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Show II JOE MILLER HAS A PUNCH WHICH PUTS PAT GILBERT TO SLEEP IN FIFTH ROUND AT ARMORY HALL Tory Miller won a homo in Utah last i night when ho knocked out Tat Oil -bert in the fifth round of their Bchcd-ulcd Bchcd-ulcd 20-round bat i lo at tjjo armory fl hall. It was one of the cleanest little fights and one of the prettiest knock outs Ogden fans have ever been treat -ed to. When Gilbert wrni down he was unseratched and smiling, lie took the count with plenty to spare. The blow, was a left hook to the right jaw. deliv-.ered deliv-.ered while Pat was i;i a Blightly I crouching attitude. Miller's wicked old I loft, which several wise rani h:io bc.n carefully watching, did the trick and did it handsomely. Five rounds of swpn fighting and 1 then a pretty knockout. Hilly Glas- mann outdid himself when he brought liillerhere The fade jrere b ins Bated of 20-round no-decision affairs and there wasn't a man in the house who begrudged his money ai se.-ing only Ave rounds with such a beautiful finale. When Gilbert first wen I down H the fans thought it onlv a fall. But a : close observer would have seen the life leave his knees and the familiar H old collapse which comes when a man H is really "out." He went down easily H and took about four counts 'hen rolled H slightly. Referee Will Thorlton fln- H ished the count and then the house H realized it really was a knockout. Mil- H ler stood in his corner confident he H had done the trick but waiting for H anything which might come. Knockout Punch. I The knockout came nfier a few sec- j H onds of the fifth round. Miller had fore- H ed Gilbert into a corner by a series of H attacks and the Salt Lake boy had ; H sprung out again. They were sparring H near the center of the rins and Gilbert H had started a croucli to come under H Miller's guard. The California lad H caught him with a short loft hook. H however, and Pat immediately was H etherized inio a pleasant dream. H With the final count. Gilbert's BOC- H ond rushed at him and carried him to1 I his comer where, aftor several sec-! H onds of fannmc and rubbing. Plis wob- 1 H bly senses returned. ; I There wasn't a 'nan in the house i I didn't dislike to see the plucky little Ii I Irishman go down but it was a squaro I sporting affair from start to finish and ' I Gilbert didn't lose the esteem of his friends in tho leas'. Next limo he'll watch Miller's left hook closer; that's A Clever Fighter. From the start of thi fight. Miller's speed and carriage won the applause JOE MILLER of the audience. He fights like a gon tleman. He stands erect , modest ani unassuming, and he has a kick in oaoli hand which straightens his opponent out when it lands. He has the prettiest short arm blow one could wish for. Hlf left jabs worriod Pat as early as thf third frame and in the fourth he worked work-ed them mercilessly. Miller has more speed wrapped up in him than many classy boxers of ten pounds les weight. At times he fairly left the ground when he was swinging in a fusillade fu-sillade of blows The first two rounds were pretty even. It could be seen that Miller was the speedier of the two and that his blows were hard No one would have given him a shade of difference, however. how-ever. Both boys mixed hard and stood into the fight. The fourth round might have gone to Miller only on points No one at that lime would have guessed what was in store for Gilbert. It hardly seemed possible. But it came, and Patsy went out very successfully. Preliminaries Good. The preliminaries wore scrappy affairs. af-fairs. Frankie Harris and "Kid" George of Salt Lake staged the six round match and Harris won. It was a nice fight, both hoys working hard The four rounder was between a couple of fly-Weights, Kid Howell and Kid Jones. This was a draw. The work of Mr Thornton as referee deserves special mention. It was Og-den's Og-den's first introduction to him and his work called forth general approval. He is on the job all the time and sees every part of the ficht. Glasmann would do well to bring Mr. Thornton back to Ogden when he can. |