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Show MOGH AT STAKE II M BOUITGIIT White and Gilbert Keyed for Hard Struggle; Card Seems Balanced. The stage is all set for the champion-'ship champion-'ship battle between Young Gilbert, lightweight light-weight champion of the intermountain j count ry, and Eddie White, challenger, ! from San Francisco, which will be the feature event of Hardy K. Downing's weekly boxing' show at the Grand theater tiiis evening. Both boys pronounce themselves them-selves in the bost possible shape for a grueling contest. The winning or losing of this match probably means more to these boys than any fight they have ever taken part in, as the winner has practically been assured as-sured a match in Denver over the marathon mara-thon route with either Sailor Kirke or Kid Ilex, who are both big cards in that city, and the one who gets the matcn is certain of a neat purse. Manager Downing says that some - of the fans are under the imression that he has a "leaning" toward Young Gilbert Gil-bert and that for such an important battle bat-tle as tonight's iie wants them to feel that no favorites will be played. Therefore, There-fore, two judges will be selected at the ringside this evening to assist him In giving a decision. If the judges agree on the winner, then lie will have no say In the matter, but if they should disagree dis-agree it will be up to him to cast the third ballot. While this bout will be the big feature of the evening, there are four other bouts on the card thai also promise much. Tho semi-windup will bring together Young Andres, the welterweight champion of the border, now with the machine gun company com-pany of the Twentieth infantry, and Kid Dutch, the hard iiitting local boy. Kid Davis, former featherweight champion cham-pion of Utah, is back again and has signified sig-nified his intention of making all of the j 22 -pound boys tyke to cover. He will meet Gus Williams this evening. Kid Bromao, who made such a hit last Monday night, will concede a few pounds in weight to Kid Mack. Ned Young, former cyclist and a sensation sen-sation in local boxing circles a couple of years ago. when he stopped a dozen boys in a punch, Is also determined to do a real comeback and has put in a month's hard training. He meets Pat McGlIncy, a tough man from the east. The amateur curtain-raiser will brin together a couple of boys from different regiments at Fort Douglas. |