Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 11 | Rivers-Mitchell Go Big One of Week

RIVERS RIVERS- MITCHELL GO DIG BIG ONE OF I WEEK Mexican Said to Be Going Good Right Now Next Bout at Milwaukee MONG the notable matches listed i i i. for the current week Is a ten round contest between Joe Rivers Rivera and Richie Mitchell before the Cream City A. A C C. C at Milwaukee next Friday Fri day night This pair of light bight weights met taCt metat metat at Cincinnati last January and a furious encounter resulted Argument over the outcome has haa been spirited and bitter ever since Mitchell and his partisans claim Rivers was knocked out In the ninth round but the bell saved him tIm During a aI ahot aI I hot exchange Mitchell dropped Rivers buti but i Just as the referee had reached the count I of three the gong sounded Rivers was wasI I helped to his corner comer I In the tenth round riv Rivers rs claims he ha heI hel l scored a clean knockdown wn which Mitch Mitch- I oil ell d denies df Both rivals have been arguIng arguing I I ing over oer the bout since that date so the i rematch is the natural result Rivers Rivera appears to have conditioned himself back into his old time fighting form Just a few w night ago he put away hard hardy Joe Thomas In the third round of ofa ofa a scheduled round twenty contest at New Now Orleans Both Rivers and Mitchell are angling for tor a title match with Fred Freddie le Welsh at tho the Crescent city and It is likely that one of them will be selected to meet the ch champion before many weeks elapse The lash of oC public that has followed Jack Dillon since his unsatisfactory unsatisfactory tory scrap with Battling in a Boston ring some three weeks ago has brought abt a a. return engagement be between between between be- be tween this pair and according to advices ad advices advices vices from the East the they will battle again at the Hub next Tuesday night the fray being twelve rounds to a deci slon sion Boxing ng patrons and sporting writers have been loud in their denunciation of the money grabbing act that Dillon an and l Levinsky have been foisting foisting- upon the I public for lo 10 these these many months hut but all censure seems to be of little littie avail Whenever 4 a promoter can be found who is willing to stage the act Dillon and Levinsky gladly appear go through the motions of putting up a scrap then gather In the lion lions lion's a share of the dou rh and beat it hence Generally Dillon manages manages man man man- ages to win on points but occasionally I I evinsky receives the tho popular verdict This was the case in their last meeting i In Boston when th the Battler received the i official decision of the referee and immediately im- im I mediately laid claim to the light heavy weight championship I It Ii undoubtedly now Is Dillons Dillon's time to tot win so eo it will not be surprising If the tho I I wires eto carry t the tho news of a victory to for fos the Hoosier next i Tuesday d night I Jr id the event that this schedule he is not can carried led I out tnt h however e then Dillon WI n s I I Gus Christie will wiil bo be given a chance t to 1 I beat up the Battler Battier as It is Js understood L that Christie and Levinsky l-evinsky will meet at Dayton 0 O. O the following Friday night I 1 DI Christie si The Tho syndicate is 15 taking laking the place piece of the famous skit that McVey Jeannette made famous lamous I I