The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-12
LACEY-M'GINTY MIXED BOUT DRAWS INTEREST
Protege of Happy" Littleton to Meet New Jersey Boy
 in Ten Rounder

Despite the withdrawal of Ashton Donza as opponent for Jimmy Proto at the B. A. C,s athletic show Mon day night, Dave Evans. local match maker, has saved the day by secur- ing Joe Cook as Jimmy's opponent. and the Cook -Proto bout now stands as the headline attraction for the 5. A. C. event Monday night. The first preliminary will begin at S:30 o'clock.
 Guy Rouz, manager of Donza, stated in the telegram to Dave that Ashton was on the sick list and of feree either Battling Barrare or Joe Cook. Bobby Hughes was also ob- tainable for the scrap. Dave learned. After considering the three men, Evans chose Cook, first, because he has beaten Donza once and drawn with him once; second, because he has won from Hughes, and Hughes in turn has beaten Pal Moore and other southern boxing celebrities of his class; third, Cook has beaten Feraci.
 Cook is boxer with keen ring sense and is a protege of Happy Littleton. In the days when Joe was more ambitious than learned Happy took him under his wing and taught , him the ways of ring folk and the lick that is the most deadly. Happy" Himself is a learned leather puncher land is enc of the middleweight cham pionship contenders. Cook has ,xan enviable record and according to G1is manager, who. with Joe, arrived in the city Sunday, is in fine condi- tion for the scrap.
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 Jimmy Proto, late of New Jersey. Will have hard sleddng Monday night. Proto made a splendid show ing against Tim O'Dowd in his ini tiai battle in Birmingham and fought the bantam champ of the south to draw. He is an aggressive young ster, a hard hitter and willing mixer. His bouts are not slow. for he pushes his opponent when the latter seems unwilling.
 The main bout Monday night will be far better than the one previously arranged.
 The event Of most interest, next to the main bout, will be the mixed bout between John McGinty and Tom Lacey. This is something new in local athletic circles and is bound to be a "go." The rules for the bout as drawn up by Dave Evans allow McGinty to hit at all times whether on the floor or standing up. Lacey cannot crawl across the floor after .McGinty but must hit McGinty and sJthe floor at the same time.
 slacey'x Best Bet.
 l sLacey's favorite means of getting as man the mat is to knock his fleet out from under him with his flegs. This can be used. If Me lGinty hits Lacey and knocks him down, he will be counted out unless the gets to his feet before the count ,of 10. McGinty will have to step back after flooring Lacey until he Ncan get to his feet. on starting the smen will be required to walk to the .middle of the ring, shake hands. step lback one pace and begin. To win Lacey will have to pin McGinty's shoulders two times in the I0-round ' bout while McGinty will have to knock Lacey out. This bout will be the second on the bill, as the wrest- ling mat will have to be used.
 The first wrestling match will be between Max Scholder and Claude Hendricks. This bout will be a good one, as both men are going in for a win. They have met several times before with varying success and are ! evenly matched.
 Battling Spark Plug will not be | able to meet "Larruping Larry" Broderick in the semi-final boxing bout as planned. but Rogie Saab will substitute for him. Evans says Saab is in fine shape for the bout and will give Frederick a rough evening. The bout will go four rounds.
 Another bout that should be live ly one is Young Battling Kelly vs. Steve Sarron. These two met in the last athletic card and the bout was a whir1wind affair. Both are out for blood in this battle and it should be a hot slugging match when they meet.
 Baby Spark Plug, mosquito weight who put up good fight with Baby Wilson in the last bill, will box Jim Saab in. three-round bout. Baby Wilson will also appear on the card if suitable opponent can be found for him.