The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-18
WILSON SCRAPS
 ANTLEY TONIGHT
BOgie Saab, Danny Ste vens, Hood And Sar-
 ron On Program

Tonight the Birmingham Athletic club will witness a dramatic crisis in the career of youth Little over year ago Claude Wilson stood on the pima cle of featherweight boxing in this sec tion. He had every prospect of cham pionship contender. And then came the crash. Claude was not only knocked flat for the first time in h.j life, but was knocked out when Boots Antley hammered him so fiercely that he couldn't continue the battle.
 So Wilson, after, a hard, hard uphill pull towards the crest he formerly oc- cupied, faces tonight the ultimate test. It is unlikely that he can stand another beating from Antley and still rate among those who draw the crowds. And spectators, of course, are life blood of the boxing game.
 Claude has overlooked no littlest op- portunity to make good on this new chance. He started his comeback cor- rectly. He went north and took on men of gradually increasing class, coming through successfully in three bouts. Then he went to Rancho Villas train ing camp in New York, sparring with the champ and training strenuously through several weary weeks.
 Birmingham will be pulling for the kid, and pulling with might and main, for there never was local boy as pop ular as Claude. His spectacular battle with Frankie Masen in his first year with Frankie Mason in his first year in town.
 But in the boxing game there is less room for sentiment than in any other, and if Antley can prove himself the bet ter man, there'll be no hoots from this part of the country-no squawks of any sort. And certainly Antley himself, though he isn't in the least unfriendly to Wilson, won't have any compunction through appreciation of the youngster' s effort to come back.
 For Boots, too, has a big chance be- fore him. He is one of the most popular drawing cards in Dixie today, a hard, dangerous hitter with either hand and shifty, as Red Grange. His right swing is rapidly carrying him to the heights and he will undoubtedly exercise every effort to score another kayo over the Magic City boy.
 Antley's record demonstrates this punch. Besides his knockout over Will son, he sports two sleep doses admins tered to Freddie Boorde, another local | haymakers, along with one over Lukit Tenner of Charleston, before he mel Claude, but the last named didn't know that, or he might have fared better.
 Certainly, Wilson isn't under rating his antagonist this time. Claude knowI he is up against the toughest thing south of that justly famous dividing line; but he is confident that his har( work, renewed confidence and knowl edge of his opponent will bring hin through successfully.
 , One of the most interesting prelimi nary goes in years has been schedules | for the semi-windup, when Danny Stev ems tangles with Steve Sarron. Damn won a cleancut decision over the eide Sarron last year, but both boys hav gone far since then. The result this tim, is toss-up, as both youths rank at tn, top rung of the local amateur ladder
 Stevens is the harder hitter of thu two, an aggressive, ever-pressing sort oi battler who is exceedingly hard to slow up. Sarron, on the other hand, is ( slightly better general, and is far su perior when it comes to footwOrk. This bout is slated for six rounds, along witf another boxing match.
 Bogie Saab, provided his injured right hand permits, will entertain Young Hood. The latter owns quite 6 rep on his showing against Sailer Simp son on the last card at the club, but hC is up against a real proposition ir Bogie. The young Saab carries wicked right punch and is very hard man to reach. Joe Larechi, local Assyrian, is billed against Scrapiron Williams, a Nashville product in a four rounder.
 To round off the card a wrestling match between Slick Vincent and Kid Lott has been slated. Slick is older and his showing on his first time out pre-. diets a bright future if he cares to fol. low the sport. Lott, on the other hand though younger, is much more expert. enced at this game, and is no mean op- ponent for anyone his weight.