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Show I WHEN JOE MILLER SAW SNOW I FOR THE FIRST TIME AND GOT I LOST IN THE WASATCH RANGE I When .Tv. Miller first saw nnw in Ocden ranyon the other day he was like a kid with a new toy .loo came hen from sunny California to fight Pat Gilbert at the armory, April 1$, and the native son had never had his j feet in snow. Of course he had probably prob-ably seen it far back in the hills, but he had never touched It, Joe and his manager. Karl Mohan, Bill Glasmann anrl a few other bovH, j went into the canyon several das ago and Joe got his first close up o( snow He pawed it. ran his fingers through i made snowballs, "geewhissed," "gosbed" and uttered several other surprised ejaculations while be inspected in-spected the curious stuff minutely, "Isn't it funny" said Joe, while the others Razed in wonder at he siclit j of the classy little boxer so interested in this common substance. There's another yarn about Joe, which developed yesterday. He has been doing a steady trrind of road j work dail) and yesterday h started for the hills alone He climbed up Into the range cast of the city and. II atier ine city was ciobcu ubw, found that he WU completely lost Joe says he thought at Brat he could easily find his way back, so he k p; going. Then finally he realized be did not , know his "bearin's" ns well ns he thought, and he paused to look about, j But it didn't do any good ami he de- , elded be was really lost and might have a hard time to cot out. j Four hours later Joe straggled inlo J town. He'd had plenty of road work J that day. Has Quick Shift. I To the crowds watching 'he Calif or-j nia boy daily at the Eagles' gym, his left shift is marvel. He uses his I left arm with such stabbing speed and I accuracy that one can hardly see it I move. He has a double punch which Is pets a man going and Coming and which yesterday made his sparring N partners cover their faces and Rot out H Of Its way. Joe seems to be a bear cat for work Lj and he flies into his training With all I the zest of a hungry hobo sitting up to' E a big dinner. There still is a marked division of I opinion concerning Gilbert's chances! I with MiTler. Many who have seen Gil-' I bert and who are watching Miller in I I his daily workouts, thing the boiler- I maker will have the toughest scrap of! I bis young life when he starts in on I this boy. I Miller's record on the coast looks I like a page from a fairy tale. He bat met and defeated some of the tougbesl 1 boys who ever entered the ring there. I and that is a pretty broad statement I Besides the glory of trimming l I Voung. which is quite some Rlor Mil- I ler has knocked out and defeated on I points and decisions many of the Cast- I st boxers in the west. I Promoter Billy Glasmann. who Is Staging the forthcomlnR fight at the rmory, on April 16, next Monday, la I lso arranging for some good prolimi- oaries. A leature of Billy's shows is I JOEY MILLER. (hat he has matched hardly an inferior infer-ior preliminary fight in his career, |