had not heard or did not ap
preciate the warning of the well known
coach who told his players that it were
better for them to be cut down In Their
youth than to grow to manhood and
tumble.
Wake Forest Spills Beams
Wake Forest spilled the beans fol
the Generals of Washington and Lee
with sickening thud for the licking
ton citizenry.
The demon Deacons seem to be in a
fair way to make the powers that be
of the conference realize that they
made mistake when they did moi
take Hank" Garrity's proteges into
the select circle. Wake Forest has dealt
two sledge hammer blows already "a
two conference members. the University
Of North Carolina and Washington and
Lee. Saturdays victory over the Vir.
ginians was close, 10 to 8.
Two conference members FLASHED al
Columbia when the University of South
Carolina took North Carolina State In.
to camp by a ten point margin. This
was the first conference clash for the
Wolf Pack while the Game Cocks had
suffered defeat at the hands Of Georgia
Georgia Goes Good =
The University Of Georgia, although
defeated by single point by Yale al
New Haven, had the Blue in the try.
| ing position Of trailing for time
and emerged from the contest glorious
in defeat"
Louisiana State came to the bat in a
pinch for the honor of Dixie and
brought the first victory of the season
to the south in an intersectional
contest, Mike Donahue's team defeat
ing the University of Indiana 20 to IA
Vanderbilt, rated generally as one Of
| the sout1,s strongest teams, ran into
a flock of trouble with the hard charg
ing Marines from Quantico and may
have been lucky to escape with a til
at 10 all.
Sewanee came back strong in its
invasion of Texas and Aheld the Aggies
of Texas to a single touchdown wlleI
dire forebodings of a slaughter of the
innocent purple had been noised abroad
before the game.
N. C. Beats Trinity
North Carolina defeated Trinity {
to 0 but the difference. between thu
Tar Heels and Blue Devils Of. Trinits
was two field goals, the Eetzers fol
lowers finding themselves unable tt
score a touchdown over Howard Jones
defense.
A conference team to meet defeat, al
the hands of an outsider was Missis
sippi A. and NJ. stopped by Ouachits
BY IL to o score. "Ole Miss" how
ever, won from Southwestern by z to o
Mississippi College was unable t.
cope with Alabama, the Crimson It'd,
coming in all the afternoon to win al
last, 81 to O.
Tennessee scored revenge on Mary
vile for last years tie game by win
ming 2S to 10, while Tulane took q
game of frequent scoring from Louisi
ana Tech AZ to ~.
Two Old Dominion teams cam,
through handily, v. M. T., taking it,