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Show Panter To Appear On Local Card Grth Tauter, Utah's leading boxr from West Jordan, will be the featured billing on a fight card to he held in Cedar City on Saturday, May 21, at the College of Southern Utah fleldhouse. Panter Pan-ter has been matched against Dusty Villlam3, an Indian from Reno, New, in what should be a topnotch congest. Sponsorship of the card is by t ' ... ;;7i GARTH PANTER I ' - . A - f ! DUSTY WILLIAMS the Cedar City Elks Lodge. A second headliner, and not overshadowed by the appearance of Panter, by any means, is a bout between Don Kennington, leading Intermountain middleweight, middle-weight, and his 10 round battle against another Indian from Ueno. Russell Davis. Most fans in this area have followed the career of Panter and know that he has fought in the top bracket of the middleweight class for the past two years. He was decisioncd by Bobo Olson, world's middleweight champion in 1953, by the slim margin of 4 points. Panter In his 80 professional bouts has scored 41 knockouts and has lost only 18 fights. He has beaten fuch name fighters , as Pierre Langlols, Norm Hayes and Waltior Carler. Kennington, a coming star at 23, out of Star Valley, Wyo., has appeared In Cedar City on one other occasion. He lost in the final fin-al rounds in an Intermountain championship battle here against Howard Jordan. Promotor Pete Giacoma Indicated that an attempt at-tempt for a rematch between these two boys was turned down by Jordan. The card will be supplemented with local talent, featuring a number of prominent AAU winners win-ners this yerir. |