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Show Lively Card of Ring Battles in Readiness. KAYO JACKSON MEETS HUGHES III "NATURAL" Weather I Chief Worry of Promoter Downing on Monday's Program' With all Indications against hit fervent fer-vent prayers for a weather break to attend his attempt to revive tha four round boxing sport in Salt Lake, Pro! molar Hardy K. Downing enters hie second week of tha "revival' with the hope that an exceptionally Interesting program of bouts for the Hippodrome theater Monday night will overcome the difficulties of bucking snowstorms. snow-storms. Downing started last Monday night in the worst blizzard of the sea son. The day for his second program opened with a lusty snowstorm, but if It clears before evening. Downing expects a good house to greet hit second sec-ond effort The reason tor his high hopes la a "natural" bout which headlines tha new program. It brings out Kayo, Jackson, colored Salt Lake middle weight, and Preston Hughes of Woods Cross. Jackson fought a draw with Al Schnltzer en the opening program, while Hughes succeeded in knocking out a considerably lighter opponent in Carff Clark ot Logan. While Jackson Jack-son earned only a draw in hia first appearance, his performance waa probably tha outstanding feature ol the program. For three rounds he showed a world of boxing skill, considerable con-siderable ring generalship and mighty fine punching power. Then he tired, and Schnitzer came on to earn the draw. But in that hectic fourth round Jackson showed one more trait ot the good boxer ha showed that he could take it, and handle himself under terrific ter-rific fire. He was given an ovation by tha fans. ' . Hughes was a standout In hla first bout Ha Is undoubtedly a clever boxer, box-er, and has a knockout wallop, aa he showed when he beat down the resistance re-sistance ot Clark. Ha showed no better than Jackson, however, for he wasn't compelled to take the punishment tha colored boy did In hia bout He will have the crucial test tonight for no boy can box Jackson without getting hit at one time or another. In the semiwlndup ot the new pro- gram, one of Ogden s most promising youngsters. Jack Burke, makaa hia debut In the local ring, meeting Joa Humphries of Magna In a four-round four-round bout Burke haa been a sensation sensa-tion in the Ogden rings. Ha la tha rugged and willing type, always tearing tear-ing in, and always willing to take a blow to give one. He packs dynamite in either fist and knows how to explode ex-plode it Burka meets a good boy in Humphries. The Magna lad has fought for about a year, and has won all of hla battles with one exception, when he was defeated by Leo Hansen. The youngsters are evenly matched and should give the fans a whale ot a tight Two pair of husky, rugged, touti mlddlewcights make their debut on the new program, and the tana should be treated to two real slugfesta. If ill Indications hold out They are Ennie Terry, rugged farmer from Draper, who meets Billy Dell of Salt Lake, and Sm? WJnter ' s,lt L,k. ho meets BlUy Black of Park City. Only one has been aeen here before. Winter has been aching for a chance to show1 hla prowess and, when he couldn't find a apot on the firat program, ha entered himself In the battle-royal He geta hia chance tonight to show hia wares. . Three other bouts art on the pro-gram. pro-gram. Jimmy Schulsen of West Jorw dan and Jack Snyder of Salt Lake ' who fought on the first program, meet in the main preliminary Young Winters, Win-ters, lightweight brother of Don, and a better boxer, tackles Jimmy O'NeilL who won hia first bout last week, In another four-rounder. The class of tha 1 program this week, aa was tha case . laet should come In the curtain-, raiser when Don Brooks of Bingham, a colored puncher, meets Marty Maya! a stablemate of Al Paluso. They are , bantams. ' .tVl. Ilf,tln5 nd vnlUng plants at the Hippodrome have been renovated reno-vated and the theater will be in good I shape for tha Una, regardless of cold i and storm. . . |