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Show mm BITTLE" FOB flOTl FANS Salvador and O'Brien Expected Ex-pected to Go Fast Pace; Featherweights Matched. With Danny O'Brien and aJly Salva- lor, the two best lights eights in the! western country, in the headline bout;! with four of the best featherweights in . t.his section of the country doing battle m an elimi nation contest to determine ' i he featherweight champion, and wjth ! four "dinateur" bouts on the hill, tomof ; row night's boxinc: show of ihe MaJih.it- Inn club looks like a crfat show. The. f3 ns have shown an unusual amount rt" interest in every bout on t he -arrl. nd this, with the l;s rge demand t'or oh'" ice c-ea rs, w ouM In a .eate that a r-or.-j house will be on hand to pea the fun. M.m.ieer Downing is prepared to handle, a ranacitv house, as the recent s'-'ows h;ve practically filled the theater, nd with the added imerest in this show-it show-it would not be surprising: if some were turned .why. O'Brien is undoubtedly the best lightweight light-weight that has ever boxed at the Manhattan Man-hattan c'u'o, with the possible exception of Salvador, and now the fans will have the chance to see -which one is realy the better boy and also to see whether the local bouts are- up to the standard of the Pacific coast four-round bouts. Local Boys Capable. Until recently ihe general ran of far.s v:e of th opinion that, the local boys hid not class with the best boys on the rcait. "out when Salvador, the recosnir.od king" "of the Faciric coast four-rounder?, came here and was urabie to get better than a draw with Gilbert and Johnson, they begs.to realize thet the local boys wqre a who.e lot better than . they had f'-e.'i liivjiij." them credit for being. As O F.rien has always been regarded as just little too eood for that class of lads, it looks as though he is likely to demonstrate demon-strate that the fans have underrated the home- guards. O'Brien ha? always ben looked upon , s beirs a little too heavy to make the h -rntwe-rht limit without weakening himself. him-self. He. has been preparing for this match for the last couple of weeks and is down within reach of the weight at the prtsem time and says the. training ha ? not butfcered him in the least, Whsn he . fousht Gilbert Gal' ant a twenty-i-ound dra-v at Murray about a year ago he f-ei-r'ned in at 135 pounds at 3 o'clock, r.d thre is no denying the fact that he . wia !n perfect shape for that bout. So , it sand. o reason that he can do 153 a t S o'clock without weakening himself. Salvador realizes that he is up against l tough and classy boy this time. Ka is raining as tl.ov.gh his life depended upon a victory, and he will step into the ring in the best of common- Y nile he . nut given to boasting, he declares that u'Erien is mace to order for him, and s he wouli rather fiht such boy5 as O'Brien than thse ton eh youngsters that "ycu can't ftg-ure out." Some Fast Feathers. Another bo.it that is Ettra.ctir.er all kinds of interest is one ct, the featherweight feather-weight elimination bouts, between Glen Guike and ' Pesty" Ryan, the classy , California, bo". "3utke hxa never lost a' bout ar.d has hid about fifty tattles. Ryan showed a couple cf weeks aco, w hen he dec: stoned Travis, that he :n fast and clever and knows every rc'& cf 'Y.a z . . m e T h i ? bo u t should be one of the prettit from a boxing standpoint that has ever hoen seen in this ct'v. The r.?fh between "Kid'' Davis and ' "Battling" Travis sho-ild aieo be a hum- rr.er. Dav!. :s determined to go th.rcjgh ! all of the local feathers and agin uem-i uem-i or.strate that he is the king of the ci-j ci-j vision in this section, as be was a few i years ago. Dtvis has hesn out of the short-rour.d 1 game for some time. ?ie says he is back I to stay until he demoiis "r.i'.es thai he 1 : is the champ, or It 13 demonstrated that : he is r.ot. ! There will he four amateur bouts, and as these y 0 un s t rs ar e a w :t y 5 t ' ". I : " c from the time the-' s:. rt ur.til or.e o ' them brings heme the rr.or.ey or the last 1 bell rir.zs, there 1s sure to be plsr.ty of fun w.-itLe these bou's laft. I Owinr to the fs -t that indications ' point to a capacii1' koi;s Manager Downing announces that the doors of the thea tf r of en at 5 -4.i of 7 o'cK'k. so that rhere wi; h no '-h ar.ee or congestion an! to avoid the tosMhihty of anyone hav.ng to tar.d in lir.o In the ra-n or r.f-w in ratfi of b?d wf.jrhr. As it e"r-:ted th'tt c-t: tAh. ;n house will probably b r'.d. the fr-e 'Ut will, of cotir.-'c, bo si.pin'd en'irely. |