Jack Ward vs. James O`Donnell

Jack Ward beat James O`Donnell by KO in round 3 of 8

• Date: 1895-11-28
• Location: Eureka Athletic Club, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Referee: Samuel Miller

The curtain-raiser was between Jack Ward and "Tug" Sayers, of Boston, who is really James O'Donnell, of Philadelphia. O'Donnell was at no time in the game. Ward was the larger man. He knocked O'Donnell down with three right-hand facers in the first round. Only once did O'Donnell reach Ward, and that was with a left-hand punch on Ward's head. Little was done in the second round. At the end of two minutes in the third round Ward knocked his man out with a left-hand swing. Samuel Miller was referee.

--The Sun, 1895-11-29.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 28.--There were two knock-outs at the Eureka Athletic Club to-night. Joe Gans, the colored lightweight, of Baltimore, finished George Siddons of New Orleans, in the seventh round, and Jack Ward, of Baltimore, put "Tug" Sayers, of Boston, to sleep in the third round.

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Sayers was no match for Ward in the preliminary bout and was repeatedly knocked off his feet. In the third round Ward landed right and left and put his man to sleep by a right hand blow in the face.

--The Fort Wayne Journal, 1895-11-29.