The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-12-02
MIKE GIBBONS IS WONDER
 SAYS JAMES J. CORbETT
In Special Article Written For The Farmer Former Ring Champion Gives
 Latest Boxing News
By James J.. Corbett, former Heavy weight Champion of the World.)

By James J.. Corbett, former Heavy !. weight Champion of the World)
 Special to the Farmer)
 New York, Dec. "A real fighter was uncovered the other evening in the person of Mike Gibbons. of St. Paul. Coming here several weeks ago with the reputation of a victory over Jim my Clabby, the globe trotter, New Workers asked to be shown.
 And shown they certainly were last club house when Willie Lewis. who had been locally regarded as invincible at the welterweight limit, was made to look. ridiculous before the remarkable work of the Westerner.
 Gibbons is the best fighting machine placed on exhibition here in many a day. He has everything in abundance. Speed, two great hands, science to burn. and 8 good head-piece. Not once did he waste a punch in the Lewis mill, and completely outclassed the New Yorker.
 Who the present proud possessor of the welterwefght title is I can't say. don't think there is a recognized champion at the present time. How ever, 1t will be some task to find a boy to successfully argue the right to the championship with this Gibbons lad. think we had better start to give him the title of champion" right of the reel
 Lewis is quite clever as eleverness goes these days, but Mike Gibbons back again. He reminded one the oth- CT evening of Packey Mcfarland. a Packey with a harder kick It was a grand display of the science of box ing. and a case of the boxing teacher and his pupil.
 tied Lewis in knots. The latter was kept extremely busy blocking and ducking imaginary wallops, and dis played his full hand to the St. Paul youngster early in the bout. So early in fact that in the second round Mike leaned his right on Wilie's jaw and only the latter's experience in staIling enabled him to stick the round.
 Feinting is the most scientific part of boxing. Modern boxers, am sorry to confess. who develop the. finer points of the art. are sadly in the minority. The bunch of so-called' white hopes, with possibly one ex- ception, has no conception of feint- ing. e
 The finished boxer feints with his and his feet. When he has an oppon- ent guessing he is fairly on the way to victory. To cause an adversary to expect one thing and force an expo sure of his defense for that particular blow or move is an objective point, and feinting is the method of learning the other fellows strong points as well as the weak ones.
 A skillful boxer can frequently force an opponent to change his plan of bat tie through, feinting. He can draw leads from the other fellow where the intention was to stay on the defen- sive. Any deceptive move in boxing that will draw an adversary off guard is a feint. and Mike Gibbons demon- strated that he is skilled In that branch of the science.
 Al Kaufman, the loafing kid, since Jim Flynn put him temporarily hors de combat, is pining his young life away. The reasonf He can't get any work. That is the way big Al tells 1t.
 Comes to me Andy Morris. a rising youngster from Boston. who declares the one ambition of his life is to en- gage MT. Kaufman in joust with the