Show dark clark won from downey in ath devaney issued challenge in behalf of ingersoll but failed to to put up money for side bet HE boving boxing contest at the elks THE Tf lavelon avilon last 1 friday ever i came to an ent enl in the s round when joe dark clark of salt lake scored a knockout over jack bo do aney of 0 denver the f was scheduled for twenty rounds but from the man ner in which the fighters commenced mixing things right from the tap of the gorig in the open a round it quite apparent it would be of short duration just before covney do aney went down for the count he rec received dived a blow on the jaw and another in the ribs lie ile was out for some t in me after referee harry J beane award ed the fight to dark clark and when he lid hd cometo come to claimed that dark clark had foule I 1 h m II 11 Us s seconds and other A who were close enough to the ring to pass upon th s matter cla in that the tr blow was not low enough to be con ii dered a foul during the first three rounds of fight ng honors were about even boiney do ney shoved up to good advant age in the fourth round and edly had a shade the best of the ar aument in the fifth although clinches were frequent in the latter round in the sixth round downey succeeded in landing some good blo vs and while he took considerable pun ashment in th s round he was alpar dently strong at the opening of the seventh round and for that u reason the knockout wh mb ch eh fol followed came as 9 a surprise to his host of admirers dark clark and downey fought a twenty round draw at the ball pirk park in this city on june and the bout 0 last friday was arranged to dec de a winner pat devaney in behalf of boss ross in f gerroll challenged the winner of the dark clark downey contest and stated that he would make a side bet of provided that a fight could be arranged for labor di daiy diy ingersoll a local man won non irom dark clark on a foul some months ago shortly after that fight dark clark tried to get another match with ingersoll and failed and after winn ng n I 1 from f rom downey on I 1 inday n he sai said that he was wais only too anxious to meet the eureka man dark clarks s friends here dimmed abely got b bisy isy and raised the amount necessary for the side bet but when it came t me to put up th money moncy the ingersoll money was not in s devaney claimed that it would be necessary to consult with ingersoll who at that time was out of jovn to before arranging arjang ng for the contest two fast preliminaries were staged in connect on with the dark clark downey tight fight on rr day night the first be tween mose pratt and john eckhar was a yard vard d to pratt en an a foul it was la i a funny from start to finish the second preliminary was aas bet veen jack hurley and kid gar bit and the referee dec ded that it was a dra v del roberts refereed the pre limin anes aries and harry J beane pres ded cled at the main event |