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Show 3 GARDNER TO i MEET SCHICK ) "It! 4 ; Big Battle Booked for I ; lis City. 'I Top Notchers to Meet in Salt j I Lake Theater April Seventeenth. i , Markham and Danford or Hamp Will Go on in .Preliminary 1 Event. "! - M! GcorgQ Gardner will battle with Mlko Bchrcck at the Salt Lako Theater April j 1 17. No boxing news for many a day has J; urduied the Interest among fight fans that J this has brought. The Danford-Mnrkham I go Is oft. because Burt Danford at tho 1 1 last moment found ho was unable to como j down. Instead of this, Tommy Markham "j . meet either Danford or Hnmp In a AY I tan-round preliminary to the Gardner- Bchrcck contest. I P i Things happened fast In the boxing 1 -Vywdrlri yesterday. Tho news that Danford W sijcouldn't make connections came In tho -m. vform of n long-dislanco message from Danford himself. Ho says that ho can-not can-not possibly come, and his reasons were George Gardner To Meet Mike itf Schreck Here April 17. jBlr ' SI good. No one regretted tho fact moro 1 than Danford himself. Then the Gard- ( ner-Schreck meeting, which has been un- i utr contemplation for Eomo time, was f cinched. All Want Gardner. h 0 flghtcr In America Is moro popular L 1" Utah, Idaho, Montana and even Colo-h Colo-h tha,J 13 George Gardner. HI.s battle t i h J.ack ,RooL ,n tllls cit' dIu" a lot MB ii)v, maTkIe tho man a strong local W l. lc- ,Hc ls a clover, two-handed ' H"ieri w,110. kee)3 eolng and ho has tho X fn Amerlc-i l a"y "e f h'3 wcleUt f t,As Scfireck, this mnn ls a boxer of : r, BaltHng Nelson order, oxcept that ! nc is away above Nelson in weight. Ho y yst carno Into public notlco In and about &m, will j ; .5? t ttoa,ny Morkhami'WoWiileot Billy Hamp. ' ii ' Chi f.0W 4,rlt?g J" 'l number of strong prollmln- mixor0 i1?,,01 himself1 to bo a iwW, &hW4d Schrio 1Md0lPh,a Jtlck 'Brlen ' , -Jfc O Brleh rmeMk !,8.thc botter ma". though lnK ftat Urn0Lll,(,,d,?cl8ion' Tho East nt 'M, this OcSrI cTH!1 oC criticism toward JB dap 0( h8'0"- &?hreck fights from tho mo gong .-ight on. Ho has a hard punch and knows how to deliver It. Ho bores right In and keeps after his man In much tho same way as Nel3on does. He likes punishment and loves to give It back. He relics on fighting not on foot-.work, foot-.work, though he has plenty of that. Tho Milwaukee and Chicago exchanges havo been handling Schreck's name a lot of lato as that of a rising star In the pugilistic pugi-listic firmament. Schreck a Hard Nut. It remains to bo seen wholhor Gardner can put this star Into tho eclipso or not. Ho should be ablo to do this, perhaps, but he'll havo to work to put Schreck down for the count. And ho'II havo to do that If he wants to win out, for Schreck Is always an aggressor Salt Lake people think Gardner will deliver tho goods. They remember what ho did hore before and what he has done In many other ring battles. The man ls ono of tho country's high-class fighters and his llfo has been such that It should bo years before be-fore ho ls a thing of tho past. Tho public, pub-lic, not only In Salt Lake, but all over America, will welcome Gardner's coming battlo as heralding his return to the ring after a brief spell of rest rcBt which, by tho way. wasn't devoted to chasing drink's and lato hours, but to business. Gardner Training Wow. Gardner will be hero In a couple of days. He Is now on his way from Chicago. Chi-cago. It Is altogolhor likely that ho will train In Ogdon, lie has many friends thcro and they will welcome his advent. Schreck will train In Salt Lake City. Either man, If ho wins, should bo ablo to fight against tho best of his weight In America. Tho fact that tho city is to sec a good contest betweon men of national reputation brings many hopes that. If tho gamo.bo kept clean, thoro are better things to como. Markham-Harap Preliminary. Now as to the preliminaries. It is pretty well settled that Markham and Dnnford or Markham and Hamp will fight this out. Tho preliminary In itself ought to bo a big drawing card, for It will bo botwecn two of tho State's best fighters. And any ono of these threo men will fight Riid fight hard. Hamp Is considered con-sidered by many as moro clover than Danford. despite tho recent result between be-tween the two. Should Danford not como tho Logan boy will bo a big drawing card, and ho and Markham will put up a battlo which ought to be better than most main event- |