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Show si ' ' " ' "W Battle. j )!' The scene is set. Tonight two iron-jawed iron-jawed boys, who have bodies that will assimilate enough punishment to kill an ordinary man, will work their hard fists on each other's hard faces. These boys have for years proven to the fans of this country that they aro rugged, slugging boxers. They are not wonderful won-derful boxers, but they are boys always al-ways willing to stand toe-to-toe and mix. So tonight, when "Pete" Kid Marlow of Chicago and Pat Gilbert of Salt Lake, the western lightweight champion, stop into the ring at the Armory, the fans will see a real, biff-bang biff-bang twenty-round go. Gilbert has shown the local fans that ho is a glutton for punishment and that lie is a boy that can swing over i, ; a sleep-producing punch. Marlow has Jj, i never performed in Ogden before, but !j he has defeated a great number of ' i j good lightweights in the easti Out of forty-eight fights, Marlow has twenty-eight knockouts to his credit JThis alone shows that Marlow is a boy to be feared. He has demonstrated in his- workouts at the Eagles gymnasium I that he is fast and can stand a long 4 grind, j The betting on this bout has been the heaviest this season. Many fol- 1 lowers of the game claim Marlow to 1 ' I bo in a class by himself and they have j bet hundreds of dollars that he will beat Gilbert. Gilbert, however, has a tremendous following in Ogden that will stick to him until ho is beaten. Frank Armstrong will be the third man in the ring. Tho fans know that "Honest" Frank will render a sauare decision. He knows the game "h-om A to Z and he is always asking the boys to mix a little harder and give! the fans a good run for their money, i Two fast preliminaries will start the main show agoing at 8:30 sharp. Many fans from Salt Lake arc to attend in a body and it is rumored that thev are willing to waged $1000 on the fig'hL |