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Announce Entire Ring Card For Rainbo Arena Saturday Kim to Trade Punches With Akins in Main Event; Five Other Bouts Will Be Staged "The entire card for Saturday nights boxing show in the Rainbo Arena has been completed, it was announced today by promoter Irv Schoenwald. The 10-round main event is a welterweight duel, with Phil Wildcat Kim, Hawaiian buzzsaw, touching gloves with Virgil Akins, St. Louis 144 pounder. Saturday night will mark Kims eastern debut, heretofore plying his trade on the West Coast where he has established himself as a top box-office draw. In the eight-round semi-windup, Schoenwald has matched Tommy Maddox, lanky Chicago lightweight, with Dave Zimmerman of New York, and who is managed by George Gainford, former pilot of Ray Robinson. Zimmerman is so anxious to fight j that he is going to pay his own transportation ! to Chicago. The weights have been set at 138 pounds. Four action packed five-round bouts will find Willie Zurita of Mexico City, colhding with Russ Tague of Eldridge, Iowa. Both have agreed to scale 133 pounds. 1 Hughes Takes On Moore Eddie Hughes of Chicago will take on 1 the former Olympic bantamweight champion, 1 Davey Moore of Dayton, Ohio. This 1 bout is also oyer the five-round route, with the weights set at 130 pounds. Stanley Mylinski, South Side light-heavy, will meet Milwaukees Terry Wagner in a five-rounder with the weights set at 175 pounds. The opening bout, a five-round setto, : features Detroits Bob Johnson and Billy . Mayo of BuffalOi N. Y., in a heavyweight : showdown. Meanwhile, Kim and Akins have both opened heavy drills at the Midwest Gym for their battle Saturday night. In Kim, Akins is meeting one of the speediest welterweights in the ranks, . and a fighter who doesnt know what is means to take a backward step. A full blooded Korean, Kim has been hailed by West Coast boxing experts as one of the most colorful fighters to have come along in many years. Akins, on the other hand, adheres to the policy of never taking a backward step, with the result that he has scored victories over such names as Freddy Dawson, Luther Rawlings and Joe Brown. Since joining the Gainford stable, Akins now has big ambitions to an early welterweight title bout.
