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Show The Root-Gardner Battle. Next Monday evening at the Salt Palace there will be one of the best exhibitions of pugilistic generalship ever handed to the Salt Lake sporting sport-ing fraternity. Jack Root, who hails from the Windy City, but will bring none of the wind, but all of the nerve of the big town with him, and George Gardner of San Francisco, where he has gathered a host of friends by his clever work and square fighting qualities, will measure fi3tic abilities in the ring. Both men are on the board to battle for the middle and lightweight championship of the world and are equally confident of being sure winners in the great event. There is but little to choose between the two men, but if past events in their career cast their shadows before, the match will be one of the fastest, gamest and squarest bouts over witnessed in Zion. The shifty pair are training train-ing down fine and expect to come close to reaching reach-ing the middle-weight limit by the time they are called upon to step into the arena. Gardner is setting a swift pace for both Alex Greggains and Dave Barry, and Greggains says his man is much faster than ho was when he lost to Root on a foul last January in San Francisco. Harry Hynds and Martin Mulvey, who are the head push in the big event, are satisfied that the big arena will be filled to its utmost capacity August 18th. Orders for tickets are coming in every day and the big saucer track is rapidly being put in the best condition con-dition and will seat 14,000 people with standing room for 6000 more when the big event is pulled off. There is one satisfactory assurance given to sports on this event, and that is there will be no sparring for time, but both men are anxious and able to put up one of the gamest, swiftest fights ever witnessed in the intermountain country, and all kinds of money is ready on both contestants without fear that there will be any unfair fluke to mar the success of the great event. |