The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-20


 boxer, has three important bouts to fight between now and Labor Day.
 His trainer and manager, Tommy Tompkins, boxing instructor of the Athletic Club, announces that his pro- tege has been signed up for bouts with Eddie Woods Canadian amateur welterweight champion, Larry Avera, Atlanta champ, and Sailer Blanquet crack boxer of New Orleans.
 Fhe bout with Woods will be staged at the August stag of the B. A. c. Woods, although living in Canada, is passing the summer in Birmingham and, for this reason, local fans will be given the opportunity of seeing these two mitt artists in the ring together.
 The Avera- Harrington scrap will be staged at the Athletic Club as part of the programme of the weekly elimina- tion meet of the B. A. C. boxers on August 30 Sailor Blanque meets Harrington here on Labor Day, also at stag. ATTRACTS INTEREST The bout attracting the most l interest at present is the Woods
 
 can win the amateur weiterweight l championship of n district as large Canada must he good scrap ] per. That's what Woods did. In | addition. he made the Olympic boxing team from his district, hut illness prevented him from going l to Antwerp with the other ath- | letes.
 The Avera Harrington scrap is ex- 1 tCb int ct Avera and Burlington have met before at Redwood Park in a boxing show for the Rainbow veterans, the affair resulting in a decision for Avera Hackers of Harrington believe theil man can knock Avera out in a ter round scrap, and that's the distance the two men are scheduled to go ir their second engagement August 30 Local fans will remember Sailo Blanque as the little scrapper iron New Orleans who made such favor able impression at the Rainbow show at Redwood. Blanque won his bou then in splendid fashion, completel whipping his opponent in three rounds He Is a classy little fighter with m frills to his work. hut fast. aggres sive battling.
 RECEIVES OFFERS
 In addition to these bouts al-
 
 manager hns received numerous
 offers for fights for his man.
 These offers, coming from Att
 Ianta, Norfolk, New Orleans and
 Detroit, merely prove what
 drawing card Harrington will he
 when he steps off into professiOn-
 alism.
 Tompkins also stated that. begin ming August 30 he will hold week.. elimination journeys at the B. A. ( for his boxers to decide who will rep resent the B. A. c. during the comin' boxing season. The public will be ad mitted to these journeys.
 B. A. C. BOXERS
 Tompkins stated that his stall O amateur boxers now includes the fol lowing:
 pound Class--Dan Stevens Hollis Arnold, Paul Woods Will Outlaw, Tom Perry. A.
 115-pound Class-Howard Smiles Jimmie Woods, Frank Hanna, Georg Harweil. Tom Reeves. , 125-pound Class-Dewitt AllredI Car Arnold, George Wilson. Walter Hanna
 s5-pound Class-Farrar Sherrod Dave Evans. Chuck McElwain, Ret Bridges. Frank Chestain. Otis Woods 45-pound Class-Selbert Gadd. Vii liam Spiegel, Sailor Finley Johi Fredericks.
 15S-pound Class-Bob Bowden.
 1T5-pound Class-Johnny Brew, Stu art Candy. Tommy is in need of another mid dleweight and requests anyone wht would like to try for the team to cal at the club any time during the daS or any night at o'clock except sat urday