The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-17

were calling for action at the end of the session. In the second. O'Dowd c1rciing his man as prize game COCK, succeeded in slipping through enough clean blows to cop the yer dict in that round. He landed one hard right, nice left hook. and two back hand punches. Cook missed right swings.
 o,Dowd used left jab for which Cook seemed to have no defense to offset two hard left hooks of Cook s in the third, and the round was even.
 Cook Opens Up.
 Joe Cook flashed semblance of his best form in the fourth, backing away during the infighting The milling brought the crowd to it's feet, and was the best session thus far.
 ODowd continued to circle his man. and every now and then would shc ot swift left jab across that would be soaked right up by Cooks chin. Tim mic was content to jab. but, at that. was good enough to win the fifth
 In the sixth. Cook flashed across the one genuine blow of the bt ut. Catching O'Dowd off his balance. blow landed on the jaw of the At lanta scrapper. O'Dowds knees sagecd but he kept his feet and came back at Joe hard. It was Cook round.
 Cook bored in in the seventh, but that tantalizins4 left hand of 0'DGwd's kept him off and the ses- sion was even.
 ODowd's Rest Hound.
 In the eighth, Timmie o'Dowd had finally decided to use something be- sides his left, and he waded into Cook with both mittens flying. Cook took enough blows to qualify him for entrance in the shock absLrbers' union. and it appeared that he was groggy when he made his way back to the corner. It was speedy ses sion. all O'Dowd's, and the fans were pleased for once.
 The ninth saw O'Dowd falling back into his old habit of circlng around. punching whenever an opening ap- peared, but refusing to step in and mix matters. It won the session for him-his left hand took care of that-but it slowed up the fight, to the disgust of the fans.
 The tenth saw. both boys fighting hard. Cook realized his only chance was to get in some sleep producing blows, and he stepped in and slugged away. Cornered. ODowd fought back with all his stock in trade and sue eeeded in holding his own, as the if nal gong sounded.
 The two judges, Mike Thomas and Jake Taylor. decided that ODowd won the fight. and the decision seemed a popular one.
 O'Dowd weighed 127si pounds and Cook l261a. Dave Evans refereed the bout
 Tom Lacey and Max scholder opened the preliminarics with TO- round wrestling match. The bout was more or less farce as Seholdcr was hard to catch in the late round Both secured a fall carly in the bout and Lcey won 1t in the last round when he applied an arm-lock on Scholder that made him give up.
 Baby Spark Plug and Kid Stin- son pulled q hefty slugginG eXhibi- ton for youngsters, Both weighed in at 6J pounds which did not deter from their ability to pack a wicked wallop.
 Young Battling Kelly won from Young Lott in four-round bout. Lott packed q left punch that he landed solid several times on kelly's jaw but Kelly was the most consist ent punch-lander.
 Don Northing knocked out Kid scheduled siX-round bout Northne landed several good wallops in the second round. although he handled himself rather awkwardly in his ring. He floored Pastly carly in the second round. but the latter got up, only to be floored for the county
 
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