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Show EDDIE DUFFY IS TO MFFJ FRANK BARRIER AT DALLAS WEEKLY EVENT I Late Saturday evenin?, Eddie Dallas, Dal-las, the local boxinp promoter received re-ceived word from Salt Lake City that Prank Barrieau, Canadian welfer-weipht welfer-weipht champion, and Eddie Duffy well known welterweight of Brooklyn' 1 ' ' Vork, had accepted his proposi-to proposi-to appear in a tea-round bout next Friday night as the headline at-traction at-traction of Dallas bi-weekly boxins entertainment Duffy will come to u den tomorrow to complete his train-ing train-ing and Barrieau will be in town a ''' or m i,f op- the contest to renew re-new acquaintance with the fans The Canadian is the hardest hlttinsr wo-handed boxer that has appeared to these parts for many a day and should be Barrieau's best opponent us far .He fought a draw with FVaak at Idaho Falls last Labor day and the two have been itching to rat at each other again ever since The Brooklyn boxer weighs 145 pounds n fighting trim and this is said to bo his condition at tho present time a hat time issued his most recent ' wtin11 l? Barriea- A match between be-tween the two was being considered . by Promoter Dallas for a date late? in the month, but when it was founi that a worthy opponent for Al Youn? could not be secured for this week's card, Barrieau and Duffy were drawn T in to fill the breach. Barrieau was last seen here in a fifteen-round bout with Frankie Jones of San Francisco, winning the decision. deci-sion. That bout, with the possibl excoption of the Al Young-Young Gilbert Gil-bert bout of weeks before la6t, was tho best that has been in the st3te for several years. One of Duffy's latest contpst wa. with Johnnie Xewton, champion welterweight wel-terweight of the United States army, at the Smelter arena, a mile across the Mexican border from El Paso, Texas. This went ten rounds to a draw, though Duffy gave his opponent seven pounds the advantage in weight. Duffy put up a wonderful fight, according ac-cording to the El Paso Times, as com-pared com-pared with the line some of the watcb ers had on him and the way they had him classified. Somo wise men about the downtown districts early in the day made Newton a on to-three favor ite, but the backers of the champion were lucky to get a draw. |
