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Show I Sports Here and There by Al Ablett Tonight, Friday, Bobo Olson puts his newly won middleweight championship on the line against Kid Gavilan in a 15-round title fight at the Chicago stadium. Olson is a 7 to 5 favorite at the moment but may enter the ring at even money. Both are busy fighters. Olson is a boring in type that gives his man no Jet up. The Kid on the other hand fights in flurries but is a dangerous punch er from outside. Bobo will have a pull in the weight of about seven pounds 160 to 153. I personally per-sonally think Olson will prove too strong for the flashy Cuban kid. He is a natural 160 pounder and the Kid has been up to now a welterweight. I think the champ will make Gavilan fight his fight. Moving and punching z ' the time. The Kid's best ounces to my way of thinking is to get him early because Olson Ol-son will get stronger and faster as the fignt goes along. So move over crow give me part of that j limb. I pick Olson. Garth Panter dropped another; one, this time in Paris to the ! Frenchman Humez. Garth is just ; too easily hit to go far in the i game. He doesn't carry enough ; punch to give and take. But it : was a nice trip. j Baseball is the big talk now, 1 and locally the high school team is getting into high gear with exhibition games. They dropped their first one to Granite but took West. With better weather they will soon be in top shape. The Bees are in spring training train-ing and as yet nothing definite has come out of the camp as to the Salt Lake line-up. The local colleges will open on the 9th with Utah playing Montana Mon-tana at the Ute field. Pros Sum-merhays Sum-merhays has his squad in good shape after their trip to Arizona. They won three and lost three down South. One of their wins was over a great University of Arizona team that had already played 27 games. Mickey Culle-ton, Culle-ton, a local boy catching for Utah tells me he had a good chat with Bob Feller, quite a thrill for the boy. Mick, by the way, is first string catcher for Utah and a good one. In the big leagues, things are starting to shape up. The Yan-j Yan-j kees have had their poorest ! showing since Stengel took them ; over six years ago. Without i Mantle and P.aschi they don't ' look the same, but then there : isn't anyone in sight in the American Am-erican league that can take them. Cleveland has too many prob-I prob-I lems slow afoot and no good j j Iff thander. The White Sox look I ! the best but no power and shal-i shal-i low in pitching, j In the National, Brooklyn is the team to beat. Depends on I their veterans holding up. Power to burn and good pitching plus Campanella. The Giants look the most improved with Mays back and Sal Maghies back in shape the Dorocher boys look tough. Milwaukee and Philadelphia of course are the other strong teams in the National. I look for a dog fight right from the wire. See you next week. AL |