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Show REAL BATTLERS FGR " MOiuraiieeoT Johnson and Jackson Are Matched; Ogden Man to Meet Coast Feather. Tho death of the boxing game In California Cali-fornia was a sad blow to hundreds of i four-round battlers who have made a livelihood at the game there and they are now seeking new fields. The success suc-cess of the short-round game In this city Bhas attracted a number of them. Already Al-ready there are several classy boys here looking for matches and Manager Downing Down-ing of the Manhattan club Is in receipt of many letters daily asking for matches. The result is that the fans of this city are going to profit by California's Ios3 and are going to have the pleasure of seeing a number of Kan Francisco boys In action here. It will give them a good chance to compare the local boys with those of Pan Francisco, who have the reputation of being tho greatest four-rounders four-rounders in the world. Manager Downing Is busy lining up a classy card for next Monday night's boxing box-ing show at the Garrlck theater and has already decided to use one of the newcomers, new-comers, "Young" Colin, as classy a looking look-ing featherweight as has been seen here in manv a day. Cohn has met a number of the best boys on the coast and has always made good. After looking look-ing him over yesterday afternoon. Down ing immediately decided to match him with Jimmle Johns, the crack Ogden bov, who has made all the local feathers take to cover. Johnson Meets Jackson. The headliner bout of the evening will bring together "Battling" Johnson, the sensational local boy, and Ray Jackson, the man who makes them all tight to win. This is the mat oh that the public has been clamoring for. Johnson is the sensation of the eeason In the local ring world. 7-Te has been boxing ontv about two months and during that time has met ail of the best local lightweights and has never yet lost a decision. Jackson is the mvsterv of the local bunch of boxers, lie lof.ks anything but a battler and has a peculiar pose that is laughable, but when it comes right down to real battling he makes .them all look to their laurels. In fact, he has come nearer beating "Young" Gilbert than any man that bus ever boxed with him, although al-though he was stopped in the last round I by an awful wallop on the jaw. LTp to ! that time he had the bout won by a large margin and incidentallv nave tb "hniiAr- maker" the worst lacing of the laLter's boxing career. Travis and Tucker. "Battling" Travis, one of last winter's favorites, I? back in the game acafn and ha been matched with "Bud" Tucker for next Monday night. This pair met once last winter and gave the fans one of the best bouts ever seen. At the end of the four rounds it was difficult to say who had the better of the, argument. argu-ment. I "Cyclone" Lefty, who stopped "Kid" 1 Mack at the last Manhattan club show j has been matched with "Pug" Dyle, who has also returned to the city 'after a boxing tour up through Idaho, where he met such bovs as "Yankee" Rue and , made a cerdi table showing. ; There will he two other bouts on the card, one of which Manager Downing has not definitely decided upon. The curtain cur-tain raiser will be between Coy Tavlor a brother of Oscar Taylor, arid "Kid"' Hobba, a pair of youngsters who are eager to chow what they can do. |