Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-09-22 | Page 3 | Big Boxing Contest Cause of Much Interest

I Bia Boxing Cont est Cause of Much Interest 1 I Young and Gilbert Rapidly Rounding Into Shape for a Furiou Go Over the Long Route Probably no fistic contest in years in Ogden has caused the speculation specu-lation and interest of the outcome than that which attends the coming bout between Al Young and Pat Gilbert for the'Intermountain championship. cham-pionship. Time, the ever-changing old gentleman, calls our attention to other bouts in the past for the same title when Johnny Thompson and Pet Sullivan used to travel the 20-marker route for the championship. Also Jimmy Regan and Peanuts St. .Clair. However, none of the former boys have it on the present crop for stamina, aggressiveness or gameness. So it is probable the Gilbert-Young Gilbert-Young bout will see all the old fans and many of the new ones in attendance. at-tendance. All the world favors a winner. So Pat Gilbert of Salt Lake, enters en-ters the contest a silght favorite over Young, who, nevertheless, will enter the ring next Wednesday night confident of winning back the Intermountain belt. Young has a series of engagements scheduled in the east and figures he must win the Gilbert go by a clean victory. But figuring and licking Pat has always been too different things. In the semi-windup, Billy Johnson of Ogden, will attempt a comeback come-back by meeting Oklahoma Jack Stephenson over the six-round course. Oklahoma Jack has all kinds of confidence in himself. "Let Johnson name the terms," he said, "60-40, winner take all; any old way suits me." These main goes with a four-round curtain raiser will make the best show ever seen in Ogden.