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Show I JOE MILLER I 1 TO GIVE PAT 1 GILBERT FIGHT I OF HIS LIEE f-'-'l In the opinion of many sppacious H'" Pport fans, Pat GUberl (S coin?: to h.ivo Hb one of the decisive battles of his c.a- H WE recr at tho Armory hall tonipht vh m Hjj !f hp coos on wiih Joe Miller Pat has v been singularly foriunir deserving however in his boxinc career and has Hij -JrB ?n!dom had to take defeat This lifcht, Hs jI many expect, will be a stumbling block jB to the doughty Irishman. nnd there g is lots of cool-headed argument that he Hj '"If will lose. ,f Of course one never knows how a I ' 3jl fight will end until it ends. There H) W have been fluke knockouts many times Wu and there ts always the element of Hi Lja doubt entering the ring with the box-L Hl h ers. Rut one assertion which will be Hj im warranted by existing conditions is Sa that this fight will he a real scrap. )R Both boys are eager, both are well , i'n trained both know how to fight. They Hj 'fj nre well matched and each has a good Hj lu reputation at stake. If there could be H 't more inducement than that, it would Hf i be hard to find. Cranky W.tli Earl. Hj , j Miller, at present, is said to be In HI fine shape Hj j "That boy is getting so cranky I H ' l can hardly live with hint," said Earl Hj I; Mohan, his manager, last night. "And fl whenever he gets peevish 1 know he Hj ! is on razor edge. Shouldn't be sur- Hj KM prised if 1 had to trounce Dim myself fej beforp the fight to lake the mean- Hf ; i'M ness out of bim " 'im Joe hasi steadily kept up his hard HJ (I srrind of road work and training and H kJ the growing crowd of fans who , )' watched bim daily at the Eagles gym- Hf 3 nasium thinks he is about the fastest Hl 3 boy who ever came into this territory. Hj (J Joe a a modest little fighter, too. He Hl J takes on most anyone and obliges b) I whaling him right heartily with the II' J bic gloves and then polltelj thanks : him for offering his face as a punch- Hl ing bag for his amusement. I Tliornton Referee. H 1 Miller rented Sunday to ease off his tension in preparation for the fieht to-night. to-night. He has been working hard to overcome the effects of the altitude I H and claims now that be is acclimated and can go the long route of tweni rounds with all the speed of any na-five na-five born I talian Billy Clasmann. who ia promoting the match, wants emphasized his gpod I fortune in frurinK Will Thornton I for referr-- I'. II claimf this gentleman f is one of the squares! and best quali-j fied third men in the intermouuntain j country'. Thornton has hud much ex - L perience in mat and ring games and j ' l knows the old Queensbury stuff from j j j Q to Y. It will be Ogdon's first iniro- j duction to Mr. Thornton, but the fight , ( J fans can afford to become acquainted j ! with him, Bill Bays. j , Glasmann has seenred some fast lo-1 j cal boys for his prelims. He will stage j . j a six and a four round match prior 1 to the main show and will start 'em off, Hl promptly at the S : HO p. m. bell |