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Show IN SPORTING CIRCLES. Kil l yantt Buna Againit Whirlwind aad M lluurkad t Mf. A cloud as black as an Fgypliau night let out an equinoctial storm on Saturday night and F.d Lyuott, the soldier sol-dier pugilist got in it. The cloud made its appearance at Provo. and having swept everything before it in that city, came ou its desolating course to Zioti, where it landed as Kd Pichards. a powerful and plucky descendant of Ethiopia. A glove contest was promptly arranged, and on Saturday evening the soldier and the Senogauibian went together in the presenco of tho iuuer circle who put up the purse. I vnott had an opportunity to test the stuli' of which he was made nu opportunity oppor-tunity to test the ring of his metal. Time called, the hurricane from tho fort began its destructive work. The coloretl gentleman, with a pile-driveron pile-driveron the lips, exposed two rows of white, glistening teeth ami then the storm began to roar. He rained blows in all directions. Upper cuts followed fol-lowed rib-roasters until in the third round Lynntt took down his Hag and throw ing the mitts on the floor of the arena surrendered to the inevitable. inevit-able. He had made a good light but was out classed and the colored man now wear Ihe laurels. No sooner had the colored man pro-red pro-red up his prowess than an effort ef-fort was on to arrange a match between him and I. a Blanche. He had consented and the marine has eignilied his willingness to i par fifteen rounds, the eveut to take place Friday evening at Electric hall. The fight between Kid Smith, the vocal champion of Australia, and Ed Brooks, au eastern, boxer, on Saturday night, at the expense ex-pense of about fifty misguided sports was as perfect a farce and pronounced pro-nounced a fake as ever visited itself on the people of .ion. It was announced ns a meeting meet-ing of light weights. The man who announced an-nounced it probably meant intellectual light weight- for pugilistieally they were tho lightest that ever humbuggd the public. George La Blanche was called on to officiate but the hippodrome for which the sports had paid their money become so blaz-ingly blaz-ingly apparent in the alleged third round that ho walked out of the ring and quitted the whole affair iu undisguised undis-guised disgust. If the managers of such affairs, gotten up for the accomplishment accom-plishment of mercenary end.s.are unable to scare up better talent they had better resort to the hospital or advertise adver-tise for armless sparrers. There is no sport in putting up for the hungry and famished hippndromer. |