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Show LIGHTWEIGHT IN BODT TOMORROW Frankie Callahan and Ralph Gruman Show Speed in Workouts Twenty-round Twenty-round at Salt Lake. Salt Lake, Jan. 13. Training quarters quart-ers of Frankie Callahan and Ralph Gruman, 48 W. Second South, were packed to the doors yesterday with boxing fans who were anxious to see the young lightweights in action before be-fore they shake hands for the twenty-round twenty-round mill at the Salt Lake theater tomorrow night. Like the fans who saw the boys In action Tuesday, all went away thoroughly thor-oughly convinced that they will be present when the gong sounds for the real bout. Gruman and Callahan wound up their day's work with a dash and zip that pleased their managers. Callahan Calla-han left the building with a 3TiUe that extended from ear to ear md Gruman with a remark, "Bill, I feol even bettor bet-tor th?.n I did when I left New York." Callahan worked out at 2 30 After his usual rope-skipping, shadow-boxing and bag-punching, he cut loose and gave Tom Crawford a pretty thorough thor-ough lacing. Crawford fought back even harder than he ever did at the Manhattan club, but Callahan was all over and under him and when it was over the Brooklyn lad looked as if he had just started. If Ralph Gruman can protect himself against such milling mill-ing and come out on top, Billy Roche probably has the future champion he believes Gruman to be. Gruman is keen for tho punching bag and gave that popular training device a good walloping before he took on Jack Carpenter and Jack Ilogan. Gruman let himself go just a little more than he has heretofore, but he, too, had to let up because his sparring sparr-ing partners could not stand the pace he was setting. As a showy boxer Gruman makes a greater hit with the crowd than Callahan. Both, however, have made many friends and after the two were through there was not one in the crowd who would even venture an opinion as to the possible winner, much less suggest a wager on the outcome. |