Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-05-23 | Page 13 | Fighters Attract near Record Crowd

Fighters Attract Near Record Crowd SEATTLE Wash Ma May 23 P The JP-The The Gorilla Jones Freddie Steele bout here Tuesday ay night was attended by bya a crowd of which paid to see sec the fighters battle 10 rounds to a draw It was the second larb largest t attendance attend attend- ance nace in the history of boxing here Jack Dempsey drew rew a slightly larger crowd during an exhibition tour Steele found It d difficult to break breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough through the Akron Ohio negros negro's clever guard an and failed to land many solid olid blows but he carried the fight through the first six rounds to pile up upa a good margin The Ta Tacoma oma Wash lad lost the edge when Jones bounced him around the ring with stiff rights In the last three stanzas Steele weighed 1563 and Jones