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Show DUNDEE-YOUNG BOUT AROUSES INTEREST Intermouutain Region Fans Eagerly Await Lightweight Battle Friday Night at Ogden. Special to The Tribune. OGDEN, March 31. The ehief sporting sport-ing event of the week in Ogden, and one which will attract the attention of followers of the boxing game all over the state,- will .be the match between Al Young of Ogden and Johnny Dundee of New York Friday at the Alhambra theater. Young is the former Okla-1 Okla-1 horaa boy who recently wou the inter-' inter-' mountain lightweight championship by defeating Young Gilbert ol Salt Lake in a fifteen-round bout in this city. Dundee is ho well known to followers of the ring through his matches with Willie Ritchie, Johnny Kilbanc, Young Shugrue, sud other crack lightweights that he needs no introduction. Dundee arrives in Ogden Monday morning, accompanied by his manager, 1 ' Seotty ' ' Monteith, and a sparring partner. He will begin training at once, to get in topnotch form for his bout with Young rriday night. Young has been training steadily for the past three weeks and ia now in splendid condition. Dundee has been appearing in a number num-ber of bo'its around New York during the past mocth, so he also is in good form. As is the case in tho main bout, the semi-iiual Ik ut of the show will be a contest in which cast meets west. Eddie : Duffy of Brooklyn -will try conclusions with "Red" Newey of Ogden, the boy who put Jack Head to sleep in one round at Salt Lake Monday night. The curtain rais?r will be a match between Swede Johnson and Billy Johnson, both of Ogden. The advance sale of seats for the match is unprecedented in the annals of boxing in Ogden. Hundreds of reservations reser-vations have been made by the boxing fans of Salt Lake, Ogden, and other Utah cities. |