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IN PRIME OF LIFE
TOMMY GIBBONS IS DECLARED
WORLD’S FINEST BOXER.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.—Tom Gibbons,
an outstanding challenger for the
world’s heavyweight championship at
the age of thirty-five, is one of the
most extraordinary characters in the
history of sport.
Just at the age where the ordin
ary boxer is all through, Gibbons, the
father of a family of five fine boys,
is in his physical prime and is just
beginning to find himself.
Gibbons for years has been ac
cepted as the finest boxer in the
world. Some of his admirers go
farther and claim that no boxer ever
lived who had perfected the defens
ive skill that Gibbons has developed.
In his memorable contest with Jack j
Dempsey in Shelby, when he held j
off the world’s champion and sur
vived sixteen rounds without a mark j
from a fair punch, he proved himself
the hardest man in the world to hit.
The very perfection of that de
fense, however, resulted in the only
defect in his fighting equipment that
critics find. He lacked the aggres
sive offense and that spirit wfcich is |
classed in ring parlance as “savag- j
ery,” they said.
Some of those who were familiar,
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with his private life and his moral
equipment said that he was made
to be a priest instead of a pugilistic
champion.
The theory that a perfect offense
is the best defense has been proved
by many examples, particularly that
of Dempsey, whose defense is a neg
ative factor in his fights. Demp
sey always will take one to give
one. It is a hazardous chance as
Dempsey has. learned in several ex
periences, but with the exception of
the Gibbons fight, the champion’s
man has always finished on the
floor. But, on the other hand, there
is no case within the easy reach of
memory where a perfect defense
and a negligible offense won a
championship.
Until his recent fight against Kid
Norfolk in Madison Square Garden,
Gibbons always had waited for his
opponent to give him an opening for
an accurate shot instead of pound
ing the opening. himself. His fight
vrith Norfolk was a revelation to the
Gibbons fans. He started on the
offense and remained the aggressor
until Norfolk was being dragged to
his corner by the referee in the
sixth round. He beat down the de
fense of Norfolk and crashed
through his guard to find vital spots
on the body and head. There was
nothing of the savage scowl on his
face that Dempsey wears in the ring
but there was a determined look in
his eyes and his jawr was set as only
a Celt can set. He won the fight
by smashing a right hand through to
the body and hooking a left to the
head when Norfolk’s hands dropped
to protect his stomach. He switched
the left to the body and the right
to the head.
There were seated in the press box
:it least a dozen writers wTho lr?d
seen the Dempsey-Gibbous fight.
Some of them came back from Shelby
with a poor opinion of Gibbons and
with stories ready to print that it
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was a “carry” and that Dempsey did I
not win by a knockout only because
he didn’t want to win that way for
business reasons.
T1 e very writers who had scoffed
ct Ihe demands of Gibbons for a re
turn fight were the ’oudest in praise
o: Ihe Gibbons who displayed such
artistry in his victory over Non oik.
“1 here is the real Gibbons,” it wa ?
said in the press pit efter the hg‘,l.
41 here is Gibbons as the fighter
c.n 1 not as the master boxer.”
It was generally rgreed that Gib
bons was fifty per cent better
against Norfolk than he was agahm
Pompsey and one ot the closest
friends of Dempsey’s said that if
Gibbons had fought aggressively
against Dempsey as he did against.
Noilolk, that there might have been
a different result in Shelby.
It is quite possible, however, that
Tom only found himself in the
Dempsey fight and that he learned
there for the first time that he actu
ally was just about as good as Demp
sey. Gibbons certainly is no boaster
and he has maintained seriously
since the Shelby fight that he can
beat Dempsey if they meet again. It
is quite certain also that he is not
looking for a big losers end like
Renault and some of the other
nobles who are ' howling for a fight
with the champion.
There must be a reason why Gib
bons is more improved physically
and technically at thirty-five than
he was at thirty and there is a rea
son. Gibbons takes care of himself
and he studies his profession like a
surgeon keeps up on surgery. He
knew for an instance that a lack of
weight handicapped him in the
Dempsey fight and he has been
building himself up. He admitted
after the Norfolk fight that he had
been making himself heavier in the
last year with another Dempsey
match in mind and that he found it
too difficult to make 175 pounds for
Norfolk. “I don’t want to fight at
the light heay weight limit again
unless it is for the championship,”
he said after the fight.
Gibbons keeps himself in shape by
living right and by spending all the
tme he caan find in the open ir
! hunting and fishing. He lives away
j from the disturbing life of a boxer in
I a big city. His diversion is that of
1 a husband and a father who thinks
i more of his family than anything
else in the world.
When asked why he wanted to
bring infant twins and a three year
old boy from St. Paul just to be
around him for a week, he answered
with typical Gibbous remark, which
is the real tip-off on him:
“Well, they’re here,” he said. “I
won’t see much of them because I’m
up early and to bed early and the
babies will be sleeping most of the
time, but nevertheless—THEY’RE
HERE.”
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Arrived
Jack Frost, no relative of Hank’s.
The billiard tournament.
The new telephone book.
A foot or so of the beautiful.
A widow cat at our neighbors.
A new stock of wedding stationery
at the Gateway.
More beans for Urbach.
A pan hand without comokers for
Bill Coppernoll.
Due
A winning basketball team for the
high school.
The pulp mill.
Christmas bills for those presents,
In’ everything.
Rumors about the Starr being dis
i abled.
! G. E. Henderson and his crew of
| willing workers.
A little good weather.
The usual lull in business.
A visit from the coal man.
Joe Hofman to win a billiard game.
A series of communications for and
against bonding the town for the new
school house.
The stork for our widowed cat.
Departed
Several prominent moustaches.
The year 3924.
Hopes for a mild winter.
An opportunity to make two sub
scribers where one grew before. We
are batting 94 per cent.
Several esteemed citizens on well
| earned vacations to the States.
A chance for the editor to take a
| rest.
Several bad colds.
Burr Snyder’s chance to win the
billiard tournament.
All those good resolutions made on
January first. .
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