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Show IYOUNG TRIMS YQUNG PftPKE Local M'rt Slinger Is Awarded Decision in Six-round Boxing Box-ing Contest 111 Al Young, Ogden's kingpin lieht- weicht. won a well-earned derision ovei Voting Papke of s. ramento, one of the hardest-hitting lightweights of the Pacific coast, last night In the star six-round event of the Manhattan Manhat-tan club show In Salt Lake. Young fought a heady battle, and after he had felt out his mar. and determined Just what the coast lad could offer, he pounded his opponent i" all parte of the ring and only the ability of l'apko to take punishment saved him from a knockout. With a hard riKht, which he drove In with sizzling spec i, Young floor i the California boy In the second round Papke climbed to his feet and shook his head and stalled out the remainder of the period. In Mo' first frame, i- ipki shad -I thi i igdi 1 llghtwi gh ' but it was apparent thui Young was ; only feeding out his man and getting a line on the for - of ihc kick con -; talned in his Opponent's mitts. 1 After Young had absorbed this knowledge niul luund then was but little to fear from ;h- coast lad's pokes, he tore in and smothered his man with heavy blows lie used hi! 'right most effectively, and in thi fifth and s!.:h frames, staggered ! 1'apke and had him almost ai h;s mercy. At times the blows rained ui on J'apke so fast that he dropped his hands ai ins side and Young rock d iiis head back and fdrth with right end Uf'.s. The coisl boj showed uri- usual ability to absorb punishment and count: When the final gong founded, Young bad a big lead and nheh the referee held up the local buy'.') hand, the crowded house broke into thunderous thun-derous cheers. lied Newey of Ogden fared not ipii;-so ipii;-so well as did his city brother, gaining gain-ing only a draw decision over Kddie I ioam of Buffalo, who substituted for Jack Costello. The tans did not rate the eastern boy very highly in the opening round, nor In Che second, Whin Newey floored him with a heavy ri;;iit to the head, the bell possibly saving Doano at the close of this touml. lie came back strong, however, in the thud and fought the i igden boj to a standstill sending in lefts to the lai that staggered Newey ever) time. bile Newey recountered several, they Wefe ineffective The last round found the Buffalo boy going strong. punishinc Newey with stiff rights and lefts to the tan-win, tan-win, h had the latter a mighty wor-; wor-; rted bo . George Sollis and Krankte Harris fought a four-round slashing draw de- cision. George tried to finish the bout in tile first iwo round, when he pun- I ished t he i 'ilen boy to the staggering stagger-ing point However, he worked too hard, as the (.igden boy came back In I thi- lira I n rminrli mnA rv.,,rrl,i local boy off his feet. A draw decision de-cision gives both boys the desired amount of credit. Jlmmie Munson won over Connie: Ma k in their scheduled four-round bout, when the latter s seconds threw in the towel at the close of the third round. Munson worked both rights and lefts to the face during the opening open-ing rounds with the result that Connie Con-nie had a mighty sore face, and with! hard rights and straight lefts still coming in, made the oing too fast for Mack. I Jimmy Williams drew a .Iraw de-! cision in his four-round go with Wal-I ter Heart mid with the decision also drew a neat little lacing. For the first! two rounds. Williams had it mostly I his own way, counting with overhand! rights to Heart's head that made the latter a weak boy Heart, however came back at the opening of the third round, while in the last round he gave Williams enough hard blows' to earn a draw decision Jt was one1 of the fastest bouts of the evening. Bert Nelson was too much fori Mack Kadden in their scheduled four-round four-round go, and after he had hit his man with all that was necessary the referee stopped the bout West Ketchell won via the knockout route in his scheduled four-round go with Young Kaleigh.'who substituted for Jack Itadlo Ketchell started in at the bell, and never quit until his man was out. |