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Show WOLGAST ON WAY TO SALT LAKE Young Gilbert Resting After Strenuous Training Bout Will Be Staged May 17. Chicago, May 10. Ad Wolgast, former for-mer lightweight champion pugilist, left tonight for Salt Lake, whero ho will meet Pat. Gilbert In a twenty-round twenty-round contest on May 17. On Decoration Decor-ation day Wolgast will meet Johnny Dnndeo In a fifteen-round bout at Den- V Gilbert Resting. Satisfied with his condition and down to the required poundage, Young Gilbert, western boxing champion, who meets Ad Wolgast, former world's lightweight champion, at the Auditorium Auditor-ium next Wednesday night, has laid off training and will take a complete rest for the next two days. The local bollermaker has undergone under-gone the hardest training period of his career, and feels now that with a couple of days' work before the scrap he will be in prime condition. The finance committee of the Wizard Wiz-ard of the Wasatch, staging the twenty-round affair, In order to cover expenses ex-penses incurred at tho last year's celebration, cele-bration, will place the tickets on sale Friday at Sticknoy's cigar store, on Main street. Many requests for reservation from delegations from Utah and Idaho towns have been made, owing to the excursions which will be held over every railroad on the date of tho scrap |