The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-18

then ODowd rushed his man to the ropes. sending right and left to the head and right hard to the body. Wilson, who fights left-handed. with the right foot extended. jabbed O'Dowd a couple of times and O'Dowd again forced him to the ropes sending hard lefts and rights to the head. Wilson whipped his left to the stomach and O'Dowd sent right and left to the body and head. They were sparring at the bell
 ROUND TWO
 In the second they stood toe to toe eX- changing blows rapidly. Both missed swings to the head, but each re;ched his opponents body frequently. The round was even.
 ROUND THREE
 Wilson kept jabblng to the face and O'Dowd sent a solid right to the body following up with left and right to the head O'Dowd forced his man to a neu- tral corner with a hard right on Will sons nose, Toward the close of the round, ODowd landed right on the neck and Wilson shot his right to the stom- ach. Both men were >Verv careful
 ROUND FOUR
 Wilson jabbed to the lace and ODowd crossed his right to the head and then swung it to the body Wilson broke ground when Mike rushed him and then O'Dowd landed his right on Wilson's left eye. Wilson hooked his left to the head and O,Dowd rushed him to the ropes, sending left and right to the wind Will son missed a left swing just before, the bell.
 ROUND FIVE
 Wilson hooked his right to the head and at close quarters sent right and left to the body. ODowd complained to ths referee that Wilson had some foreign substance on his hair. The referee stepped between them and examined Wilson's head. and after smelling the hair decided that the complaint was not we'll founded. There was great deal of long range sparring and then they went to a clinch without any damage being done.
 ROUND SIX
 ODowd was short couple of leads and then they expanded body blows Wilson held Mike off with his long right, but whenever they came to close quar- ters the mitigating was pretty equally divided.
 ROUND SEVEN
 Up to this time O'Dowd had not stepped in with his usual rushing tactics but after sparring for a little while O'Dowd smashed his right to the jaw twice with out a return O'Dowd became more ag- gressive and landed both left and right to the head and jaw, while Wilson coun- tered on the body. j. O'Dowd sent right to head and body just before the bell.
 ROUND EIGHT
 They exchanged lefts and rights to the body and head, and O'Dowd forced Will son to the ropes twice with right-hand body blows. O'Dowd staggered his op- ponent with right hook to the jaw and a few seconds later swung his right hard to the stomach. Wilson missed a right hook for the head O'Dowd landed with his right on the stomach and repeated the blow at the close of the round.
 ROUND NINE
 Wilson swung his left to the ribs and sent his right twice to the body. O'Dowd then rushed his man into his own cor ner with right and left to the head. Wilson had the better of some hard in fighting at close quarters They were in a half clinch at the bell.
 ROUND TEN
 Wilson swung left to the body and O'Dowd crossed his right to the jaw. A lively mix-up followed. both men playing for the body. Wilson hooked his right to the head and O'Dowd sent a straight right over the heart. After some cios& work O'Dowd crossed his right to the jaw, sent his left to the body and brought his right up to the head again. O'Dowd sent another right toH the head befors tkey went to the corners.
 ROUND ELEVEN
 O'Dowd missed swing and they went into a clinch Then they exchanged body blows. There were couple of rapid ex- on head and body, and then O'Dowd hooked his right to the ear.