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Show Boxing, Wrestling Fans Have Treat in Store As the climax feature of the Pioneer Day celebration In Cedar City, one of the most explosive and highly entertaining cards ever to appear in this area will appear in a boxing and wrestling wrest-ling smoker to be staged at the College of Southern Utah field-house. field-house. Curtain raiser will begin sharply sharp-ly at 8:30 p. m. and will feature fea-ture a "Battle Royal" pitting the Lamenites against the Nephites. According to Spike Bybee, southern Utah's own answer to the boxing world, this program of boxing and wrestling has never nev-er been equaled. In addition, the evening calls for additional entertainment between events. Two top boxing events will lead off the events with Don Davies of Cedar City meeting Floyd Pete for three rounds. A second three round event will match two scrappy youngsters, Glenn Guniga and Mike Hansen, who both weigh In at approximately approxi-mately 120 pounds. A grudge match with a challenge chal-lenge will be featured in one of the major attractions. This will pit Clifford Craig of Cedar City against Luther Frank of the Shlv-wits Shlv-wits Indian Reservation. In three previous meetings with the boxing gloves, Craig has decl-sioned decl-sioned Frank twice and they have battled to a draw on one occasion. Frank Is well known, according to Bybee, In the professional wrestling world and he has issued a challenge to Craig in wrestling. As a result re-sult this special event has been set up with two rounds of boxing followed by a one-half hour time , limit wrestling match. Another special event will be the appearance of a top notch tag team wrestling event. This will feature Cedar City's own White Avenger and Ivan the Terrible Ter-rible against the Zebra Man and the Wild Man from Borneo. These two teams will be attempting to unmask each other and it will be interesting to local citizens to find out the identity of thee, men at least those of the losers. A bout that may or may not be fought will feature the Ape Man from the deepest, darkest depths of the Shivwits Indian Reservation. The Ape, according to Bybee, has made 107 ring appearances ap-pearances but as yet has not fought a single battle. His op-1 op-1 ponents, it stated, have refused to fight once they have seen the Ape in the ring . The main event of this fabulous fabu-lous card will be a 15 round boxing match that will feature Cedar City's own Slippery D. Slack agaljuit the Shivwits pride, Fireball Smoky Lyman. Also appearing on this card as officials will be Austin Dal-ley Dal-ley who will be in the ring for the battle between Slippery Slack and Fireball Lynan. For the special tag team event efforts are being made to have as the official, offi-cial, Eldon "Pinky" Webster. Both of these men are expected to add color to the evening's entertainment |