The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-26
RED HERRING TO. MEET FITZGERALD AT B. A. (. MONDAY
Young Hackenschmidt Will Meet Scotch Marvel in
 Main Mat Bout

Birmingham Athletic club officials day nights athletic show. with a suitable list of preliminaries backing up the main boxing and wrestling events previously announced. AL though there is no such attractive headline event as Claude Wilson and Tim ODowd, the card. for Monday is so well balanced it should..Ibe every bit as classy as the last sidwsa at the B. A. C.. which featured these, two premier boxers.
 Red Herring. one of the most de- termined and effective battiers to ever show in local ring, is being featured in the main event for to- morrow night. Red will meet 2 genuine tartar. in Willie Fitzgerald, the Philadelphia scrapper, who has been touring Dixie with Jack Demp- sey, the champion.
 Herring has not fought at the B. A. C. in quite 8 while, and the re- turn of the sorrel topped battler to local fistic circles is being greeted with enthusiasm by local followers of the sport. Against worthy foeman. Red Herring is capable of putting up battle of championship calibre and B. A. C. officials believe that in Fftz- gerald they have a man who can force Herring to the limit/ Monday night.
 The. prewess of the terrible Red is as well known to local fans as that of Jack the Demp himself. but Fitz- gerald is comparatively unknown to Birmingham fandom. Although Fitz- gerald has met most of the top notch | ieyb terbt nf ha doU hi of having fought hair-raising battles with Johnny Dundee, Carl Tremalne and the. others is not half so im- pressive to Birmingham railbirds as the fact that he scored a four round knockout victory over Dixie Jack Allen, former Birmingham battler. who had quite following during his stay in the Magic City. Fitzgerald proved his prowess as a ringman, and his ability to hit when he stopped the slugging MT. Allen, who made something of a rep" as a bear for punishment while here.
 Jack Dempsey. and his troupe of managers, trainers, sparring part ners x etc, have been touring since their return from moose hunt in Maine and have been stopping over at Memphis for several days, While in Memphis, Dempsey refreed a bout in which Jimmy Finley, a protegee of Red Herring, partici- pated.
 Willie Fitzgerald will come to Birmingham from Memphis, where he appeared in an exhibition with Dempsey. He is expected to arrive here sometime today.
 Herring and Fitzgerald will weigh in around the 150-pound mark to- morrow night.
 Pro GrappIers Meet
 B. A. c. officials have gone out of their way Stoasecare a stop notch wrestling match to head the mat floored Tom Lacey. the local pride, at the last B. A. c. show, has been matched to meet the Scotch Marvel of Des Moines. The two pro grap- piers will weigh in around the 160- pound mark and their bout will be refereed by Joe Turner of Washing ton. D. C.. present middleweight champion of the world. The winner will in all probability challenge the champion.
 The remainder of tomorrow's card follows:
 4s Boxing
 Bg Boy Edwards vs. Bert Green 15S pounds, six rounds.
 Sailor. Simpson vs. Eddie Woods, 145 pounds, six rounds.
 Bordus Jacques ys. Terry Nelson, 100 pounds, four rounds.
 Dave Evans will referee the boxing matches. The preliminaries begin at S:30 o'clock