The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-24
COPYRIGHT i92o HUNTED NEWS

The milkfed sluggish house-cat, pampered almost everywhere and even held sacred in some parts of the world, has become a fot-pad and d thug i'll the wilds, liable to be thrown to shreds by the game warden's shot gun. The house cat, in his half-wild condition, is an outlaw pal of the fox, the weasel, the great horned owl and some kinds of hawks. He is Vermin. He kills ground-nesling birds before they are able to fly, he assassinates the hen birds on their nests, he wipes out coveys of quail ana even goes in to the trees for victims from among the cast of the woodland grand opera.
 It was only recently that the game wardens and conservationists pegan to realize what a bad guy the half wild house-cat really is. Until they shot guns they had no idea, either, how many they would have to kill before they had done their job.
 R. P. Holland, vice president of the American Cane Protective associa- ton, has killed quite a few along the sylvania. But he hands the medal for high-score to Ed Townsend of White Plains, N. T., a game protec- tor, employed by the state, whose card shows a bag of 900 predatory toms and tabbies in one year. In New York state the law permits any game protector, official or self elected, to shoot any house. e-eat seen more than 100 yards from dwell- ing.
 The fields and forest of Pennsyl- vania, New York, Ohio, California, and most New England states are more or less infested by abandoned cats and their offspring. Cane wardens have noticed that cat abandoned in the woods by summer people moving back to town in the autumn. does not succumb to the wild but joins 1t and forages for his living. Their fur grows thick and glossy in winter and their wits, made sluggish by generations of ease be- side the kitchen range or parlor radiator, becomes sly again like those of the bob cat.
 Their progeny grow to prodigious size, some weighing 15 pounds.
 An Ohio warden reckoned that there were almost 500,000 rm-cats preying on the ground birds and the songsters of his state, in addition to the independent cats that never go near a habitation. Sixty five paid wardens in the state are expected to gun eats caught hunting and the absolute for a shotgun charge usually cancels all nine lives at once.
 The lightweight boxers of this country will put in the winter try ing to spill the Chile beans.
 Having seen Luis Vincentinf upset several beginners in his debut bouts in New York. Tex Rickard will send invitations to the toughest coterie of near champion lightweights, one by one, to come and have a swat at Luis. Naturally, Ricllard hopes Vincentini will cone through these trials with q clear record. A boy from Chile would be hot stuff for the promoter if he should advance by legitimate processes to a fight with Benny Leon ard for the world championship in the open. next summer.
 Vincentinrs scenario is full of ac- tion, most wild, he-man stuff with hair on the ishbone. He has picked up little more skill than Luis Angel Firpo. which makes him no Joe Cans with his mitts, however, as the long, overland swing with the Ruthian fellow-t through is still his favorite gesture. Thus far he has not tried a hook ora short straight right, both stupefying punches when delivered properly. But in his latest work he did evince some first glim- ner of skill at infighting.
 Unfortunately for Vincentini, he must beat several good men before he will have the right to chirp Chilean insults beneath the window of Benja Leonard. Firpo had only one good one to conquer and that one, Jesse Willard, laid down.
 Pal Moran, whose right swing gave Leftie Lewie Tender an hours tor ment year ago, and recently Knocked out Charlie White, is more courage ous than Willard was and better fighter in his class. Vincentini must at least beat Moran.
 Tender, if he has not outgrown the lightweight class, will beat a sickening rat-ta-p plan on Vincentini's muscular middle for Tender is a fierce body-puncher and the Chilean had no defense in that region.
 Charlie Whites left hook once knocked Leonard out of the ring.