Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-13 | Page 10 | O'brien Draws with Gilbert

O'BRIEN DRAWS mjm Coast Fig-hter Lucky to Break Even; Smithers Beats Vince. Tommy O'Brien, sty!ed the lightweight champion of the Pacific coast and Pat Gilbert fought six slashing rounds to a draw decision last night before one of the largest crowds that ever packed into the old Armory. O'Brien might feel a bit lucky at getting get-ting a draw, although he fought gamely to the last ditch. The first round opened with Pat showing show-ing Tommy up like a novice atid the local boy had the first round by a big shade. In the second round O'Brien came doan to boxing and fought Gilbert every inch of the way. In this round Pat swung a slif; left to Tommy's wind, which made the coast boy quiver somewhat, and he Immediately Im-mediately made the claim of being hit low, which was not allowed. The third and fourth rounds were gone througa with both boys always getting in. Tommy using almost entire. y a straight left and Gilbert countering with a heavy left to the wind which at the close of toe fourth round worried Tommy greatly. During the fifth round Pat made a small-sized chopping block of th coast boy. Tommy went to his corner after th.s round pretty badly bent, but came back at the opening of the last round with a big rush which took Pal off his feet for a time. Both went at It furiously, furious-ly, but neither boy scored heavily. A draw decision was given. The curtain raiser, a four-round bout between Bert Wilson and Kid Blondie, was rather lopsided, as Wilson had it on his man. both in weight and reach. A decision for Wilson pleased everybody, even his blond opponent. Jlmmlo Brings and Battling Lou. the latter substituting for Jack Buenreltn. went four rounds to a draw decision. Jlmmle was aggressive; in fact, too much so. for after he had wound tip and again run down Lou got In his work. Both were pretty well winded when the bout was over. Krankie Pmlthers won an easy decision oer Jack Vince of I.o Angeles In a fojr-round fojr-round bout, which was a battle of cleverness clever-ness combined with some poor swings. 6mlthers claariy outfought Vince In every round and had little trouble In gettlne away from Vlnce's overhand swings and then scoring with a straight left to the face and a wicked right to the wind. Fighting George Soflis and Jay Solomon fought four rounds to a good draw, with both boys receiving some stiff Jo ts. George took some of Jay's beet wallops squarely on the Jaw and got away smiling. smil-ing. He did very little damage to Solomon, Solo-mon, however. Jack Smith of Los Angeles and Montana Mon-tana Curley, the latter substituting for Jack Rose of Denver, who broke his hand Monday, put on a quick one. The first round opened with Smith giving the Montana Mon-tana boy a wallop on the jaw, gnd the bout was over. The Montanan tried hard to come to. but Mie had gone too far.