The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-28
Bout Is Slow, But the Wilson, Jerome Battle Is Redeeming Feature of Card-WiISon Wins
By sLARvIN MCCARTHY

Dave Evans, refereeing the Eddie Grant -Bennie Parman scrap at the Birmingham Athletic club last night. sought way out of his troubles by calling the bout draw, and Dave didn't miss 1t far at that In fact, he probably didn't miss 1t at all, for neither scrapper showed enough 10 win last nights bout.
 Referee Evans had almost as hard a workout as the boxers in trying to make them mix matters. Grant and Parman form one of those few pairs of scrappers who. apparently, are not meant to be matched. Eddie Grant was willing enough, in fact, he tired himself out trying to make a good scrap out Of ths affair, Bennie Parman seemed game atmseif. and started several little offeHsivcs of his own. The whole trouble was this. Neither Parman nor Grant wanted to scrap at the same time. and no thorough mixing of matters could result.
 Eddie Has Punch
 Eddie Grant seems to have a good punch, but he didn't land on avul- rerable spot last night. Eddie is q splendidly built chap and ought to be able to send through a whale of a wallop.
 Bennie Parman exhibited a corking good defense, both with his mitts and footwork. He blocked the ma. jority of Grants punches, and about half the others he sidestepped O. tucked. If Parman had given as much attention to landing blows as he did to evading them, he might have won last nights bout. Parman is a clever defensive boxer and de- serves credit for the manner in which he foiled the attempts of Grant.
 Grant Starts Strong
 Grant started strong, taking the first two rounds. His aggressiveness was more of winning factor Tn these rounds than effectiveness, for neither boy was landing any telling blows.
 The third. fourth and fifth rounds were even, with only little real action. Parman used his left hand to good advantage, while Grants ever ready right was his chief weapon.
 The sixth and seventh rounds went to Parman, who began to open up a bit and the eighth round was a draw.
 Parman UncOrIxs JoIts
 Parman startled the crowd in the ninth round by uncorking three Tightening right crosses, which car romed off the jaw of Eddie Grant. Parman landed about six hard blows, rights and left, but Grant wasn't even dazed. He stood with his guard lowered and absorbed the shocks of Bennie Parmans mitts, and came up with a smile. This session was Par mans, of course.
 fsro s1 d and evened matters by taking the session. When the gong sounded. Dave Evans raised the hands of both fighters, and the bout was declared a draw, despite the hoots of the crowd. It would be hard to deter mine which fighter the fans favored. probably public opinion was divided fifty-flfty, anyway, so Dave Evans perhaps did right in calling the scrap a draw.
 Grant weighed IA pounds and Par man 11S, it was announced by An nouncer Jack McCIain.
 Wilson stops Jerome
 Claudio Wilson and Frankie Je- rome fought great little scrap, Will son winning on technical knock out in the fifth round. It was the second meeting between these two boys, Jerome having won a decision on a foul from Wilson in a previous bout. The scrap last night had every earmark of grudge battle.
 Despite Frankie Jeromes deter mined resistance. Claudio Wilson wore his opponent down, and in the fifth round landed a hard right to Jeromes left eye. Jerome went to the mat, but was not out, and had wisdom enough to stay down for the count of nine. The blow drew red, ana Jerome's vision was beclouded by the claret. Wilson followed up his advantage, and Referee Sailor Kennedy stopped the match when Je- rome was downed again. a few sec