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Show I j NEW BOXING CHAMPS CROWNED ' O O O O O O O O O o SHEPARD DROPS MIT HONORS !J BY HARDY K. DOWXTNQ. i THE past year in the boxing gamo was a pretty busy one and resulted in a lot of rattling good bouts In this I and adjoining states and the attendance attend-ance has heTd up wonderfully well under present financial conditions and practically all of tho recognized clubs staging bouts havo been able to show a profit and while a number of youngsters are looming up on th-horizon th-horizon as a menace to some of tho top notehc-rs who have been camping on top of the pugilistic ladder it woull be hard to pick any one as the outstanding out-standing feature. Spug Myers, the sensational Poca-tello Poca-tello boy. probably stands out as really the best boy in this section of the country, due probably to his activity mom than anything else for lie has been meeting all comers for the past year and still stands undefeated, although al-though Prankle Darren comes 1 for S good share of credit for holding the Pocatello boy to a tounh ten round draw in Logan a short time ago. ANOTHER MTEETIXG It Will take another meeting be , tween these two to decide which Is really the best,, but In the meantime Darren Is the undisputed welter champion cham-pion in Utah, because he beat all the welters around here the past year, while Myers has been king of the lightweight division both here and In Idaho und has likewise b.-aten all th ; welters with the exception of Darren. Able Mlshklnd, who has just returned re-turned from the eoaat Is undoubtedly tho best lightweight In Utah and Is reallv the onlv llehtweicht in thia part of the country who has been able to make Myers extend himself to beat him. Young Prankle Bufflngton and Herman Her-man Auerbach are th5 two most promising prom-ising youngsters the lightweight division di-vision has produced the past year, anl although neither one has had tho required ring experience or possess the ability to cope successfully with Mlshklnd at the present time it would not be surprising to see one or th" other gattllng Mlshklnd for the tltio before the present season ends for both of these youngsters have a world of natural fighting ability and aro Improving wonderfully fast. Mickey Rockson. of Boise. Idaho, stands out as the best middleweight In this part of the country, having recently re-cently acquired the middleweight crown by earning a six-round decision over Ed Shepard and has backed It up by beating all the rest of the big fellows he has met in decisive fashion. W hile he may have been a little lucky in catching Shepard out of form when he wrested the middleweight crown away from him it is a cinch that h will meet Shepard when he Is at his b st In their coming ten-round bout here on January. 5, which will be one D1 the features of the IA- Stock show. Big Sam Iatlmer stands out as the kingpin heavyweight, having beaten all the big fellows that have cared to I fnko a chanco with him, gut he has! had very little to do the prist s"asoa as heavyweights of any ability art f vary scarce In this neck of the woods. HART IS On AMP. Walt Hart, with his bulldog deters mlnatlon. ability to take punches and n real sork htmseif, has battled his. way to the top of the bantamweight1 division In Utah and Is due for a lol He lacks the rlass of .x l hantamu .-iRlit and his fighting fight-ing spirit alone lias brought him out on top, although It has been a mighty J tough Job. Midget Smith, of Mldvale rules tha' ' ip of the roost in the featherweight division and now that he Is back fl his last season's form he should oej able to retln his title for some tlm-J although Kid !.. is, the former featherweight kingpin, and Oeorga Bollls are both mighty dangerous op-j ponents for him at any tlm and if) either on- aver catoh him a little off form are apt to beat him. FIND OF HEAR. I .ihivi r. allx ihn find of the i . -i l ,n,i8 du1 bj nlmi In . . n u eight ju Vision, but he has had vers little l(j do of late for hi .ic prevents s nd-j nd-j lng hlm against any outsiders who are seasoned battlers nnd its nearly Impossible to jet youngsters of his , "n n agi in I v. . Ight ho urn pl e hl:n ! a battle. In handing out the palms we muttl not overlook Lou I'aluso and Johnny Williams, neither of whom are wit a H I us at th.- present time, but they aro 1 iiurxuii, Mum- n name iut inem- 1 n pi ,rV-.M,,n a j other parts of the country OOMEfl TO FRONT. Paluso. under the guldaRCo of Leo J P. Flynn In w York City, has been romping right along, winning all of his bouta and rapidly forging his way to the front and within another year, or at siuTi a time a the age limit Is taken off In New York so that he can take part In the longer bouts. It j would not be surprising to see him fighting headline evonts in Madison Square Garden. The present ruling of the boilng commission In New York Is that a boxer must he eighteen to partlcJpRtt j In a bout longer than six rounds, ' Paluso will pass that mark noxt j August. Johnny Williams has been going i Iki house afire in Los Angeles and ; Successfully meeting the best ban- tamwaightS in that part of the country coun-try and is rated as one of the best and hardest hitting boys of his weight who ever came there, quite a boost for the local youngsters whom the majority of the fans locally refased 1 to accept a- a high class boy. Locally there s more promlsingl youngsters interested In the boxing Same than eer before and some of I them who are just curtain rilsers and 1 preliminary boys today are apt VJ- fca 1 the champions of noxt year. |