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Show mm and MORTON IN BOUT i Idah oan and Coast Boy Put Up Tame Battle at Manhattan Manhat-tan Club. ! SALT LAKE, Oct. 30. Another capacity ca-pacity house took In the Manhattan club boxing bouts at tho Grand last nighL There was lots of fun aB joke bouts foaturcd the bill. Tho real bout of the ovonlng was a substitute Ned Young and Kid Slater being tho principals, prin-cipals, as Kid Davis, the billed opponent oppo-nent of Young, injured his arm in training at Ogden. The six-round headllner between Lee Morrlssey and Puggy Morton was a bloomer. Puggy, In his peculiar floor-hugging crouch, his trusty right drawn back ready to "knock 'em dead," was a punching bag for Lee, but the Idahoan showed no aggressiveness aggressive-ness and could hardly be blamed for not working dlfforently than he did. Neither showed anything of moment i in the first, excopt that Morrisseyl placed a few light lefts to Morton's' phiz. In tho second canto Lee got in a good poke that sent Puggy to bis! heels, but the coast boy came up like a rubber ball and, swinging from the, floor, ho gave Leo a chanco to duck and sidestep a fow, just to show how shifty he was. Then the Idahoan jabbed the Roaster a few times, and , the gong rang. The third lap was very ; slow. Lee ducked and let Puggy push , aside tho air just over his head, then' sidestepped the next few. Neither, fought; Puggy, because ho couldn't get; to Lee, and Lee becnuso he wouldn't j take a chance. ji me uip oi me Den ior me lourtn circuit Puggy started a rush and forced Leo around a bit, In fact, landed his first blow to the shifty Idahoan, Ida-hoan, but the match soon went back to tho love-tap stage. When the gong banged for the opening of the fifth, Refereo Downing met them in the center of tho ring and read the riot) act. When the lecture was over Puggy i started out to get his man, and for a I minute the fur flew, but Lee finally! got out of reach and Puggy's trying i ended, whilo Morrlssey held him off' and occasionally landed a jab. Both came up fast at the bell for tho sixth , canto, but there was no damage done, and the referee called the tame bout a ! draw. i Tho feature bout of the evening was ' tho Ned Young-Kid Slater hammer! and tongs go. Ned went in and out, I landing his left jab and at times a left j swing at will. Ned dnly swapped1 blows with the coal heaver a couple' of times during the bout, and then saw it was advisable to stay away and I punish his man at long range. Once I Slater turned tho ex-bike rider clear! around with a heave to the bean. In! the third Slater made a rush und got1 a mighty poke to Young's Jaw, I which floored the latter, but Ned was up with a Jump, and again boxed his opponent off his feet, knocking the Kid all about the ring. The final round was biff-bang all the way through, with blater at the receiving' ond, although he was trying hard,' mostly at the surrounding atmosphere. The decision to Young was popular. Gordon McKay, who took Jess Oren j into camp last week, added Danny O'Brien's scalp to his belt In a fasti four-round set-to. Although Danny at' times showed flashes of form, ho was ' no match for tho young coast boy, who ' beat him at every stage of the game. Sam Phillips and Kid jones put on! an impromptu bout which was a1 scream. Phillips hails from Garfield; and has the earmarks of a boxer, whilo Jones says no came from Los Angeles. Phillips tried hard to mix,! but Jonos player leap frog, and sometimes some-times ducked to tho floor and crawled ' away on all fours. Hardy stopped the, bout In tho second round to keep the fans on the elevated seats from falling' off to the floor and breaking their necks In ono of their fits of laughter. ' Kid Holt didn't like the going pre-1 sented by Bobblo Munger of Garfield i and deliberately laid down in ihe sec-' ond round, preferring to sit on tho1 floor for the count of ten rather than tako any more of Mungor's efforts. Arnold Newson won a decision from Frank Gleason. Both are Sammies from the fort, with more speed than science. ! |