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Show DAWSON HAS A YELLOW STREAK MANAGER GRANT MAKES A STATEMENT TO STANDARD. Shows Up the Equally Yellow Char-acterlstkB Char-acterlstkB of the Morning Ex Iner Fight Fans Disappointed Well, the fighting gamo was killed In Ogden last night. It was not put to death by ibe officers, tho ministers or anyone, but by au alleged fighter and a quitter of such rank proportions that it Is probably no wonder that England was glad to ship him to the I'nlted States. That "dub," Tommy Dawson, who was scheduled to meet Pete Sullivan In a twenty-round box ing couteat at tho Ogden theatr last night, quit and left the building, as well as tho cltv, without entering tho ring There never has been a case of the showing of tho white feather as was in this case with Dawson. Dawson Is so constituted that there Is a streak of yollow In him. There was a good crowd at tho Ogden Og-den theater last nfght, and the losers' eDd of the purse would have amounted to about $300. Two rattling good preliminaries pre-liminaries had been held and tho crowd was in good humor. At the time when Dawson was supposed to bo entering the ring, the white-llvorod fellow went to tho box office and made the talk that the receipts were not large enough. Ho thn went out tho front door and down the street completely com-pletely surrendering. In the flmt preliminary, Tennessee Kid was knocked down in the second round by Kid Farley of Ogden. Another An-other preliminary between young El-renborn El-renborn and Jack Downey for four rounds proved lively and Interesting, with no decision given. About two hundred fans from Salt Lake City. Evanston and BrlghamCity were present for the contest, and there was a no more disappointed lot of people in Ogdon than the outside, fans when tbey were told to go and get their money back. While Dawson was being sought by some of (he fans he wa.s comfortably sleepln? at a hotel with his friend. It. 12. Poynton. Mr. Poynton states that Tommy boarded a train for Butte, Montana, thlj morning. Mr. Poynton says that Dawson felt ho was not getting enough money to justify him entering the contest with Sullivan, and he simply walked away from the Opera House and retired. He also states that Dawson oxpressed his regrets that the house was not large enough to warrant his appearance in the roped arena, but that that was a matter of which ho had no control, and that there was nothing left for him to do but leave the place; that ho bad trained earnestly anil hard for tho contest, and desired very much to show his superiority over Sullivan, but that he could not box for the fun of it . Grant's Statement. Manager Grant sent tho following communication this morning: "Editor Standard. The statement made in the morning paper that Dr. Rowo and Mayor Glasmann wer among the promoters of the Sullivan Dawson boxing contest Is not true. I was the solo promoter. (Signed) "R. A. GRANT," |