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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-05 | Page 13 | Elton to Face Dusky Fighter

Type issue
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Elton to Face Dusky Fighter
Type article
Date 1933-10-05
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 13
OCR Text ELTON TO FACE S DUSKY FIGHTER J Leroy aib Gibson on Gets Match With Southpaw Logan Me Meets ts Warren WarrOn S Adrian Elton the Santaquin u south paw aw who claims the Utah lightweight Ight boxing championship will have to de- de end Lend his claim to the title M Monday night when he meets th the latest pound sensation Leroy Gi Gibson son of Terre erre Haute In Indiana lana in one of oi the round six round headliners which will top op the arena battles battles' of Pr Promoters mot rs lardy Hardy HardyK K Downing and R R. Verne McCullough Mc- Mc Cullough Gibson earned th the right to a match with Elton by his close but de decisive victor victory last Monda Monday over Tommy Logan of Philadelphia In another six rounder L Logan gan will b battle with Mog Warren the classy Spanish Fork mitt slinger in hi a bout which should be equally interesting Downing Downing Down Down- ing ng is angling for another er interesting battle for the third of his he headliners S If he had tw two topnotch battles and the he Gibson Elton bout was was on one of th them hem Browning would have haye enough to draw the fans fans' The sever several r l thousand thousand thou thou- sand mitt addicts who saw Gibson in n action last Monday night declared him to be one of ot the grandest little littIe seen in action in Salt Lake in years year He is a squat little colored boy bob but iut powerful game aggressive e clever cleverand cleverand cleverand and a hard puncher He is Js a southpaw southpaw south south- paw but can canS throw as be beautiful a aright aright right hook as any of the starboard punchers Elton is is' isa a veteran of ot the ring in Utah He rul ruled d the roost of lightweights lightweights light light- weights for years years' until with all aU com com- competition petition whipped he literally fought o himself right out of matches matche He Is b Isa Isa ba a natural southpaw with a vicious left h hook ok and a style distinctly his S SIn own In the second of the six round sounders rs Tommy Logan who vho has fought twice this season in Salt Lake meets meets' as strong a contender as he has yet met metin in Mog Warren the Spanish Fork ex- ex high school star Aside from rom spotting spotting spot spat ting Jack Burke of Ogden a lot of ot poundage and losing Warren has been n consistently successful For the rest of the program Doying Downing Downing Down Doy ing is trying to book a heavyweight slugfest as another headliner It U Ithe Uhe he isn't successful he has a bantamweight bantamweight bantamweight bantam bantam- weight battle which promises action There will also be four preliminaries of four rounds each making 34 rounds of boxing
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