The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-10-21
GOOD BOUTS AT ATHLETIC CLUB et SarrOn Beats Burke And Lacey And Barring
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The Birmingham Athletic clubs all- star ring bill Monday night brought forth some ferocious boxing bouts and without doubt theS fiercest wrestling match staged at the local arena this year. That a smaller crowd attended the fight than usual only tended to show that local fans go more by name than by quality in selecting their ring entertainments for the bargain day bill was without peer in all departments. The lover of the rugged slugging game the fan who likes to see the clever generalship of good box fighting-the bird who likes to Ssee the grapplers heave and toss each other about the ring-all found the menu t0 their lik- ing. Lacey Harrington went to a draw, Smith beat Thomas, Saab beat Garter, Levoy- -Resha, a draw and Sarron beat Burke-the results.
 The opening match, wrestling, ordi- narily a tame affair and a necessary evil, was far from the casual hugging and tumbling bee which generally opens the bill. Tom Lacey and Young Bar rington clashed in terrific struggle in which they battled for 10 rounds to a draw-as was the case on their last meeting. Starting from the very out set at what appeared to be a killing pace, the men went for each other with out letup until the final bell.
 Each Gain Fall
 In the seventh round Lacey pinned Barrington's shoulders just as the bell rang with a head scissors and an arm lock. Harrington promptly came back and evened the bout by throwing Lacey in the eighth with body scissors and helf Nelson. In the last two rounds both men tried hard to win the rubber fall but neither was able to take the other to the mat for q fall.
 The boxing bill opened with a hot six-round slugging melee between Young Jimmy Smith and Kid Thomas, the Hi nois newsboy. Thomas was pointing for a bout with Petey Serron, should he dispose of Smith, but he found that he had chosen a tough stepping stone on which to climb, for the local young ster hopped on him as the initial bell changed and stayed with him throughout, throwing terrific rights into his face with an occasional left. He had Thomas groggy in the third round and was hitting him at will but could not put him out. The Illinois battler showed plenty of grit and abil- ity to take punishment by staying the whole route and battling to the last. Smith floored him in the fifth.
 Saab Beats Carter
 In the opening 10-round encounter Bogie Saab walloped Harry Carter for s..IA 4 fight. Carter hit the floor in the sec ond round following a wild swing and was down again in the eighth at which time the bout was stopped, as Garter complained of bad elbow. Saab was awarded the decision. The human beam pole put up a pretty stiff battle and ab- sorbed a lot of punishment, while he opened up with spasmodic attacks which somewhat jared Saab. Bogie was swinging a terrific right to the stomach and a club-like right overland to the head.
 Sam Lavoy and Joe Resha battled through 10 rounds of terrific slugging. The bout was called a draw, largely on the showing of Lavoy in the final round, for Resha had clearly edged him throughout the first nine rounds. Lavoy was rather bloody from Resha's slams in the nose and though neither man showed much signs of wear it was evi- dent that the trend of battle favored Resha. He staggered Lavoy on the second punch of the match, but the lat ter stayed the entire route, though he was hit pretty soundly in vital spots several times.
 Burke-SarrOn Sensation
 The final bout was the sensation of the program and came to a sensational finish, though it was only a 10-round decision in favor of Petey Sarron, Red Burke put up a game scrap with the American Olympic boxer and they stood toe-to-toe and slugged for minutes at the time during the bout. Both men, fast and clever ordinarily, were well matched in the mount Monday night and 1t was good scrap. Sarron won large ly on his display of a punch with more steam, but Burke held his own on the mitigating. The bout ended with both men slugging with everything they had behind their punches.
 
 CARTER STILL CONSCIOUS
 l.. R. (Slim) Carter, cheer leader for the University of Alabama, knocked