Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-11-06
COMPLETED Armistice Day
Card Has % Fast Rounds
TATEBANTAM
CHAMPION BOUT
OPENS EVENING
Lahood Matched With Quilter;
Delaney and Richards
Here Tuesday.

The Armistice day American Legion
boxing card is complete now with three
| bouts which total for % rounds of fast
| action. Matchmaker Frank Mcdonnell
has signed Dixie Lahood of Butte and
| Billy Quilter of Great Falls to open
| the show with six rounds for the ban
tam weight title of Montana. Both
! of these men are fast ~11S-pounders
and willing mixers. Quilter has APP
/ pearcd on cards all around the state
and has the approval Of fans as a
scrapper with plenty of grit.
Dixie Lahood is just as much in the
| fans favor. AT the last card in Butte
he put Frankie Farrell of Brooklyn
away in five rounds. He is rated as
| a real conner by the mining city critics.
Jimmy Delaney and Eddie Richards,
the headIiners. have both set sail from
| their respective bailiwicks OF st. Paul
and Portland and reach here Tuesday
morning. The Twin City flash is be-
ing accompanied by his manager, Mike
Gibbons. and Dick Sharp is coming
with Richards from Portland.
Canadian Carter Of Lethbridge. who
goes on with Battling Leidle of Helena
for 10 rounds in the semi-final. is i'll
Great Falls now. Leidle has written
that he will reach acre Tuesday after
noon. Quilter is here and on the job
training but Lahood viii not come over
from Butte until Thursday. since he
is planning on putting on his finishing
| touches in the Meaderville gym there.
Workouts at "Y"
Beginning Tuesday afternoon. public
| workouts for all the boxers will be
| held on the gym floor at the ~, Civ
ing the fans n chance to get a squlnt at
| tactics before ringside. 1t is possible
that several of the local fighters, such
a. Pete Bross and Marine Nanierl,
will be seen working out with them in
these preliminary sessions.
Delaney and Richards will probably
| both take the ring the night of the card
ct 165. And Great Falls boxing fans
will see one of the most promising
nl~iddIeweights developed on the Pacific
coast in years in action when Eddie
| Richards Of Portland steps in the ring
! against Delaney.
Ring critics who have seen the Port
| land battier in action have pronounced
him as of championship callber. Rich
! ards is a strong tWo-flsted seeker or
II wears of age. who has had Il short
Z DDt tlPlpUTIi career al LIZ cVhLAS
zane
Making his debut as an amateur in
4 northwest championship meet in
Portland but two years ago ftlchardS
has been climbing rapidly in the pro-
! fessional ranks. Two draws are on his
record and the rest Of his wins have
been via the k. O. routs. In his first
professional fight Richards knocked
out Johnny Wade of San Francisco IN
two rounds. Jack Ward, another IN
vader in Portland, was next and lasted
hut a round. After bowling over three
or four more or less known ~scrappers
Richards stepped up a notch and pol
ished off the tough Rube Finn of Sc
attle in four rounds. And so 1t has
been all through his record.
Knockouts the Rule
In his last two fights in Portland
| Richards knocked out Chicago Jack
Dillon and Truman Davis of Seattle.
Each fight went two rounds. Davis
was ont nm hour after the battle, ac-
cordiug to newspaper reports of the
| battle. Davis is a middleweight
brother Of Trayie Davis. recognized
welterweight champion of the Pacific
coast. Davis scored three k%nockouts
in Portland only to run into Richards
| right cross in his fourth start.
50 many times boxers imported to
| Il range cities turn out to be very
much OF the has been variety, Both
| Richards and Delaney are the exact
opposites Of this. being youngsters,
rated as certain Corners in their re
spective territory. Delaney aspires TO
the middleweight championship of the
world and under the direction of the
! two Mikes. Gibbons and Collins, seems
| headed toward his goal.
Richards is just the sort of a boy,
| another rising %youngster, that proves
a stumbling block to the ambitious.
Richards fears no man in the game
and there was no quibbling about meet
| ing the highly touted Delaney.
Women get old among primitive
~ r,,,ob ~aar1ier than in higher