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Show uu BANTAMS TO BATTLE AT VERNON SATURDAY By H. M. WALKER. Los Angeles, CalJan. 2S. "John L. and Jim Corbett set down to bantamweight bantam-weight size," says the press agents of Johnny Williams and Eddie Carapi, who meet at Vernon in a twenty-round twenty-round boxing bout on Saturday afternoon. after-noon. Williams is a uatural born fighter, a boxer from his heart out, a slugger first, last and all of the time. CampI, cool, crafty and clever, is one of the most scientific boxers who ever pulled on a glove. The remarkable little 116-pound chap deserves to rank with Corbett. Attell, McCoy, Kilbane, Welsh and McFarland for speed and cleverness. Williams affects to believe that he will have an easy time In defeating CampI. The main reason for the Baltimore boy's confidence is the fact that he holds one twenty-round decision over Eddie. If the writer remembers correctly, the first ten rounds of this contest were all In favor of CampI, whoso surprising cleverness enabled him to box all around Harris's "wolf boy." After the twelfth Campi's strength began to fade and Williams came on with a whirlwind finish and earned Eyton's award. Perhaps Campi learned something by this experience. He is one of I those bright youngsters who pick up something new every time he enters the ring. Campi spent a month in the mountains to put a rugged finlBh to his form, and his camp training has been of the most sincere order. He says he has a plan of battle mapped map-ped out that Is sure to bring trouble to Williams. Picking the winner is purely guesswork. guess-work. Williams has. little, if anything, any-thing, "on" Campi. It loolfs like the hardest kind of a contest, a contest con-test of brains, muscle, speed and science, sci-ence, a contest of everything that goes to make up a high-class boxing bout, and the result a toss-up. nr |