The Detroit times., 1912-12-09
Ed, MIKE, AND
BILL FORM THE
pug TRIANGLE
Promise Some Fancy Ring Work
Before Middleweight
Title Lights
McGOORTY AND PAPKE
ARE THE STOCKY BOYS
Gibbons is the Clever Boxer;
Corbett Calls Him
the Best

The eternal triangle has bobbed up
again-with the feminine angles miss
ing-and the public sees Mike Glib
bons. Billy Papke and Eddie McGoor-
ty, claimants OF the middleweight box.
ing championship. ~
Before the title settles upon the
shoulders OF one OF the trio. this little
old world Will see the fancieet ring
work since the day that Lord Decies
slipped the solitaire upon the third
finger. left hand, of Vivian Gould.
In the meantime, a Detroit boy,
Fred Hicks, may butt in on Papke's
aspirations and smash them. Hicks
fights Papke shortly after New Years
In Paris.
Gibbons, Papko and McGoorty are
the worlds middleweight class beyond
cavil. They are head and shoulders
above rivals, and the public has de-
manded that they get busy and de-
termine which shall wear the crown
OF Dempsey, Fitzsimmons and Stanley
Ketchef.
McGoorty and Papke are big mid
dleweights-men who must train
faithfully to make 158 pounds ring
side. Gibbons recently graduated from
the ranks of the welterweights.
McGoorty Is slam-bang, knock en-
out-with-a-punoh fighter. He has
beaten the champions or Australia
and England, and when middleweights
are scarce he takes on light heavies
for exercise.
II was McGoorty who tIekled Dave
Smith, champion OF Australia, under
the chin with his left hand and then
hung a right swing on the Smith jaw.
landing the antipodean upon his right
ear, When he arose Eddie promptly
knocked him ont.
Jack 'Arisron. champion OF England.
lasted less than two minutes with the
north of Ireland person from Osh-
kosh
Mike Gibbons, whose 1O-round draw
with McGoorty has added to the mid
dleweight fog. is a ring phantom. Jim
Corbett says he is the cleverest in the
world. He Is a master boxer, but like
most clever men lacks the snappy
punch that ends fights suddenly.
In n 20-round bout Gibbons would
outlook any middleweight living-pro-
vlding he was not knocked out. Usu.
ally when boxer meets fighter over
long route the fighter wins. but Glib
bons is so internally clever that he
may be the exception.
Papke Is different from either Glib
bons or McGoorty. He Is the biggest
man OF the three and the most expert
enced. He was worlds champion at
one time, as the result OF knocking
out the Incompatible meteor-like
Ketchel.
Papke Is champion OF France now.
because he beat Georges Carpenter,
in II rounds. He did not knock out
Carpenter, but made him quit.
Papke has been charged with vel.
lowness. but no man, unless Il was
Ketchel. ever made him tin-can TO any
noticeable extent.
The "Kewanec Thunderbolt" Is a
boxer OF the Jeffries type-whose
blows crush rivals by degrees in
stead OF dropping them suddenly, fol
the fatal count.
McGoorty and Papke should make
a rattling good fight. Both are ter.
rihc punchers AMI about equal box
ers. They have pile-driving rights and
like to stand up and exchange wal
lops. At 15S or 1eo pounds ringside
they should be worth going miles TO
see, and a meeting between them Is
inevitable.
Then. Gibbons for the winner. Call
fornia will doubtless see these en-.
caaements. New York's 1O-rouDd
bouts are not calculated to bring out
the best in fighter. and so import.
liant an AFFAIR rs championship
should not be held over a route short
or than 20 rounds.
II looks like Pnpke and McGoorty,
and then Gibbons with the winner, be-
fore the roses bloom again In Indiana.