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Show SHOP TALK AMONG : THEJHTT-MXERS J. E. Shaver, who manages "Young-Price, "Young-Price, the boxer, says he will not match his man with either "Kid" Smith or George Hallett, the two bantam-weight scrappers now In the city, because neither of them Is known to the fighting fight-ing world. Price-eays he has backing for $1000 that he can defeat Smith, and he says the latter will have to show big money If he wants a fight. "Kid" Smith, who has followed the fighting game as a preliminary boxer, says he believes he is as well known among fighters as Price. "I understand that Price Ijajunever been matched for a fight," ald Smith last night. "Well, my record beata that.- I have had two or three twenty-round goes, which I think have given me enough ring experience ex-perience to defeat Price." ' James Bishop, manager for Jack Downey and Sam Van Busklrk. the fighters, who have been In the city for some time, received a letter from "Biddy" "Bid-dy" Bishop yesterday, In which the latter lat-ter says he will be In Salt Lake shortly short-ly to arrange a match for his man, Herrera. Downey has kept the wires between here and Butte hot since the Herrera-Broad fight in an attempt to get a match with the winner. Now he thinks It will be smooth sailing, as "Biddy" says he wants a match In Salt Lake for his wonder. In speaking of the proposed fight between be-tween Herrera and Downey, the Butte Inter Mountain says: "There is talk that Herrera will go to Salt Lake and meet a New Jereey fighter named Downey Dow-ney there. Spare him, Aurelio." Van Busklrk, a heavy-weight, has been trying to' secure a match with some big fellow ever since he hit the town. Yesterday he was Introduced to Eugene Thompson and the latter agreed to met the heavy-weight provided suitable arrangement can be made. |