The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-29
HARRINGTON WILL HAVE AN ABLE FOE IN LOUISIANA TAR
Sailor BIanque to Give Local WeIterWeight Boxer a
 Hard Fight
By MARVIN M,oARTHY

EuT, III the shape Ol Dlts O1 suH- burned, toughened hide, should fly furiously when Dummy Harrington, who recently acquired more local prestige by his defeat of Dummy Mckinney at the B A. C., meets Sailor Blanque of New Orleans ir . 10-round bout at catch weights.
 Harrington, so Tommy Tompkins says, is as good as ever and in splen- did shape, so the Dummy ought to be able to put up his usual good battle Monday night. Burlington was in splendid trim against Mckinney, and to say that he fought one of the best fights of his career would be only doing him justice.
 Blanque fought here not so Ions ago, meeting Dixie Jack Allen. Al though the Sailor lost the bout on a foul, he made a favorable impress sion by his aggressive, slashing style sf battling. The Crescent City tar is one of Dixie's huskiest light welters, fully capable of holding his own with many men several pounds heavier than himself. He is hard puncher and follows up his advantages well. Dummy Harrington has bitten off no mean chew in electing to take on the Crescent City boxer, for Blanque will more than likely. make things more than interesting for the local n.itt weilder.
 Harrington will weigh in at about 147. while Blanque will tip the beam . pound or so above the l40 mark
 adl planned by Tommy Tompkins, all though no names of the principals have been given out yet
 MIDDLEWEIGHT SITUATION
 IS IN MUDDLE AT PRESENT
 Following the championship bout in Cleveland Wednesday night. the middleweight situation IS Tn q uas muddle right now. In fact, IL Woulu be hard to say off hand just who IS worlds middleweight champion.
 The Cleveland boxing commissl on ruled Downey a winner by knoch out over Johnny Wilson, who hela the middleweight title before the bout Wednesday, and still claims IL on the other hand, Referee Garonei ruled that Downey fouled Wilson anu awarded the decision to Wilson. So there YOU are, commission plus newspaper men, by the way, versu' referee.
 The question is. which of the twe forces has greater authority 10 ace referee or commission? It is ques- tion worth considerable argumeii either way.
 Meanwhile, it will be interestih in note the outcome of the affail that seems likely to separate Johnnl Wilson from his worlds title wol under such adverse conditions iron Mike O'Dowd, considered by many al still the best man in his class.
 RuBE DENTON DESERVES
 RECOGNITION FOR DEED
 Southern league fans no doubt re sret to hear of the passing of Ruu, Benton from major league baseball The Giants have released Benton un conditionally and the one time Chat tanooga pitcher seems done as big time performer.
 The Rube achieved the distinction of being the real cause of the ex position of the 1919 crooked worlds series and the Iimes-star, nno Q Cincinnati, where Benton was one a popular hero, thus pays tribute Il passing to an old friend:
 '.Rube Benton internationally re leased, Doubtless the management of the New York Giants had goo reasons and plenty for US acelot But organized baseball owes tn Rube much When organized base bau was in condition that mean if continued, the death of the pf2 fessional game; when Hal Chase whose gambling activities were nc tories was promoted by the Natiena league authorities from the Reds ! inc Giants, who were supposed ! have the best chance of participatin in the world series of 1919; whe the rottenness of the whole tnin was beginning to come to head, was the Rube who gave It the pi prick that caused the gambling rev citations to ooze forth. There wer many denials of the Rube's stor about the world series. Those denial were followed by confessions and IT dictments. There have been denial of other Benton stories, deniais tns evidently have found creduious a' tention from the league authoritie
 .Rube Benton-may have eecoH unpopular with some of the power that be. But he has record which he may be proud. He neipe to cleanse the greatest game in tn world of the public's betrayers.