The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-12

at the hands of the Birmingham be endsof the ten rounds of battling, a of fprotest from the railbirds.
 1.-The Memphis lad is several inches taller than Wilson. He weighs four or. five pounds more than the Bir- mingham ooy. In addition he has at least two inches in reach on Claude. That is not all. his career as a Dixie boxer has been many months longer than that of Wilson. Yet. Sharkey was outclassed by Wilson last night. simply because Claude recognized the best method of T fighting the Tennessee String beam and used his head to cop the verdict.
 Claude's Ring Tactics
 sSharkey seemed to elect to stand off and box it out with Wilson, but Claude had different ideas about how that battle ought to be fought. Tommy Tompkins' boy always kept close in. and never gave Sharkey much of a chance to use his superior reach to good advantage.
 The fight by rounds last night would seem to indicate that Wilson vas an easy winner, and, for fact, Claude did cop in rather handy fash. ion. Three rounds were even, one was Sharkey's, and the other SIX were won by Wilson.
 After a rather slow start in the first round, both boys sparring for openings, Claude took the aggressive ill the second stanza and copped the round In the third Sharkey l-ade his best showing, bringing into use his long left, and beating Wilson to the punches. There was some steamy work, but no stagger- ing blows lad been struck up to that. stage of the fight.
 In the fourth. Wilson adopted style of campaign he never relin- auished until the battle had been won. Stepping in close, he forced the. fighting, and scored heavily with short right chops to the head.
 Wilson staggers Shnrkey
 e-4a-sthe fifth, Wilson gave the crowd a real thrill, by backing the Memphian up against the ropes, and shooting home right to the Jaw that made Sharkey's knees sag For a. moment the Memphis scrapper was obviously groggy, but he manaseu to keep his jaw out of the way or further damaging punches, ana was in good shape at the close or the round.
 The sixth, seventh and eighth ses- sions were mere repetitions of others fhat had gone before, victories foi Wilson, with the local lad forcing all tbe fighting and landing frequently with short overland right that seemed to fade through Sharkey's somewhat wabbly guard.
 Tn. tho ninth and tenth sessions, Sharkey rallied a bit. and really brought into use his greater reacn. He used his left for the first time during the fight, and stood Wilson off with steamy punches that fre- uuently found their mark. Sharkey was not getting any better than draws In these two rounds, but ms showing was so much better than Tn early rounds that the improvement looked like a million dollars.
 At the end of the tenth, Sharkey and Wilson were fighting furiously but there was no dpuht as to the real winner.
 The bout, although obviously Wfl- sens practically all the way, was one of the fastest and snaDpiest of the past tew weeks ct the local club.
 sNanager Danenberg. who handles fbsrkey, stated after the fight last night that his boy turned his ankle ia the third round and was prevent cd from showing all his speed throughout the remainder of the bout.
 saab Defeats Kelly
 Fighting a game. heads up battle. Bogie Saab of the Boys club last night stopped the winning streak of Naung Battling Kelly by administer ing a trouncing to the shifty young battler.
 Bogie used his left occasionally. while his right was in fine fettle. Time and time again Saab would force Kelly to cover with overland chops that landed first on the jaw, then on the back of the neck, as Kelly tucked and covered up.
 It was Saab's fight all the way, he winning four of the six rounds and the other two being even. Kelly couldn't hit the crafty Bogie with any degree of success, while Saab staged one of his best battles to hand the battler mau1ing.
 Hendricks and simmons Draw
 In the six-round main wrestling bout Claude Hendricks and Earl Simmons staged fast and thrilling battle to draw. Claude seemed to have the greater science of the two. put cari was StroHS ana game anu stuck with Claude to the last.
 Hendricks is recognized as one Of Birminghams classiest young amateurs, and last night he was in as good shape as ever. Simmons belied his looks (scarcity of hair on the top of his head giving him an appearance of age greater than his own) by displaying great activity and ability against Hendricks.
 Wrestling Bouts
 Kid Lott and Young Simmons wrestled five minutes to a draw.
 Harold Spratling and Kid Adams also wrestled to a draw, but Young