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and spare in the lower division, and
McAulife is short and solid. There is

and spare in the lower division, and
McAuliffe is short and solid. There is
almost precisely the same difference in
height-four inches s-between them.
Both are broad shouldered, but Gibbons
tapers from the waist up, like Fitzsim-
mons, while McAuliffe is solid and
etocky clean through, like his good
friend Dempsey. McAuliffe is a block
of solid flesh, again like the other Jack,
while Gibbons's figure is rather thin.
Gibbons and Fitzsimmons both have
light underpinning, the joints about
and just below the thighs being small
and seemingly weak. tits known, how
ever, that in neither case is there any
weakness in the legs Both men are
good runners, especially at middle
distances. McAuliffe and Dempsey both
have full and well-shaped legs, as fight
ers' limbs 60. The length OF McAuliffe's
arms is only about proportionate to his
height, and his fists are of good size,
while Gibbons, like Fitzsimmons, has a
great reach, even forghis upward length.
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1t is coincidence, too, worth men
tioning in this comparison, that Gibbons
and Fitzsimmons both worked at trades,
up to within short time, that made
them pound on hard material. Gibbons
was boilermaker, and Fitzsimmons
blacksmith. The ''shorties,'' McAuliffe
and Dempsey, both worked in cooper
shops. It can also be said that Fitzsim-
mons is perfectly abstemious man in
the way of alcohol, and Gibbons has
been carefully led in the same path.
Everybody who knows McAuliffe and
Dempsey is aware that these boys have
been for couple of years noted for their
conviviality when among friends.
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All these things are being thought
over, and who can say, when confronted
with the facts, that there are not agreat
many characteristics among the two
pairs that resemble each other? In
fact, the thinkers who are turning things
over in their minds before making bet
on the coming match, or expressing an
opinion, have had trouble in finding es-
sential difference as between MsAuliffe
and Dempsey on one hand and Gibbons
and Fitzsimmons on the other.
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1t is stated that McAuliffe, while
fighter in all that the word implies, is a
cleverer boxer than Dempsey, and can
bring Gibbons down to his height bet
ter than Dempsey could handle Fitz-
simmons. But nobody asserts that
McAuliffe is a better general tactician
in the ring than Dempsey, who has long
been called the Napoleon. 1t is further
contended that Fitzimmons is terrific
hitter and clever with his hands,
while Gibbons is windmill fighter,
trusting to luck in landing at all. This
view is based on the fact that Gibbons
has generally appeared to have the worst
of the early parts OF the fights with the
mel OF inferior standing. Gibbons's
friends reply to this by saying the Pater-
son lad has hitherto played with his
opponents until he got ready to beat
them, and then determined smash or
two has brought about the desired re-
suit.
McAuliffe's hitting powers are what
his friends depend most upon to defeat
Gibbons. Jack is without doubt hit
ter OF extraordinary character and can
use both hands. "Allowing that Nc
Auliffe does get several more body blows
than Dempsey did," said Paterson en-
thusiast, cit won't help him much, for
he'll only hurt his hands. Young Glib
bons's stomach, ribs and breast are just
like boards. McAuliffe can't hurt him
there. Jack Kenney, of Harlem,
who is acknowledged to be ter
rife hitter OF the Jack Farrell kind,
played for Gibbons stomach and ribs
with one hand after the other and some
times both at once with small ten-ounce
gloves, and Austin simply laughed at
him the whole time"
'But suppose McAuliffe devotes all
his cunning to getting in on Gibbons's
jaw ?" was suggested.
"Oli!' replied the Paterson man, II
don't think Jack is tall enough to reach
up there" DAGwoRTH.