Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-18 | Page 16 | Smith and Woodmansee Will Battle Monday

MI H iD A D O AN EE WI LB ATTLE MO E Mil T I ClASH WITH WIT I MillER Louies Louie's Little Brother Wi W Get First Crack at Unknown Unknown Un Un- known Boxer Probably the greatest test of or a a. r tighter fighter is Js to go up against another f fighter he doesn't know has never e seen never heard of ot and has ne never r watched in action That Is the test tea t that hat Emil Salt Lakes Lake's s lates latest s sensation and Just about the only battler bat t Ier in this city who has any bid to c coming oming fame tame must submit to toight Monda Monday n night ight when he meets Nate Miller th though the nt t tough ough little Denver boy in a tour four round special event on the weekly Manhattan club program at th the Hip theatre j 1 Midget Smith and Johnny Woodmansee Woodman s see ee are on the new card cardi Faluso is practically a product or ot the present season although he had oneo two sm small ll fights last season In th till the short time he has been in Ia the ring h hhas hr he has a remarkable record even more rf ri- marka ble than that of Lou hi his older brother who recently won the Junior featherweight championship In Boston Although Just a child and a f fl weight at that has won inca most of his fights over the kayo route H HIs Bris He Br HeIs Is a very hard puncher for a kid fairly clever very fast and relentlessly ag ag- He Is always Working an am working hard to win his bouts Hi 11 f never stalls or lets up either to sly an opponent or to save himself Sue real battling has made him tre treen en popular with the fans P. LUSO TO MEET I TOUGH CUSTOMER In Miller he meets the Pr Pris proposition reposition he has ever had Mule is j no novice as have been some someo o 10 opponents In Salt Lake Hari H Hi Hiis His is an ari experienced heady youngster who has had plenty of battles wit wi some of the best boys in this of the country and is ready and willing will willIng Ing to meet all ot of them Ji i The battle between the pair shaul be a affair and give th lb fans all aU of ot the action that they want The six-round six headliner betwee Midget Smith the Midvale Flash and Johnny Woodmansee former ban bantamweight champion of Utah alsi als should give the fans tans a lot of action Woodmansee has been one of th tb favorites around Salt Lake for tor sam Born time He fought as a bantam anc an went to the head of his class Then Thenh he left lett Salt Lake for tori a time and arter successful campaign on the coast h il returned He had grown out of tb bantam division and now is a gull full fledged featherweight 5 WOODMANSEE TO MEET i KINGPIN OF OP FEATHERS In his first battle in the new else class he showed all kinds of form and proved prove that he was r ready ady and able to step with the best of of the feathers Asia Ash result Downing matched him hini with th the Midget who is the kingpin of the local featherweights I Woodmansee is one of the classiest boxers who has bas been seen in the lo local al ring in many a day with the possible exception n of Lou Since he ha J grown he has also proven to be a fairly good puncher fast wise ring-wise aggressive aggressive sive and willing Smith his opponent is the same style of boxer He hasl haa mystifying change of ot style which b hl hU J proven the undoing of many a good boy here and he can step as fast as any ay of ot them Fans Who ho have seen him har always seen a good fast and clever bout as he always forces the fighting if any forcing Is necessary A b In addition to the two stellar bouts Promoter r Downing has arranged program of four tour preliminaries that should furnish the fans with plenty of ot thrills One One- of them continues the cleverness plan of the preliminaries Joe Sharkey the little bantam who wh made such a a. great hit a short tiie ago while he was losing to Walter Hart will meet I Dominick of of Bingham another little bantam has lost to Hart but who vho has n to be a youngster of considerable class despite that fact The pair should shaul stage a a speedy bout and furnish plent of action M PRELIMINARY BOUTS DOUTS I ARE MURDER AFFAIRS The rest of the program Is of ot th the murder variety Al Nowa Nowal the king Xing- r Pin lin of the local heavyweights heavyweight meets kid Ross Boss a huge colored bo boy of Butte Mont in a round four battle battle- Rosa RoS r comes highly recommended and Is so 50 confident of winning the battle that he heIs heIs heis Is tipping Upping his friends ot off to watch him closely Another slam-bang slam affair is the four tour round bout between two of ot Utah's toughest little welterweights Tony CalU Calli of Salt Lake and Walter Wallace of ot Fort Douglas Calli recently kayo kayoed d dRed Red Hogan of Ogden a much bluffer bluer boy Wallace hasn't had a Po b bout ut toda fotja a number of weeks but he is known hers nera as a rough tough and ready e young oU ster er with I gie plenty f of th the old l fight i ht 4 Hyrum a former heavy heavyweight weight favorite and L Lee Iee ee Butler a new ne newcomer n comer corner from Texas meet in Sn the four four- round raiser curtain a bout that should give lots of action and plenty of fun I I. 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