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Show SILENT HAS GOOD RECORD list of Men" Met by; the - Industrious Little Mute Scrapper, v There' have been many requests as to whrY'Silent" Rowan's full name Is. Her to his record In the fighting game in full: He is booked for a twenty-round session with -Terry' Davis at "the- Murray opera-house, Thursday night. May 11, at 127 pounds, ringside. - John Daniel Rowan was born In Brace-ville, Brace-ville, Grundy county, HV. on January t, 1880. , He Is an American (white), and became be-came deaf through Illness, when but 7 ' years of age. He began his ring career in 1897 and his weight at that time was 12, pounds. - r- , . In thls year he- won over Ben Montgomery Mont-gomery In Ottawa. III.. In four rounds; knocked out Deaf Rets, two rounds, same place; ..draw. wM .Eddie. Sprague, four rounds. La Salle. 1 1U; won over WIN . lie Taylor, ten rounds. La Salle, lit; won from Billy -Williams, two rounds, Mar shaltown, Tex. ..'". ' ' , In 198 Rowan ' knocked out Jimmy Green, four-rounds, San Antonio, Tex. - Green was the bantam-weight champion cham-pion of Texas at this time. Rowan then defeated Sammy Williams, colored, five rounds, at Jerome. Aria.; lost on a foul to Billy De Coursey, five rounds, at Los Angeles, Cel.; lost tovKld Williams two rounds. This bsttle was stopped by the crowd because Williams was , far too heavy for Rowan, and although he won the decision -the crowd refused to sane tlon snch an unfair battle; won over Australian Jimmy 8mith, two rounds, at ' . Truckee, Cal. , , M 1899 Knocked, out Sammy Mace, four round. Mercur. Utah; draw with Jfrry McCarthy, four rounds, Mercur, Ltah; knocked out Art Wilson, colored, four rounds. Salt Lake; lost Jack Wade two rounds. Rock 8prings. Wyo. In this fight Rowan- out of condition, took a fighters place who refused to go on and was not in shape to do himself credit Knocked out Billy Simpson, three rounds, ; ivera-merer, ivera-merer, Wyo.- .. , ' 1900 Draw with Young Thomas, six rounds. Butte. Mont; won Andy King, two rounds. Anaconda. Mont. King held the title of feather-weight champion of Montana.- t . - - . . 1901 Draw with , Phil . Green, twenty rounds. Salt La,ker lost-Kid Oglesby. two rounds, Helena. Mont. ; won Ed Santee. ten rounds. Kendall, Mont; knocked out Jack Riley, seven rounds. Gilt Edge. Monti knocked out an "Unknown in .three roundsv KalispeJl. Mont. 1901 Lost to Kid Lee, eighteen rounds, Fernle, B. C: knocked out Danny Dean, two rounds. Greenwood;1 B. C. Dean held :. the title of feather-weight champion of British Columbia. ' " 1908 Lost to Kid Oglesby. nine rounds. Spokane. Wash., and the feather-weight championship -of the Northwest; lost on a foul to! Andy King, five rounds. La Grawc, Or-Vdraw with .Billy. Arnold, eight Vrounds Salt Lake: Rowan waf cleariA uot In proper condition for this fight, hn although a draw many believed he waAVntltled to a decision, as he outpointed? out-pointed? his man In-, the. estimation of every two or three people who saw the mill. , Draw BlUy. Snailham. twenty rounds, Bingham. Utah; draw Kid Harris, fifteen ' rounds. Bingham, Utah. 1904 Won over Art Porter, ten rounds, Richfield. Utah; knocked out by Tommy Markham, five - rounds, Moroni, Utah. Rowaji before tbe fight stated he was feeling 111, but went on rather than'dis-r than'dis-r appoint the crowd. In the next meeting with Tommy Markham he was awarded the fight on a. foul by Markham. This fight occurred also at Moroni. Utah. Rowan Is now tn training at Murray. Silent" v Rowan has a -brother who is . similarly afflicted and he is called "Dum- my" Rowan. '."Dummy" was for a long time the manager for "Silent" The above record show that Terry Davis Da-vis will have to go some to put the Indian In-dian sign on Rowan, but Rowan himself admits that Davis Is a mighty tough little lit-tle fellow and the very fact that you never can-tell Is what makes the boxing game so exciting and good sport Manager. Frank Lewis reports a heavy sale of advance seats. Both raenare well known in Murray and will fight for ail - there is toreitier man. - |