The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-02-24
YOUNG GILBERT
TO FIGHT HERE
Crack Salt Lake l4O-POundef
to Battle in Fort Mis-
s0uia Ring.
HAS WHIPPED MlSkE
Either Cantway or Cummings
MAY BE Opponent for
Fast Utah Man.
HAS WHIPPED MISkF

Young GilbCrt Of Salt Lake City
The sturdy is0. pnundcr who may meet
Paul can,Hay. The Bitter Root lid
or Danny Cummings, The Butte miner
In /. bottt Mt the Fort MiSSoula pos
gymnasium within the next two weeks
If arrangements under way are com
pleted. has battlcd some Of the hes.
scrappnrs IN the west during the Ias
few years and must he considered
contestant for the western middle
weight horrors.
The only casualty, that Young GiibEf
ms encountered during recent bouts
was IN his match against AL Woisas
ut Salt Lake City nearly two years as.
WOlgast was then at his best haVint
pulled a comeback by defeating Freddis
Welsh, Ever Hammer and Franli
Burns after being whipped by the vet
elan Leach Cross, AID waded into Gil
bert hammer and tongs and the Sai
Lake boy lacked the vitality to with
stand the champion Dutchman's ierc
attack, being counted out in the sixt.
round.
Whipped Billy Miske.
Gilbert's foremost achievement dur
ing recent years was his slnshing vic
tory over Billk Miske OF st. Paul. lish
heavyweight champion of the world a,
present. two years ago. The batti.
between Gilbert and Miske was staged
at Denver shortly after the formers
fight with Wolgast, and Gilbert was the
+ winner after 16 terrific rounds of maui
ing, in which both men suffered severe
punishment, though neither scored a
knockdown during the battle.
Gilbert has o-decision bout with
Stanley Yoakum, which was one Of the
siercest smuggling matches ever staged
at Salt Lake. the Denver cave-man and
the Utah boy both shedding great
quantities of gore during the set-to
Young Gilbert also stopped the trum
plant career of Gilbert Gallant, Til,
Boston lightweight. who came to Salt
Lake City three years ago and besar
cleaning up on everyone in sigh, unit
he ran into the other Gilhert's swing
ing fists. Tommy Hogan and Viz
Hanson have been victims Of Gilber
via the Knockout route during recent
years.
Danny Cummings. who may he Gil
bert's opponent unless cantway eomes
to terms with the promoters, is well re
membered in Missoula as one of thu
earnest fighters that has ever appeared
in local ring, though always afflicted
with hard luck while battling IN west
ern Montana. Danny broke his wrists
out this way twice, once while fight
ing in the Rochester ring, the othe
and last time on July 4, 1914. while bat
Ting Tally Johns mt Hamilton in VIVA
is said to have been the best boxing
bout ever staged in the Bitter Root
In the seventh round Danny sent
quick lab a, Tally Johns hard skull AM
cracked some bones in his wrist. ii
refused TO give up the battle, but pluck
ily resumed the fight with the bell flo
the next round and vigorously repeie
the attacks OF Tally during the iina
round Johns won the decision, how
ever, and Cummings retired from tn
ring to give his twice fractured wris
and opportunity to heal properly. II
did not come out of that retirement un
til January Is last, when he fought HI
Levine at Fort Missoula and Shove
that he retains all of his old time ski
and ability, in spite of three year
lay-ofi