Show LOCAL BOXERS ARE SHOWING THEIR 4 CLASS Showings a Surprise Surprise Surprise-Gil- Gil Gilbert bert bent M Meets ets Cummings Monday The recent bouts at the Manhattan Athletic clubs club's weekly shows In which some of the best local boys boy have held their own with some of the recognized kingpins of the Pacific coast fou four four- have demonstrated that the local boys are as is good as al they are anywhere In the country and the wiseacres wiseacres wise wise- acres who sometimes cat oat around the top row of the tho ringside and admitted that the bouts were pretty good but always added You ought to see so and so on the coast h have about decided decided decided de de- de- de to crawl Into their shells and cease the wise wile to pose pOle as guys Of course it was kind of ot hard for tor them to realize th that t tho the local boys bos Ina in ina ina a little over a years year's lime timo had hod developed developed developed devel devel- from tram rank novices to real topnotch battlers and it took a few bouts like the ones In which Gilbert crt and Johnson battled Salvador and Reagan to a standstill to finally convince con them that the local bo boys s 's were the real goods It does seem wonderful that them boys who had never nover had a n glove clove on In their lives until tho the Manhattan club opened pencil a year year ear 3 ago 0 last Thanksgiving could develop so 80 in such a short space of ot time but t the tho fact of or tho the matter is that most promising boxers develop quickly coil and If It if they have havo tho tiro goods goods' a n years ears work In tho the ring generally brings them to tho front and such has been tho caso am with tho the local boys It must mist bo be a remembered that in tho the past yea year rr and nand a half baIt there thero have hlL been beena a gr great many y youngsters tried out oat atthe at atthe atthe the club who e havo never nover shown enough ability to oven even earn a place in the tho curtain curtain cur cur- tain raiser Many others have havo gone gem from the curtain raiser u up to the semi semi- windups Somo of or them have havo mado good while others have hwe fallen tallen by tho the wayside and it is only natural that somo some of ot thorn them should develop into battlers battlers bat bat- of real class such as Gilbert and nod Johnson have shown If these same samo boys boy had been pitted n against the tho classy boys from the coast about a year ago t the they would probably havo have pone gone ono down clown to defeat but Manager Man lan Manager ager Downing has haR always made mado it a n. point to give the local 1 boys a chance to develop before s sending theta them against boys who had had years of or ox experience and by no so doing has always given Iven the tho fans real contests in which tho men wol wore evenly my matched d In Sn most cases casos and thereby giving tho local boys tho the chance that they were entitled to to Somo of ot thorn them have ha developed now to w where hero he feels that ho he IK is EaTo safe in sending them against the tho best boys from any section of ot tho the country and their recent performances would I Indi indi- cato cate to that ho knew what he ho was doing For tomorrow nights night's headliner ho o has haa matched Young Gilbert th the undefeated tin un- un defeated local light weight weicht a against Danny Cummings of Butte Dutle Mont who was W considered the tho o classiest boy by in that section of the tho country before tho the rc recent t put the tho ban baa on twelve round bouts bout up thore It Is not from Q a on boxing sho point that showed his superiority over oval h tho ho o e rest of the tho von Mon tana boxers but as a real battler with with a punch lie h has 8 novel never found a man n who would stand lt toe to toe with him and ex- ex change chanGo punChes whom ho he couldn't defeat do- do feat and ho Is confident that he will be able to duplicate this performance with Gilbert III as the latter is exactly the tho same style ot of battler lu and d never breaks break ground from tho time Ume he h. etes eteD I out of or his corner until the tho bout Js is over Cummings CumminS'S has been working out dall dally daily at the central firo station and has J created a good Ir impression pre lon with those who ho hivo have havo seen him In action and anel they are looking forward to tomorrow nights night's battle as ono one of ot tho the greatest relt st little slugfests slug- slug ever over seen at the Garrick While Cummings ma may be bo exceptionally exception exception- ally nIb strong it is doubtful if It ho he will havo have anything on tho loc local l Boilermaker in that respect The Tho s between Tom Crawford Craw Craw- ford and Frankle Is also creating all nU kinds kinas of or interest and promIses promises promises prom prom- some ome interesting milling The Tho rest of ot the bouts in which Kid Bobo and Frenchic Boj Boyd d Jess Oren and Jimmie Gardner Lester Griffiths and Kid Brownlo Brownie meet and the amateur curtain raiser appear to be bo up to the standard td of tho the Manhattan club |