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Show SKILL II FOfi OOglG FOLKS Five Big Bouts and Two Curtain-Raisers on Manhattan Man-hattan Card Tomorrow. Hardy Downing will start the new year off by giving the fistic lovers of Salt Lake one of the classiest little pugilistic vaudeville vaude-ville shows ever waged in the Grand theater. The acts will be run off tomorrow tomor-row night as per schedule, and those boxing box-ing funs who like to see skill mixed with plenty of action and a flourishing of the eight-ounce mitts will no doubt have a lot of fun. - The headliner between Eddie Duffy and Johnny Dunn is heralded as one of the best bouts Hardy has ever fixed up for local customers. Duffy Is w-ell known, having met the hest welterweights and middleweights In The country. lie formerly for-merly held the lightweight crown of Brooklyn and has a long string of victories vic-tories during his career in the boxing world. Dunn shower) last Monday night that he was the sort of boxer who will also draw strong in the short round fights. He claims the welterweight title of the Pacific coast, and he has a whirlwind finish that has deceived some of the best of scrappers. Both these boys are of the Battling Nelson variety and would rather mix things than have table stakes handed out to them on silver travs. Another bout that lacks none of the class the headliner promises to develop is the Mickev O'Brien-Tommy Crawford tilt. Crawford has long been a hero of local pugilism, having displayed in dozens of battles that he has the goods and Is a.lwave willing to deliver them, no matter mat-ter how tough a customer he bumps up age inst. , , . Young Gilbert, who Is making his first appearance of the winter at the urana theater, will meet Young Maloney. Last Monday night Maloney bested Gilberts vounger brother, so it is sort of a family dutv"t;ilhert feels he has to perform when he faces Maloney.- Maloney. however, is a finished boxer, with a wicked punch in either hand, and it will take considerable effort on the part of the fighting boiler-maker boiler-maker to siiuare up accounts for his br.I)aokr'"Hogan of Sacramento and Willie Gee of Denver are two lesser lights who will trv to battle their way to the warm spots of the Grand theater regulars Both men are same to the core and eager to make a speedy hit by a quick victory. The other bout is between Mel-vin Mel-vin Davis and Kid Slater, two of the hest curtain raisers uncovered this season Both bo's have earned the right to get out of the curtain-raising class Two amateur bouts will open the show, a pair of featherweights being one set, while for variety's sake. Hardy will produce pro-duce two 200-pounders for the other. |