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Show I WieEYTO' I MEET CRAWFORD H Wicked Pair of Battlers Before fl ' Manhattan Club in Salt Lake m Tonight Newey, M Ogdcn Man. H Salt Lake, Jan 17. Hardy Down- H "fnsj's four rounders will have their ln- H : ning at the Grand theatre again this H evening. Tonight's headllner will H , bring together Eddie Duffy, one of the H best welterweights of this city, and Hj Joe "Wright, Bingham's best bet in H ; that division. Wright showed last H ' Monday night when he battled Jess H Oron to a draw that he is a real bat- H tier, but he and his friends say ho H will be a lot better this week, as that H was his first bout In several months H and ho was uot quite at his best. The H 13Ingham.it es are sUH pinning their H faith to him and are coming down in Hj : body again to wngcr on his chances. H The local fans are with Duffy and H some enthusiastic rooting is sure to H be heard. H The scml-windup. like the" main H event, will bring together one of the H best local heavy lightweights and Og- H den's best bet, in Tom Crawford and I H ' Red Xewcy. These two boys are about H , the wickedest pair of battlers that i ever stepped through the ropes at tho H Grand in mi ire and are always trying H everything they know from the crack H or the first gong until the bout is W over. Newey's showing against Mlck- Hj ey O'Brien last Monday night was a H great surprise to the local fans, who H ' could not realize that he had improved Hi so much Crawford beat the Ogdenito f in three rounds a year or so ago, and 1 since the Junction city fans and Now- H ey have been eager to got even with H Crawford. H ' Kid Davis, former Salt Lake and H kingpin of the featherweight division H in this state for the past few years, H now a resident of Cleveland, Utah, H i will be back In the line-up tonight to B defend his titlo against Kid Emmett m of the Harman club Davis has come H here every year since the opening of H the Manhattan club to defend his H claim to the state championship and H has always succeeded in holding it H against the newcomers and his many H friends here will not doubt be glad to H ' see him in action again. In Emmett H i he is meeting the class of tho local H featherweights. H Marty Rowan, who has met some of H the best mlddleweights in the country H in the past few years, will make his L debut this evening when he meets f Em Wright of Murray. The former is H so well known here that it is unncc- H essary to go Into his history. Wright 1 gave Jack Downey a tough argument H a couple of weeks ago and has been H training every day since then in hopes H i of getting another chance to show B what he can do. H Marvin. Gould, a brother of Young H Gilbert, and Pug Dyle will furnish the H first preliminary, and as they are both H aggressive and hard-hitting young- H sters, there Is bound to be plenty of H fun while it lasts. H The amateur curtain raiser also H promises to be a real scream as Down- H ing has matched a pair of boys who H; t have been training for this bout for B the past couple weeks in order to set- Hr tie a little personal dispute as to su- m premacy between them |
