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Show IT WAS A FAKE. As a Financier California Dempsey Show." Himself a Tall and Symmetrical Success. SOME SPIRITED PRELIMINARY BOUTS. Young: Williams and Soldier Lynott tiive a. Thrilling Exhibition The kh other of the Champion a 1'romis-ing 1'romis-ing Candidate. Young Dempsey went out in a punch. Jim Williams, the champion, who let drive the punch, has added nothing to his laurels, unless it be the lump of lucre that lie packed home. As an example of pugilistic liuau-ciering liuau-ciering the momentary appearance of the two men before a thousand or more spectators, spec-tators, who passed the turnstile at the rate of $1 and $2 last night, was a howling success. suc-cess. As a fight it was a dismal failure. The plug from the Pacific Pa-cific jumped around the roped square like a Hibernian novelty for four minutes, that were cut up in installments, and when the opportunity atlorded itself for"-uimto lay" down on his share of the gate receipts he did it with the cleverness of a Wall street broker. And, with what unrelenting tenacity he laid there until the gong tickd ten, the deriding multitude can tell. It was a fake. The "bloody public" pays for it. "Dempsey was dead broke and wanted a siake" cries a rounder. What if he was? Does that mitigate or lessen the offense? The people of Zion are tired of bolstering up and rehabilitating these plugs. If he wanted hospital care why didn't he tight a man of his class and not elect a giant? Williams should not have permitted the fraud much less made himself accessory to it. Yesterday he wasrthe idol of Utah sports today, not a man that would travel ten miles to see him .defeat the mightiest man of the prize ring. The preliminary bouts, however, were well worth the admission, not to say the time they consumed. Black and Hayes save and took like game cocks. Young Williams and Ed Lynott gave a spirited exhibition, the latter'out-boxinir bis adversary, but whom the veterans said must have gone out were the meeting pressed to a fiuish. Young Williams Wil-liams betfays the lock, slock and barrel of the family, and with the benefits of the territorial companions' tutelage promise? a future rich with laurels. The grotesque meeting between Doyle and (ial-laer, (ial-laer, a , feature that was contributed by Manager Frank Monroe of the Peoples thea-ter. thea-ter. aroused a gale of mirth that blew until long after they departed from the ring. They were followed by Chimpanzee Richards Rich-ards and Steve Davis in a rattling set to and while the spectators were impatiently awaiting await-ing the raise ot the curtain on the ''attraction" the "Montana Kid(!' his face yet clad in sky blue reminiscences of his late victory at Rock Springs, oocd into the ring and, tossing 50 in gold to the master of ceremonies, cer-emonies, drove his compliments and his savage sav-age contempt at Young Dempsey, whom he offered to tight to a finish for $00a side. If there's anybody left in California who thinks Dempsey is a lighter, let 'em put up on the Kid's den. The Kid withdrew in a shower of applause when Prof. Johnson the champion club swinger now at the People's theater gave a thrilling exhibition with club and musket. Captain Rielly who managed the affair deserves much credit. |