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Show Layrie - Prehies 1- Round Bout Is AfBAC April 12 "Rovvdy Rex" Layne will make his first appearance in Southern Utah April 12 when he meets John Pretzie, stylish Bostonian in a 10-rounder 10-rounder at the Memorial Field-house Field-house at Branch Agricultural College. Col-lege. There will be two other six-round six-round matches, and four four -round preliminaries. The show is being sponsored by the athletic department de-partment of the college under the direction of Coach Cleo Petty. This will be Layne's first encounter en-counter with Pretzie, who out -weighs him 205 to 190 pounds. Pretzie has boxed such top fistic stars as Rocky Marciano and Jack Nelson. This will be an important fight for .Layne on his come-back trail. Another bout tentatively scheduled sched-uled would pit Willie Price against Willie Parker, both of Salt Lake City. Arrangements are not complete com-plete at this time however. Preliminary Prelim-inary bouts will be local and college col-lege fighters. In the curtain raisers will be Buddy Sloan, 155, vs. Cal Gubler, 152, and Kent Hoyt, 180, vs. Smith Bushead, 185. Hoyt and Bushead have both appeared In Southern Utah rings before and are popular attractions. Reserve seats and ringside seats are currently on sale at B A C and at Thornton Drug Co., and are available by mail order. Ringside tickets are $3.50, reserved seats $2.50. Students with activity cards will be admitted for $1.25 |