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Show DETERMINED TO 11 511 HEADLINE BQfS ; i Fans Assured of Abundant Action in Bout Between Gilbert and Reagan. "younff" Gilbert, the "fighting boi!?r-maUer'' boi!?r-maUer'' of the rlarman club, and Jimmie l;eat;un, one of tiie louneKL hoys ever de-i de-i veloped on tli cr.-ast, wi'h nw doubt sho tiie fans plr-nty of action n th hfydliner bout at the .Manhattan clu t'n weekly bo-in bo-in show in the Garrlk ihr-at-r Monday ni'ht. Bo! it boys are a'gressh e and neither knows what it means to ba at away from an opponent or brr-ak ground. Nearly every boy that, lias met ' hlhtrt has bad too mm-h r-sp--'"'T for hif-: hitting ability to stand toe to toe with him and f"chant;e punches, but In Reagan Gilbert Gil-bert is meeiii.i? a boy who Is as to'jrhi as a pine knot and is always boring In, so for t he first time In Gilbert's box in? career Im will not have to eary the fipht to bis opponent and. as neither will p:v t way. it will probably b a case of step to the center and ex-'hane poke.3 until one or the other goes down for the. count of ten. Gilbert wan nr-ver more confident of ! winnltic; in his life than be is of beatir.sr j Reagan, be liures. that he ts just as ' pood as Johoson. and a the latter "de-: "de-: r-isiond" H-a?an last Monday Gilbert doesn't ffp how he f a n lose. Res tfi n i ; st il! hma rtinp: undf r bis defeat of la?t wffk and says lienceforth they wiil have, to ba ttle from Urn tim t he first por.? rirea until the boot is ovr, and he cer-tainlv cer-tainlv can travel tlje four rotindg at I whiilwind tped when he makes up his i mind to do so. The pern i wind up between Tom Craw-i Craw-i ford and Harlan Peyton also promi?Pi ' plenTy f aeTion. Koi'a boys have bea prom Isd a "!: a nee a i some of the too noieheis in thie near future lr: rae th-v win dpcisive'iv. T'hih Pyion re? r?vr ' apf,f,''fed heror3 th" Manhattan clnh. he foucht some good bouts in thi? city bv-. bv-. eral years ago and if rpc0gn!zed as tha best li?htwr-i?ht in Ogclr-n. hfF hd a number of in and iwelve-round hr.'V. in I'laho during th" last your and r.z a:-wav- made a cood siiowing. ("ra wfo -i Is takifiir the same rcore ser'oi;s!y i.ai ove-r before and is tra'.nin; :n (?.rne--t. "Kid" Ke!?cy. a newrmr from tr roast, has been matched with "K!u" pn. and lb" coaFt boy ;.rorr;ses lo be so-r--what of a sensation. He apparently v.:s two good hands and can hit with ei:v3r on of them. Roho is Improving ft it'-p--ry bout arid Ainoer the direction ef nufu" r.-imer-'n he r-romu-r-s to g've tr.e c of r? r " n v a g r - a t h a t : ! e . T,vn w Gfr.an. a brotvi- of 'K.;"' Davi-j, will return t t!".-- csr.ie next bi--fi.v; and will nif t 'Kid" Beik. n'no bt Oscar Tavlor dc;sive".y so'"!-" l;rr.e a:"-, Gethan was a aocl boy - ere several year, aso and beat some toush cr.es. but h r.s? fcpen out of the tair" for a couple vears and hi ork will be watched w;-u considerable interest by his many fri-' pe'tr-r Jackson has a.'r.c ho? t r" Kei' v. whom T e will s7- acainst "'Frenchy" Foyd. As peter sa bis man will purely beat "FivrrhV th time there should be plenty of fun. A number of yrr-ncste-rs are woi-k'-.r out dailv In ;:n effort to cet a har-e In t'1- curtain raiser and Maaz' r-owr. ine wIM se'.e. t the pir i:-'1t pro!r;es th- fans the moL fun. |