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Show ! BUD RIDLEY WANTS A FIRST MORTGAGE ON MAIN STREET TO BATTLE LOCAL FEATHER Salt I.ka fiftit fane may got a chance re see Be. Bid ley. known from coast to coast ss the "Little Dompsey, In notion In bait Laks City aa a result of negotiations which woro opened up by Promoter Hardy K. Downing 1 et nlaht. Doernlng has boon dickering- for a match la which be could place Bud Bid-toy Bid-toy with the beet boy available. He has that boy in Leu Palueo. tbe local featherweight, feather-weight, who made such a tremendous fmpreesien upon the fane laat night by hie spectacular two-minute knockout off Johnny Hugh. a, a really good little buy from Joplla, Mo. A year .ago Pelues wouldn't hard been seen a good workout for Bldley. The coast champion socks Itke a fool, ho Is foot and clever, and a wonderful rlag gn ore I. He has beaten the best boys at hta weight ta the country. In the North-wee North-wee only a few weeko age he gave Oorge ftotlle a terrific leslng. But after laat night, which waa a revetafio to the fane, everybody In Malt l.ake figureo that Palueo e ready to taeklo tae-klo anybody outside of a few cKim-plona cKim-plona Downing believes ao. to, for he to amicus to match Palueo and BlAley for a twelve-reuod battle here east week. There's only ono thing to be cleared I off the boarde before tbo boys sea bat-I bat-I tie. That is a little matter of rale-L rale-L lag enough money to tvay Bid ley. Ridley la a mighty hlgh-claa a boy. He 1 haa fought before as high aa T0 fans In Manila, baa battled In leoe aad lit -housos time and time again In Los ' ' Angelea Oakland and Portland. He te used to getting a mighty high sum for his services. When Ridley and Downing bogaa talking talk-ing about the Incidental-, like Rldtey'o wages, tho coast lad as tod his price. At first tbo iocs I promoter thought that BltMey web talking n Oerman marks aad readily accepted termsbut when he found that Btdley was talking United grates, that bs wanted tbo real McCoy, tho old coin ef tbo rsalm well, that was eo met Mag different again. RIAIoy'e terma read like the bonded Indebtedness 'Of Batt Lake City. With It the city onmmualoa could build another an-other .municipal bathheuoe. Whoa Bid-toy Bid-toy went to school ho started In at the eighth grade. He pever learaed the small numbers. Promoter Dooming did a lot ef heel-tatlng, heel-tatlng, humming end hewing last night. If hs takee Ridley's terms, and tbe fight goeo flat, the eld boy will have to heck tho fed I lie o. pat a plaster on tho Hippodrome aad let, the wolf howl around tho door. It would bo a tough break to have te peso up a battle such ae the one between be-tween Ridley and Palaoe and Downing nerleuoly considered the thing. If there e any war of getting Ridley enough dough and still have a little small ebange left Intbe town, .Downing will grab tho Whoa he left Bid ley the thing wasn't settled. Downing wanted te use the night ta think It over- or te break into a bank. |