The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-04-05
LENGTHY LAYOUT
AHEAD FOR FANS,
PEGLER ASSERTS
What With Racing, Re-
lays, Baseball Tryouts,
Fights, Etc.
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NEW YORK, April Att IL time to
drag the fires In the hot stove league.
Racing has begun through the slush
at Bowie, Nd, which means that the
horses will be on the hike continuously
at the Maryland, Metropolitan and Ken
lucky tracks until autumn; the ball
clubs are playing their way home to
open the real program after their
usual noisy prologue in the south and
busherS are being chased back into the
bush along the route; the Penn relay
games are approaching as fast as the
stately gait Of the imperturbable calen-
dar will permit. and fights are brewing
under the hat Of every promoter In the
fertile eastern, eauliflower belt.
Olympic tTyouts and Olympic con-
tests GUn and tennis championships
will scatter themselves along the
months from April onward, and the
man who attempts 10 keep an attentive
eye on. the feverish progress of aaIl
these hustlfng events will emerge from
the summer experience of 1924 with
sympathetic feeling for the kid with a
stiff neck whe had to bring the ele-
plants drinks for three days in order
to see all Of the circus.
Dempeey's LaudabIe Efforts
Only the prize fighters have been
rettcent about their summer plans, but
It will never be written that Jack
Dempsey Luis Angel Firpo, Harry
wills and the rest Of them permitted
the great sport summer of 1924 to hasten
past a given point without any con-
tributions to the program from them.
Mr.. Dempsey's health took q spring
slump and he has gone to Los Angeles
to give any little assistance he may
to the laudable efforts Of Will HAYS
to buoy the, quality, II any, of the
/ ri ~<rr a
TO receive $1,000 900, which is eonsld-
cred a fairish sum Of money, even If
ne only gets one-third Of IT,. -
However, the prize fighters who have
been heartened by the reports of the
champions physical disrepair should be
advised that Ill health In the case Of
Dempsey is only relative term and
that Dempsey in a slump Is about as
deiicate as a vulcanized outlet off an
aged rhtnoceros
Wills undoubtedly will be invited to
establish whether Erminio Spalla. the
renegade stevedore from the Jersey
DOCKS, who was PROSTATE during most
% mis- ring appearances here a few
years ago. is any better than he was
at that time. The fact that Erminio
went IA rounds with Luis Angel Firpo
might Indicate that he has become one
on the upright men of the ring. Or
II might only prove that Firpo is even
= worse boxer than he was when he
Fought In this country, which seems al
most impossible.
May Be Ready Fer Leonard
Benny Leonard has no customers left
IN mis- division, and the year has failed
70 oeveiop any. He probably viii be
allowed to fight Mickey Walker for
the Weiterweight championship In view
or this paucity, but there are two
young men tofiing along through the
lightweight class who might prove
worthy or the grand baIIyhoo late In
ne summer. They are Jack Ziyic NJ
Pittshurg and Archie Walker, late ana
teur champion.
PanI Berlenbach's career has caasad
70 advance, and there is NO UxaIihcod
enat ne VIII ever be betterthan a third
r rLsr, because he simply hasn't the
. 1nlrU aiacrity Of fighter, being pom
dsFous democratic and vulnerable,
strtb Among Celebrities
me hght-heavyweight class probably
vii present the greatest activity this
year. what with Carpenter at last DE-
e1deo To- proceed this way and pawn
the remnant of his once elegant repu-
tat1on for one big guaranteed purse.
Gsne Tunney has been presented vvith
carpenter, who will be a rich gift.
Eor the rest of the work in, 4hts
class there are Jimmy Slattery OF Puf-
falo and Willie Strihling of Macon. "a
noth new boys with rather picfursao,,S
quantities; Harry Greb, who viii ~
winner as long as his whale-bone less
stay under him; Tom Gibbons ana a.
stone anu -Au