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Show HE1N1E 10 MICKEY WILL GUSH MONDAY Clever Boxers Matched for Six Rounds; Brown and Slater on Card. Hemie Schuman, tho fast Pcnver' boy. who has be;n cleaning up all the 12S-pounders 12S-pounders and lightweights at Downing' weekly boxirig shows In the Grand theater the-ater recently, will probably meet the fastest fast-est piece- of fighting machinery next Monday Mon-day night that he has stacked up against since he landed here. He is to meet Mickey O'Brien, tho Sacramento light-weight, light-weight, in one of the six-round bouts. . j .Mickey lias always been conceded to I be the classiest lightweight hereabouts I when it came to real class and speed, but he was liardly rucged enough to hat-tie hat-tie successfully with such boys as Young Gilbert and other roupa and liard -hit-tine: boys, although he alwar5 slaved, the route with them. In meeting- tchuman. who is also a classy boxer, and ho will be giving Mickey a lew pounds of weight. O'Brien should be at his best. Mickey has been working as ivr-ailroad fireman for several months and Con taking the best of care of himseiirNL for the past two weeks lias been irainirlA daily to get into shape before re-eniering the local boxing game. For the fans who are partial to t VeJr clever boys this lout should be a The other headhner will bring tyTT.er Mysterious .1 inimie Brown and Kjd Slater, Sla-ter, the two hardest hitting welterweights welter-weights of the .'Utah ring colony. While Brown and Slater have both battled Charley Char-ley Midkiff to draws at dmerent times, they both have the distinction of hanging the K. O. wallop on one of the toughest boys that ever appea red at the Grand. Brown handed the sleep punch to Midkiff Mid-kiff a little more than a year ago., some-tiling some-tiling that no other boy ever did in a local ring, and Sla t er handed Kid Davis of Ogden the same thing last wi nier, which also stands out as the only K. u. against Pa vis in a local ring. There are several other matches on Monday's card that should be hummers. Dutch "Leonard, who showed last Monday night that he could really light when he wanted to. will meet a "tough youngster in Kid Hanson of Fort Douglas, who has been toppling over all of his opponents at the club recently. Fi cluing; Kid Georce, who was t he sensation of last Monday's show, will meet a neweomer who .styles himself "Abie, the Pis-hun--Vid." Krn Wright, the Murray middleweight, who has met the bst of the big fellows hero, will tie back in the game a-cain and will meet Ihe Ogden "Iron Man Kid Davis. The curtain raiser will bring together a couple of Fncle Sam's boys from Fort Douglas. |