The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-14


 Before a good crowd. the southern wrestling championships in all classes were decided at the Athletic club last night The feature of the evening, how ever, was an eight-round boxing match between Spike Webb and Mel Myers, the southern lightweight champion, which the latter won on points. The Camp Mcclellan boys had hard luck in nearly all their bouts, losing several close de- cisions on points
 In the 125-pound class Toto Jaffe of high school fame threw Uranian of Mo- Clellan after a hard match lasting 14 minutes. Jaffe appears to be a coming grappler, and uses his head well in all matches.
 Satterwaite of the Birmingham Athletic club, disposed of Joe Frank of McClel- Ian in little less than five minutes in the 1s5-pound weight He had some trou- ble however, in putting Joyce Leyvy's shoulders to the mat in the finals, talk ing 12 minutes to do it.
 In the 145-pound class Slick Davis de- feated Pat Riley of Mcclellan on points, and Fritz Jones won from Griffith in the same manner. The finals between Jones and Davis was pretty fight which the former won on points, being more ag- sressive in the closing minutes.
 There were only two entries in the 15S-pound class, Henry Houser Of Mo- Clellan and Stewart Candy of B. A. c. This was a very fast match and was won by Candy when both men rolled off the mat. Houser protested the decision and Candy agreed to wrestle over after his next match, but the referee ruled it out of order. fl
 In the heavyweight class Candy again emerged victor, winning from corp John McClosky on points after ne nao thrown Umbright in about two minutes McClosky was a game wrestler ana won his audience with that Irish smile that kent going throughout the engagement.
 BOXING MATCH
 The boxing bout proved to be pretty fast entertainment with Kid Myers or Baltimore gaining the decision over Spike Webb of Camp Mcclellan. Karl Landgrebe acted as referee and gave universal satisfaction. Coach Homer Thomas vas appointed timekeeper and tended gong for the eight rounds.
 The first round saw things start off pretty lively between the two fighters, both swinging wild and leaving them selves uncOVereQ. WeDD 'mlSSeu SeNcidi hard uppercuts and took short jabs to the face continually. grinning all the time The second round was all Myers, as the i<i1 landed jab after jab on Webb's cheerful mug, the latter being apparently in fine shape. The third round was about even with Spike land ing a hard right to the Kids jaw and taking more punches to the face. In the fourth stanza Webb came back strong and put over two hard lefts to the face. pushing the Kid around the ring on the defensive.
 The fifth was a draw, Webb swap-, ping licss to stomach for right jabs to the face. The Kid had the best of the next two rounds, jumping at Webb ire quently and landing on his face almost at will. Myers worked fast and was somewhat tired in the last round. which saw little fighting on either side, both men being contented to clinch. At the expiration of this round the referee held up Myers glove, which apparently made a hit with the crowd, who were pull ing for the youngster to come through Neither man showed any scientific box ing, Webb particularly leaving his guard down at all times and taking punish ment like a punching bag.