The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-31
Herring With Right Hand
 Useless, Knocks Out -.'ddie
 Anderson in Ninth Round
Battling Spark Plug And Bogie Saab Fight To Draw In Semi-FinaI bout.

It was a grotesque battle, farcial in some aspects, but unique in all. It was battle much misunderstood, hissed sometimes, cheered sometimes ooeed sometimes. It was a slow af- falr, but was saved from being farce by the grit displayed by both flghters-'Red" Herring, with his right hand useless after hurting it again an old break, and Eddie An derson. after being knocked down twice for the count of nine, to come back up for the last lick and the count. 1t was battle that required nerve and sand and the crowd that booed would have restrained them selves had they been swapped with either man that fought nine rounds in the main bout of the Birmingham Athletic clubs show Monday night.
 Although Anderson showed no great amount of skill and was not able to stand up before Herring's flashy punches, he qualified as scrapper by his gameness. On the other hand, Red" using only his left hand. was badly handicapped. as shooting pains held his right out of the fray. He would have finished his man quicker under other condi- tons, but 1t took nine rounds and 27 strokes of the referees hand to fin ish the bout.
 Red" floored Anderson for the count of nine with a clean right up- percut to the jaw in the fifth round and sent him down again in the sixth with another right uppercut. After this round. however. all of Reds" telling blows were struck with his left hand and his right was practi- cally useless.
 "Red, Goes Down.
 In the eighth. Anderson landed q =l n ilrh i.,Cf lre,'' heart that sent him down in a corner on knees that refused to hold him up He came up al the count of nine, however, only to go down again. In the ninth round he came back and sent Anderson down three times in quick succession. The first two times Anderson managed to drag himself up. but the third time he lay prone on the mat as the referee tolled off the count.
 Herring opened the first round fast with lightning like rights and lefts to the jaw. He was working his one-two punch and landing on An derson's jaw frequently, although none were very telling blows.
 Both Anderson and Herring began putting weight behind their blows in the second round. with both attack ing head and stomach.
 The third round was fast with An tcISOH IdNlnS d llllle euSe over Her ring. Anderson was swinging to the head, while Herring was using lefts ot the jaw. Anderson had Herring on the ropes in this round and was using rights and lefts.
 Anderson came in in the fourth and swung hard to the jaw, but missed, and fell to the mat. He opened with his slugging and rushed Red" dur ing the greater part of the round.
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 Anderson Down For Nine.
 Herring came back in the fifth and landed several times heavily. His right uppercut sent Anderson down for the count of nine.
 Anderson went down again the sixth from a right uppercut and looked to be in d pretty bad condi- tion
 He came back in the seventh, how ever, and fought Herring on equal terms.
 Early in the eighth Anderson land ed heavy blow over Herrings heart. that sent him down in a corner coughing heavily. He was up at nine, but was down again for another count of nine.
 Herring opened the ninth with a feint and a wallop to Anderson's jaw, followed by a left to the ribs, and the swing that sent Anderson down the first time Eddie managed to
 
 although he was through the ropes and far gone. Herring landed another left to the jaw and Anderson was down again. Once more he came up and Red" swung his left for the third time and Anderson dropped to the floor for the final count.
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 Preliminaries.
 The preliminary bill was one of the best seen at the club in some time The bouts were good without excep- tion, and even the 100-pound exhibi- tion curtain-raiser was a hot slug ging match.
 { In the wrestling bill Max Scholder wrestled Kid" Pacely to a draw Both wrestlers secured one fall but neither could pin the others shoul- ders down for the third fall.
 Earl Craddock sent Philip Sarrou down in the third round for the count after taking a lot of punish ment from the Ensley slugger.
 Pete Sarron knocked Red" Burke out in the second round of their bout Tony Moreno and Paul McGinty staged a hot slugging match that ended in a draw.
 In the six-round semi final, after being knocked down for the count of nine with a vicious right to the jaw, Battling Spark Plug came back and fought Bogie Saab to a draw in their bout for the city title of 135-pOunders