The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-15
Dixie Boys
 Are Ready For Battle
 To Finish
ocAL followers and lovers or the grand old game of fistics
 will have their fill of their

inc grand old game of fistics | l0 will have their fill of theif .o.r,ts spotr tonight, for the very best BY tha southland has to offer in the sina of fighters will be pitted together t. the southern amateur boxing tourha- want which will last two nights Moh- day and Tuesday .-4
 1anresentatives from Dixies greatest hoxing centers will be on hand 10 com nste for the championships. Never mas Tirrinrham drawn such a plum as thls tournament .,. ,,,s,,ices
 Tine meet will be under the auspices nf inc Birmingham Athletic cluo' whlch' of course. will have strong team en tered Birmingham stanos ea chance to win few titles as solie
 .,;a- boxers are entered to compete for the Magic City.
 One of the greatest little fighters Ill international amateur circles IS Ashton ponza. who will fight for New orieans ranresenting the Crescent City Athlelic club. .-- ,,rd
 nonza won the title in the 1l5-pound s,Iass last year, and in appearing Tn tne Tournament tonight will afford other boxers in the featherwelsnt ciasS :" chance to cop off his crown.
 Tbere are some entered In thls ciess &rbo certainly threaten to send Donza 1,ctr home in a crestfallen and paoly heaten condition, such as Hanna Dur rev Rold and a few others wno arc looked upon as championship possip DIT +ies The first two named are b. A. N' ! entries. and in sending them III ln- xtructor Tompkins does so with d siiiio ana a wink, firmly believing that one of the two will be able to stop the lh- vincible Donza 5 Tsa Tor the soldier boxer is said 70 pc po"ei- fully handy with his mitts.
 Donza must, indeed, be wonder, TOT Benedetto. New Orleans promoter mas entered the Crescent CNty bearcat III tle 1aspound class also. The B A. V. is inc only other association entered III tbis class. However, Donza and ms henchman, 0 .Hara. also entered m the 125-p pound class, may run up against connie of unheralded snags In the per sonsoes of Dewitt Aired and Frank S,,,astoin chestain is expected to per foru, wonders in the tournament, as the "a A. C. boxer has been knocking them soo1d right and left lately. Chestain ,,aclxs a. powerful wal1op in either mltt
 The favorite in the lightweight class is George W. Lemon, of Memphis T.emon comes to Birmingham today with a rep a mile long to back him up He is not expected to have waikaway however, for there are twelve othei { lightweights entered. any one or wnon could put up mighty not pateis against the Memphis fighter
 If is in the welterweight class tha the greatest battling will probably tak' nlace. Here are entered such Fighters as Harrington, E. A. C.; Haney, Burke and Johnson, New Orleans; Craft, Jones and Taylor. Memphis.
 Harrington, a local boy, has Kick IT either paw strong enough to lay ou' the huskiest mule. The Acipco Tighter has been in training for months and nrovided the unexpected falls to hap pen, will probably fight his way through to the championship
 Harrington also will fight in the mid dJeweight class There are two othel battlers entered in this class-Harris Birmingham, and Landrieu. With two such ring experts as Burlington an1 Harris entered. Birmingham should surely cop the banner in the middle weight division.
 There are three entries in the heavy weight divisions--Gandy, Birmingham and Perrin and Mole, New Orleans. Tn Birmingham boy will compete in tn 1ight-heavyweight class. but will leav' it to the Crescent City athletes to scral it out for the heavyweight crown.
 The boxers will be weighed in thi afternoon at the Birmingham Athleti club. Then the pairings for tonigh will be made.
 . As the tourney is an elimination af fair, the winners of tonight's mills vii be matched to fight it out in the semi . finals and finals.
 . The first bout will begin at o'clock q Each will be for a length of fou rounds, the decision resting with tw {. iudges aAd the referee.