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Show BENEFIT BOUTS GREAJLSUCCESS Best Card in Years Given to Fans at Tappero Testimonial. Fight fans who attended the Tappero Tap-pero Benefit Bouts Saturday evening of last week at the Princess were treated to y far the best boxing show ever presented in this town. Action rrom start to finish, thrilled thrill-ed the huge crowd, and if there was anything missing to complete a real evening's entertainment it has been overlooked in the shuffle. To start with, every fight on the big card was well balanced, every contestant con-testant did his best during his stay in the roped arena. Perhaps the real fight of the evening eve-ning from the fan's standpoint was the four round tilt between Bloc Val-dcz Val-dcz of the Highland Boy Athletic Club and Johnnie Woodmansee of the Utah Copper. With the opening gong Valdez rushed his opponent, and after forty seconds, Woodmansee hit the mat. Referee Edwards declared a foul had been committed, and awarded award-ed the tilt to Woodmansee. The latter, lat-ter, however, declared it being a benefit ben-efit bout, would rest for five minutes, and continue. After starting again, Valdez again started his rushing tactics, tac-tics, and with both men out to win, plenty of action was seen in the initial in-itial round which ended about even. Woodmansee probably took a slight shade in the second round although there was plenty of clinching. The third round showed Valdez taking the lead with his being the aggressor, and his infighting easily gave him the third canto. The last round was a dinger. Both men started start-ed with blood in their eye, with plenty plen-ty of steam accompanying each wallop. wal-lop. In the clinches, which Referee Edwards had considerable trouble in breaking, Valdez sent in some telling punches, and after the last round had been in progress 1 minute and 30 seconds, sec-onds, Edwards, in trying to break up a "clinch, received a "coupler of -jolts from Valdez. Edwards retaliated with a right and a left, and seconds stopped further action. Edwards im- mediately awarded the clash to Woodmansee. Wood-mansee. After the fight, Valdez claimed Edwards held his arms when breaking the clinches and twice Woodmansee jolted him while in this condition. Whether or not this was the case is not known, but nevertheless it furnished fur-nished the fans with plenty to howl about for a few minutes. The next fight of importance, with regard to action, was the four-round affair between Sam Kloszko of Bingham Bing-ham Canyon, and Rudolph Stanwen-der Stanwen-der of the Highland Boy Athletic Club. These two middle weights started with a rush, and when they landed they shook the building, and they landed often. This fight was by far the best ever seen in Bingham Canyon, and would have been a feature fea-ture event in any city in this grand and glorious country. Stanwender took a decided advantage in the first three rounds, punishing Kloszko severely. se-verely. The fourth round was the real surprise, when Kloszko, with several hard jolts, slowed the over-zealous over-zealous Rudolph up a bit, and came within an ace of getting a draw. Stanwender Stan-wender was given the decision by Referee Edwards, which failed to meet with the approval of the fans, who it is claimed figured the worst Kloszko should have received was a draw. The main event, a six round clash between Wes Ketchell and Red Briggs as the features, was good enough to look at, with honors about even throughout. The fourth was the best in this bout, when several hard blows were exchanged. Referee De-laney De-laney called it a draw. The opening clash of the evening, a three round battle between George Badovintz and Tom Be.tia, two lads from the Highland Boy Athletic Club, was a dandy, with both boys trying hard. George Strand, another member of the Highland Boy Athletic Club mixed mix-ed four fast rounds with Kid Baker, the Carr Fork terror. This fight was a dandy, with Baker trying to put over a Kayo, while Strand shook the Carr ForTt battler several times with jolts to the chin. This was called a draw. Billy Hughes and Monte Martir gave the fans plenty of action fo four rounds, with Referee Edward: calling it a draw. Ralph Mondt o: ISalt Lake City made short work of Shorty Peterson putting him to sice: after one minute and 25 seconds j |