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Groan and Grunt Artists To Be Conspicuous By Their Absences Daddy Casey Tests Billy Norton; Max Kalbrener In First Feature Spot. By DICK HACKENBERG _The boys who grunt and groan and squirm and mean to earn their three squares a day will be con spicuous ,by their absence at the Fargo Elks club gymnasium to night where Matchmaker Leo Kos sick will present his 20th weekly charity funding program of the current season as an all-boxing event. Leo is not convinced that the Elks box office can get along with out the wrestlers but he has hark ened to the club’s many advisers in making up an attractive fisticuffing card by way of proving himself right or wrong. Precedent indicates that Kessick is correct. Tommy O'Loughlin took a tremendous dip into the red a week ago when scarcely 300 persons watched an all-boxing card at the Fargo auditorium. The very next night the Elks’ combination boxing and wrestling show played to a near capacity house. Yet the attractive ness of tonight’s Elks program may compel many wrestling fans to for sake their pet entertainment to watch the boys ply the leather for a change. Wonder No Longer Those fans who are still wonder ing just how good Billy Norton, Fargo welterweight, really is after watching him score a second round technical knockout over Al Gab risch of St. Paul last Tuesday night should find their answer tonight when Norton runs up against Cad dy Casey, also of St. Paul, as tough a test as Norton ever will be called upon to pass. The bout is scheduled for six rounds and tops a card of 27 sched uled stanzas. Because Norton fail ed to show anything but terrific punching power against Gabrisch, Casey was being installed as the favorite. Billy threw only two de cisive punches in scoring his vic tory over Gabrisch—a right cross that put Al down, for an eight count, and a right uppercut that sent him sprawling at the bell. Gabrisch was unable to come out for the second heat, Casey not only is a hard puncher but he also is an accomplished boxer and ring gen eral. In the first half of the double windup of six-rounders, young Max Kalbrener, the Moorhead youth who is being watched closely because of his promise as a coming star, faces Scotty McDougal, of St. Paul, at 142 pounds. Nothing is known of McDougal’s ability although he is ballyhooed as “plenty of opposi tion” for Maxie. Shiek’s . Back Howard Shiek, Fargo, 148-pound er, returns to the ring after a year’s layoff necessitated when Frankie Knauer’s dynamiting right hand cracked his jaw, to meet Johnny Moran, tough trial horse, also of Fargo. Shiek’s flicking, dancing style may bite up points on Moran but the dark-skinned John ny has developed somewhat of a punch and may give Mr. Shiek a bad evening. The bout is slated for four rounds. What promises to be the stand out four-rounder of the program, however, pits Eddie Gillespie of Staples against Elroy Bushaw of Grand Forks, lightweights. Gilles pie, a hard-punching piece of ring machinery, is figured to win over Bushaw who is a fair and pleasing boxer but who “can’t take ’em” well enough to shake off Gillespie’s blows. Sonny Wood, Fargo, a youngster who has shown much promise for a novice, meets Kid Jackson of Grand Forks in four rounds at 135 pounds. In the three-round curtain raiser, Young Dick Manning and Glen Laine, Fargo, 75 pounders, come to blows. Reserved seats at 65 cents can be held until shortly before fight time by calling the Elks club. General admission is 40 cents. The card gets under way promptly at 8:15 Pp. m.
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Moorhead Daily News
Moorhead, Minnesota, US
Tue, Apr 03, 1934
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