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Show GILBERT TO FIGHT IHTOffiK Denver Sensation and Local Champ in Headiiner; Other Bouts. Manhattan club followers should tfct their fill of battles at tho Grand theater the-ater tomorrow evening, when Hardy Downing will produce a classic iu pugilistic pu-gilistic vaudeville shows, lie has his classiest boys mated up and will break Johnnie Kid Mcx, a sensation of Denver, Den-ver, iuto the local fight game. Kid Mpx will be pitted against Young Gilbert, the hard-hitting boiler-maker, boiler-maker, who holds the lightweight crown of Utah. This nrotnises to be one of the fiercest battles of the evening, although al-though there are some other tough pugilists pu-gilists booked together. In Denver Kid Mex met some classy fighters. During bis fifteen fights in the Centennial city he never let one of his opponents go more than three rounds without dropping him to the mat. His inexperience m the game, however, lost him one or two of these clashes because be-cause he didn't know how to follow up his advantages, lie is touted as a com- f V -, ing ringstcr, and, with a little more ex- b perience, should be able to go against j" some of the topnotchers without fear of being badlv drubbed. Gilbert has a wicked punch himself and has sent scores of opponents off into the land of nod. He is capable of taking plenty of punishment himself, and will give the Denver sensation a merry welcome tomorrow night. The two will go over the six-round route. Azevcdo and Brownie. The other six-tilt affair is a featherweight feather-weight encounter, with Young Azevedo of San Pran cisco and Young Brownie of this city as the principals. Botu these boys nave been seen m some in- teres ting fights here this season and i their mettle is known to the followers of the game. Brownie has come to the front rap-I rap-I idly. He has a dangerous wallop that would do credit to a middleweight, and it is because of this punch that his friends are touting him to win from the clever coast boy. It can be said that if he does defeat Azevedo tomorrow tomor-row night some other featherweight will have to be shipped into town' before he can be defeated. A rough and tumble slugfest can be promised when Kid Slater meets Mike the Fighting Fireman in the headiiner of- the four-round bouts. Both these husky boxers have haymakers in plenty plen-ty and love to put them into action. They are favorites with the Manhattan club customers. Slater heaves coal in the daytime and is about the huskiest scrapper the fireman fire-man has had to meet. Mike has stopped all of his opponents so far this season, but is promised considerable trouble when he tangles with Slater. Moore Meets Ogdenite. Bob Moore and Willie Johnson of Ogden will clash once more. Moore kiinek-pr? -Tohncii nnf tu round of their fight here six weeks ago, but both participants were sent down for the count of nine several times before the finish came Moore, who hails from the Sugar-house Sugar-house fire department, is a game slug- w per with a good wallop. Johnson's friends, however, contend that Moore won last time more through good fortune for-tune than because he had anything over the Ogden boy. The curtain raiser will be a three-round three-round amateur affair between Kid Blackic and Kid Brownie. |