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Show Good Boxing Bouts At County Fair Saturday night at the Bartholomew Bartholo-mew hall in Fillmore there was pres-, pres-, cntetl a program of boxing which ' proved highly interesting to a big audience. In the preliminaries Ray-:'mond Ray-:'mond Wadsen and Tom Pugh fought ' a four round mix-iip. The decision ', was given to Wasden. Coney Framp- ton defeated Charlie Dix in the ' first round. ! The main event was a ten round go bat ween Tuck Dix (13S) and Imey Garfnlde of Salt Lake, (143). Garfinkle had given three opponents oppon-ents the koyoh during the week, so, was considered a tough- customer. Dix carried the fight to his opponent op-ponent throughout; Garfinkle lay back with right hand drawn for a stiff one, and whenever Dix allowed any opening in his leads, Garfinkle crouched low and came up with a right to the body. Dix cleverly outclassed out-classed Garfinkle in dodging, ducking duck-ing and in guarding. A3 Dix took the fight to his man. he wore down more, and only by sheer stamina and skill in weathering a bombard-metn bombard-metn by a hard hitting man did Dix win. In the clinches Dix seemed to have the better of it. He landed, several times and did some clever work. He reached tho face often and sometimes in toe to toe, he stood and delivered and took equally equal-ly with his man. At no time during the bout did Garfinkle carry the fight to Dix, but played a waiting game. In the second round Garfinkle Garfin-kle fouled Dix with a low blow and Dix took a few moments to recover, then nodded to the referee to let the bout go on. In the third round Dix had the best of it. The fourth round was also Dix's In the fifth round Dix landed a fine, ripping up-percut up-percut to bieak the crouch of his opponent op-ponent and to stop that terrific right. Garfinkle played a wary game for some time after this. Garfinkle landed a long right. He missed Dix several times owing to Dix's clever ducking and guarding. In this round both men took severe punishment, but the round was decidedly Dix's. Early in the sixth round Garfinkle Garfin-kle landed a hard blow on Dix's body. This was followed by hard fighting from both. Garfinkle landed land-ed again with his right. Dix landed cleverly with a right lead to the jaw. Dix landed hard to the body and Garfinkle again got in a body blow with his right. Dix landed heavil: at the bell. From the seventh round on, tin lead, and carving the fight to hi: man, showed Dix tiring. The crowi yelled repeatedly for him to ease of a bit and make the other man comi out, but he still took the aggre3ivi and cleverly guarded, anticipating his man at almost every turn, an( kept the audience highly pleasec 'With his good work. In the seventl round both men mixed it, with hiti from each; Garfinkle landing witl his right to the body, as Dix was toe clever and too shifty for him tc raoh his face much. Dix landec hard on Garfinkle's chin, but noi strong enough to put him to sleep At the end of the seventh, in a rusl and some close infighting, Garfinkle Garfin-kle got Dix back on the rope." In the eighth Garfinkle landed a hard right to the body. A momenl later he landed another; both men fought hard and close in. Dix was plainly tired against his harder hitting hit-ting man and handicapped by the extra ex-tra weight of his .opponent, but he still cleverly carried the fight to his man on the long leads, and took much punishment. His shifting and head ducking in this round saved him many times,, as Garfinkle tried his best to put over the koyoh. This round was in favor of Garfinkle. In the ninth round Dix was weakening weak-ening and repeated body blows wore on him. He weathered the storm and rallied and though taking punishment, pun-ishment, the round was his. The tenth round opened with the whole house on its feet. Dix was cleverly guarding himself from excessive ex-cessive punishment; it was clear that his opponemnt had saved himself, him-self, having put most of the battle on Dix. Both men got to mixing It hard, with the aggresion from Garfinkle, Gar-finkle, who had Dix laboring, and finally, Dix worked his way out, rallied, ral-lied, and then, in the last momenti of the fight, cleverly outfought his man, tired as he was, and had the bell held off twenty seconds more, Dix would have gotten a kayoh on Garfinklei aa he had his man groggy, grog-gy, when the bell saved him. Dix is to be congratulated on his skill and his real good fighting abil-ily. abil-ily. It was a good bout, and finished in a whirlwind of hard fighting, with the referee's decision in favor of Dix. |