Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-11 | Page 14 | O'brien will Box Gilbert Tomorrow

O'BRIEN WILL BOX GILBERT TOMORROW Sis-round Event at Armory Expected to Decide Lightweight Championship Champion-ship of West. Tommy O'Brien, lightweight champion of the Pacific coast, who is booked to meet Pat Gilbert, the local kingpin, for the championship of the west In the six-round six-round feature event of Hardy Downing's weekly boxing show in the Armory arena coinorrow night, is working out daily at the central fire station. He has created a better impression among the fans who have been fortunate enough to see him work than any boy that has ever been orought here for a short-round battle. O'Brien has participated in more head--ine bouts at Jack Doyle's in Vernon and &t Pavilion rink in San Francisco in the past year than any one battler down there md is rated by the coast scribes as the est lightweight the coast has produced .n many a day. He is recognized as the rtingpin of the lightweight division there. A number of high-class boys have been urought here from the coast and other cities to take the measure of the hardhitting hard-hitting local boy, but so tar none of them has ever done more than hold him to an even break. Just what success Gilbert will have against a boy who has proved himself the best of his weight on the coast will be watched with intense interest inter-est by the local fans. Gilbert has never been a flashy performer, per-former, but he invariably gives the fans the best he has, and the better the boy he is fighting the harder he tries. A special event on the card this week will bring out a pair of real heavyweights of considerable reputation in Jack Smith of Los Angeles and Jack Rose, formerlv of Denver, but who has been making things interesting for all the big fellows in the northwest the past year. Jay Solomon and Fighting George are down to tangle in the semiwindup of the evening and are attracting a world of interest in-terest among local followers of the game. These boys are both willing youngsters, who apparently have a bright future before be-fore them In the roped arena. Jack VInce of Los Angeles, who, like O'Brien, is on his way east looking for matches, will also get a chance to show his wares here and has been matched with Krankie Smlthers, the popular west side youngster.