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Show 1 Great Battle Will Be Fought When j I St. Clair and Azevedo Meet Nov. 14. II Carl Morris May Be Brought to Ogden jl i . M t A ' 'f' If W Jill Young Azevedo With their preliminary training over the four boys who box next Wednesday Wednes-day at the armory, have settled down to the last grind that will put them on edgo for their big bouts. Again Promoter Pro-moter Billie Glasmann has put on a high' class card which has cost him considerable kale, for the benefit of the Ogden fans. Bill is sure working for the fans, but from his gate receipts the public has not fully awakened to the fact that honest, clean matches are being put on. Bill went to Salt Lake yesterday to see that McKay and St. Clair were taking their -matches seriously. In the afternoon St. Olalr did something that opened his eyes. The little colored boy stepped 30 rounds of boxing, skipping tho rope, shadow boxing and bag punching. He boxed five rounds with "Puggy" Morton, five with Kid Bro-meo, Bro-meo, five with Mush McCabe and five with Dutch Leonard. Ho then went through ten rounds of skipping the rope, bag punching and shadow boxing. box-ing. From the way the colored boy is working for this bout it is a safe bet that he will give a remarkable account of himself. He is after Jlmmie Johns and he says Azevedo is only a step- 'S i ' Frank Armstrong ' plngstorte in his path to Jimmie. Young Peter Jackson is training St. Clair and any time the big black gets back of them, you can expect to see a biff-bang contest. Jack Dempsey, who arrived from the coast yesterday, watched St. Clair in his workouts and he exclaimed, "Gee, but he sure Is fast. I don't know how good Azevedo is, but he will have to go some to beat the colored boy." Bill has practically arranged a match between Dempsey and some good eastern heavyweight (probably Carl Morris) for Christmas eve. Azevedo, Aze-vedo, who has been training faithfully for the past week in Ogden, liberally smeared his sparring partners all over the Eaglos gym yesterday afternoon. He punched all of them at will and after his long workout he said, "I will beat that shine, if it's the last thing I ever do." All of Ogden knows that Azevedo is one great little battler and that he will mix it 'from start to finish. Joe has improved a hundred per cent since he btfxed here last year. All of the fans wnnt to see Azevedo and Johns mix, so next Wednesday's winner at the armory will meet Johns. Some headliner fifteen rounds iff I Harry Gillum - Azevedo, the white boy, against St, 1 Clair, the colored boy. 'j! The seml-windup will be a ten-round ' go, or better, a ten-round grudge fight ! between Harry Gillum, best 155 pound 1 boy ever produced by Idaho,' and who has fought Frank Barricau a ten-round j draw, and Gordon McKay, the "Fight- I ' ing Lineman," of Portland, who has a ! twenty-round decision over Frank Bar- -.j ricau. There Is a keen rivalry between i these two boys and with a match with . Frank Barricau for the winner a real '.' scrap may be witnessed by the fans. 1: These boys are battling for a large side bet. Some semi-windup two 155 pounders who havo more than hold Jl their own with Barricau, the Canadian jflSii champ. -fBBI In another way, Bill GlaBmann guar-antees guar-antees his big card by having Frank X Armstrong, the well known referee, V the third man in the ring. Frank always al-ways says, "The best man will win." The fans know that this is true as all of his decisions in the past have been : right He Is for clean sports and the I public can always depend on a good ,': decision when Frank is referee. A four-round curtain raiser will start ' tho big show at 8:30 sharp. |