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Show Knockouts Feature Weekly Boxing Card At Salt Lake City SALT LAKE. Oct. 1$. Able, ihe fighting "Yid." won from George Sol Us in the main event at Hardy Downing". Down-ing". Manhattan club last night The "Yid" has increased bis belt measure since last winter. He has also Increased In-creased his punch. The blow that put the bell on Sollis was one to the jaw It seemed to be a favorite one for the ironworker, and one that Sollis did not seem to be able to block. Sollis did not show the speed he had last year. His blows lacked the punch The knockout came at the first of the sixth round The round opened with Sollis forcing the "Yid" to the corner for a glancing blow to the jaw. "Yid" landed on the jaw and the count started. When Downing raised his hand the second time Sollis motioned to him that he was through. Sollis said he thought his jaw was broken, but an examination disproved the belief be-lief The four-round bouts leading up to the main event were of the usual knock 'em out type. Thive of the features fea-tures were ended over the ooppv route. Probably the speediest fight of the evening eve-ning came In the tilt between Jay Solo-man Solo-man and Greek George. Both of the men are hard hitters, but Solorr.un proved to be able to stand the pace better than the Greek Soloman got the medal. The first two rounds clear ly belonged (o the gentleman from overseas. The show started with the usual fight between the meal ticket knockers, knock-ers, it was a three-round affair full of awkward swings and many misses If blood made f'ghts the one between be-tween Jackson and Bates would have won something more than a dozen packages of Igaref The !,.. ., tin v, blood in the first minute and wnen the dream curtain was rung and Bati tucked under ihe envem of dreamland in the third round Ihe scrappers looked like a red barn Speedy Sparks, with his coyote fighting face, proved too much lur Jack White, in their scrap scheduled to go four rounds. White went down in the first round and again for the limit in the second An extra fight between be-tween "Cyclone Lefty" and Bill Fi3ter was fast and turlous. "Cyclone" was given the right hand wigwag at the nd iif the fourth by the ref. pee It the future it was announced by Downing that only one mau event' would be given each Wednesday. |