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Show Heckler Opposes Wicked Puncher in Pollei DERN TANGLES WITH DUSAK III MAT HEAD LINER' Mixed Program at Aran Thuraday Night Expactad to Prova Popular righting Bob Heckler, former holder hold-er of amateur boxing championship and now Utah'a chief hope for national nation-al recognition In the professional boxing box-ing world, facea another rugged alug-ger alug-ger when b trade wallop with Har ry Pollei, another local puncher, in-' the main aix-round boxing bout at MrCullough'a arena Thuraday night. Thursday's program consist of aix matches, three wrestling and aa many boxing, and features Ira Dern and Karl Dussk In the main mat attraction. attrac-tion. Duaak hail from Boston and boasts on of th most consistent re I ords of any bone benders in the game, ' with the possible exceptions of Ed "Strangler Lewis and Jimmy Londos. The mixed program haa proved popular pop-ular for two straight weeks and likely like-ly will be th policy of th local ln presssrio for th remainder of th season. He also has decided to give. Thursday nights a trial instead of the' usual Friday night engagement SENSATIONAL BATTLE Heckler battled hia way Into th hearts of th fans, both wrestling and boxing, last Thursday when he showed clearly that he could take punishment be on the verge of going out like a light and still showing) the fighting heart to com back and win. With all due credit to Vic Newman, New-man, his last opponent Heckler showed mere willingneaa to make the fight lively than any etner mill slinger has don in many months. Bob likely will be called on to ahowa hia iron nerve again Thursday because he la pitted against a battle!! who possesses ss much power in his hefty arms as Newman showed last week. Pollei, while not a finished boxer by any means, has scored numerous nu-merous victories with haymakera and believes he can dispose of Heckler th same way. The supporting card features Dean Detton against Al Ryan, a mights' clever wrestler from Cleveland, in a time limit match. Detton la a favorite here, while Ryan is highly rated in his home town. SMITH VS. O'HABA Ashley Smith and Jack O'Hara will strut their stuff In the opening wr-, Uing event and this match should be; as good a th Dern-Dusak or th Detton-Ryan bouts. It will be rough, but that la certainly to th liking of the fans. Bill Haymond, University of Utah battler, oppose Bus Brandon of Butt in one of the special fistic attractions, while Max Jensen and Max Mellon 1 will slug It out in th curtain-raiser. |