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Show JOHNSON WILL HAVE CKElill! Local Boy to Meet Jimmie Reagan for Western Lightweight Honors. The lightweight t.,hampioii-hip of the vrestern country and the featherweight championship of the eity will be battled bat-tled for in the two headliun bouts at the CJarn.'k theater next Monday night. .1 immie .Reagan of San Francisco and "Batrlins" -Johnson will do bat lienor the lightweight crown, while "Kid" Davis'and (ilrn Gutke will battle 1'or supremacy in the featherweight divi-fcion. divi-fcion. Johnson is the most sensational youn-sder youn-sder who has been developed since the opening of the short-round game in this city about a year and a half ago, and the fsus are eager to sec what, ho can1 do against a boy of Keagan'i caliber. There is no denying the fact thut Kea-gao Kea-gao is one of the toughest lightweights in the country today, and any boy that ran step the four rounds with him and get as good as a draw is made of the right kind of stuff. Just what kind of a lowing Johnson will make is a problem, prob-lem, for the reason that he has really never been pressed to his limit when he has been against, a good boy. fn all of his bouts with the. classy boys like Maloney, Gilbert and Salvador Salva-dor Johnson has been a defensive fighter fight-er and always made the other fellow carry the fight to him. while he was content to iKe his straight left hand to Lrood advantage and keep himself out of harm's way, and either get a draw or bring home a decision by his superior boxing. .Reagan will, of course, be the favorite favor-ite with those fa dp who lay a little sporting wager on the result, but this will be nothing new to Johnson, as he iias been on the short eud in every bout he has ever fought. The semiwiudup between Davis and Gutke is creating almost as much interest in-terest as the main event, as these boys are rivals of old. Gutke has a decision over Davis which the latter is determined deter-mined to wipe out if he can. Gutke has a record to be proud of. Since he began boxing three years ago he has met every featherweight of note that has been developed here or i-arae t hrongh here, and has never yet lost a decision. Davis Da-vis returned to the short-round game about a month ao with the avowed intention in-tention of demonstrating that he was still the king of the 122-pnunder? and so far has eliminated all except Gutke. Frankie Olmstead. the fast coast boy who made a decided hit with the fans la?fj Monday night by his fast two-handed two-handed fighting, will meet "Kid"' Eobo, the clever and tough colored boy. When Ray Jackson and "Cyclone Lefty"' meet it will be a man with a stiff right uppercut against one with a mighty left hand, and it will probably be a case of which one whips it over first, as both are tough and game. "Frenchy" Boyd will meet Peter Jackson's Unknown ' ' in the first preliminary pre-liminary and an amateur curtain-raiser will open the fun. |