Salt Lake Telegram | 1905-01-30 | Page 7 | Should be Fast Fight

SHOULD BE FAST FIGHT Ncill Will Have a Har-Task Har-Task to Beat Hyland - Tuesday Night. The preliminary work of both men for the Neill-Hyland fight, which will come off at San Francisco Tuesday night, has been finished. Both men will simply do enough work to keep from stiffening up Monday and both are believed to be In the pink of condition. condi-tion. Hylan4 will Up the scales at very near the limit of 122 pounds at o'clock Tuesday afternoon, but NelU expects to weigh in at 117. " This will give Hyland six or seven pounds the best of the weights when they enter the ring and the ex-amateur will need all the advantage ad-vantage it will give to overbalance the greater expeilence of his opponent. However, neither man has had any dlf- Acuity In the matter of making weight The wise ones rather believe that NelU made a mistake in taking Hyland until the amateur had met and defeated defeat-ed some of NelU's former antagonists. However, Frankle Is confident that he can defeat Hyland, although he realises that he will have a hard fight on his hands. There has been very little betting o far. but- there Is plenty of Nelll money to be had at 10 to 4, and the Hyland supporters have placed $1200 In Harry Corbett's place to cover $3000 of Nelll -money If it can be got. Toung Corbett and Nelll have had some spirited bouts during the past week and Hyland has also had the benefit of a splendid sparring spar-ring partner In Spider Welch, the coast light-weight who is thoroughly familiar fa-miliar with Neill's style. The advance sale for the fight has been satisfactory and Alex Greggalns, manager of the club. Is sure that the boys will be greeted by a big audience. The preliminary events are so good that they in themselves should draw a lutge gathering of sports.