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Show THREE SSX-RQUNDtBS ON HI'S i!D Three six-round features and two four-tilt four-tilt wrangles will be the bill for the next Manhattan club fistic show at the Grand theater Monday night, is the announce- ! ment of Manager Hardy Downing. The principal bout will bring together JImmie Johns, Ogden's favorite feather- weight, and Harry Attwood of southern California. These boys are rivals of old. It was just about a year ago that the two first tangled at a Manhattan club show. In that slx-gon? brawl the doclsion 1 was a draw. Then Attwood went to Og-den Og-den to meet Johns in a return engagement engage-ment and lost the decision. Attwood is eager to got back at the Junctionite. and says he will put Johns into the land of slumber for keeps Monday Mon-day night. Johns has been doing some phenomenal work in Ogden and wants to get into the limelight here. He won a very unpopular decision a short while ago from Azevedo, local feathor champ in Ogden. Gus Williams, who was touted as one of the coming young battlers of the country coun-try until he ran Into one of Kid Em-mett's Em-mett's wallops here a short while ugo, will make his first reappearance since his first knockout. He will tackle Kid Davis, who held the featherweight title here for several years and lost it this winter to Young Azevedo. This should be a fast mix-up. Davis Is a whirlwind in the ring and has a touh clout for a feather. If Williams can win from the former champ, the fans will no doubt forgive him his defeat of three weeks ago and he will again fly into popular popu-lar favor. The other six-rounder will be between Red Ncwey, the Ogden welterwc-iyht, and Eddie Head, a fast welter from California. Califor-nia. ' Tli's should be a fierce mill, as both boys are fast and have terrific wallops. wal-lops. Head hail a good record On the coast and should give Newey some rough handling. The Ogden boy is nsed to touph brawls and will no doubt make tho coast buv travel a hard road to win. The first of tho four-rounders will he between Pat Murphy, a tmjgh slugger, and Kid PlackSe. Thee two featherweights are noted for their rough and tumble style of battling and can stand plenty of knocking about. Kid Hrowne, one of the coming fighters fight-ers of the Manhattan club, will tackle Young Hows. This pair of feathers should start the fans off in good humor for the evening. Both are game mixers, who liRve plenty of hay ma iters to keep the excitement excite-ment tense. |