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Show FIGHT TOURNEY ! PLEASES FANS Amateur Boxers Give Fast and Furious Exhibitions of Fistic Skill ! Ogden fight fans last night witness-od witness-od ii'' riral amateur athletic pssocia-t).,n pssocia-t).,n boxing tourney ever hold In this. .'. it With prospective medals for( winners, tho boys in the battles ting-, led furiously between the strokes "i the gong. , . ! j a. Giles, president of the Man; Itnateur Athletic fcasoclatlon. gave abort t ilk in Which be related rules governins the contests. Each fight., he Mid. w.is to last three rounds.: Tbno Judges aat In opposite parts ot the ringt and In event of a draw, i lOuinh round tv:n to 1..- fought. In case of a knockdoxvp. the referee : icounted ten Silently. In event that the fallen combatant faded to arise j before the referee counted ten. be was (declared out. VERY LITTLE STALLING Throughout .the fights. there was vorv litlb- sttillins. The fighters. knowing that every punch counted, at-iteniptedto at-iteniptedto score as often as was pos-I pos-I Bible. lco Matlock refereed the 'scrnps t Tlv curtain -raiser was a scrap De-tweeh De-tweeh Flynn ot the tg.i'-n Athletic aa-scciation aa-scciation and twens. unattached. Flvnn outclassed his opponent from the first tap of Uie gong- Owens. While la King In science and skill, was game, ami. while he took considerable consider-able punishment, was still fighting when the final gong tapped. Flynn waft given1 the decision The boy in this match were in the siV-pound class.; i wr CONTEST. Sell. is. f the West Side High school and Close of the Ogden Athleiie association, as-sociation, tangled In one of the fastest fast-est fights of the evening. Both bovs were feat, scientific and carried vicious vic-ious punches. Close in the lat few minutes of the third, had Sellers n the ropes and. to all .-ippearances. had hq opponent falling tnatward. Sellers rallied ami staged a spectacular come-bai come-bai k hv landing on Close's Jaw with a Wild swing. Close went down for the eount oi i i ti t mi r v Fo, ot the Ogden Athletic association, associa-tion, and Stuart, of the Weal Bids HiKh school. Staged a pretty fight. FOX wV- ..nt of cbndltlon and, although h li. j.t Stuart away during the first two frames, rn.- Salt I-ake lad came bade In th third and made such a showing that the Judges declared the match a draw. Fos declined to come back for the fourth round, lack of condition having rendered bun almost helpless; FEATUTtl Si li Y P. Northrup f the ogden Athletic association as-sociation was s feature of the evening In his fight wilh Uffrcnec of the West Bide High school. Lawrence ap-parently ap-parently had the Og.lcn lad bested' He was faster and shiftier, landed more hits and seemed better able to ird ..ff punehes. N'orliiruo '""k ' r; t i, inu that tho Suit Lake lad had to offer, lie was hit with force that rocked him. Ho became too groggv to hold his Lguard. He came buck, however, and the Salt Lake scrapper, apparently 1 disgusted with an opponent who wouldn't stay knocked out. finally wnt down for the eount. , Sorenson Of the ' gden Athletic as- BOCiauon was anomer surprise or im-evening. im-evening. His Opponent was Roberts Of tli- West Side High school, reputed to have held championship honors In the 135-pound class last season. The affair was a continuous exchange ex-change of hard waIkpS, neither mart giving way an Inch. .Sorenson, In con- I r.ectlng-with ltoberts. just as the latter lat-ter was leaping back to escape th" blow, lifted bis in. o partly out of the I rope'. . Roberts was not hurt, how-ever. how-ever. and the go lasted until the end ofj the third when Sorenson succeeded succeed-ed in putting tils opponent down for the count of ten. t 1'I IMV OF ri,H K Torter of YY'eber Normal college and Crossman of the West Side High school, fought a good battle. Although I outweighed bl more than ten pounds, Port i r showed considerable skill in 'blocking his opponent's blows. He was kept so busy, however, that he had lllttle time to hit back until the third round, when he uncorked a series of punches which. In the eyes Of the ma-ijontv ma-ijontv of the fans, entitled him to a draw The judges saw fit to award h dei ision to Crossman, however. Vanderscbutt, unattached, and Kk-: Kk-: Ins of the Ogden Athletic association .engaged In a slumbang affair. Eklns downed his adversary at the end of the first round, but Vanderschult was saved bv the gong. ISkins registered I in the second, however, and. was given jibe fight on a knockout-I knockout-I The last fight of the evening was ah exhibition affair between Abe .Glas- 1 mann Of the Ogden Athletic aSSOCla-tibn. aSSOCla-tibn. and 1'arquar. world's amateur 'champion middleweight for the pa ' three years The match was fast and extended through three rounds. No 'decision was awarded, the match being an exhibition affair. Due to the failure of a number of .boxer entered in the tourney to arrive ar-rive last evening, the number of tight I . originally announced, w ere not held. jThe fight. s due last night will lie I present tonight, however and the I amateur tourney will be concluded tills evening. |