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Show BATTLING JOHNSON, who will engage in one of the Manhattan club's six-round bouts tomorrow night. T I . , . . ' f- .. " , v . A ' W 1 1 L SIX-ROUND BATTLES AT Mill CLUB Four Sets of Local Sluggers Will Mix It Tomorrow Night. Local pugilistic talent will hold sway at the Manhattan club show tomorrow night in the Grand theater. Hardy Downing has arranged for an old-time shigfest, or series of slugfests, of the sort that made the show popular with local fans in the past. No outside hoys will be used during the evening, and four six-round battles and a four-round preliminary will complete the entertainment. enter-tainment. Local talent was picked exclusively ex-clusively for the evening of haymakers and surprises. Gus Williams, the local featherweight, who has been astonishing everyone by the deft manner in which he has been handling himself against classy boys, will tackle Glen Gutke, former local feather champ. This will be the big s. six-round wrangle of the evening, and much interest is centered around the boat. Williams a Comer. Yz Williams won from Frankie Sanders of .ew York last Monday. He is a natural fighter and his friends are predicting pre-dicting a future for him in the ring. Gutke is well known to local fanatics, and. next to Young Azevedo, is the toughest local bov who could be picked for Williams to fight. Kid Dutch, who has been featured in slugfests this winter, will go six rounds against Battling Johnson. This should be a fast and furious battle, as both bovs like to step into the center of the arena and exchange wallops. Neither one has ever been known to quit, and they have been on some of the best cards of the winter. Local fans will no doubt be pleased to see Jess Oren back on a Manhattan club card. Last year he was one of the most popular lightweights in the game and one of the cleverest He has a wicked wallop and is a lively mLxer. Oren 's opponent will be Bus Boyle of Ogden. Are Old Rivals. Oren and Bovle have been in several fierce baltles here before aud are old rivals. Bovle has been showing all kinds of class in Ogden this winter, and his friends sav he is better than he ever was before. He expects to get even for the last threshing he received here at the hands of Oren a year ago. Yankee Allen, the toufh lightweight who has been seen in exciting bouts against l'oune Gilbert, Micky O'Brien and other lightweights of local repute, will tackle Bobby Moore, the husky vouth who has been the center of fierce brawls all winter. Moore has probablv been in some of the best battles of the winter, and has won a big place in Manhattan club- j bers' hearts with his gameness and f fiehtina qualities. The four-round preliminary will be,- between Willie Gee, who came here from Denver over two years aso, and Jack Dovle, the clever youth who stopped Kid Holt last Monday. Doyle has uncorked an abundance of class the last few weeks, aud should give Gee .1 livclv battle tomorrow evening. Gee is one of the most experienced of the local featherweizhts and has given Azevedo, Aze-vedo, Williams and Gutke some tough bouts. |