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Show r COAST CHIP TO BATTLERDMEO Pacific Lightweight Title Holder Hold-er Again Meets Tough Opponent I !l' "Muff" Bronron of Portland, Pacific co?st lightweight champion, who will meet Claire Bronco in the six-round headliner of the Nc Year's eve card tomorrcv night in the Wasatch Athletic Ath-letic club arena. In matching "Muff" Bronson of Portland and Claire Bromeo for th1 headline six-round scrap for the Wasatch Wa-satch Athletic club Friday night, Promoter Pro-moter Jim Downing has accomplished something which promoters of Portland Port-land and Sacramento have ben trying to do for mouths and have failed. These two boxers met in Newport. Ore., two years ago and battled so I fiercely that neither have cared 101 ;i j return match It is probable that the two men would not have consented to 1 1 be matched here had they not both been in Utah on tours and financial I necessities compelled them to lace I each other again in the ring riA-r--r-i r n im a n c r A m Two yer.rs ago Bmnson won a deci Bion over Bromeo after one of the hardest fought battles ever witnessed In Oregon, according io newspaper clippings giving an account of the fight, which are contained in Bromeo's clipping bonk. Bronson at that time i v. as undisputed lightweight champion! of the Pacific coast and still hold? that title. The boys at that time, according ac-cording to the newspaper account, were brought together in a bill staged especially for soldiers and salloiv. In getting Bronson to tangle wiih Bromeo, Promoter Downing feels that he 1? arranging a battle for Utah fans which outclasses any event offered in I Utah for many months. Bromeo weighs slightly more than his opponent, oppo-nent, but Bronson has declared he is wdling to give the Sacramento man a few pounds and depend upon his speed in keeping away from the B lashing wallop which Bromeo recently handed to Jimmy Brown of Ogden and other fighttrs. Promoter Downing admitted I today that the match would prove un- I usually expensive, but he declared he would put the men on for the special I New Year s card despite the heavy ex peuso. PRELIMS SEEMINGLY PROMISING. I Heavy hitting i- promised in the II spec ial semi windup between "Bus" U Boyle of Ogdm and Dick Berger of E Bait Lake. "Bus" made apparent the I fact that he is in ,ibape lfst Kridav I night when he stepped four fast P rounds with "Bed" Briggs. one of ihe I toughest lads in this section of the I country. Berger has been going good 1 recently in the Salt Bake ring and a j few nights ago disposed of an oppo- i nenl In the firal round. I In the "Canadian Kid," the lqpal I fans arc also promised a hard-hitting i fighter. The Canadian will tangle with Tom Rice of Salt Lake over the four i round route. The northerner comes to Utah well recommended and ha I Fought many battles over the Canadian I l'n? V. , Eddie Burns, the local boy who has I lurnished two whirlwind scraps here I Ftnce the season opened will mix wlu I Bob Sneddon of Ogden. "Kid Cuckoo' I will also be on the program and wil a tangle with "Lefty" Smith of SaH I 11 Lake . . A comedy curtain raiser oeieen H. two newcomers should furnish plenty uf amusement. The- first cone will j P0Und promptly at 8 30 o'clock. Pro-1 B moter Downing said. |