The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-04-27
HARRINGTON WINS JUDGES DECISION
 OVERLARRY AVERA.
Local Boys AggreSsiveness Is Prime Factor in Victory
 Over AtIantan

Dummy Harrington won his fight last night with Larry Avera.
 All the way the local boy carried the fight to the visitor.
 Round by round Harrington assumed the attack and kept it all the way
 Avera was the more finished boxer, his defense was superb, his balance was bet ter than Barringtons and his ability to ward off blows was of "a finer quality but, and it was the thing that counted, Harrington not only carried the fight to his opponent, but landed four blows to Averas ones.
 Disregardng all other conditions, Bar rington could have taken the fight on foul, but declined. At Avera's request, the kidney punch was barred. In the fifth round the Atlanta man struck Bar rington full on the kidneys and in later round repeated the blow. Harrington grinned and shook his head at the ref eree's questioning glance; he was having a good time.
 While not spectacular, it was sgoed fight; willingness against carefulness; the willingness of clean, crisp fighter; the carefulness of man ready to fight. but to fight his way.
 A FOUL
 While Avera frankly fouled. it was in the heat of clinch, a blow he had for years been trained to deliver. Barring tion recognized this and passed it up
 Avera's contribution to the entertain ment was an assortment of eight wonder full blows, steady, timely, landing where he meant them to land, and from all sides they drew applause, but his record was less than one to a round that counted He hit oftener than that but the others were more or less immateral.
 Harrington hit too often; he wasted blow after blow in every round; missed many and landed others that were value less to him, but in every round he got in more than one satisfying, solid whack.
 The judges pronounced Harrington the winner The referee, who was not called on for decision, after the fight said it was Barrngton's contest. Yet, as is so often the case, many, posslply those who had put up money, raised a great outcry at the decision.
 More than once the local boy showed poor Judgment. In the third he nearly gave his opponent the game. While Avera. figuratively, sat back, Harrington waltzed all over the place, wasting lot of good strength. But when the fourth started, Avera, to the surprlse oA many failed to assume the aggressive, He seemed to be waiting for certain opening, and he waited for it 10 rounds and Harrington never gave him the op- portunity the Atlanta man sought.
 A LITTLE EXCITEMENT
 Business picked up in the ninth In warding a lead for the head, the visitor caupht Harrington on the nose with his elbow. The nose bled little, blood got on the gloves and pinked the contestants in spots.
 By his showing and clean-cut win last night Harrington stilled any further word of fluke about his scrap the week before. He went at it as business proposition just as he had done with Hanlon, only Avera was more careful than the man who was defeated last week and, mostly bv real skill kept away from disaster.
 Harrington won; there is not question of that: but that Atlanta boy certainly is A hard hitting, interesting scrapper and deserves credit.
 ALLEN AND ARNOLD DRAW
 Harwell Allen and Carl Arnold fought three snappy rounds to draw, with the former forcing the battling and, gener- ally, landing the most blows. Allen used his left to good adyantage. but was unable to follow up with ms risnt when the opportunity offered Arnold, after the first round, chose to follow a defensive campaign, and was content to let Allen wade in with his left Arnold tried right uppercut sew eral times, but Allen kept well out of the way of this blow
 It was a good bout the two eoys staging an interesting scrap
 DARK STUFF
 Oliver Lee defeated George Robinson, "Detroit Wildcat in a six-round bat tie of chocolate drops. It was weird affair, the shorter. slighter, faster and decidedly peculiar wildcat staging one big surprise after another. Lee was the huskier of the two, his weight telling on his lighter opponent. The 10 pounds or more which he was