The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-24
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By WESTBROOk PEGLER Leased Wire to The Age-HeraId.)

NEW YORK, Sept. 23.-As Jack Dempsey cultivates his mileage bill touring about the country on the cars in obedience to his restless desire al ways to be going somewhere, the minor contributors to the income tax will now be taking their quarrels in- doors. where a long program of en- tertaining strife is about to com mence.
 Dempsey candidly refuses to fight in the winter because no roof in America has yet been stretched to cover the seating arrangements necessary for a Dempsey crowd of S0,000 people. Benny Leonard, haV- ing boxed Leftie Lewie Tender twice in the open air, each time with sew eral hundred thousand dollars worth of trade in attendance, also prefers the wide open spaces of the ball. yards and has proclaimed a closed season of the few eligible chins in his division. Luis Angel Firpo, who Gees not scorn a few odd thousands as these others do, may be enticed into the Garden ring some time dur ing the winter, provided the thou sands offered him are not too few.
 Luis Angel counts that gesture lest which does not pay him some Il ing, and he has sworn vendetta against lost motion. Thus, when he goes to South America for a three months business trip. primarily to establish his automobile business, he will route himself by way of Val paraiso, Lima and other cities where the promoters are fattening their best local cargo handlers in antici- patton of his coming. Firpo has no set price for knocking over these unfortunates, but bases his fee on the local trade conditions, the price of travel to the next town and the probable duration of the victim. when he returns, Luis Angelo, there fore, should be found responsive to the winners end of capacity house ir Madison Square Garden, providing his opponent is not one of the heavy weights who could be put down with greater profit in the open air places few months later. Jack Renault or Fred Fulton would be about. the right sort for an indoor occasion. Harry Wills, on the other hand, must be saved for next summer.
 Thus two of the champions, Demp- sey and Leonard, have marked their quotation for prime winter cauli- flower, and three others have be- come notorious fugitives from cam petition, indoors or out. Mike Mc- Tigue, world champion light heavy weight, and Gene Tunney, American champion of the same division, sprint for the nearest police station and de- nand to be locked up as a protec tive measure, whenever they hear thar Tom Gibbons has been looking at an eastern railroad foldor And Mickey Walker, since winning the welterweight championship from the old night watchman, Jack Britton, las been sulking in the Jersey swamps, retreating to the trackles5 wilds of Elizabeth at every approach of a promoter wishing to match nim with Davie Shade.
 Only Harry Greb middleweight headman, Johnny Dundee, feather weight champion, Joe Lynch, bantam weight champion, and Pancho Villa, first flyweight of the world, appear willing to fight Lynch only sur rendered when the boxing commis- the cancellation stamp, Lynch has been matched to fight Joe Burman at the garden on the night of Octo- Der 12. Two years ago when he be- gan the reversal of Midget Smith to a scarlet froth, Burman appeared to be the equal of Lynch, if not one of Joe's numerous betters. How well he has sustained his class, New York doesn't know, because he has not been very aggressive. Carl Tremaine, although beaten on an off night by Harry Gordon few weeks ago, also will be a customer at Lynch's counter this winter.
 Villa must fight Frankie Genaro.  the amateur flyweight champion of the world in 1920, when he was a member of the victorious American Olympic boxing team. Genaro has beaten Villa twice and last season took the American flyweight cham pionship from him. Al Pettingill, of New Orleans, who beat all the fly weights in the native home of the flyweight class, will be here, also, to fight Villa and Genaro.
 There are several boxers just a little above the featherweight limit who can beat Johnny Dundee when he isn't quite at his best. But Dun dee naturally will train very care fully and make his best fight when he goes in for decision bout to de- fend his championship. won only this summer after Is years of trying. Id Wagner of Philadelphia recently beat Dundee. who was fat at the time. and therefore Wagner is an early business prospect for Dundee. Wagner is what Is known as Phil adelphla feather. however. which