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Show j BILLY WAGNER SICK; O'BRIENMEETS GOOD Fans Satisfied Wifh. Switch; Jack Myers Gets Verdict Over Kid Davis. EUlv Wagner of Chicago, a brother of Charley White, was unable to go on last j night for his frrneduled four-round bout with Sammy Good of Taeoma at the Grand theater. The tans eere rather die-' "SB appointed at first, bui v :.en it was ex--fl plained that a doctor had advised against ;A Wagner's appearance, they accepted the -;" verdict with good grace Wagner v;aa present and was introdu-.-ed to t'r- rowd. with thf promise that he would meet eitflH Good or Young Gilbert next Monday night. -'H Mickev O'Brien took Wagners plac as Good's opponent an-i rmed to satisfy .-the .-the fans. The first round brought out some clever footwork on the part pf bojH bovs. O'Brien did some nice coveringH and uncorked hiF spectacular uppercuH The round ended with honors about evoH In the Feconc M: - --i "jjd acroaa the ring and landed several stinaH blows with the same old uppercut.-H third was all Mickey's, and he had GoqjL Good - bed kidney nunch throuii the fieht and O'Brien seemeTl verv weak nt the nd. Downing- s decision deci-sion was a draw, and the crowd yelled its approval. u Myers Works on Jaw. Kid Davis of Ogden and Jack. 3yeaH of ?alt Lake came together for foaH rounds of hard milling. Davis put up oeH of the gamest exhibitions seen here ilH long time. He seemed unable to ProtH his jaw. and Myers landed on it njH peatedly. In both the third and fourH -rounds Davis wai '' - : - beH saving him in each case. In the fou he made an effort to even things up. and.- 3 though Myers tried his hardest to H over the finishing punch. Davis was still on li is feet at t ; : c r. z . Myers waa I given the decision. a Tom Crawford made a chopping block jl of Kid Slater an. i: ":nU trouble ln;j avoiding the lattr's wi'd swings. At 9 one time Slater roiujhed tilings a bit, but -i :j iL- ;v,.i.ie ihe mis- - I take of trying to o ;tn Ton-, with dis- J as t roue re su 1 1 s t o : 5 v. e . Cra wf ord won this bout by a long margin. aBv Carpenter Reappears. An old-timer made his n in maJM against French y p... : '.- k Carpenter. 3 Buss Boyle. who v .. - -n have met 3 Frenchy, failed to materialize. eMI Frenchy staged four rounds of reQH tame slucginc. Kr.T.-:-v n ;-:-- have hit -Carpenter once or twice. Kid Kerns and Young Jonnson gave M t be crowd its money's wo"! h in three jm rounds of willing, but unskillful, mixing. A draw was the result. Of the other pre- 1 liminary the less said the better. |