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Show !rao io m WKJT GHZ Local Champ and Denvei Crack Meet Monday; Williams Wil-liams and Sanders. Benny Chavez, the classy featherweight feather-weight who is to meet Young Azevedo, !oc;il cluimp. in the six-round headliner at the Omul theater Monday night, has completed his training and says he will be able to hit a fast clip in the brawl tomorrow. Hardy Downing, manager of the Manhattan club, is eagerly awaiting await-ing the outcome of the battle, as he intends in-tends to give Azevedo this chance at a real scrapper, anil if Azevedo makes good, Downing will give him a chance against someone further up in the game. Chavez began fighting in 1911, when he knocked out George Walton in nine rounds and again in seven rounds. He also knocked out Patsy Kenna, Tommy Cody and Eddy Leach that year. Since then he has hail numerous fights, winning win-ning many by knockouts. Last year he met Tommy Buck, Charles Arcnson, Chick Haves, Yankee Hue, Nat Leonard. Roy Moore, Harry Bramer, Freddy Ha-mann Ha-mann and recently fought Johnny Kil-bane. Kil-bane. Last year he lost but two of his fights, won four hy knockouts, had six draws and won decisions on the others. He is a Spanish-American and one of the toughest of fighters, taking on all comers his weight in the country. Azevedo Determined. Azevedo lacks the record of Chavez, but he has been making a wonderful showing here, and by defeating Sanders last Monday proved his ability to handle han-dle himself against almost any scrapper. He came here from San Francisco, where he wa.s a favorite in the short-round game. This winter he started out by Vhowing much class and quickly put away all featherweights in the local string. He finally copped the title by defeating Kid Davis. Since then no one has come close to winning from him. The semi-final will be a six-gong battle bat-tle between Gus Williams, a local boy of considerable ability, and Frankie Sanders of New York. This, also, should be a fast mill from start to finish. Both boys are hardy mixers and fast. Sanders has a good record in the short-round game in New Y'ork, and is the toughest boy Williams has ever yet tackled. He has been working hard to get himself fully acclimatized and hopes to win by a knockout. He did not like the idea of losing to Azevedo last Monday Mon-day night. Williams a Comer. Williams probably has more natural ability as a fighter than any other local boy. " He was in his first professional fight here this winter, never having been in a public fight before. Ho showed unusual class and had a wallop that would do credit to a lightweight of long experience. Since his initial battle Williams has been winning from all opponents, and is now one of the dangerous danger-ous contenders for the local featherweight feather-weight crown. In the four-round affairs Kid Dutch will exchange punches with Yankee Allen. Al-len. Both are fast four-round millers who can be depended upon to give the fans plenty of action. Allen has battled bat-tled all of the good local lightweights, and is no slouch of a battler. Jack Brnnsell and Battling Nelson will also exchange, wallops for four tilts. Both are hard clouters with a home run in either hand. Kid Holt and Jack Doyle, two fast boys, will meet in the first regular preliminary. pre-liminary. The amateur curtain raiser will start things off. |