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Show MANHATTAN CLUB'S ! . OPENING PROGRAM CAUSES PROMOTER ! NO END OE GRIEF First Card of Season Not t Up - to - Usual Downing Standard, but Fans Are Promised Improvement IF THK oM saw that "a bad beginning itifiurea a pood end-1 end-1 in'f i the rorrfot dopo, Hardy - Downing hatt at li'flHt Komct luiiff ' to loolc forward to. If it isn't 1 jth popular Manhattan club pro-j pro-j moter hai a perfect riirht to have tht bluea this momini?, for hia ' 'aixt'i annual opening laHt nipht did not provide the kind of a show Hardy n in the habit of 'putting on. . W hav all eti wora ahowa than ' Hardy dlhed up fcaet night, hut tha fact remains that th opener waa not up to Hardy' uaual standard and no on know It half aa well Iownliig. " 'Th flrat ona always aaems t he my tough ona," he tatea. however, and, with tha proa pert a of better luck, eince ha has gotten under way. Downing haa promlaed ha fan an satr mam event for a week from Monday tha data of his neat show. It waa ont of thoo nlghta when every, thing goea wrong. Klret. lwwnlng a cur-lain cur-lain rataers flaw tha coop and than tha main event was ahot full of hole becatie Ned Young, on of tha scheduled part tel. 1 pant a. reported under tha weather. Toting, according to Downing, waa really sick, but h Improved aa th hour for th beginning be-ginning of tha ahow arrived and finally aaaured Pownllng that ha would h all rfght. Downing therefor atartad his card only to find Young getting wnree as tha preceding bouts progreaaed. There wera a few other miacuea, but they might have bean overlooked If th expected main vent had materialised. Charley Mldktff and R wad Joh neon converted their acheduled four-round go Into th main vnt to aava th avanlng and went six round a, Johnson getting away with a rather lucky decision after ix apaama of pretty aertoua milling. J oh neon had quite ti shade up t tha be Tinning of tha fifth round, du to th act that ha landed th cleaneat punches and auooeded In backing his taller opponent oppo-nent over th rope for s good mauling ever I tlmea. Mldklff rallied In tha fifth and alao In tha atath and might have had 'a draw, J though h did not do naar tha x ecu t Ion In tha aisth round that aom of hia rlngald friend a behaved, for moat of his punchea war of th truat-to-luck litnd and landed anywher and every , wher aacapt on th bottom of lha ' ft wed' feet. Rattling Travis and Ab, tha Fighting Ttd," milled a very fair four rounds. Travis getting a halrlln declalon which waa mighty "hairline," Travis boxed like a champ for three round a and half, but than he settled down Into letting well nough a Ions and almoat , took a licking as a result. Percy "Red Ollhart, younger brother ef F'at, and righting Or org a furnished another mill that was Int erecting, although al-though not quit serious enough to ault wne of th boga. (Illbert substituted at th laat moment for aom ona and for a round or two seemed destined to hear tha bird tee, hut Oeorga did not follow up his laads and opportunltlea to put hia chum away until It waa too late, and : then th kid rallied suffJolatitly to get a straw. Art New eon got rredlt for tha only Ir nock out of tha evening. He put Jimmy fforrentlno away In the second frame of th flrat bout of tha aeaaon. Tha laugh of tha show ram tn tha swoon d bout, whan Kid Wllllngham took a runout under tha moat amualng clr-cumatancea. clr-cumatancea. He was matched agalnat m tall, ellm kid who gave hia nam aa Kid ! and who, after ha had put up j hi hands, looked good to laat about two rounds. Downing had already called for I th neat pair of boys In view of Tree's fpparant Inability to cut tha muatard. .a fiddled through th flrat round and tha fans wars getting ready to aea htm -taka a trip to tha 1-and of Nod In the riecond round when, lo and behold. Wiling Wil-ing ham demonatrated that he waan't half as willing aa hia nam might Indicate. ! They aaw tha kid hiking for tha big exit, which happened to be opon, and according ,o all accounts, h la running yet. |