Show Downing Opens Season With Welter Title Go two Thirty Rounds of Boxing on Hippodrome Program Program Program Pro Pro- gram Terry-Burke Terry Battle Promises Excitement Excitement Excite Excite- ment Tolly De Defends Defends' Crown Hardy K Downing the old master of the fight game game- who revived the ring sport port last winter after it had been dead for years in Salt S it Lake will begin his us twenty third year of boxing promotion Monday night at athis athis his hs old stand at the Hippodrome theater thea thea- ter when he brings back boxing with witha a l twin headline p program ogra including as the feature battle a six-round six bout for forthe forthe forthe the welterweight championship of the intermountain se section tion between Clare Tollestrup of Gunnison the champion I and Sammy George George Lake Inthe In Inthe Inthe the other six rounder he matched Ennis Terry the Draper Drapes Dragon and Jack Burke the Ogden slugger The I program is backed by five preliminaries ries des of four rounds each making 32 rounds of boxing for or the opener opener In resuming the fight season Promoter Promoter Promoter Pro Pro- moter Downing has announced that he ic will continue the policy which has hs made it popular in Salt Lake There will be short snappy bouts bouls fast action acton ac ac- ae- ae tion ton pr promptness in starting no waits watts between bouts and all aU local talent asfar as u asar far ar as possible and until some of fhe he locally developed battlers get too good for local competition GEORGE GEORGEA ABSORBS PUNCHES ES ESThe The initial program has every thing that i is alluring for the fans In the championship battle the fans will get geta a real boxing match combined with some mighty fair air punching Tollestrup Tollestrup Tolle Tolle- in in defending his pis title has proved himself a clev clever r boxer speedy and with a good right hand for haymaking haymaking hay hay- making purposes George stockier and consequently a little slower but he too is an excellent boxer box box- er and a great puncher with either cither fist and has the advantage ge over over Tollestrup Tollestrup Tolle Talk in ruggedness and the ability to absorb punches George is getting his first crack at atthe atthe atthe the title When Downing revived boxing last winter he entered alof al aU of the welterweights in a championship champion champion- ship tournament and after months o of boxing Tollestrup won the title dropped it to Ennis Terr Terry and then won it back again George however was besieged with bad luck He me met Terry in his first appearance in the tourney and surprised fans by knock knocking ing Terry out He stood in line for the championship with only Tollestrup in inthe inthe inthe the way Then George broke his hand land and was compelled in favor of Terry whom he had vanquished van van- and Terry went on to the title The second of the six promises to be the most thrilling slugfest of the coming season for when Jack Burke and Ennis Terry meet the fans know that neither will wil retreat unless it is to go to the neutral neutra corner to wait while an opponent is counted out They are both short rugged a little slow but experIenced and terrific sluggers Further both bothof bothof bothof of them can take it like no other welterweights wel wel- in the territory RED WARREN RISES Another promising battle because of ot recent developments is the four four- round main preliminary between Red Warren of ot Spanish Fork and Mark Je Jensen n of Brigham City Red is a newcomer among the anc and wasn't considered quite as good as his twin brother Mog Recently however he knocked out the heavier stronger and more experienced Preston Hughes of Woods Cross and carne earned his placed among the elite N Now i it t I is a question if It Jensen is clever enough to beat him The other preliminaries pre pre- all aU of f four ur rounds each include c Mog Warren Spanish Fork vs Jimmy Jimmy Jim Jim- my Sch lsen Riverton Jimmy Welch Salt Lake vs s Max Melten Mellen Salt Lake Billy Dell Salt Lake vs VI Young Gregg South Dakota Jimmy Brown Draper vs Young Hickman Lehi Young |