The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-20
WILSON WILLING AND DRAWS WITH NEW ORLEANS BOY
Feraci Leads on Points, But CIaude'S Aggressiveness
 Counts for Draw

Healthy aggressiveness, though 1t often resulted in wild swings that went the way of all wild swings into the air-resulted in Claude Will son, Just back from an invasion of eastern rings, obtaining 8 draw with Charlie Feraci, of New Orleans, in their 1o-round boxing bout at the Birmingham Athletic club Monday night.
 Feraci. choosing the defensive throughout, used a long left tab to good advantage. and sometimes crossed with his right for healthy wallops. The Crescent City lad probably had 1t on Wilson in actual punches landed and general effec- tiveness, but his unwillingness to step out and mix matters cost him the bout.
 Although the unusual reach of his opponent prevented Wilson from stepping in and battling it out Claude showed good form Monday night. It was his first bout in a Magic City ring for over a month, and fandom was watching him close ly Monday night. Claude was will ing enough, but his hooks often went wild, and he proved a habitual vic tim of Feracis long left jab.
 Wilson's Best Round.
 In two rounds Wilson showed steam enough to have his long limb ed opponent on the run. In the fifth, Claude opened up in his old time style, and came off on the longer end of some peppery slugging. In the seventh. Feraci used left hook to obtain an early lead, but Claude caught his foe in a clinch, and rat tied a perfect bombardment of right hooks to the head before Feraci could break away. The Crescent City bantam was badly shaken in this exchange, and covered the re- mainder of the round, which was Wilson's best session. These two rounds were easily Claudes while the tenth went to the local boy by shade.
 Feraci won four of the ten rounds. After fighting two even rounds with Wilson to start the bout. Feraci opened up with a puzzling left hook in the third session. and outpointed Claude by scant margin. Wilson couldn't seem to duck away from that hook fast enough, and Feraci used it will telling effect throughout the fight.
 The fourth round was even, the fifth Claude's, but the sixth went to Feraci, when the New Orleans battler caught Wilson in the solar plexus with right hook that sent Claude skidding to the canvas. Will son was up immediately. and the blow counted only as knock down without count.
 Feracps Hooks Count.
 In the eighth session, Feraci's left hook began to snow results, and Wilson's mouth was cut quite & bit. Claude .bled throughout the remainder of the fight from repeat ed hooks to the mouth. In the ninth session. Feraci's greater reach en- abled him to sock Wilson three hard ones at long range, while he used his left to good advantage in the clinches. Wilson sent in two hard right uppercuts in the in-fight- ing.
 The tenth saw Feraci standing off, while Wilson waded in and attempt ed to cut his foes lead with hard right swings. He landed one to the chin that sent Feracl further back into his shell, and Claude was vainly seeking an opening at the final bell.
 The bout was fast one, with Fe- racis great left hand and his long reach offset by aggressiveness and good footwork by Wilson. Jack Bo- dine refereed a good fight, and the decision was not an unpopular one.
 PRELIMINARY THRILLERS.
 The preliminaries to the Wilson Feraci scrap proved to be thrillers within themselves. The preliminaries were opened by a 10-minute wrest- ling match between Young Jaffe and Clyde Adolphus. Neither was able to gain fall in the time allotted. but showed some clever wrestling.
 Tom Lacey gained two falls over Tom Rogers in nine rounds of wres- ting. The match started slow but proved to be a fast one as it pro- gressed Rogers had several danger ous holds on Lacey in the first two or three rounds. Lacey's arm scis-