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Show THE MKRCUll OLOVE CONTEST. ' "H What the Mercury Says About tlio jBH Approaching: Hunt. .H Mcrcur sports aro looking fonrnrd Jl with much Interest to tho twenty-round "HJ glovo contest to take placo nl tho opera ,H house on Thursday evening next, bo. H tween Jack Weday and Wilhtrd Ueun.. , Tho latter principal Is Utah born and bred, who has vanquished several of tho pugs In tills State and seeks to ex-tend ex-tend Ills notoriety U.v meeting nn out-slder, out-slder, who halls from Detroit. Tho contest will be for $50 a side, the win-nor win-nor to tnko 73 por cent of tho gate money, am! tho losor 25. it Is under'- .H stood that Dean has nil kinds of money staked on htm and Is backed by Ed- Jil Loose, the mining umn. Tho Mlclil-gander Mlclil-gander has been lit camp for the past week and Is in training. Weday Is a young man of womlorful physique. with a neck and shoulders mi him that aro marvelous. In fact, every feature of his make-up nro those which would douoto li I in u h being a hard hitter nnd , a stayer. Ho la n quiet, unassumlnc 'H fellow nnd Is making friends who wl(l bank an him at tho time of the bout. The fact that ho has been on tho rocks ill Indicates that ho Is going to spar hard for tho big end of tho monoy mid thero 'M Is no clianco font lilppodromc, Dean ll Iris been aching "to moct sumo good man" and Is nftor all tho honor; thero jjJ is lit It and will stand pat. Neither man . will Hunk and tho result no doubt will bo a racy mill well worth the prlco of admission, Thero will bo a big crowd of Provo ' people nt the match between Roan and Weday Thursday night of next week. I'rovo Is the old homo ot tlio Mormon slugger nud ho is their ideal. They will bring wads of Clio long green with them and It Is said will placo It nt odds onto J. Morcur, It seems, has been rather partial to Roan, but with Hie advent of tho Michigan man, tho tide Is turning, jH and tho man from back East will not ' be shy it goodly following. :lH Weday was In tho navv, having ciu tcred ou thlscoust and served for threw years as a ffromnn on the dojihlo turrnt JH monitor Monterey. "4B llean, tlio "Mormon Cyclone," will cuter tho ring at about 1C5 poiitids,nui H Weil ay at about 148j)ouuds. Reserved scats sell for $2 nnd tho general rdmlsslou will bo S1.5Q. 'H Tickets nro on salo at Luft't) drug Wlllard will bo a has-llqun wcro Weday to land on that bottlo neck qf his. Mcrcur Mercury, |