Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-06-22 | Page 12 | Kid Flash Barend to Meet Yearling

KID FLASH BAREND TO MEET YEARLING Ephraim Promoter Signs Up Infantry and Navy Champions for July 4 Bout. j I Special to The Tribune. j EPHRAIM. June 21. Sergeant Kid Flash Barend, featherweight champion of ' the Forty-third infantry, stationed at Fort Douglas, has been matched with j Battling Yearling, featherweight cham- pion of the Atlantic fleet. United Slates j navy, for a six-round battle here July 4. Both boys rank among the best in Uncle Sam's forces, and the contest here, should be one of the most popular in local boxing history. Promoter O. W. Neilson is carrying out a patriotic idea In matching match-ing these speedsters. Bp rend formerly was a member of the Twentieth Infantry, but recently was transferred to the new regiment. He. is a sergeant in the machine gun company. Barend says he will start active training at once and expects to have little difficulty diffi-culty getting into first-class trim for the Independence day bout.