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Show !) VIAND HATCHED V7ITI1 riMOWE Ms' Go Between Vell-IInoi7n Vell-IInoi7n Fighters Scheduled Sched-uled to Ca Pulled Off in Oden, Hay 17. v After a Jot of higgling and quibbling ind jawing and backing and filling, a natch has at last been arranged between Mck Hyland and Billy Finacune,. the lghtlng Irishman of Chicago. The go Is icbeduled for May 17, In the Auditorium ikatlng rink. In Ogden. Harry Pattlson, ; well-known sporting nan and boxer of that elty, , was n the . city - today and gave out he giad news. Finacune will train in 5rden and Hyland here, either at the 'Log Cabin" or the Sanitarium. Finacune Fina-cune is expected here in the next few i lays, and will remain -over a day or two : efore beginning work at Ogden. The Fighting Irishman Is hard to beat. :-Te'e still young, only 25 years, and -yet : te has met and defeated some of the best In- the business. Finacune was born In : Jmerick, Ireland, which wasn't his fault, uf "poor, but honest parents." For a long time he worked at the Chl-i Chl-i ago stock yards, where he first gained a reputation as a boxer. It is doubtful If I here Is a scrapper In the country who as gon.iip against as' many good men in as short a time as has the Fighting rtshman. He fought Morris Raueh four times; :Cld Herman, on of the cleverest lightweights light-weights that ever punched leather, four limes; Jack CKeefe, twice;. Tommy :owatt. twice and Austin Rice, twice. ; lere are a number of other good ones he , ia made hot-foot It around the ring: Teddy White, Jack O'Brien, Joe Bertrand, Marty McAllen, Mike Bartley. Mike Mem-iiic, Mem-iiic, brother of ; George; Jo Bherlock, 1 eorge Monroe, Johnny Hanlon, Kid farmer, one of the toughest mlta in the lnt-: Clarence Forbee, three times; Joe Salllgan, "another clever boxer; Willie Ucisamara, Johnnie Madden, Willie idack. Harry Cobb. Kid Goodman, one of iie best youngsters that ever - put up props, and Young Jack O'Leary. Finacune weigns 133 pounds at j ringside, ring-side, and strips clean as a whistle. He Is feet C inches tall, and is nothing but muscle and gristle. The match between be-tween Finacune and Hyland ought to be the biggest drawing card seen la these parts for years. |