Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-09-22 | Page 39 | Hardy Downing is Back on the Job

W00II1IS BACK 1 TIE JOB Will Continue to Stage His Manhattan Boxing Club Shows This Winter. Hardy K. Downing, local boxing promoter, pro-moter, who lias held weekly boxing shows at the Hippodrome theater for the past-five past-five seasons returned last week from San Francisco, where he spent the last month getting in touch with some high-class battlers. He has announced that he will open his winter season at the old stand a week from tomorrow night, with a high-class card of four-round and six-round six-round battles. While a great many of the boys who have battled at the Manhattan club the past five years have signed up for the big battle across the pond, H.aj-d y say that quite a number of last year's favorites fa-vorites are still here and that he will liave no trouble in getting together a good bunch of real battlers for the opening open-ing show. Some of the favorites who are still here and getting ready for the opening show are such boy a as Young Gilbert, Ned Young, Battling Charles Midkiff, Kid Dutch, Kid Slater, Kid Emmet t. Kid Davis, "Abie," the Fighting Yid; Swede Johnson. Fighting George, Carpenter Morris, Mor-ris, Morris Bankhead, the fast colored boy. Billie Hughes and a number of other lesser lights, as well as several boys now stationed at Fort Douglas and GariieM. Manager Downing says he will conduct his shows along the same lines this season sea-son as he has for the past five years,, by starting off with mostly local talent, and as fast as the boys round into the best ot shape he will bring in boxers from the coast to meet the best talent in each class. . The fact that the army has fostered boxing as one of the best courses of training in practically all of the training train-ing tamps has resulted in developing a world of new boys in tfce- boxing game who have never before been heard of, and who are now making things mighty Interesting In-teresting for some of the regulars in the game. Heinie Schnman, one of last "winter's finds at the Manhattan club, is now with the marines, and has been taking the measure of all the boys in his class. He informed Manager Downing while he ws on the coast that he could make arrangements ar-rangements tb come at any time, and is very anxious for an early date. Just who will be on the opening card ; it is hard to tell at this time, as the I boys have just . started training, but by the middle of the week the boys who round into shape the best, will be given a place on the first card. 1