Show INSTEAD WILL TAKE PLACE OF BAT JOHNSON lightweight 1 Informs Downing He Will Not Meet Craw Craw- ford JOM OM oi CRA CRAWFORDS CRAWFORD'S fondest dream L has been shattered He Tic will not avo vo the chance chanco to give gl Battling Joh Johnan Johnon John John- an on n the tho Il lacing lacing- that he lie promised him ri the headliner at the GarrIck this evening Johnson at the last minute ont lent word to Mana Manager er H. H 1 K Downing hat that he would not meet Crawford Downing could have gone ahead and the bout and put in 11 a ute tute at the last minute but he ha has alays al- al rays prays ays played fair Calr with the fans tans and i is always glad of or the chance to lot let the fans ens ans know kno that a certain battler is not oln to appear He lie e stated last night that Johnsons Johnson's allure failure to appear would not hurt the ard fard Ho lie had prepared for such uli an an and signed up a regular for tor his in Jimmier Jimmie r hns of or Ogden and Yankee Rue Rite He lie ilso 1180 has had Frankie Frankle training livery ver very day to take Johnsons Johnson's place I gal Crawford In case need should rIse and the result is that the fans will see sec a match that should be every ill dt It as good as the tho original one Crawford has been training as he hei never ever i ver trained before to mal make make- o pounds for tor J Johnson which has IU put t urn ilin In the tha best shape shapo of or his life lIro and andis is M 8 has furnished man many a good jo out lit at the thc Garrick and is always battling from gong gong- to gong ong- ong it should je ie a class classy affair t will have e the tIO advantage e I 11 of or several pounds of wel weight ht but Crawford has lias been accustomed to hat that HK RM he lie can hardly make pounds it t t 3 1 o'clock and Gilbert and the other joys who can make that weight have refused to give ive Tom Torn a match since heas ho he hoins holas las ins shown so much Improvement over o Us ts Is last winters winter's form forni although h Gilert GIl- GIl crt ert was always alwa's read ready to meet him at atch catch wel weights last winter r t Th The between Johns and andRue andt I Rue t should 5 u be a hummer ler as as- as Johns h has 8 cn or ox nis zus no ne ever vcr met in this city while the only on I bout out Rue Ruo lost was to Gilbert in his match here hero and ho gave awa away ore weight ht to Gilbert than the latter would have to give to Crawford At that time Rue Ruc was a n novice at the round Tour game ame and didn't know his hiscal real cal ability but he has Improved wonderfully won won- with ever every bout since then and andIs andus his us Is one hope Is another chance at Gilbert Gil Gil- bert and l Iana Manager er Downing has promised prom prom- sed him that 1 if he beats the Junction city ho hov decisively tonight ht The rue next bout will bring out Jack Dempsey the white hope and anti Jack Downey oWne owney the local white hope killer Dempsey created quite a sensation here hero few tew months ago by stopping several big I ig fellows 8 In a a. punch Althou Although h he ho hoIS I IS supposed to be a novice at the game it t has been learned upon good author author- It ity that he has fought some mighty good food boys around Colorado However ho lie will find that Downey Downer is a mighty might big blA fellow and he will have to beat him Inside of ot the tour four rounds or Downey o is apt to send him the thea a way he lie e has lias sent a number of ot other big rd fellows I ova Tommy Tomm Gethan and Young Wolgast no o doubt will have the fans tans up on their toes oes as Wolgast showed last Monday that hat he Is a a. willing battler and can take ako all kinds of ot punishment Willie while Gethan is one of the hardest and cleanest cleanest cleanest clean clean- est hitting little fellows that ever boxed at the Garrick j t f Cyclone Peters and Jack Fogarty do dolOt donot doot not lOt ot possess any great Teat amount of or boxIng box- box Ing ng ability but the they ure are both said to tobe toe be e regular whirlwind millers and will no lO o doubt l keen een the fans tans interested Willie they the last t tf The r regulation amateur curtain raiser alser will open o th the fun tun as s usual t Tie Tho baseball team a again aln will be the tho priests of or the management With the regulars and th tho man many out of town vie vis tors a packed house no doubt will re re- re sult |