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Show "The Old Sarge" Names April 5 Mit Card; Windmill Pierce To Headline With Promoter Don "The Old Sarge" Galbreath holding his second in a series of Uintah Basin Ba-sin boxing matches at Victory Park on Friday evening, April 5, at 8:15 p. m., fight lovers of the area are promised nine boutj packed with action and thudding leather. As in his first show, 'The Old Sarge" will pit two local amateurs against a hand-picked hand-picked pair of "Simon-pure" fighters from other sections of the state. Coupled with seven classy professional matches this forthcoming card stands fair to be one of the best sporting events ever promoted in the Basin. To open his first show a week ago, Promoter Galbreath laeed a pair of gloves on Roosevelt's Ron lEdrington and sent him against Jackie Ciselelto of Salt Lake City. The bobbing and weaving Edrington carried the fight all I the way and finished it early in the second round with a clean knockout over the Salt Lake boy. In the second match which featured fea-tured a local battler, Max Cook of Roosevelt traded punches with Jimmy Sorenson of Salt Lake City with Cook trading considerably consider-ably heavier than his opponent. Before the end of the first round Cook connected with a solid smack that flattened Sorenscn and the fight ended with Soren-son's Soren-son's corner throwing in the towel. The local fighters demonstrated demonstrat-ed plenty of ability. They were in top shape, punching hard with split second timing. Both Cook and Edrington carry plenty of class; Cook with his upright stance and straight rapier like punches and Edrington, crouching crouch-ing low, forever boring in to larci short range blows. The six-round main event between be-tween professionals, Jimmy Mac-Adams Mac-Adams of Vancouver, B. C. and Al Romero of Price is rated by local opinion as one of the best matches in years. It was fight from start to finish. MacAdams was pure dynamite on the move, and Romero, the south paw from Price slugged it out with him toe to toe. There was everything in that match that a fight fan could want; hard punching, fast foot work, effective blocking and heady ring generalship. In the April 5 bouts Jim MacAdams will meet Curly Com- stock of Murray in the semifinal. semi-final. With MacAdams climbing through the ropes the crowd can be assured of a fight. MacAdams' erstwhile opponent, oppon-ent, Al Romero, will clash with "Rocky" Montoya of Ogden in a six round special attraction. Both Romero and Montoya are tough, excluding horseplay from their business of fighting. "Windmill" Pierce of Vernal, the Intermountain heavyweight champion, will place his title on the block at Victory Park the evening of April5. Promoter Galbreath Gal-breath has scratched around over the state to find a heavyweight who could stand up under the unorthodox un-orthodox windmill tactics of Pierce, and has come up with Jack Barham of Salt Lake. Bar-ham Bar-ham will enter the ring against Pierce well equipped with experience ex-perience and fortified with the speed of a lightweight. He carries a wallop in either hand and according ac-cording to reports finding their way into the Basin from the Salt Lake valley, Barham's specialty is unorthodox fighters. Pierce and Barham will fight the main event. 'The Old Sarge" hasn't yet announced an-nounced the names of local amateurs ama-teurs who will fight in next week's preliminaries. It is doubtful doubt-ful if their names will be known until they are introduced from the ring. In a letter addressed to the Standard, Promoter Galbreath Gal-breath had this to say, "We will be in early on the 5th to follow our established practice of giving the local boys who want to work out a chance to pick up a few pointers from our trainer. Chappy, Chap-py, and the professional figiiters who will appear on the card. |