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Show BATTLE MYERS 12 Round Event Is Feature of Boxing Card Put on By Logan Elks (Special Idspatch i LOGAN'. Oct. 23. Boxing fans from miles around will trudge into Logan thlH "onlng to witness the 12-round go between Spug Mj-ers of Pocat.-llo and Frankle Darren of Logan, which will determine Whether the Logan lad retains his title of lntornioi:ntuln v.el-terwelght v.el-terwelght champion or whether Mytor, who has neve rlost a fight, will don the crown. Myeru has risen to fame faster than the groat majority of fighters do. Two years ago. while a "flunkle" In tho training camp of Mike 'lowd. who wao trnlning for hla bout With Gordon Gor-don McKay, he attracted thu attention atten-tion of some ot the promoters who wero then looking for a man to meet a lad from New York In the preliminaries prelim-inaries aa tho one scheduled to do this failed to live up to his contract Myers My-ers surprised everyone by winning this bout an-d from that day on ho has progressed. He wu Junior lightweight champion last yeaa. but grew ho fast that he now weights over 140 pounds and ready to meet any welter. Frankle Darren a Cogan boy who got his first inclinations running around Coach Joe Jencon's U. A gymnasium. Young Darren whos name Is Darrol Franklin Jardlne, volunteered vol-unteered tor tho navy when wur broke out, although vory young, and thoro he learned to become a real boxer tie cleajiod up everything the navy could produce and when discharged, proceeded pro-ceeded to conquer all comers in LoguJi. Ogden, Salt Lake, and many points in Idaho und the northwest. The two men will weigh 140 pounds each when they enter the ring tonight at shortly after 0 o'clock. Ben Petrle of Green River, Wyo will referee tho main bout Jim Downing of Ogden will referee the preliminaries. In the first pr llmlnary Loulw Klgfcs the Logan slugger, will be matched with Hanna. Pocatello's new knockout knock-out king. Gilbert Gallant of Salt Lako and hus Ba.rb of Richmond, formerly former-ly known as KU1 Bair. will go four round . : . The promoters of the bout have sold more seats than were ever sold for any such an exhibition here before Pans are coming from Ogden. Salt Lakcv. Wvomlng points. Pocatllo, Boda Springs, and all over Cache Val-1 Val-1 ley. ) |