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Show i FRANKIE Bill TOO MUCHFOR IRISH Speedy Canadian Welter-j Welter-j weight Shows Class in Initial Bout. Frank Rarrieau. welterweight champion cham-pion of Canada, had things practically his own way in his battle with Kid Irish ', last night at the .Manhattan club. The j Canadian was far too clever and speedy I for the local lad and hammered him mer- illy around for four rounds. Irish covered cov-ered up to evade punishment tn the early rounds of the scrap, however, when he found that Barricau could get to him i Buy wh.v he started to mix. Tired at heing pummeled around, .Irish ' came to life In the fifth and sixth frames nnd slammed away with the Canadian. Kvpii with I riah on the offensive Bar- rie.au knew enough about the fine points of the game to evade the rushes of Irish and planted some heavy ones. In the final round Irish camo out of a mix with lire In his eyes. Starting one from the floor he caught Barricau unawares and Knocked him spinning to the ropes and i then to tho Moor. The blow could j hardly be classed as a knockdown, as ' liarrieau tripped as he went back, i It was evident throughout the battle that Barrieau was not giving the best I he had and seemed to enjoy playing with i Irish. However, after Irish had slammed i' him to t lie mat tho Canadian evidently :j tig u red that he might get an oven share j of the money and tore after the local lad In earnest. It was Barrieau's fight even I with his playing tactics, i Kid Harris, hailing from San Francisco, j won a warm spot in the hearts of the i fans after four rounds of whirlwind go- lug with Boh Moore. Moore had it over1 the coast lad In everything but infighting. When Bob stood away from Harris he , landed heavy ones wherever he pleased. In Hie fourth frame Harris, tired out and all but beaten, was saved by the bell. Ho had been sent to the canvas several times and was down when the gong sounded. Ho came back in the fifth and scut Hob down with a heavy smash to the jaw. Then tilings began to happen. Bo tii boys stood in the center of the ring in the final frume and treated the fans to one of the prettiest slugfests that could he wished lor. Tho scrap was easily Moore's. Kid Davis won a good decision over Joe Manes, a brother of Young Azevedo. Davis was on top during the entire battle. bat-tle. Manes, though he landed prettily at times, seemed to lack the punch to i bother Davis. i Battling Olsen of Price was compelled to quit in the last round of his battle with Kid Dutch, owing to a broken , thumb. The scrap was a merry one and even up to the time the accident oc-cur oc-cur red. Olsen, who appeared locally for the fii'st time last nieht, won a host of friends by his whirlwind tactics. In a one-sided curtain-raiser Slim Warden won the decision over Jai k Brun-s.dl. Brun-s.dl. Manager Hardy Downing announced that there would be no scraps at the club next. Monday night, as he had arranged some tiling for the following Friday for ihe beneht of the woolgrowers, who meet in convention here. |