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Show CROSS IS FAVORITE OVER BUD ANDERSON. Los Angeles, Dec 29. So far as being In condition goes, training Is at an end in the campus of both Leach Cross and Bud Anderson, who are sceduled to box twenty rounds at Vernon on New Year's day. Whatever What-ever work may be done from now on until fight time will be merely for the purpose of holding themselves on edge and at weight, which is to be,l:35 p.m., or two hours before the fight. Cross is a pronounced favorite In the betting, odds of 10 to 7 being posted by the commissioners At this price the Cross money remains in hiding, and there is twice as much Anderson money on the market as thore is to support the New York den tlst. Anderson has always been a popular fighter here and his previous knockout by Cross does not seem to be considered unfavorably by his admirers ad-mirers tn figuring the Modford boy's chances of winning the New Year's ecrnp So much Anderson money is offered that it Is probable tomorrow will see the odds at 10 to 8 or 10 to 9, with a chance for even money by Thursday. "All I ask of Anderson is that he fight fair and cut out some of hia rough work that I have seen him pull off here," said Cross today, 'i am !n better condition, and more confident of winning than on our first meeting 1 hardly see how he can be as good ! after his operation as he was when I knocked him out, so I should I worry." There Is a prospect that the winner of the New Year's event will be i latched to Fight Joe Rivers on Wash- ington's birthday. |