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Show Gibbons and O'Dowd Should Put Up Great Battle Friday Night By Al Spink. CHICAGO. Not. IS This month, for the first time since the prcat war in Europe was inaugurated, there will be a real battle for the middleweight championship. It will take place at St. Paul on the night of November l'I, and Mike O'Dowd and Mike Gibbons will be the contenders for middleweight honors. They were both born and reared in St. Paul, and each has great following in and around the twin cities. Mike Gibbons naturally has the largest larg-est following, for he is seven years old-er old-er than his opponent, and has had five ytears more of experience in the ring. But, at that. Gibbons has a healthv respect for O'Dowd. for the latter is a rough diamond, and that he is a past master at the manly art is proved bv the fact that he took his first lessons in boxing from the peerless and invincible invinc-ible Gibbons, and learned them well. Current reports are to the effect that O'Dowd 's adherents are becoming more confident, the switch in sentiment being be-ing dr? to unfavorable reports from Gibbons' training camp. For some reason Gibbons has not un til this fall been able to get on a match with O'Dowd. Just the other day, however. how-ever. O'Dowd was offered $15,010, win, tie or lose, for a ten-round bout with Gibbons in St. Paul. Jack Reddy guaranteed O'Dowd that amount, and it will be paid out of the gross neeeipts. From what is left Gibbons, Gib-bons, win, tie or lose, will take thirty-five thirty-five per cent of the gate receipts. Expects Big Crowd. On this score a letter I have .iust received from Eddie Kane. Gibbons' manager, says: "We have arranged to handle 10,000 people, and every seat will be a good one. Of course, you know there is a great deal of rivalry here between the Gibbons and O'Dowd factions. This fact is proved to me by the advance orders for seats which arrived follow ing the announcement of the match. Our sale amounts now to something over $10,000, and we have not as yet put out our advertising, nor have our tickets tick-ets arrived. With the house sold out we will have $55,000." According to Kane, therefore, after O.Dowd has been paid his $15,000 guarantee guar-antee there will be $40,000 to split between Promoter Reddy and Gibbons, which moans $14,000 in thai lattcr's pocket only $1000 loss than will be reeeived by the e!i:impimi. But, having taken u tatgj chance v1 tt O'Dowd in the riuj, no one begrudges (jibbons,a dollax. Of ail the fights that have tak.-a place for the middleweight champion ship this bat tic between Gibbons and O'Dowd will probably be the best. Kaeh is a disciple of the modern school of boxing. Gibbons is so wonderfully clever that, although time aud again ha has met boxers bigger and s.renger than himself, him-self, he has never yet known defeat. For several years Gibbons has been so wonderfully successful, too, as a middleweight mid-dleweight that his fr. nds have ebimed he could even hold his own wii h the best of heavyweights, and not long ago his friends wanted to match him against Dem psev. O'Dowd Clever, Too. O'Dowd long ago absorbed nearly all the cleverness of Gibbons. The lat r gave O'Dowd hi first lessons in box-ing, box-ing, and O'Dowd. profiting by that experience, ex-perience, is said by many to now be just as clever, if uot more clever, th;in trifl old master. In voa-h ud fZTcaf holds t!v edg- on G trio. i.i. bii' in knowing know-ing the way, in being able to T;ike ad vantage of fvery opening, in wonderful footwork, coolness iu actual encounter, aud strong in the belief thai he m the greatest fighter of hia weight In ing, the old master appears to have it ou his youthful rival. O'Dowd was born in t. Paul on April 5, 1 S08t so that he is now in his kwentl fourth a?ar. the age at which Sullivan. Demps?y and other great fighters scored their greatest Mctories. Gibbons birthday was Julv ft. IB88, and it is always made a gala day m St. Faul. the Klks and Knights of Columbus Col-umbus celebrating the evi nt yearly, for Mike is a prominent uu-uibcr of (nanl organizations, and Klks and Knigliir-take Knigliir-take pride each year in celebrating his natal day. But Ui'bbons is now in his thirty firs: year, compared to I "Dowd s twenty fourth, which gives the latter a marked advantage. Beat McCoy for Title. O'Dowd became hanniion on Novem tier 14, 1917. 0a tlifit data In Nes York rini he teat A MeCor. tha titlo 1ioIJt, to tho m.ir in Ihi .iih round. In a soron'd trial, thin tinn at 8t, Pan inat July 17, O'Dow.l put Mri n a in Ihro rotiniln. O'Dowd has been ffariltlBS riffht alonff taea then, and lln' other day in a tifht at Paterson, N. U defeated Hilly Kramer in a COOplfl ot raOAdta. Ho, in hnvina netual rias experience in the last three .ar. arkUa OlbbOM has done little fighting in the la.: v. ar. O'Dowd appoan to liave a great ad vantaj..? oer bin coming 'pponont. Hut nil indication, jmint to a grat battle, the best -Contested and mo,t .ci entific ever totisht for the middle weight championship. . In proof of the fad that all men. big and little, looa alike to SlbboDft, his friends often ref-r to the day he me I .lack Dillon. Dillon was considered by BMUty a match for WlUafd, and he is a much bigger man than QlbboaS. nttUldredl of his (rlandi prophatiod that he wotvbl j;ie Oibboni an awful drubbing. The fight between Dillon and Glh bona took place in a St. Paul arena. Iil Ion, having board great Ihiug-i about (iibbons, trained for this fight as ho had never trained before. When he entered the ring be trai In the very pink of condition. He could not have been in letter shape if he had trained for months to meet Willard for the world 's chninpion.hip. That night as Dillon and Qibbonj faced eneh other Dillon looked like a big rooster opposed to a little game chickm. But, at OlSt, QlbbOBJ had all the br-st of the hattl.. wdiidt followed Dillon looketl slow and mopy compared with the St. l'aul boxer. He landed very seldom, and when he did Qibbonj was slipping rifht along in the Male general direction that the punob. wai volng, and thus nullified fad effOajtl of it. NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT No. 7. The BltuthanvTooen atlnlna eompany, a corporation of the stale of Vtnh. I'riocl-pal I'riocl-pal place of business. Salt Ijike City, i'tah. Notice li hereby given that al a apeelsl meeting of the hoard of directors hel.l on the Srd day of November. A. l. 1919. an aaaaeamant of ono-nuacter of one cent per share was levied on the Issued ami out- I atandlns capital atook of tha corporation. I payabls Immediately to u. l- lvdd, treea-! treea-! urer of tho company, nt room so Utah 1 Savings ,t Trust company's building. Salt i Ski t'l'v. Utah. I Anv stock upon Which this assessment I may remain unpaid on the 4th day of Da-, Da-, , -ember. A. IV 191?. will be delinquent and advertised fr sale nt public auotloit, and I unless payirlant Is made beforo oyfll be loid on thf1 But day of January, A. D. 1920, at ? o'clock p. m.. at the offloe o( the company, iwni S07 I'tah Saylnas 'I'rnst company's bulldltiR, Salt Lake I'ltv. t'tah. ti bay the daUnqtlent assessment rOaTethoT with the cost of adt-rttslng and expenaa of sale By order of the hosed of directors. II I. DODU, Secretary, Koom t'tati Savings , Trust Com IMiny's hulhllng. Salt ttue City, I'tah d isM W NOTICE. S;,)' ' l:y, rtfth. Nov. 1!!?, i "ill i : v'is'Mr for nx ' ro'el Oo'.'ts iroin i . , )X 'n ,i.Ur Novemimr I ItV ,v j( ;-( X ' Jdsraj mul deverti ti me i.i :s n u TMOMT5KWS 1 i o |