The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-09-07

Best Card of the Year
 Apparently the best fight card or the year Is in the offing for the boxing fans of Birmingham. Young Stribling of Macon, Ga, and Garcia of the Pacific coast are booked to fight for the feather championship of the south at the Birmingham Ath- letic club Monday night. Where they get this south stuff Is be- yond me, when one of the princi- pals halls from the Golden Gate of the west.
 However. 1t should prove the blue-ribbon event of the year for B. A. c. affairs. Stribling has already demonstrated his prowess before the local fans. Since boxing here he has gone ever to Atlanta and mopped up the earth with Freddie Boorde. He Is a known quantity.
 Now, If Garcia measures up to expectations and advance mo- tices, the fight should prove a humdinger. Still, there's 8 chance that the Pacific coast boy might not measure up to Stribling's class. They say he is good enough to fight Pal Moore, and in fact was booked with him. That within itself proves noth- ing. Porky Flynn was matched with Fred Fulton in Atlanta; Carpentier was matched with Jack Dempsey in Jersey City; other lesser lights have been matched with and knocked out by champions, when they had no right to enter the competition.
 But from this angle the Strib- ling Garcia go looks like a pip pin, with the Macon boy the fa- vorite to cop the honors. A ca- pacity house will probably greet the gladiators at the B. A. c. Monday night.
 The Monumental Mistake
 Brown Parkes says friend of his has gone crazy over golf. This man got letter from an acquaintance living in south Ala bama the other day. The letter writer urged the man to visit him, adding: Come on down and let's knock the little ball around"
 The Birmingham man loaded a a bag of golf clubs into the train and beat 1t for south Ala bama, with visions of a couple of weeks on the links before him.
 Arriving at his destination. he was motored to the house of hls friend, and there stood the host in the front yard playfully way ingta croquet mallet at him, and urging him to hurry along and get in the game.
 MiddIeweixhts Need shakeup The fight between Bryan Downey and Johnny Wilson in Jersey City Monday brought out the fact forcibly that the middleweight division is in a pitiful plight. Wilson, who retains the crown, is not a popular champion. and never will be. The left-hand mauler is scared of himself. He fought defensive fight all the way tHTOuBH III HIS Bo WiLu Downey. He covered up, and he fell into the clinches. Cham pionS who fight this way are nev& popular. The idol of the ringsiders is the belt-holder who stands up and fights to de- fend his title. The boy who wades in and knocks all corners for row of narcotics IS the fellow who waxes popular, and grabs in the sheckles for his fisticuf- ing endeavors. The man who is afraid of himself may grab off some easy money for starter, but he soon sinks into pugilistic oblivion.
 Big Price for Hung1inE and High
 The Brooklyn Trolley Dodgers gave the huge sum of 10000 smackers for Catcher Hungling and Third-Sacker Andy High. These two stalwarts are to leave the Memphians and join the Dodgers at the close of the pres- ent season.
 High is cracking good third baseman, the best in Dixie this year, but he will have q handicap staring him in the face. The High boys seem to lose their lus-. ire when they reach the big leagues. Hugh High, the senior