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Show nCUIBOUT FOE SWEET REVENGE Best Boxers From West Side Will Meet Manhattan Tomorrow Night. Tiie Gnrrick theater, "the homo of battles," bat-tles," as the Manhattan cUro has come to be known through the excellent bouts that -Manaper Hardy Downing ha? been dealing out to the lans for the past few months, promises the fans another great night's- snort tomorrow night when the ! yix. best boys of the Harman club will do j battle with" a like number from the Manhattan Man-hattan club for the championship of the y- , The rivalry between these two clubs has alwavs bean intense, but it. will be even more so nt-xt Monday niimt. as tno Harman club boys are accusing Downing of sending some ri risers against them. Thev have taken exception to him put-tins put-tins Eddie Madison of Butte on the card aaainst Charles Midkiff, and "Youns" .Tack McKenna of Denver against "Kid" Kmmeu. The "Harman club boys claim that these bovs are not legitimate members of the Manhattan club and that Downing is taking tak-ing an unfair advantage in using them, but on the other hand Downing says that the Harman ckib boys grab as many of the good boys tf.at come to town as they can. The Hanman club is allowed to send in the names of the boys that they want to use and Downing is compelled to match boys of their weight with them, regardless" of whether he has a good boy in that class or not, and he contends that he lias the right to use any boys that he sees rit. The Harman boys are pretty sore and sav that they are going to win anyway, and give the Manhattan boys the big j laush. The laugh may be on them, how- ; ever, a? they have met the Manhattan boys several times and the best they have ever been able to do was to get an even break with them, while Downlng's boys have romped home a winner once or twice. The headliner bout will bring out Tom Crawford of the Manhattan club and "Young" Gilbert of the Harman club. The "fighting boilermaker." as Gilbert is known, has never lost a decision since he began boxing and Crawford has only lst one decision, and that was to Gilbert, Gil-bert, and he is determined to reverse the rtpHsion thi rime. Thieve two bovs have given the fans two of the greatest four-riiund four-riiund battles ever s-en at the Garrick. and. regardless of who wins, this bout ,. w!l! be a hummer from start to finish, as ' both bovs are willing mixers and never stop from the time the first gong rings un:i! the bout is over. Ned Young, who meets Jack Travis of the Harman club, has been training m earnest for the past couple of weeks and is out to redeem himself for his defeat at the hands of Charles Midkiff. and is sure to make the west side boy go at top speed in order to win, as Young has shown that he is apt to beat anyone he can hit, and there have been very few beys around here that he couldn't hit. He will be giving away a few pounds of weight to Travis, bvit he says that the b;g?er they are the harder thev fail, j and assures his friends that he will bring' nome the long end of the money this time. 1 "Kid" Emmet of the Harman club will be m---ef ing the classiest br.v of his career in "Yung" Jack McKerna - of Denver, and v.-ill have to be at his best In order to win. 'Vniirc' rq'mriv wfP met a tMien ond wlllins battler In "KM" A of th H.ir- rran club, and will Jobnm Oi.nert in :'pi4" r.vie This pair of boys ars not 4rtf-u!r'lv c!veh. but thev aro . slam- I KS WS&hW- mnWe. an in- tcrestinc bout (t th tan. |