Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-12-20 | Page 16 | Two Big Bouts Monday Night

TWO BIG BOUTS-! MONDAY NIGHT j Namesakes Johnson Are ! i Matched for One, Davis I I and Abe in Other. , Manage.' Hardy K. Down ing a n nounees .hat he will give the Manhattan club boxing fans a double-header bill at the r.Iub Monday night. He has matched "Abe the FiKhting Yid" with Kid Davis, Nio class of the local featherweights, -Hid Swede Johiihou with Willie Johnson 'f Ogden, a rattling good pair of welterweights, welter-weights, Tor the two nix-round bouts. ImviH ha?! been one of the best feather-v,' feather-v,' eight h in this jmrt of tlie country (or ' beverat years. In fact, he whs the rec-"gnlzed rec-"gnlzed kingpin of thai division until , Young Azevodo too!-; a decision fro in him more than a year ago., Abe is only a youngster in the game, having- broken into the limelight during ihe latter part of last winter'? boxing season, but he uu.''ed quite a sensation by taking the measure of everything that was sent against hi in, with the exception of Rat-Ming Rat-Ming TraviK, who whs awarded a close docislon over htm a cmiplo of months ago. While it was not generally known. Die reason for that decision was no doirttt due in a great measure to the fact that Abe injured his right hand early in the hut tie and wan unable to carry the fight iu his man as he hud previously done Swede Johnson has shown a lot of real class in hia two bouts this season, and :iecins fo be coming to the front pretty fast. He is meeting a mighty good boy in his namesake from the Junction city and will have to be at his best to land t the big end of tho money. Willie Johnson hay appeared at the Manhattan club several times and is quite popular with local followers of tlie . game. He is a lad who is always out to win by the'K. O. route, if he can, and ho has a punch that is likely to bring home tlie bacon whenever it connects. With those two feature events, and such boyn as Jack Ryan, the Ogdcn youngster, and "Cyclone Lefty," the local port-slder, matched up for the main preliminary, pre-liminary, with throe other pairs of willing will-ing youngsters to fill In the bill; it looks ;in though the fans were due for another great night's sport. Taken all in all. the crd, when finally arranged, promises even more real battling than the fans :-'aw last Monday, which is saying a good deal.