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Show II JOHNSON AND jj GILBERT DRAW Battling Johnson and Young Gilbert "hammered their way through another lour rounds in tho main event at the .Manhattan club last night and the result was the same as in their two previous contests a draw. The battle bat-tle demonstrated that it is going; to, take more than a four-round bout to decide the superiority between this pair of youngsters. Gilbert battled in his usual, swinging swing-ing fashion and was forcing the fighting fight-ing all the time Johnson, however, howed that he had been receiving a bit of coaching for he unllinjbr-red his right several times, although with little effect His left was working , all the time and he had Gilbert's face in bad condition at tho end of the show. Although the main event was a rattling rat-tling good battle the semi-windup be-, tween Buddie Tucker and Young Ma-j loney was far faster and pleased the) fans more The decision went to Malonov. who showed wonderful im- provement over his last appearance hr-rp Ma loney has put on a lot of weight and flopped. Hums fought his heav-l ler opponent as long as he had any! strength, but the odds were too long ; ngftlnst him. Frank Rohr and Billy Murphy, in the curtain raiser, furnished the I scream of the evening. Neither knew a straight from a bottle of smelling salts, but they were earnest in their work and nrver loafed for a moment. I Murphy won the decision. |