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Show JOE CUI MS TO 1 GET SIEITO FIGHT 1 Former I-clii Blacksmith Offers twS Jones's Protege Mai eh on l?rae- W tically His Own 'Perms. jKr, iJR0N MAN" IS RELUCTANT 'k Coloracloan Sayt; Tic Can Make, AwKk .More Money by Taking ou lB Somebody Easier Elsewhere. flfl Joe Clark, the pugilist who Mulshed his fjKfifl man In less than one round nl the Man- hatlau club contests Inst Monday night tfljH and who Impressed fans as being :i real JIH lighter, met Howard lhtkcr on the street Jwfl yesterday and tried to Induce Baker tn IH make a match. Clark offered to hae '3BSB the contest ul any time and pirn. 13;iker -JSj cared tn specify, and practically to let ijK him name his own terms. linker's reply was equivocal He did JuIr not actually refuse to meet Clark, but ho said lie thought he could nialu more VEii money by inking on soniehodv easier else- 'HtBjfr where. Raker has seen Clark In urtlun Bi more than one. anil his remark about "snnieliody easier" was doubtless sluceio JlRH for those who have seen tho former I chi H1 blackMinith In action reiilir.c that it "will 3m0 take a classy boxer to outpoint him. ?m2t Baker Has Reputation. Baker, however, comes here with con- vKi- Flderable of a reputation, and his erst- Bp while manager. Y. Jones, who Is quite 'Ejk able to back Baker for any reasonable 'Wwm sum. has great -oniidence in his man, 'SlSjS Baker, according to Jones. Is a real B Iron man. Tn piove this Jones relates an instance when a number of pugilists -mtti woro talking about the damaging effect vV of solar plexus blows. Baker made zt )JBm of such Injuries, and In the debate that PE followed Baker said: "iwC "Why, if anybody will give me two Mk! dollars. I'll let him hit me "in the abdu- BM men as hard as he p!e.i?es ;lJuj wlll not tMm try to ward off the blow." iMSa Jones, who was managing Baker at 'wB that time, entered an emphatic protest. vwM. but Baker overruled him. so one of the SbIP' fighters prmnptlv produced the two dot- h mil tars and hit Baker as hard as he could fl In tho abdomen. 3 R Baker did not seem to be at all harmed -J IS bv the blow, aceordlng to Jones who be- t RS lleves that Baker Is almost imncrvloua t, W? to the solar plexus knockout. MM Ho Should Meet Clark. j M Baker now has a One opportunity to t ml convince Salt Lake fans that lie is nil f B that Jones savs he is. If he will defeat Joe Clark ho will be strictly persona . tfE gratato Salt Lake boxing fans for a E5 When Baker first came hro it was iHftjt understood that he would make a match with Clark at once, but since then he has AE been quite reluctant. 85 It Is certain that such a match would raW draw better than any other he can make fMB In this vicinity, so the onlv thing that MUk remains for Baker to decide is whether 'Kk he grants to go against as good a man -fla There will bo no trouble about the ?HS weights, as Clark welglis UP pounds and mOtf can easily make 1 12. while Baker weighs about ISO and can make US or 115 with-out with-out very much training. Baker really ought to take on Clark H! or produce a convincing reason why he docs not do so. v9v |