Salt Lake Telegram | 1921-04-24 | Page 11 | Fans to Get Four Headliners Downing Presents Great Bouts

Fans to Get F Four our Headliners ers H- H 3 Downing Presents Great Bouts Bouts' I T is usually an event of ot great Importance importance Im- Im IT when when Hardy K Downing runs a doubleheader at his Manhattan Manhattan Manhat Manhat- tan club boxing show at the Hippodrome Hippo Hippodrome drome theatre on An n Monday nights But tomorrow Mr Downing is going to exceed exceed exceed ex ex- all former performances in the boxing box box- ing Ins world when he stages four bouts more than half halt of ot the program made up entirely of ot men who have shone alone on previous programs In each of ot the four bouts there are men of headline caliber cal cal- iber i Of course Mr Downing has dubbed v a one of ot them a headliner another a special event ent still another the semi winduP and the fourth is booked merely as a pre pre- but but the fact remains that they are all headline events SIX ROUNDER The main event will be a six-round six bout for the featherweight tile of ot the mountain intermountain section between George Sollis and Kid Davis Da local feathers Souls SolUs has boxed Davis DaUs before and anel every ery time the two men have met there ha has been staged one of the most exciting battles ever seen In Salt I Lake ake While more youthful and ambitious than Davis Sollis Hollis has been unable to win heretofore because of ot the longer experience of ot Davis Da Da- vis At all an times however he has givena given gi a great account of himself 1 For Tor the past four months Sollis has been fighting some of ot the best men Inthis Inthis in inthis this section of the the country country and has been returned winner He believes that now is his time to turn winner over oyer the local youth routh The Tho men will go six elx rounds toa to toa toa a decision SM SMITHERS CAMERON ITH ERS CAM ERON As a for the main event Downing has brought together Frankie Smithers the speedy local bo boy boj and Frankie Cameron ron the hitting hard-hitting youngster who blew in from Chicago last ast week Smithers has beaten some of ot the best men in this section Last week Cameron made his first appearance in Salt Lake against Able Abie in the headline event He was knocked out Inthe in inthe inthe the fifth round round but but it was only a technical technical technical tech tech- knockout as Downing awarded the decision Cameron had just reached the city and was not yet jet et etin in condition He has had time to train since then and should be ready Teady for the go with Smithers The next event a round four-round affair Mr Downing has dubbed a special event but but it is In reality a headliner In it will be brought together Jess Roughhouse Roughhouse Rough house Reed and Red Newey Reed need ROUgh I has hasa a record on the coast and in Nevada of knocking them all over He really is a tough looking hombre and should give any of the boys a tough fight He lie will meet Red Newey Newe reputed to be one one of the hardest hitting of all of the local fighters In meeting Newey Reed willI will I get the acid test in local slugging circles cir cir- cles He has a reputation which proclaims proclaims pro pro- claims he Is read ready to meet any of ot the sluggers at his weight and It ought to be bea a great battle GARCIA Young of or Sacramento a man who has fought in any number of preliminaries preliminaries preliminaries pre pre- at the local club will meet Benny Garcia of ot Denver another tou tough h boy in the first preliminary Although the bout out only gets preliminary position it is in reality a headline event as both boys are reputed to be a pair of the cleverest in Salt Lake Garcia fought Al Young to a standstill in Ogden sev several eral weeks ago and has fought all of the hard local boys I Then Th n. n too there are two round four-round preliminaries between boys bos who are little lit little little lit lit- tle known in local circles The bouts should be interesting as as' as it is an historical cal fact that very often otten the unknown bouts develop the thrillers Altogether it looks like lIlee a great treat for for the fight fans on next Monday night a S1 r t f T fM td r rp rs s p a y v b 9 s GEOR GEORGE GCORGE E SOLLIS I