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Show PAT GILBERT TO MEEfJOUi SALT LAKE, Oct 4 The winter boxing season will be ushered in at the Hippodrome theater tonight, when Manager Downing will stage the opening open-ing show of the Manhattan club. From the Interest that is being manifested by local fans, it looks as though the club is due to start on .its sixth successful suc-cessful season with a capacity house. Conditions are not as favorable as I they were at this lime last year, ow-ling ow-ling to the fact that there were in the j neighborhood of 8,000 soldiers at the fort then, against a thousand or so i now. A great many of the local fnis j arc either already in the army or sub-I sub-I ject to the next draft, which will naturally nat-urally reduce the attendance somewhat some-what The house was not large enough to accoinmodato the patrons at this time last winter and quite a number were turned away, but Manager Downing Down-ing says he feels that there are still enough fans left to keep the game going go-ing in nice shape. The headllner betweon Pat Gilbert and Ned Young has created as much genuine Interest as any opening bout that has over been staged at the Hip-(podrome, Hip-(podrome, and the fans are looking for atreally sensational battle between these bitter rivals. The Manhattan fans have always shown a partiality to battles in which one or the other wins decisively, and the general opin- Un nr ii. r : i, .u V!il Ul lllJ ItlWD IS Lllitl Ulie Ul U1U Ulll- er of these boys will put over tho winning wallop before the end of the sixth round, as they are both hardhitting hard-hitting boys, and once they get their man going thero Is no letup until the referee has counted ten. The semlwindup between Swede Johnson and Kid Slater should be a regular give-and-take slugfest until one or the other has brought homo the lpng end of the money. Although neither one of these boys pretends to bo a fancy boxer, they are both tough, with a good wallop and depend largely upon their punch. There is a possibility possi-bility that Slater will not be able to go on, but Manager Downing has Battling Bat-tling Charles Midkiff in reserve to take his place if he falls, which will make every bit as good a battle. These boys have an old score to settle, as they battled once beforo and Johnson was awarded the decision when Midkiff Mid-kiff accidentally delivered a low punch. As far as real enthusiasm is concerned, con-cerned, the next bout, between "The Fighting .Yid" and Battling Travis, promises to run the headliner a close race. The Yidlsher boy has a world I of friends who arc touting him as a! V.WIUCI, HUM t( U llllAJUUS IU see what he will do when ho gets the acid test put to him, as Travis figures to do. Travis was formerly a very popular battler at the club and as this will be his first appearance here in three years oldtlme fans aro anxious to see how much he has Improved. Fighting George and Roy Bankhead, the colored boy-, promise a slam -bang battle that should have the4fans up on their toes from start to finish. They aro willing youngsters, who never slop trying. Art Ncwson of the war prison guard and Jimmie Sorrentlno of the engineers, engin-eers, Fort Douglas, will furnish the first preliminary, and will no doubt mako things Interesting while they last Tho regulation amateur curia in -rais-r er will start the ball rolling as usual. oo |
