The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-09-24
DONZA-WILSON
 BOUT EXPECTED
 TO BE THRILLER
Speedy Performance Expect ed When Young SCrappers
 Meet Second Time
By MARVIN MCCARTHY

It's the speed and action that makes boxing the popular sport it is, and the great old game is ex- pected to be seen in all it's glory here tomorrow night, for two young and clever ringmen are meeting in the main event of the Birmingham Athletic clubs regular athletic show. Ashton Donza, the speedy little bat tier from the Crescent City, meets Claude Wilson, Birmingham's young est and most promising scrapper, in lo-round bout at the local club.
 Fans are quite sure that speed and action will be there. The names, Eonza and Wilson. are almost enough security for that. However, more concrete evidence than that Is avail able, In the fact that Wilson and Donza have met before, putting I'D one of the fastest and most thrilling battles ever staged in a Birmingham ring.
 Donza Arrives Today
 The Crescent City battler, under the care of John Cox, Leo P. Hymns southern representative, left New Orleans for Birmingham last night, a telegram stated, and will arrive here this morning. Guy Roux, Donza' s manager. is tied up at New Orleans, so is sending his young ringman here in charge of the Gotham impress sario's representative.
 The same wire also stated that Donza has wound up the little train ing necessary to put him in tip top condition, and will arrive here today ready for the bout.
 Claude Wilson is also ready, his manager, Tommy Tompkins, states. Both battlers will probably work oat lightly at the B. A c. this afternoon, however.
 Their First Bout
 In their first meeting at the B. A. c. Donza and Wilson fought furi- ously for 10 rounds, with neither having an apparent advantage. The bout was judged a draw by the ref cree, to the satisfaction of the ma- jority of the fans.
 Donza has great left hand that seemed to give Wilson lots of trouble when they met in their first bout. Wilson, on the other hand, has a right hand that Donza seemed 10 know, by hearsay, at least, for he kept well out of range of Claude s best weapon. Occasionally Wilson did land his right, and the effect was to produce unusual respect in the estimation and actions of Donza.
 Tomorrow night, Donza will have almost all the edges in comparison. He is veteran ringman, having won and kept amateur titles for several years before going into the ring game seriously. Since giving up his connection with the Simeon Pures, Donza's career has been just one en- gagement after another, and he has grown as accustomed to ring battles as draft horse to the harness he totes in his daily grind.
 Weight FavOrs Donza
 Furthermore, weight will be in Donza's favor He will have it on Wilson by about four pounds tomor- row night. However, Donza Is short and stoeky, while Claude is rather rangy, so height and reach will favor the local battler. Claude probably hits harder than Donza, while Ashton is no doubt the better boxer of the two. Which is the speedier of the two battlers is a matter of specu- lation, as there is hardly a way in which one can put speedometer on the action of two lightning fast bat tlers Neither is a dray wagon when it comes to speed, though, and there will probably be nothing slow about their fight tomorrow night.
 Wilson will weigh about IA pounds and DonZa must make 11S for tomorrow nights bout.
 The Card
 The complete card for tomorrow night has not yet been announced, but the following bouts will be in- cluded
 Donza vs. Wilson, main boxing event, 10 rounds.
 Big Boy Edwards vs. Charles Low ingood, six rounds of heavyweight boxing.
 Harwell Allen vs. Tom Lavis, three rounds, welters.
 Tom Lacey vs. Jim Perry, 10 rounds middleweight wrestling
 Claude Hendricks vs. Max Schol- der, 10 rounds lightweight wrestling.
 Dave Evans will probably referee tn main boxing event, with Morris Finefeld handling the wrestling bouts. The preliminaries begin at S:30 o'clock tomorrow night.