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Show THREE SIX-!! EVENTS AT GRAfi Mickey O'Brien and Tommy Crawford Matched for ' Headline Battle. The patrons of Hardy Downing 's weoklv boxing shoivs in the Grsiml theater hrjve bceonio so accustomed to getting their money 'a worth every Monday Mon-day night regardless of "who is billed t".- exchange wallops that they pay very little attention lo the men matched until the niht of the bouts, but for tomorrow nilit. 's bill Downing has booked an all-star card that has set the fans buzzing and they are looking for-ward for-ward lo this week's show with muoh more than the usual amount of interest. In boohing three six-round main event Downing is fiiviitfi the fans the longest run for their money that they have ever had in tho short-round jrame, and tho bu-s are smacking their chops in anticipation. "When Mickey O'Brien ami Tommy Crawford together in the main six-round six-round battle of the evoiiinp the fans should see one of the most stubbornly contested battles over hold at the (jrand for the simple reason that these boys i have ai'-eady stepped two four-round draws, with the result that they have j been bejrsiuLr 'or a chance to step over i the longer route and settle their littb. l difference of opinion. f Both Boys Anxious. Both of these boys admit, that they would rather win this bout, than any that they have over had at the club ami. as a re.,ul-. have been training for this mceiiny as though they were goiu;' twenty rounds instead of six. I ' 'rawf eid showed a couple of weeks i aso what real training- would do for I him and surprised the fans bv ptittiug I up the best bout, of his life "when he j beat Jack Carpenter every round of the i four, and now that he has his heart sft j on beating O 'Bricn he has been Tvork-linp Tvork-linp like a beaver and should be even I better than when he met Carpenter. . Mickey can always be depended upon to step in the ring at a minute's uotico aud give a good account of himself, but, he has also been putting- in some extra? licks for this match and savs he is goinc to show his friends that' Crawford is the one boy that he can beat. Azevedo vs. Gutke. In Young Azevedo and Glen Gutke, the fans will see two of the best legiti- i mtae 12'J-pounders that ever appeared at the club. Gutke has always had to give away considerable weight when he mpt a boy that was a real match for him, but in Azevedo he will meet not only a classy boxer but a boy with a pretty pood punch, who is a natural featherweight, the same as is Glen. Gutke has been recognized as the classiest boxer that has ever been developed de-veloped around here, but alwavs lacked a real punch until .iust recently, when I he surprised his most ardent admirers bv stopping a couple of his opponents. This bout should he one of the clasjiest ever seen at the Grand. Paul Pollock and Billio Wagner will also meet over the six-round route ar.fi although thov are not clever boxers and do not pull any spectacular stuff, they are both h-"-,j workers and do some clever infi-.hting. The four-iound nreliminarv will hrins together Young Johnson, tiie voungster who battled 1'rankie Ritchie to a draw l:s' -'ondav. and Rattling Hanson, c":i;,b ol' willing and aggressive bo.1'"' who are sure to please. The amateurs will open the fun a! usual. |