The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-13
New Orleans Will Be We'll Represented in Southern Boxing Meet = Hawkins, DIxon'S Protege, Expected to Furnish Upset of Meet.
By MARVIN MCCARTHY

| Little Sid Zitterhaum, pound am. ateur boxer of Rome, Ga, was the first to send in his entry blank for the south ern amateur tournament, which begin. at the Athletic club tomorrow night. Al. so, Sid was the first to arrive in town for the meet. Zitterbaum arrived here yesterday and worked out at the Ath. letic club.
 Zitterbaum is the first of a host of boxers to invade the Magic City some time today or tomorrow in quest of honor and championships in the square arena. At least 9 out-of-town boxers will assemble here to participate in the tournament, and the squad of mitt-wield CTS to compete in the tournament will be Will be represented in the tournament.
 N. o. WELL REPRESENTED
 New Orleans has the largest number of representatives entered in the tourna- ment. Eight Crescent City athletes will arrive here sometime today or tomorrow to- compete in the tourney.
 The undoubted star of the New Or leans aggregation is Ernie Perrin, a big, two-fisted Irishman, entered in the heavyweight class. Perrin, while not as scientific as some of the present day heavyweights, is able to land a blow cap- able of doing damage
 Many boxing fans no doubt. remember the bout in which Perrin won the south ern championship last year, for Ernie is holder of the title of Dixie's premier am- ateur heavyweight boxer. Perrin was matched with Big Hoss" Candy in the finals of the heavyweight class. The bout was to go three rounds Candy ftoored Perrin in both of the first two rounds, ending each session with smash to the jaw. In the third round, Per rim came back strong and floored Candy and ended the round The judges called for an extra round, but Candy was un- able to come back at the tap of the bell and the bout was awarded to Perrin
 That bout is just illustration of the kind of scrapper Perrin is. He's two listed, hard-punching fighter. never giv- ing up fight until he is actually beaten.
 SOME GOOD MEN
 There are several nifty scrappers on the New Orleans team. Guillot will prob able be Jimmie Woods strongest oppon- ent in the 115-pound class. Woods is doped to win this championship, but he is not expected to have a Walk-away in annexing the title.
 In the 125-pound class, Pascal Colleti of the Y. M. c. c. is expected to give Frank Strobino of the E. A..C. consid- erable trouble Colletti is said to be a wonderful scrapper and is not consit- cred out of the running for the title at all.
 Holtzman will uphold the Crescent City's colors in the lightweight class. Dave Evans of the B. A. C., Frank Chestain, Birmingham; George Lemon. Memphis and others are expected to make competition in the lightweight class keen. Hard fighting is expected to re- suit when these boys get together to de- eide the lightweight crown between them.
 Virgil Hawkins of Bessemer a protege Of "Sailor' Dixon, is said to be a ter rife scrapper. He can hit hard and has lots of gameness. Virgil is expected to show the boys something in his bouts during the tourney.
 MEET WELL ENTERED
 All classes are we'll entered and indi- cations are that fierce scrappfng will take place before the tourney is ovor Preliminary bouts will be fought tomor- row night, senfinal and fina matches taking place Tuesday night. There Will be whole raft of bouts Monday night, the unusually large entry list necessitat- ing them.
 Tickets for the tourney have already been placed on sale and indications are tndt IeCOru-predklnS CTOWu Will dt- tend the matches Monday night.
 It is said by B. A. C. officials that no less than 200 ladys fans will attend the bouts. It seems to have become a fad for society to patronize boxing shows, as witness the recent Leonard Mitchell bout in New York, and as the B. A. c. caters to patronage of the ladies. it would not be surprising if a house full of the fair ones greeted the boxers to- morrow night.
 First match tomorrow night will be- gin promptly at 8 o'clock.