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Show BIG BOXING EVENT IN SALT LAKE CITY Kid Irish and Tommy Crawford Craw-ford to Meet at Grand Theatre. Tonight. Salt Lake, April 3. Everythinir l in readiness for Hardy K. Downing'0 big weekly boxing show in tho Granrf theatre this evening. Latest report from all the boys are that they am ready for the going. The return of Kid Irish to the lors' mitt game will be watched with rn-slderable rn-slderable Interest by Manager Downing Down-ing and the fans. Irish was ono the best and most popular boyB w" ever boxed here. If ho can show old time form ho is going to make things mighty Interesting for a M of the best local welterweights. Ho is one of the battlers whn comes out of his corner with a determination de-termination to wind things ud quickly as possible A few years a"" there were very few boys able to tm the four rounds with him. Thprp are, however, a number of much hotter hot-ter boys boxing here at the present time than then, and in sending Tommy Tom-my Crawford In against Irish. Downing Down-ing has picked one of the very bppt of the new crop to give him a rooi frvout. Tommv is not only caDahU but he is always willing to give a"v of them a battle. Irish's recent performance is Btnn-ping Btnn-ping Jack Carpenter in five rounrf would indicate that he is better thr. he ever was. If that is the r ihis bsttle of six rounds should ho hummer. Both boys are willing mixers mix-ers and positively refuse to back im at any stage of the game. Irish Works Hard. Irish dropped into town very auW-ly auW-ly Wednesday and has been workine-out workine-out twice daily. He declared lot night that he is in the best of shana and that he Is confident that h much better than when the fans here last saw him. Crawford realizes that he is meeting meet-ing a tough proposition in Irish. Tommy Tom-my has been training in earnest for the battle, and now that ho has entirely en-tirely recovered from his recent illness ill-ness says he iB feeling much better than for some time. |