The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-08-15
HARRINGTON WILL TRY 4 COMEBACK M LOCAL ARENA
To Meet Edwards Or Jackson In Semi Final Of
 Big Bout
Tt never rains but it pours."

Tt never rains but it pours."
 No sooner had Dave Evans an nounced that B. A. c. officials had decided to pay Capt. Bob Roper his demanded guarantees for his fight here Monday night with Tom Berry than Dave also come forth with the statement that a former local idol would start on a come back" in the semi-tinal match of the big card. Dummy" Harrington, the figh tingest piece of furniture ever to decorate a local ring, has donned the warpaint, the trunks and the snarl. Dummy will app Monday night.
 Dummys foe has not been definite ly decided upon as yet, but it win either be Big Boy" Edwards or Kid" Jackson. Fans are not particu- larly interested in friend foe. how ever. They are merely elated over the fact that the devastating Dummy has decided to join the leather pusn- CTS again in fistic melee.
 AS the fans look through the record books, more and more do they become conviced that the Roper Berry fight is going to be thriller Monday night. Berry, the Cincin- natl giant, has done more boxing in Europe than he has in the states and he has put some mighty good Europ- can mayhem experts away. There is his victory over Battling Ski of re- cent date. Berry also points with pride to his victory over Bombardier Wells, the Englishman. Bandsman Rice, and Boy Mccormick, It is Berrys claim that he has never been knocked out during his> pugilistic career.
 Jimmy Murphy Roper's manager, seems to be one of those letter. writing demons. such characters are prominent in the ranks of box-fight- CT managers. Dave received a missive from the illustrious Murphy Tuesday, that worthy writing in part:
 T claim that Roper has greater record than any of the present day heavyweights, with the possible ex- ception of Champion Jack Dempsey He is the only heavyweight in the ring of any prominence who is yet to be knocked"off his feet.
 Look at his long string of vic- tories and you will see that I'm handing you the old dope straight from the shoulder. He has knocked out such scintillants IS Carl Morris, Frank Moran, Al Roberts, Bill Reed Dan Dowd (who recently gave Gene Tunney such tough ten-round fight. And he has wdn decisions over Bill Brennan, Fred Fulton, and Harrs Greb. The latter victory took place in Pittsburg, Greb's own home town
 We will arrive in Birmingham Saturday morning-with the bells on," concludes Murphy.
 Senor Dave, in commenting on the preliminaries, stated that if they didn't prove the best ever served a Birmingham boxing public he would be disappointed man. I'm putting on Dummy Harrington with either Big Boy" Edwards, or Jackson in the six-rounder," said Dave" and,havo booked Toney Mareno to go against Tom Harris. Spark Plug and Bogie Saab will seek to carve their initials in each other for four rounds, ant on top of all that the fans will have the opportunity of seeing Tom Lacey and Kid Paisley in real grudge af- fair on the wrestling mat, which will go for ten rounds. Match that card fl you can," concluded Dave. and I'll eat the new Age-Herald building, all twenty-siX stories. story at g mouthful."
 From the present angle it seems