The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-28
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BOUT MAY BE STAGED
 BY OUTSIDE PARTIES, IS REPORT

money where they say it ought to be. Respectfully yours.
 "(Signed) TOMMY TOMPKINS,
 Manager Claude Wilson,"
 Something n bit more insfstent thnn rumOrs was going the rounds Wednesday that Wilson and PrOto will meet in n 1O-round bout within another week. From reliable sources, 1t was learned that the bout may he staged out side the Birmingham Athletic club, under the auspices of a weil-knOwn national organization with n chapter in Birmingham.
 
 Dave Evans admitted that there had been some talk of Proto and Wilson settling all arguments in a bout at the B. A. c. next Mon day night. Here's what Dave said:
 Tommy and I got together. and agreed to sign for another Proto- Wilson bout. He agreed to allow the B. A. C. to draw up a set Of regulations, and to post a forfeit the bout would go through.
 We finally argued the club into agreeing to the scrap, but then another hitch came along. Some ebody-I'm not mentioning any names, but it wasn't I-said something about guarantee, and the thing fell through again."
 The club wouldn't guarantee, so Dave and Tommy are seek ing outside parties to help them
 It would be interesting to note the effect on the public of an- other PrOtO-WilNOn bout. If rules and regulations were for initiated, thoroughly understood In advance nnd fOrfcitures pOst- cd guaranteeing a fight, the fans might enter the affair whole heartedIy. If another hnphnxard arrangement was made, it's n cihch that the rnilbirds would De " bit ieery of the bout.
 There's something interesting about this new pitcher of the Barons. He's a little southpaw and left-handers are famed for their eccentric manner-someone has reported that he's bit cross-eyed. which wouldn't help him find the range of any plate In the Southern league, and his name Is Wilder.
 It wouldn't take horoscope wizard to dope him out at all. Wednesday Wilder pitched to three batters down at Mobile. He walked the first two and plunked the third in the ribs. Wonder If Stuffy Stewart made a wild guess in signing that Wilder chap?
 Still. Roy Moore, who has proven to be a consistent win ner, was as wild as bootleg ger on his first time out for the Barons.
 Stuffy's men managed to cop only one of those four games at Mobile. That wasn't so bad, con- sidering that they had previously won their last four series. and that even breaks with champiOn- ship teams don't often come to second division clubs. The Bar ons were battling like champs in two of those games. and won one of them. With ordinary luck, they would have won the second. hut in the other two they were rather decislvely beaten.
 The greedy eyes of the Peli- cans are cast toward the ranks of Stewart today. as the Barons stand ready to. open three game series in New Orleans. A Pelican who leads the league can usually find good fishing among the second division clubs, and the bird with the oversized bill Is contemplating feast at the ex- pense of Stewards men this weekend.
 Stewards boys must battle with the spirit of the vikings. If they are to turn back those ravenous Pelicans. With fair pitching, Stuffy's pastimers might cop two of those three games, which would spill the dope from one end of Dixie to the other, and give to those boys the confidence they need to spurt toward the top.