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Show MEX-GILBERT BOUT IS DECLARED A DRAW Referee's Decision Does Not Meet With Many's -Approval. Kid Mex, the scrappy little fighter from Pueblo, had a big lead over Young Gilbert, the Utah champ, after six rounds of furious mixing last night at the Manhattan Man-hattan club. The Mexican put over two clean knockdowns in the first rounds of the scrap one for the count of nine but the referee saw fit to call the affair a draw. It is true that Gilbert came back strong after hitting the floor twice after taking clean wallops and even had the Mexican a hit groggy in the last few-seconds few-seconds of the going. However, the lead that the Pueblo boy had piled up was really too large to overcome, according to many fans. Mex started the fighting at the tap of the first bell and slammed over several clean blows before Gilbert found his head. Pat woke up and made after the elusive dark-skinned boy with a furious left. Ducking neatly, the Mex straightened straight-ened up and as Pat's body came even wiLh his body he let loose 'with a right hook that fairly steamed. It took Pat clean on the jaw and the boilermaker hit. the mat with a bang. When the fans had eased on their coats and the count of eight had been passed. Pat jumped to his feet, shook his head and rushed Mex. Mex floored Pat again in the second round and then the real scrapping began. be-gan. Pat seemed to get stronger with each passing round and when the bell rang for the sixtli he let loose a burst of speed that had the Mexican covering tip. Following up every blow, the boilermaker soon had the Pueblo lad dazed and wishing wish-ing for the bell. However, it would have taken a clean knockdown to even up the scrap at this point. Young Azevedo, fisrhting in the clean and fast style that has made him a favorite fa-vorite in Salt Lake, won an easy victory vic-tory over Kid Brownie, the local hoxer. At no time did the local boy even exchange ex-change punches with the fast Portuguese. Brownie, after a couple of knockdowns, was too groggy in the fourth to continue and the scrap was stopped. After Bob Moore. the fireman, had taken numerous straight lefts in the nose he solved the style of Willie Johnson of Ogden and made short work of the Junction Junc-tion city favorite. Tn the third frame Moore knocked him to the mat for almost al-most the count and his seconds threw in the sponge. Grant Evans of Ogden won a clean-cut decision over Mike, the fireman, after four rounds of rather tame going. Evans was the fireman's master at everything, even the rough stuff, and Grant captured the long end of the purse handily. Referee Downig had to stop Kid Bntmmy from inflicting more than the necessary punishment on Stephen Taylor in the first round. Steve was no match for the kid. An odd thins: happened in the curtain raiser the thing went the limit three rounds. Kid Blaekie and Kid Brownie, two evenly-matched Hcrht weights, mixed it merrily the entire distance. They were given a draw. |