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Show i.lUCE INTEREST IN THE ,P GLIFFORD-gMKHAM BOUT Winner of Tonight's Contest Wants to Meet a Top-notchcr Top-notchcr Here; Both Backed by Money. pened to meet In the street yesterday they came near to blows without the presence of a referee. '- Had not friends Interfered one or both would not now be In condition to fight, and when they parted It was with mutual assurance that the other would "set his . block knocked off tonight" Manager Kelly will put on this first six-round contest promptly at 8:80 and says there will be no waits before the main event. ' If I win this fight I wmnt a match with CKeefe, Sielofl or any other good t"ti who will make 133 pounds . at ring! dt If I lose, I ami out of ths lighting Jpua for . good. JACK pcxrprox. ( C X am In first-class shapo and bell ere ' I rill whip Clifford tonight. It I got ths decision I amrxeady to moot Eieloff or Qneenan here any day. - TOMMY MARKHAM. ' Both ' Clifford and Markham are certainly cer-tainly In good condition for tonight's contest con-test at the Grand theater. They did only light work yesterday, and each when seen at his quarters expressed perfect confidence confi-dence In a satisfactory outcome. "Say for me," declared Clifford as he planted a vicious right swing squarely on ' fits punching bag, "that about one of these will be all that is necessary if I can land It." "Fine as a fiddle," was Markham'a response re-sponse when asked how he felt, as he en-' en-' tered his dressing-room. 'Til be there with the goods tonight, don't yon forget it. and the boy from Butte will find it out whan ths gong sounds." Considerable money is being placed on the result, . the . odds slightly favoring Clifford. The advance sale has- been good and ' indications are that a big crowd will wit- boss the bout, , At least one of the preliminaries promises prom-ises to be surprisingly fast. There is no friendship between "Cyclone" Moldoon and Joe Wardinsky -and when they hap- |