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Show GILBERT TO MEET LEE MORRISSEY Lightweight King-pins of Utah and Idaho to Clash in Salt Lake. SALT LAKE, Oct 12. Hardy Downing Down-ing expects to havo a card of superior super-ior merit to delight tho 'taste of the fight fans who attend tho weekly Manhattan Man-hattan club bouts at the Grand for next Monday night The next bill starts out with a real championship pins of Utah and Idaho. Tho rugged Pat Gilbert will tackle Leo Morris-sey. Morris-sey. Pat has been going better than ever this' year and ever since ho strolled into the town some weeks ago, Lee has been In the pink of condition and his recent battles at tho Manhattan club have demonstrated that he has attained the speed which he had at tho time he held Ad Wolgast to a draw over the derby route. One thing is certain, there will be a real battle, as each man has a great desire to annex the other's title, and neither is the kind who stands around and waits to see what his opponent is going to do. Willie St Clair, the chocolate colored col-ored boy from Sacramento, who gave such a good account of himself last week when he mot Kid Bromeo, will meet an old local favorite when he clashes with Bobby Moore. This promises prom-ises to bo another high class attraction. attrac-tion. Matchmaker Downing has also arranged ar-ranged a clash between Kid Bromeo, the featherweight who has ao far made tho local boys of that weight take a back seat, and Eddlo King of the machine ma-chine gun company of the Twentieth Infantry. King has not appeared under un-der the auspices of the Manhattan club slnco his arrival at tho fort, but he went up to Ogden some time ago and made a good showing against Jimmy Johns. , Not to disappoint the fans who like to see a real slugging match as well as the fast and clever boys, Manager Downing will put Ned Young, the local boy who has put up such a "comeback" this fall, against Swede Johnson, who has boon in seclusion so far this season, sea-son, but could not sit by and see Ned muss up all his old playmates. There has been some talk at Fort Douglas to tho effect that the war prison guard Is a bunch of mollycoddles, mollycod-dles, and to refute the Insinuation that organization Is spending all its spare timo grooming Jack Ellis of their company com-pany to knock the spots off Jeff Clark, who belongs to tho neighboring organization, or-ganization, the Forty-third Infantry. The usual three-round amateur curtain-raiser will open the show. |