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Show Yannes Belts Out Decision Over Collins when Stark's ey. was judged toe severely cut to start th. fifth round. Ernie Collins stablemate, Duane Foster, looked very good In th few minutes h. was in the ring-just ring-just long enough to wish pleasant dreams to Grant Erlkson via th sock route. In th first six-rounder of th evening, Eddie Ross scored a closely contested victory over that popular little battler, Johnny Rogers. Rog-ers. This, too. was another of those touch-and-go contests, but a badly cut eye spelled defeat for Johnny, but only after a battle which had the usually lethargic preliminary watchers standing la th aisles rooting their favorites home By JOHN MOONEY Bobby Yannes may not be a second sec-ond Jim Corbett when If comes to boxing., but he'll do in Salt Lake and vicinity until the real thing comes along, as can testify Eddie Collins, whose head was literally Jolted from its moorings by the aforementioned Mr. Yannes over the 10-round route Monday night in McCullough's arena in the headline head-line bout of th first official fight card of the season. Collins, on the basis of past performances, per-formances, was figured to take his coast opponent after a hard battle, but even the most optimistic opti-mistic Yannes follower couldn't foresee such a complete victory. With all credit to Collins, it must b said that a less gritty opponent oppo-nent would have been on th canvas can-vas long before th final bell rang. The Telegram scorecard gave Yannes Yan-nes six rounds to Collins' two, with a pair called even. It was the old battle of a good boxer beating a willing slugger all th way. Yannes used a jarring left jab with telling effect to set his stockier opponent up for a punishing right cross to the button. but-ton. Collins, on the other hand, depended almost entirely upon a wicked left hook, followed by an overhand chop. The coast heavy used his talented left like an expert ex-pert fencer would use a rapier, thrusting, parrying, lunging, . to pile up a decisive margin. While Yaanea had an overwhelming margin mar-gin In rounds won, it wasn't a walkaway by the wildest stretch of imagination. It was slam-bang, hell-tor-leather all the way, but in the end science triumphed over courage and brawn. According to all available reports, re-ports, Jo Louis and Bob Pastor will meet tomorrow night In Briggs stadium, in Detroit, for the heavyweight championship of the world, but to see those fighters slugging and bruising around In the ring last night one. would be led to believe that at least the diamond diadem was at stake. With the exception of one bout which ended in a knockout In the first round blood flowed like water. wa-ter. Claret dripped from eyas, noses and the. referee's shirt as the boys got together to make this opening card an example for the whole season. ' In th. six-round semlwlndup. Pet Glacoma of Salt Lak was awarded an unpopular decision over Mike Kanaki of Fargo, S. D. Despite a badly cut eye, the Utahn came back to win th judges' nods. The Telegram score-sheet score-sheet agreed with the crowd, giving giv-ing each boy two rounds with two even, but it was another of those fights where your guess was as good as your neighbor's In picking pick-ing the winner. The six-round fiasco between Jimmy Stark and BUI Tokas was stopped after four rounds of fighting fight-ing which would have put Tony Galento and Lou Nova to sham. Roily-Poly Tokas opened a cut over his lanky rival's eye, but it was all In fun as th boys took turns whaling away at each other, Intermixed with looping haymakers haymak-ers which caused enough brae re to knock the red berries off the hat of several lady ringsiders. Tokas won on a technical kayo |