The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-28
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The people of Shelby, Montana, will not be much consoled by the fact, but they really did perform a great guinea pig service for all other small communities in their prize fight eX- pertinent 2G hours from anywhere. Altruism in this case came very high. Shelby lost money and won rather bad name. shelby also demonstrated beyond argument that the small town cant afford to entertain heavy weight champion on official business. | The Dempsey Willard fight at Tol- edo was too expensive a show for the natives of the town and most of the customers were outsiders who had spent more than twice as much for transportation and keep on tie road as they paid for their tickets. The Benton Harbor execution can be thrown out because Billy Miske was an invalid at the time and the bout twas largely inspired as benefit to give Miske a purse. The attendance was drawn in large parties from Chi cago, from Miske's home town in St. Paul and from other cities of con siderable size.
 When the price of a heavyweight champions time went up to $500 second at Jersey City two years ago, these shows were placed beyond the | most thickly populated centers. Shel- by had the most picturesque proper ties for ballyhoo that any fight city ever boasted except Goldfield. Gold i field was real, innocent wild west, however. Shelby had long got out of the cow camp customs, necessitat- ing the importation of circus cow guys and painted Indians, Painting the Indians was one mistake, and the f tip off on the tanning of the west whereIt used to be widest, for any
 one who has seen Indians in their cordUroys and general unromantic civilian clothes on the reservations could see al once that this wasn't Montana-this wild west from the property lofts of Hollywood.
 Basil Galliano of NtNv Orleans has jared many chins in the scrappIns square in his own home, but what ne did to them wasn't a Iove-tap to the wallop he landed on the science of eugenics. Basil was the twenty first child of his mother and the only scrapper in the battalion. New Or leans is the home of the American flyweight title and the proving ground of little scrappers who are turned out of the local mills in large quantities and very high quality, Joe Mandot. one of those almost cham pions of the lightweight class, came
 
 the four men to hold world cham pionship twice, came from the same nei ighborhood. Now New Orleans of 1 fers Galliano in the lightweight class and Al Pattingill as a taunt to Pan cho Villa in his new estate as fly weight champion of the world. Galliano's mother and the mother of Johnny Dundee were born in the
 same Italian village and came to l America about the same tiHe, Sig nora Galliano even then beings at tended by a numerous brood. Johnny and Basil neighbored one another in l Hells Kitchen oyer by the Hudson docks in New York when they were still in shorts, but Basil was much | younger than the Caledonian Italian, | who is now n his old age as a boxer They have fought and Galliano has yet to win, but he is coming along now just as Dundee prepares for his | final fling at a championship with Eugene Criquis in New York. New Orleans, abundant of nttle fighters, has never had a good heavy weight. This puts it up to Marty Burke. Burke is a light heavyweight who whips the heavies when he fights his fight and lets middle weights whip him when he's wrong Jimmy Dunne of Cleveland, who made
 
 has taught many a kid to fight and who can still whip most of the boys he handles, has taken hold of Burke.
 He is working him twice a month He put Marty on a years probation and promised to fire him out of tlG stable if he takes a drink in that time. But after the year Marty is still in good standing with Dunne, New Orleans may hear plenty about Burke. ~
 | Blazing a name of fame in amateur | baseball records the Gadsden Inde- l pendents continue to chalk up easy victories over the best of amateur
 teams in north Alabama and south | Tennessee.
 Rowdy Crew, manager of the Gads- den aggregation, has led his outfit to | 90 victories already, with but five defeats marked agcinst them.