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Show BATTLE 101 FOR RING Fill MY ! Rough and Tumble Will Be One of Manhattan Card Features. Next .Monday night's show of the Manhattan Man-hattan club in tho Garrlck theater will consist of three big events. The feature bout of the, evening will bring togethei Marry Shaffer, one of the best lightweight light-weight boys now boxing for Downing, and Charles Mldklff. formerly of this city, who has been boxing In Idaho and Montana Mon-tana for the last two years. During the time that Mldklfl' boxed hero he met n number of Ihe best lads In this section of the country, and. although he was only a novice at that time, ho more than hold his own and baa never had worse than a decision given against him. lie will have the advantage, of n few pounds In weight over Shaffer, hut this handicap handi-cap will im doubt be overcome by Shaffer's Shaf-fer's elovcrner.s. The second feature event of the evening even-ing will be a battle royal, in which five husky negroes will participate. It has been some lime slnco the fans have hud an opportunity of laughing at one of these stunts, and II was at tho request of a number of the regular fans that Downing decided to put it on. The las one did not provo to be up to tho standard, stand-ard, but for this ono Downing has arranged ar-ranged to havo a couple of colored men from the west side, two from the Dunbar club and one from another section of the city. As Downing will not announce who the men are until they step Into the ring, they will not know who their opponents op-ponents are going lo ho. In this manner Downing figures ho will be able lo give the fans one of the best contests of I his kind ever seen in this city. The third feature of the evening will be In tho oilier four bonis. In which four hoys from tho West Side Athletic club will lock horns with a like number of Downlng's regulars. The West Side Athletic club is composed com-posed of boys who work at the Utah Gas A: (Joke plant on the west side. They have a clubroom and gymnasium where thoy have been working. They have developed de-veloped some real good youngsters and now think thoy will bc nble to hold tholr own with the boxers of any club in the city. The boys from tho west side club who will bo sciMi In action and their opponents arc as follows: Bill Haddock vs. Tom Crawford, lightweights. light-weights. Hen Haddock vs. Dan Stewart of Og-den. Og-den. 122 pounds. Mickey Burns vs. "Kid" i3nh. 125 pounds. J jester Griffiths vs. George Hendricks 115 pounds. There arc a number of other members of tho west side club who arc anxious to go on, but Manager Downing thought It best not use them all the first night Later on they will be given a chance |