The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-11-04
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A gentleman who has never been knocked out will meet gentleman who has knocked out many at the Birmingham Athletic club Monday night. You pays your money. and you takes your choice-and may the best man wini Jimmy Finley, litho- graphed as the Louisville Slugger," will crawl through the ropes at the Birmingham Athletic club, and inn mediately thereafter will seek to knock Iron Man" Joe Nelson through them. Joe Nelson in 151 fights hasn't been knocked through the ropes yet, and right there is where the argu- ment will begin, and where the fur will no doubt fly.
 Finley. after much delay, Is booked to swing into the Magic City early Sunday morning. He engaged in two fights the latter part of this week and he won .'em both. Thursday night at Jacksonville he knocked out a Memphis welterweight and Friday night he went over to Tampa with Red shannon of New Orleans and tempered with him at length, much to the dissatisfaction of the New Orleans welterWeight. Finley won easily from his Louisiana adversary and immediately thereafter he ship ped for Birmingham to do battle against the Iron Man.
 Nelson. who slipped Into Birming ham the latter part of the week, came here from Memphis, where he was successful in decisively beating Jimmy Smith there this week. Joe says he is in the best condition of his entire career and that If he does not hang up victory over Finley he will be one of the most surprised men in the B. A c. gym.
 Big Ticket Sale
 Of course, the headliner is the bout that has started 'em all to talking, and started such a heavy demand for tickets at the advance sale. but the semiwindup affair is getting almost as much notice as the headliner Bat ting Kelly is attempting to stage a come back before local fans, after having accomplished this before the fans of Detroit, Mich. The Battler fought on two cards in the Michigan metropolis recently and he won both affairs handily. He announces that he is in better physical condition than when he was in his prime here. and that he wants to show his local admirers something of hi sold flash and speed which formerly made him such a favorite here. Battling Kelly will step over the eight-round route with John McGinty, and it is under stood that the winner of this bout has been promised a god in a head liner at the clu1 soon, probably with the winner of the Finley Nelson fight.
 Other attractions for the Monday night card will line up in the fol- lowing manner:
 Max Scholder and Tom Lacey are due to stage a 10-round wrestling argument, and there has also been much interest manifest in this mat go.
 Earl Craddock is booked to step four rounds with Petey Sarron.
 Tommy Harrison and Jimmy Smith will mix it for four rounds.
 Secretary Roberts announced Sat urday night that the advance ticket sale for the Finley Nelson go had been heavier than for any bout at the club with the exception of the Roper-Lohman card, which fell through when Roper ran out of the bout. He stated that queries and reservations had come so fast that club officials had decided to reinstall the special seats they had built for the Roper-Lohman scrap in order that there would be no disappointed fans Monday night.