Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-25 | Page 8 | Morris and Irish will Box Tonight

HIS AND IRISH -WILL BOHOIHT Downey and Whitney Are Among Other Numbers on Club Card. Kid Irish and Rex Morris, who meet in the yix-round main event at the Manhattan Manhat-tan club show tonight, finished up their training yesterday and pronounce the.m-selve.'; the.m-selve.'; in siiape for the fray. This bout should be one of the most stubbornly' contested battles ever seen in the city, as both of these boys are battlers who are not afraid to take a punch In order to land one . themselves. The semi-wiudnp between Jack Downey and Kyle Whitney, the colored boy from the coast, also promises a lot of real action. ac-tion. Whitney has met the best welter and middle weight s in the country and very few of them ever beat him. Downey is just about the classiest fellow of his weight around these diggings. The real slugfest of the evening1 will no doubt be between Kid Slater of this city and Buss Boyle of Ogde.n. Neither is noted for cleverness, hut they make up in acqressiveness and h;ird bitting for what they lack In the other department of ' i he ga me. Swede .Johnson, the local youngster who has been showing so much ability lately, will have his firm, veal tryout in Khi Harrison, the California lightweight. Young Swartz and Voung Sweeney, a couple of youngsters, and the amateur curtain-raiser will round out tho bill.