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' Boxing Matches at the Tanana Club on Saturday Provide Some Excellent Sport and ! Are Much Enjoyed.frSolly Stroup and the Salt Lake Kid Are Awarded the Decisions After Two Grueling Contests,Some Hundred and Fifty Members and Guests Attend and All Vote the Entertainment a Big Success,The two bouts pulled off on Saturday night at the Tanana club's smoker were as good exhibitions of the game as were ever given in Fairbanks.^, , _At least that is the opinion of practical)?’ all who attended, and there fere few of those present who a chance of viewing anything in ibis line.There were some 16G of the members of the club and their guests on hand /hen the preliminary was called at : 30. and everyone had been led 10 expect a good mill from the accouuis of the boys that had been circulated.The contestants were the Caribou Kid and the Salt Lake Kid. The latter was giving away some seven or eight pounds, but he kept after his man the whole lime and was the iggressor throughout This undoubtedly influenced Young Dutchy. the referee, when, at the end of thenature to Johnson with exactly similar results. Young Dutchy boro got in a chance to show how nicely jfce conld count, but he only got as far as five before both boys were at it again hammer and tonga.. The next few seconds were devoted with commendable earnestness to AA effort on the part of each to slay the other but before any part of either’s anatomy had been maimed for life the proceedings were ^interrupted by the call of time.The decision In Stroup’s favor wat well received by nearly all present although Johnson was accorded much applause and the credit of putting up a rattling good fight.Fairbanks aerie of the order are making arrangements for a grand ball on Thanksgiving day. One . of the most successful affairs of the kind ever given in Fairbanks was that under the auspices of the Eagles last Thanksgiving day. and the members seek to duplicate the success of that occasion ■when the date named rolls around again this year.The new hall being erected by the Eagles Hall association is going up at a rapid rate. John Enlund. superintendent of the construction, is confident that by next Sunday the local aerie will be able to move in. if theydesire to do so. Enlund had confidence that he would be able to complete the work within two weeks, an opinion in which Joe Matthews, superintendent of the heat an(t light department of the N*. C. company and one of the uiost enthusiastic Eagles In town, took exception.The result of the ensuing argument was a bet between tlte two. of the beat fur cap in town, the two men backing tbeir respective contentious.In speaking of the progress on the ball last night, Leroy Tozier explained to the members of the aerie the terms of the bet, and expressed the opinion that ' Brother Matthews would be buying a new fur cap about Sunday next.Believe I will, myself. responded Mr. Matthews, so it is probable that the ball will be finished within the lime specified.hTO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY.—Take LAXATIVE BROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. E. W. GROVE'S Big-fourth Voundr* he gave the deci doa j ^ture is on each box. 25c. to the boy from the Mormon country.KFitMany present thought that the Cari bou Kid was certainly entitled to a draw, as he was strong at the finish and handing out as much as he was j getting in the way of punishmeaL All were willing to defer, however, to the more expert knowledge of the game possessed by the professor and to abide by his decision.Both boys put up as game a flgbt as the most hardened votary of the sport could wish to see. and not once during the four rounds was the referee called upon to issue a caution or to tell the boys to break, for they did not get into a single clinch.The lad from Utah was Inclined to take the most chances and landed many more blows than his opponent, but those jolts the Caribou Kid gor home appeared to do more damage.If ibe latter , had used his eyes to ’.•eiier advantage in watching his vis-a-vis, instead of beeping them securely fastened on the carpet, he might have been able to do some better.At the end of the bout, when Dutchy gave the decision on points to the Salt Lake Kid. the game’* Swede could not refrain from an objection. which he voiced in the well-1 known Minneapolis English as well ! an.n:as his lack of wind would permit. His apparent unwillingness to confess himself beaten resulted in the two boys being matched to go ten \ rounds next Saturday night, and it Is safe to say that all the money wagered will not be on the side or the boy from Utah’An intermission of fifteen minutes, to permit of excited nerves being soothed with the aid of the fragrant weed, preceded the star event of the program, and at its close the professor introduced Solly Stroup and Clifford Johnson and announced that they would go six rounds.Solly appeared to be ten poundslin.n.m.n1is-atas.b.clffeonrt.D.ndndthed3S-nainia,at-rd-atiStofckatayofty.lighter than his opponent, but was in much the better condition. He also seemed to have the science of boxing much better developed. Johnson, however, is of the Tom Sharkey order and works along the same lines, content to take all the grueling that comes along if he can only get in an occasional poke himself. That he. every now and again, did get in a good jolt there was nobody better aware than Solly, for on three separate occasions that young man measured his length on the carpet.Stroup’s science enabled him to land two blows to Johnson’s one, and his better condition was also very r, parent: but at no time did Johnson refuse to come .up smiling, and the first five rounds were finished with each still having a good chance for the long end of the purse.Time” for the last round brought both boys to the center with grim determination writ in upper case on their countenaces, and it was easily to be seen that both meant business. It was give and take with honors easy for the first half, and both boys were plaintly showing lack of condition. Solly started to mix at close range, and was apparently getting in some good, work when. Biff! and Cliff’s left landed with nauseating suddenness on the point of Solly's jaw and the went down like the proverbial log.Johnson evidently expected that just about this time the referee was due to get busy ahd count ten, and was taking no particular care of himself 'He had another think coming, however. for in something less than one-nineteenth of a second the lightweight champion of the North was on his feet and, almost before he had assumed an erect position, had handed out one of precisely the samet
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Fairbanks Evening News
Fairbanks, Alaska, US
Mon, Oct 22, 1906
Page 3
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