The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-30
BIRMINGHAM WILL
 HAVE DECATHLON| MEET NEXT MONTH
Claude Wilson Will Probably Meet Kid Lavigne Here
 on July 10
By MARVIN M,CARTHY

Ahe@N 1SAA Ao h&AAy tAPN ing in it's scope, at least as far as athletics is concerned, is borne out by announcement by Birmingham Athletic club officials yesterday that a decathlon track and field meet will 1 be staged here in July. The decath- Ion is one of the latest innovations in the track and field sport, and will be the first event of It's kind to ever be staged in Birmingham.
 The probable dates of the first B. A. C. decathlon have been set as July IA and 15, as two days will be required to run the events off.
 For local fandom, uninitiated into the mysteries of the decathlon events. here is description of a modern de- cathlon:
 Ten Events Staged
 Ten events are staged. and every entrant must compete in every event. l Therefore, the winner might be ] termed the best allround track and l field athlete in the district covered 1 by the meet.
 Points are scored by the contes- tants, not according to the manner in which they finish in any one event or events, but according to how nearly they equal the official record for that event, set at the an- nual Olympic games. Equalling the 1 Olympic record scores 1000 points for a contestant, while a graduated table l of points is arranged for distances or times that don't come up to the l record.
 The winner, of course, is the ath- l 1ete who scores the greatest number of points for the 10 events covered by the decathlan.
 The meet which Birmingham will have on Julg fl and Is is the South eastern A.nateur Athletic union event, under the sanction Of the as- 1 sociation, and under the auspices of the Birmingham Athletic club. i Trophies will be furnished by the American Cast Iron Pipe company. l Officials in charge of the meet state that from 12 to I5 entrants are ex- peeted to come in for the meet, in- cluding the best that Birmingham and the Southeastern Amateur Ath- letic union territory has to offer in allround track and field work.
 B. A. c. Show July 10 | B. A. c. officials have announced another athletic show, to be staged at the local club on the night of July | 10. a week from Monday night. Sew eral classy boxing and wrestling l bouts will be arranged for the card l states Tommy Tompkins, B. A c. 1 matchmaker. Here are some of the bouts Tommy announced last night: Tom Lacey and Homer Smilex.
 middIeweight wrestler, eight l rounds.
 CIaud Wilson and Kid Lavigne, England bantamweight boxers, l 10 rounds, probably.
 Bill Martin and Claude Ken
 dricIxs. welterweight wrestlers, 1 six rounds.
 Phil Keith and Battling Kelley,
 welterweight boxers, six rounds. Red Allen and Lary Broderick,
 lightweight boxers, four rounds. The wrestling, as well as boxing 1 bouts will be conducted according
 to the round system. which has lately 1 been adopted by the larger American wrestling associations and commis- 1 sions.
 1 English scrapper Kid Lavigne, a former English 1 flyweight. who came over to America through some of the queer quirks
 which are so numerous in the boxing l game, is summering in Atlanta, and l Octavus Roy Cohen, chairman of the
 the B. A. c. boxing commission, stat | ed last night that, after having a
 talk with Lavigne while in Atlanta
 for the Dixie golf meet, he feels
 sure he can sign the former English
 boy up for a ten-round bout with
 Claude Wilson, Birmingham's popu- lar little bantamweight. The English chap has been A
 srarring partner of Jimmie Wilde and other top notch bantams. He has
 fought both Wilde and Charlie Le- l doux, the latter the bantamweight | champion of France. He was a sparring partner oi Tom Gibbons in i New Orleans not so long ago, and l suffered four broken ribs when the terrible Tommy cut aloose a fast one while working out for his recent l fight with Harry Foley.
 Lavigne has mended thoroughly, and Is ready to meet the best of 'em, l states Roy Cohen, who in describing the Englisher. emphasizes the Cock ney accent of Lavinge and his huskl-
 ness and experienced in the rang l gsme, proven by his 3 years of age and the almost bald spot on the top | of the head.
 Roy Cohen states that a Lavigne- | Wilson bout would be the prize match of the season, and finished
 with a prediction that, if the two
 bantams meet, Lavigne will probably 1 prove too tough for the l, sal boy l to handle without extreme exertion. ]! Marshall to Jacksonville | R. c. Marshall, who for two years.
 was head coach and athletic director at Howard college, has accepted 1 position at Jacksonville, being ap- l pointed athletic director at Duval l High school with full control. as ] head coach.
 Duval high annually turns out athletic teams which are recognized l as among the best. the south can | produce In prep athletics. Duval is konwn in the east as a sturdy foe 1 worthyt of recogniztion, brough about by annual intersectional foot 1 ball games.
 Marshall is recognized as very l competent athletic director, and un- | der favorable conditions ought to advance Duval athletics still more. l complimented upon having secured 1 man of oCach Marshalls calibre 1 a~nerienra