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Show KELLER AND THOMAS MEET AT FAIR GROUNDS TONIGHT BIG CONTEST PROMISES TO BE ONE OF THE BEST EVER HELD IN OGDEN BIG SPECIAL OF FIGHT FANS COMING FROM SALT LAKE. I work out. He has trimmed every middleweight mid-dleweight In these parts and up to ! yesterday when he closed bin -training was crying for more alleged pugilists to conquer. Thomas, who Is one of the most reserved of the squared arena artists, has been quietly getting Into shape at the Solt Palace at the lake. He has a host of friends from thero who will he at the ringside to cheer and speculate their money on tbe Callfornian. That there is considerable Interest in the outcome of the fight tonight is evidenced by tho number of inquiries which have been roceUed by Manager Man-ager Shumway and the principals from all parts of tho country Jim Flynn, tho Pueblo fireman, has In a challenge for the winner of the fight Papke and Ketchel have )oth sent word to friends here to watch developments devel-opments in the bout and there Is a general feeling that the winner of tonight's to-night's fight will be in line for the middleweight championship. The management is certain to pull all of the bouts off on scneduled time and there will bo no delays between the events. Everybody will be sent home at a reasonable hour and on of the be9t fight entertainments in many a moon will bo witnessed. f TERRY KELLER, OGDEN'S NATIVE SON WHO WILL MEET JOE THOMAS TONIGHT. The "boxinc contest at the Fair grounds this pvenlng is undr the control and management of Rv Shumway, who has leased the Fair grounds for this eveninp. He has pn J, up an arena to seat almost two thousand thou-sand people by including one of the grand stands as one side of the arena The Fair association has leased tb grounds for today to Mr. Shumway for a rental price and assumes no Ha-i Ha-i billty or responsibility. All indications point to a larce audience. au-dience. The two young men are said to bo evenly matched and will givo a good exhibition of the manly art. That is the question that OkM fans in the 6tate aro asking each other today. to-day. Keller Is In better shape than he ever was before in his rlns experience. expe-rience. He haa trained faithfully for tho go and If he does not win it will not be because of any overtraining overtrain-ing or poor JudKment on the part of Terry or his able manager, Charlie Clee-ver,- who has had tho Junction City boy under his win? since ho showed - championship form on the I coast a. few months ago. ' Since hl3 return to ihs native heath keller has won many friends through bis cheerful manner and the fans in this city and Salt lake who bavo seen him work at his training quarters at the Idlewlld in Ogden Canyon are of one opinion that he will piv'e the California Cali-fornia the fight of his life. It means everything to both of tho principals in the fight tonighL A defeat will bo fatal to either of them. In the case of Thomas It mean3 that he will have to retire to the scrap heap In the pur-llistlc pur-llistlc world, and as for Keller, while be may recover from a temporary repulse, re-pulse, his youth will gpf him back into the field aaln. But he will be retarded in his quet f'T tbe rhnmplonf.hip honors for the time beln and that is Jn the majority of cases, fatal to comers In the fistic arena. It is up to the Ogden boy. therefore, to make good in his home town and if determination and ambition, ambi-tion, combined with science and perfectly per-fectly developed muscles, have anything any-thing to do with winning, then Terry is the one who will emerge from the larce end of the horn tonlcht , Manager Shumway has completed all of the arrangements for the seat-IrjK seat-IrjK of the large crowd tonight. Tbe arena is one of the most complete In the west and will comfortably aud safely seat more than 2,000 fans. A score of electric lights have been arranged ar-ranged around and over the ring- with the best effect. A doztn carpenters I and electricians were busy In the arena yesterday getting things in shape. Every spectator is assured of a clear and unhampered view of the contest and nn easy position to see from. From the advance sale of tickets in Salt Lake and here, as well as In a dozen of the surrounding towns, It Is expected that there will be one of the largest crowds ever assembled at a fight collected at the arena at the fair grounds tonight. Every arrangement arrange-ment has been made for taking care of tho crowd. The Salt Lake special train, which leaves the southern city at 7 o'clock tonight, under the giiid ance of "Fat" Schuler, will be met by a string of trolley cars at the depot and the Salt Lakers will be hurried to ,the fari grounds as soon as tho fans have been spilled from the special. spe-cial. Besides the main event, which will be worth going mlle6 to see, there will bo two fast preliminaries which will serve to whet the appetilo of the sport lovers Eddie Webber of Salt Lake Is to meet Eddie Mathewsou of Ogden Og-den In a six-round go which will he for blood. Then there in "Two-round" Farley and Kid Rose of Salt Iiko, who will prove an Interesting attraction of its own accord. Since hie stay at the Idlewild. Keller Kel-ler has trade himself popular with the Ogden fans who have Journeyed to his training quarters every day to eoe bim |