Show CLUBS CLUB'S FIRST PROGRAM i PLEASES lardy Downing and His f Club lub Get Away to to Flying I New Season I Start on i AnDY ARDY DOWNY DOWNING G got away to to a a. aJ k J running start with his annual J Manhattan club opening at the theArmon It Armory Armon last night anding the fact that ever everything thing was Tew ew even to the location and that ue vi first night is usually Hardys Hardy's jinx t 3 initial show was all to the must mustI mus- mus that and fans alike t tI rd d so promoter H t home pleased owning Downing apologIzed ed for a a. few tIttle little o of arrangement that had not noten noten noten en en completed as RS yet jet et but promised beti bet bet- 5 accommodations for next Wednes- Wednes t T. T i The apology was unnecessary how's hows how how- S. S s 's sas as the bugs were so well pleased Uh Ith what they had received for their oncy oney that they cheered him to the ho The main event which brought to to- ther Pat Gilbert and Willie St St. Claire J ie Burns' Burns promising little colored ladas lad as as' as exactly was it was expected to be a aag ag- ag rattling fine headliner Referee owning called it a draw and It was tout out ut the only decision possible At Atis Atties ties is s St St. Claire put on flashes of speed at lt fairly dazzled the local bo boy but bute e undid whatever er lead hen hew he ho hoid n id w thus obtained a moment later by bv awa away and holding on for dear ej to escape Gilberts Gilhert's savage attacks idI the tatters tatter's s deadly right hand St lane Claire did not hit Gilbert with near BP effect that was expected of ot him 11 pI because he had too loo much ret re- re I ct t for for Pat Pats Pat's s ability to knock em cm 30 Gilbert also used his noodle saw Baw to it that the clever el colored I did lid not keep his good left stuck s ose with the usual regularity I Albert jilbert fought fast and furiously and andus andus u us earned himself a good draw I St St. Claire again showed us that if he eSSed anything like a a. wallop wal he hed he'd d be jl o oy 0 worth watching I 1 ter ter being on the short end of the ling for a round and almost in then tho the thon n rm of oC nod once himself Jack CJ tied d the tables on Jimmie Gouch and I him for keeps with a vicious tack in the second It was a bear fo tb out ut while It lasted and neither boy boyn n isted ted an any time Souls Sollis kept on improving with eh cp round of his tilt four-tilt affair with I ill iii f Greenig and earned himself the vision 1 ion in a peach of a mill which re- re brought the fans to their feet Willie Wise did not look 1001 very good Art Brugger during the first und and and a half but he kept on plug- plug ig g until he was gaining such a lead would surely have won decisively the bout had goen another round A o t draw was the only verdict lone bone Lefty and Willie Jackson a alor alord lor lord d boy from Memphis who te for Eddie Beecher and Soldier Pitch Pitch- rk gave the bugs an amusing as well f- f interesting bout so that the two runs run s were not missed at all In fact owning Downing had not announced the sub- sub those present would not have ha own the difference Lefty found a vho hO could mill quite satisfactorily satisfactory t whose wallops he could I keep off from chin so BO he sailed in almost like a at t 1 fighter A couple of raps from 3 B good left eft hand kept the smoke Iba Ibay So all told the bout wa was was s not Swede Johnson proved too rough for id tack who took a a. flop in the sec sec- Id d und acid |