Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-02-03 | Page 33 | Hard Hitters Meet in Ring Tomorrow

HARD HITTERS MEET II RINGJ1R0W, Three, Six-round and Three :-Four-round Bouts on the " ; Manhattan Card. There will be three six-round bouts' -and three four-round bouts at Down-" ing's weekly boxing show at the Grand' ;: tomorrow night. The bout that will close the shorr -and which will be looked upon as the feature event of the evening, will bring -together Kid Davis, the former feather- 4 weight champion of the state, and Heinie Schuman of Denver, who lias creited qjite a sensation in his only -two bouts at tho Grand. The only : chance 'the fans, have had to get a line, -on these two i.oys is through the fact -that Munger and Davis have battled twice to a draw. Mungcr stopped Bull Your.g fn three rounds, while the best -' Schuman could jo with Voting wn.s to .-hold .-hold him evoji fo.- six rounds, so, figur- " ing on past performances, it looks as -though Davis has the shade. Schuman -, has shown that he is a fast two-handed battler, but has not displayed very : much of a kick so far, and the friends of tho local boy figure ho can take alt the Denverite can hand him and still' ":. got in close enough to put over the -' winning wallop. i. lu the six-rounder between Battling Charley I.Iiukiff and Mysterious Jim- ;: inie llrowit, anything i:; likely to hap-, -'-peu. Jjrovvn has often demonstrated at the Grand that he has the punch to bring home the money w'hen it con-notts. con-notts. On the other hand, Tviidkiff has shown that once he gets ir.sido of those wallops he is apt to get the money himself. Brown -is the only man that over hung the k. o. on Midkiff in a local ring, and the latter wants to even up that score. The other six-rounder will bring together to-gether the two "iron men" of the local ring in Kid Davis of Ogden aiul; Al Pal.er of this city. These boys havo met the toughest . and hardest ' hitting lads that ever appeared in a local ring, and thus far neither has had any-trouble any-trouble in taking their hardest wallops.' Palzcr in particular seems to like the going when he is getting hit with every thing but the v-iter bucket. : (.'hick Johnson, who juailo a hit with ." the fans last Monday night when he' took everything that Art wson had for four rounds, and then came from behind and earned a decision, will meet, a newcomer in Jed Reiser, who is with' tho coast artillery at Garfield, and is a messmate of Bull Young. Selsur has had little ring experience, having . fought a few preliminaries on the coast, but, he is touted as a promising youngster. young-ster. Fighting George, who made good in the curtain raisers and first preliini-' naries at the Grand last season, will be back in the game this week, ami will meet a newcomer to local fans in Fat Ifalev of Garfield, who has put up some rattling good bouts at Magna. The regulation cui'tain raiser will , round out the bill.