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Show MANY BOUTS AE H Ogden Boys to Round Out H Card Monday Night at m Salt Lake Theater. B Salt Lake, Jan. 8 The- fact that H ftalph Gruman and Frank! e Callahan Hl are going to meet In a twenty-round Hj bout at tho Salt Lake theatre next Hl Friday has not diminished the in- 1' terest in Hardy K. Downing's week- Hj ly four-round bouts in the least, if H the interest that is being manifested H in next Monday night's card can be H taken as a criterion. Hj From the talk that can be heard Hr on all sides in sporting circles it is Hf doubtful if there ever has been a Hj bunch of battles staged at the Grand Hi . that has caused as much, interest as H the ones that are booked for Monday. H. Aside from the fact that the fans are looking forward to one of the greatest night's hattling ever seen at Downlng's "Home of Battles," they are also eager to get their first real look at Callahan and Gruman, who uill bo introduced from the ringsido, that is, in case Callahan Is not delayed de-layed en route. Gruman is due here today, while Callahan is duo some time Monday afternoon. Jess Oren, the sensational local boy who meets Joe Wright of Bingham in the main event of the evening, is training harder than ever before in his life for this bout, and says he is going to battle from the sound of the first gong until the bout is over, while reports from Bingham are to the effect that the friends of Wright have induced him to take a lay-off from Ills work in the mines to get in the best possible shape for this bout, as they have boasted to local followers follow-ers of the game that Wright is the real goods and that they are going to back him to a standstill. All the rest of the boys are working work-ing out dally at the new gymnasium of Downlng's at 48 E. Second South, and are taking real Interest in their workouts. The boys who will round out the card are Young Crbert and Battling Johnson, Young Maloney and Jlmmie Johns of Ogden, Mickey O'Brien and Red Newey of Ogden, Jack Meyers of tho Harman club and K. O. Brown of Idaho and a pair of amateur curtain-raisers. |