Tom Gibbons Most Willing Fighter In
Business Ready To Take On Harry Wills
NEW YORK, Mar. 27—Tom Gib
bons may have his claim to the suc
cession to the heavyweight cham
pionship disputed, but there can be
no denial that he is the most willing
fighter in the business. His willing
ness to do anything asked of him at
a time when champions and leading
challengers refuse to take any kind
of a chance, has given him a unique
and a most favorable position in the
profession.
“It is a pleasure to do business
with Tom Gibbons,” Tex Rickard said
recently. “He is always fair about
purses, he never asks anything but
an even break and his word is better
than a contract. If every boxer was
as much of a real sportsman as Gib
bons. the game would never be in
any danger.”
Gibbons had a slow, hard time de
v< loping -himself from a brother of
the great Mike Gibbons to the out
standing challenger in the heavy
weight class and one of the best
drawing cards in the game. He made
himself by having a “Yes” ready for
anything fair.
It has cost him money, but it has
made him one of the most popular
boxers that ever pulled on a glove.
When he started his campaign for
a return bout with Dempsey he said
that he would meet anyone in the
heavyweight class to prove his right
for another chance at the title.
He tried to pet a bout with Jack
Renault, the Canadian who was
throwing publicity Challenges at
Dempsey.
“Before you light Renault, you
ought to liek Kid Norfolk,” Leo
Flynn, Renault’s manager, said.
Norfolk was the stand-off member
I of the Flynn stable.
“Alright,” Gibbons said, “make out
the papers.”
Flynn’s bluff was called and he
j couldn’t get out of it. Gibbons met
I Norfolk and knocked him out and
Flynn lost one of the best bread
winners in his string.
Gibbons came to New York again
with a challenge for Dempsey and
he was asked—* ‘Why don’t you
fight Harry Wills?”
“1 will,” Gibbon's said.
In Tight Place.
And Wills was caught in a tight
place that he had no desire for.
Gibbons tried to get a bout with
Gene Tunney, the American light
heavyweight champion, and Tuney
turned pale and found a lot o'.- ex
j cuses.
He then announced that is
couldn’t make 175 pounds without
trouble and that he was going to
stay in the heavyweight class. Tun
ney. relieved at hearing tins, chal
lenged Gibbons and said that he had
been bluffing.”
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Gibbons replied—“All rigrit, we’re
ready,” and Tunney went out on that
golf course and hasn‘t been heard
from since.
Gibbons has ideals and ideals have
a small place in the professional
ring. His characteristic of the real
Torn Gibbons that only his intimate
friends known
Some time ago, w'hen he was in
New York for the Mande;l-Tci> is
fight, he was discussing boxing in
general with a number of boxing
writers at his hotel.
‘‘It was loo bad that you got.
bumped for all that money in the
Bloomfield fight in London,” one of
il ose present remailied.
“Yes,” Gibbons replied, "It was
unfortunate in one way, because
$2.j,000 isn’t to be tossed away, bu1:
there is something more than money
in the boxing business and there is
something more than money in life.
I think happiness is. the big thing
to be desired and I have never been
unhappy. I have enough money now
to live in comfort and to provide for
my wife and boys when I am gone.
That to me is the greatest duly of a
father. And after all, I guess I got
as much money from the London
promoters as the fight was worth.”
Sometmng to That.
Among those present w*as a news
paperman, who had just returned
from England.
“The reputation you have as \
sportsman in London ought to bo
worth $25,000 to any man who can
spare that much money,” he re
marked.
“I guess there is something tc
that,” Gibbons said. “A million dol
! lars wouldn’t make me happy if 1
! didn’t feel that I got it. honorably
! and honestly.”
If Gibbons had been unwilling tc
take chances he would still be hit
ting the tank town circuit with
pushovers. Although he didn’t get
a cent out of it, his fight with Demp
sey ai Shelby got him into the bi^
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money. He knew that Dempsey <le- j
manded so much money that there '
would be little left for him, but he
was willing to gamble on the success
of the contest and he felt that the
chance for the title was a big re
ward.
Gibbons at that time was su- j
premely confident that he could j
beat Dempsey and he is doubly sure s
now that he can win the champion- :
ship if he gets Dempsey into the J
ring again. He did not go out for j
the loser’s end in Shelby, because ;
he knew for weeks that he wouldn’t j
get a cent. He showed himself also !
when he turned down a proposition i
to get out of Shelby and move the
figtyt t o a be ter spot.
He could have “sprained an
ankle,” “injured a hand” or “thrown ,
out a shoulder” and the fight would j
have been called off. Tex Rickard
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York and he would have made a
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