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Show "ED 111 LOSES MOOilLII Two Judges Selected to Decide in White-Gilbert Bout Classy Battle. SALT LAKE, OcL 2, A full house was In attendance at the weekly boxing box-ing fiesta of tho Manhattan club at tho Grand last night. There wero plen-, plen-, ty of good bouts and the house enjoyed enjoy-ed them, but could not quite get one of Refereo Downlng's decisions, so , Hardy named Ralph Armstrong and Charles Lange, who sat Incomers diagonally di-agonally across from each other, to act as Judges of the remaining bouts, but ovon they failed to please and wero taken to task vory vigorously by a , certain element of the crowd, which failed to appreciate tho fact that Pat Gilbert had an edge on throe rounds In the main event while Eddie White annexed two and tho first was oven, j It sure was a classy battle between j tho little fellows, with Pat slowly edg-i Ing toward his shifty opponent throughout all but the last round, I while Eddie went In and out trying to land something. Pat sLirted in by j making his bid for victory via the body-blow route only occasionally slipping slip-ping ono to tho head. At the in-flght-Ing Pat had a big edgo and the only effective blows Eddie could get In close were overhead swings to the boll-ormaker's boll-ormaker's hard head. This continued until the fourth round, whon tho local . man caught the coast boy uncovered and slipped a right swing to tho jaw. For a few seconds It looked like cur-Uilns cur-Uilns for Eddio, but his ring generalship general-ship stood him well In hand and ho survived the gruelling blows Pat threw fh wildly to end the mill. In the fifth lap Eddie seemed to sense defeat and came up with determination deter-mination and a loft Jab which he had apparently forgotton about Ho stung Pat with these stiff lefts to tho Jaw and the local man seemed unable to fathom that offense, and laid himself open to some beautifully placed right crosses which had him slightly bewildered bewil-dered for a few moments. In the final lap both came up strong and wont at a 1600 r. p. m. clip, with Eddie having a very slight lead. A draw decision would have been an easy way out of It, but the judges apparently could not see the two-round Frisco finish. |