Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-27
FAST MILLING
PREDICTED FOR
LEGION SHOW
Record Turnout of Falls Fans
Greets Dillon, Gordon
at Y Workout.

A record turnout Of devotees of the
art fistic watched Dillon, Gordon and
their sparring partners make things
hum on the "Y'' gym floor Tuesday
afternoon. 1t was billions first appear
ance here and the gallery birds greeted
the Minneapolis dandy with a good
burst Of applause when he started
shuffling the rosin. Prospects tor the
American Legion card Friday, Deem
Der %. are that it will be as fast as
any nut on here this, year. Sammy
Gordon and his coterie held forth for
the first half of the training session.,
starting at = o'clock. Sammy is with
out exception the hardest plugger who
has displayed the art in workouts here.
He was up against Ranieri and several
other sparring partners, and the ar
was full of flying gloves. He is a two
handed scrapper and a hitter. Most OF
his leading is with Il left that darts
to an opponents face. But just as Mr..
Sparring Partner figures he has this
solved, swish, %kerplunk, and IA right
cross has travelled in to register
damage. He starts it from the hip and
it carries plenty Of voltage. Gordon
appears to be dead in earnest, even
in his rope skipping, shadow boxing and
bag slamming. and pummels the. poor
old boxing dummy with resounding
thumps which spell business.
Fast Going
Dillon appeared with several layers
of clothes swathing his well-knit 124
pounds of featherweight ability, evil
IDENTIFY the better to sweat off the
superfluous weight gathered in two
idle days on the Great Northern. He
is of stockier build than Gordon. just
a trifle shorter, and looks well set on
his nimble legs. Dillon started with a
Is minute single stretch of rope skip
ping. and was then ready for the
padded gloves. He pushed leather with
Young Denny as his first sparring
opponent and the going was plenty
fast. The Dandy looks fast and rugged,
augment native fighting ability. His
other boxing vas against K. u. Lacy,
but the big Kansan was too rangy and
outsized him all round SO much that
there was little benefit in the going
for Dillon. Lacy meets Bobby Lambert
for half a dozen rounds. The Kansas
City X. o. was with the English dur
ing the late unpleasantness, with a
regiment of British Hussars, and has
worked out with many of the English
boxers. Ted kid Lewis among them.
He is a shifty bird with the mitts, has
a wonderful reach and gives evidence
of real ability. seeking them home with
Il vengeance.
Bross in Good Trim
Pete Bross was up and working. but
did no boxing. combining his activities
to the roep and dummy. He is looking
fit, however, and promises to give
Marine Ranieri plenty Of argument.
Their go is for eight sessions as the
semi Windup.
Today will probably be the biggest
workout of the week and will be on
the same order as Tuesday. with
Gordon on at , O'Clock and Dillon APP
pearing an hour later.
The seat sale opens at the Grand
theater this noon and mail orders have
been coming in for several days for
the choice ringside spaces. Gordon is
attracting a real following from Butte
and there will be plenty of mining city
rooters encouraging him Friday night.
DIR. w. A. Hulbush has been selected
as examining physician for this card
by the Legion boxing commission.
These examinations will be held Sat
urday before the weighing in process.
When royal English children we'd
parliament usually gives them a doWry