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Show EVERYTHING READY FOR BOUT TOMORROW Fight Fans Selecting Their Favorites; Box Office Will Open Today. Everything points to a complete success 1 for the Morris-Palmer battle at the Grand theater Thursday night.' Thorough confidence con-fidence is placed in the statement that tlie Salt Lake sporting fraternity is to witness a real scrap between two of the classiest ring men that have met in many moons. Rex Murris is one of t he most promising promis-ing young fighters in the west. In fact, he is looked upon as the latest sensation sensa-tion in the middleweight division, having boat en every man whom be lias met in the roped arena during the past two years. His K. O. record iiuludes Kid Raymond, Ray-mond, Young Kid Lavigno, Sailor Hanson, Han-son, George Fappas, Ted Fappas, Soldier Gilmore and Frank Mantel. These bouts were staged in Sacramento. At Taft, Cal., he took the scalps of Dude Clark, Harry Monroe, Kid Harrison, Harri-son, and Dick Moore, in the same whirlwind whirl-wind st yp. At Denver he stopped Soldier Sol-dier Hicks in seven, and Smoke Craig in t hree rounds. At Reno he beat An tone Laljrave and Jack Fitzgerald. i He came out victorious over Jack Ketchel in a fierce ten-round bout which i took place in Colorado Springs last May. ! The last bout in which he t n gaged was I at Colorado Springs in June, in which lie dec isively beat Young Ilerrera, the noted i M ex i rj n fig h t er, in t en rou nd s. Eddie Palmer, who is to face Morris i Thursday night, has been awarded the championship of the world in his class by the colored population, after 136 fights, in which he engaged without a single I defeat. He is conceded to be the world's j cleverest colored performer, many experts , having given it as their opinion that he is the peer of all mitt artists. In the 1 Police ( Ja7.ette sporting annual can be found his nane in two no-decision bouts with Battling Levinski, one ten-round bout at Wilkes-Barre, and a six -round bout in Philadelphia. He was the headliner rn the first card offered to the people of New Orleans under un-der the new boxing law. The management is confident that the people of Salt Lake will appreciate a classy card such as has been offered for Thursday night and will give it the support sup-port that it deserves. The box office opens at the Grand theater today at 10 o'clock a. m. |