The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-07
SUMMER OFFERING FIGHT FANS MANY
 BIG TIME SCRAPS
Many Champs Will Defend Titles During Summer In
 New York Rinqs

NEW YORK, June 6.-The soggy thump of wet gloves on tortured beezers will be the most prominent noise in the general tumult of sport until the leaves and the gate re- ceipts wither and fall away in au- tumn.
 All the champions except Joe Lynch and Mickey Walker. have made business appointments in or about New York or will be pleased to make them if shown enough of the right encouragement. TlNn there is the Dempsey Gibbons trans action out in Montana which begins to resound along the telegraph in louder voice than five-star murder in Hollywood.
 Golf and tennis tournaments. the Bermuda sloop race, the intercolle- giate and dual regattas and the ball games will occur from time to time but there is no one other sport which will boast as many frantic afternoons and evenings as boxing, or, to call it by the name that coun- ty prosecutors favor, the prize fight business.
 The next championship fight will be skinny hnmy Wilde's defense of the title which was made to his measure several years ago. the 112- pound or flyweight championship, Flyweights used to be bantams but the bantams crowded their limit along to 11S pounds, eight hours be- fore ring time, so new division was made by proclamation, of Jim my's manager. Wilde will be in much the same trouble that worried Johnny Kilbane last week. He has been out of the ring almost alto gether for nearly three years. He fights Pancho Villa here on June IS and Villa is young, strong, game as martyr, and quick as trout,
 
 Dempsey -Gibbons July 4.
 The Dempsey Gibbons spectacle comes next on July 4. week later Tex Rickard will rig the ring for his second heavyweight show of the year. featuring Luis Angelo Fir DO, who never smiles because he once lost q nickle. Presenting large but flabby opposition to the bony clubs which Firpo filings at all his bus mess associates, there will be Jess in the ring to wiring last fortune from the public through the medium of the turnstiles. Firpo will be brought along to fight Dempsey later in the summer and Dempsey will be forced to beat up Harry of these heavyweight fights alone will be sufficient to drown the eX- citement of most other sports al though why this is so nobody seems to know. least of al the golfers criqui-Dundee JulS <.
 Eugene Criqui has amazed the American fight manipulators by de- ciding to keep an agreement made several weeks ago to fight Johnny Dundee at the Polo Grounds. This ruckus is. dated July 2S
 Mike McTigue's affairs somehow lack the picturesque values which attach to the activities of most champions. But his bout with Harry Greb late this month will swell the uproar emanating from Montana and later in the season Benny Leo hard undoubtedly will succumb to the lure of another punching from Leftie Louie Tender at the rate of about $500 punch.
 TheN may not be enough money to go around, however, as fights come high and the New York public which once paid most. of $l,500,0O0 for a four-round show of Dempsey's has been less liberal of late. Demp- sey may still be able to draw S25 for ringside seats but the lighter men must take their compensation on sliding scale abruptly down ward.