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Show MORRISSEY AND GILBERT DOT 1 Accredited Champs of Idaho and Utah Fight to a Draw 1 m Salt Lake. -SALT LAKE, Oct 16. It was a well balanced set of boxing bouts that greeted tho patrons of Hardy Down-lug's Down-lug's Manhattan club at the Grand last night. There were clever boys against teach other, a pair of roughors and the usual preliminary bouts between Sammies Sam-mies aspiring to honors in tho squared circle, then the main bout, which was a mixture of cleverness, ring generalship general-ship and a good exemplification of a rough and ready mixer meeting a fast, clever man who can also mix a bit when the going Is to his liking. Young Gilbert and Lee Morrissey, accredited ac-credited champs of Utah and Idaho respectively, in tho lightweight divi-sion.put divi-sion.put on a clean and fast six rounds, which were refereed by Bill Burke, trainer of the Bee;. Bill called the battle a draw, but from a standpoint of clean blows delivered Lee really out- ujiitsstu wuu wus uui-yuueriiiea and was swinging at tho atmosphere with great regularity. When Pat did manage to get Inside In-side Lee's guard the fur flew, but the Idahoan in practically every round stood away and either Jarred tho hoil-ermaker hoil-ermaker with his left leads or stung him with a right cross to tho head before be-fore clinching. At times Pat was wildly wild-ly swinging like an amateur. When the local man crawled into his shell, Lee merely stood back with his left on the boilermaker's bean and forced Pat to open up or back out In the vory first round Lee merely pecked awayNand kept Pat at a distance. dis-tance. Only once did the local man really score, and then he brought the crimson to Lee's mouth. Shortly after the opening of the second canto Lee got his left jab to Pat's jaw and sent him to his haunches. Gilbert came up with a rush, but Morrissey stepped inside in-side his wild swings. The local bollermaker came up with a bang in tho third Ip, but Lee got in a swing to his jaw, which jarred the local man to one knee. Whenever Pat attempted to crowd in close Lee crossed him with his right, usually picking Pat's left "ear to land on. In the fourth honors were even, Pat getting into closo quarters a number of times, but after each clinch Leo backed away and started his long-range long-range work again, and at the end of tho round put in a hard swing to the local man's jaw. Pat came to life in the fifth and captured cap-tured the honors by driving Lee to tho ropes in a neutral corner with stiff rights and lefts to the body. For a moment Lee was worried, but resuming resum-ing his long-range tactics, he fought off Gilbert's rushes and finished the lap strong. The final circuit was fast, with Pat always trying to break down the Ida-hoan's Ida-hoan's guard, but only getting many a hard clip to the ear for his pains, with possibly one exception, when ho got inside, but Leo stood up and swapped swap-ped blows to a clinch. Willie St. Clair, tho chocolate-colored coast boy, carried the milling to Bob Mooro in nearly every lap of their four-round sot-to and had the local' fireman confused at times. Bob failed to solve the colored boy's style and in only one round, the third, got as good as an evon break. Tho clever darky wove in and out about Bob and If he had been loaded with a k. o. punch would have put tho white boy away. As it was ho gained the decision. Kid Bromeo had little trouble In taking tak-ing the khaki-wearing Eddie King into camp. With his longer reach he prevented pre-vented tho soldier from getting closo enough to be dangerous. Bromeo earned earn-ed the decision which he got Soldier Jack Ellis was outweighed by Soldier Jack Humphrey and had Referee Downing to thank for stopping stop-ping tho bout in tho third round to save the calling of an army ambulance. Ned Young decisionod Swede Johnson John-son after four rounds of fast and rough milling. Tho Scandinavian seemed to bo in mortal terror of Ned's mighty right for tho first two rounds, but could not overcomo the lead of tho ex-blke rider in tho last two cantos, oven though he came in fast and did I considerable punishment I Tho amateur bout between Kid Atkins At-kins and Young Hart was won by Atkins, At-kins, a slim, fast youngster, who mado his moro wieldly opponent fan air, then stepped in and put a left jab and a right swing to Hart and backed out of the danger zone. Both are Sammies. nr |