Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-06-18 | Page 16 | Fighters in Shape for Thursday Bouts

FIGHTERS IN SHAPE FOR TKMY BOUTS McKenna and Davis Profess Pro-fess Eagerness for Gong to Sound. With their training practically finished, fin-ished, and everyone in top-hole condition, condi-tion, things look weil to the boxinc card arranged for the Kotarian benefit by i Hardy Downing at the Auditorium Thursday evening. Kduie McKenna. feat her champ of the northwest, arrived from Sent tie Monday and has been putting on the finishing touches of his training here, while Kid Pavis, always in the. pink, lias been polishing pol-ishing otf and is now practically all set-Both set-Both these willing Mys are of the kind who waste little .time in preliminaries and the full ten rounds should be full of action. The six-round smiwindup, brinpirg together, as it does, rival younctsers from Salt Lake and Ogden. carries much local interest. The princioaJs are regular regu-lar "go-getters," and. although of different dif-ferent style of milling, are both speed artists. Harry Lane, the Junction City lad, is a will o' the wisp scrapper anrl as hard for his opponent to find as the proverbial flea, Dick Bergcr. the local kid. is always tearing in, and thincs are likely to happen mighty fast when the gong clangs. The two four-round preliminaries are between wilting local boxers, who will j start richt off and try to make a killing I I in the early part of their battles.