Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-14


fight In big gallop. But after the
bout was over and after Gibbons had
won by the decisive knockout, some
OF the fans argued strongly that Mike
was under q pull in the early rounds,
that he was playing the game as only
Gibbons can play It and that he could
have won early and even easier If he
had so desired. That is not so, and
the same fellows would now be pre-
senting a different kind of argument
If the bout had lasted the ten-round
limit and Mike had continued the
same antics throughout the last six
rounds that he employed during the
first four rounds. The fact is, Gibbons
fought his best from the drop of the
hat, and he would have won In an in
slant If he could. In all his fights in
the East he has never displayed so
much aggressiveness, so much
viciousness, and never did he look so
strong and so healthy In the ring. He
won and he deserved to win, but 1t
wasn't such an easy snap at that. To
be outboxed for four rounds is sorne-
thing new for Gibbons.
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The beating McAllister received will
not do him any good, and it is sure to
set him back for a time at least. He
is only a youngster and his experience
was even less than I imagined. He
has had only six fights and he has
been out of the amateur ranks only
short time. He Is as game as a pebble
and took his medicine like a man, but
he was noticeably shocked by some
strange fear and wasn't himself by
any means. He knew what to do, but
he didn't put any vim In his work
For instance, his snappy left hand
lead to the face wouldn't any more
than break an egg, and he never once
shifted the lead to the body, a blow
which he used SO effectively against
Levinsky. He lacked the first SEM
blance of aggressiveness, and he
might just as well have had his right
hand tied up In sling. for all the
use he had for it.. No, McAllister
didn't fight his fight and Gibbons
fought the best fight of his career
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The victory is worth lot of wealth
to Gibbons, and he Is in position to
do much debating to aspirants for
match. He seems anxious to meet
Mcfarland and he says he can make
las pounds and be strong. Mike Is
also DESTROYS of fighting Chip at 1853
pounds ringside, which Is running
some gamut In the weight question.
The Mcfarland fight, though, more
than a month off, will be the first,
and If Mike can do Packey and then
come out and do Chip he will earn
a reputation second only to that won
by Bob Fitzsimmons, who held the
middleweight and heavyweight cham
pionships at one and the same time.
II Gibbons can do all he plans to do
he should be hailed as the marvel
of the prize ring, and when you figure
this fellow out from every angle the
answer seems to be that he can.
Mike was the white-haired boy
around here until his miserable show
ing with Eddie McGoorty. 1t was
said of that fight that Gibbons was
either a blooming gutter" or else
his hands were tied" Gibbons de-
MES both allegations and declares
that he was sick. However, he was
something that night and he was
something else the night he fought
McAllister.
1t is said of Gibbons that he can
beat any man in the world he be-
lieves he can beat, but that If there
is a doubt in his mind as to his su-
premacy his performance suffers just
SO much. 1t is declared that while
he had never seen McAllister fight
he had all the confidence in the
world that he could whip him. 1t is
claimed that Mike was never anx-
ious to fight McGoorty and that he
worried himself sick thinking about
the match. There was surely some
thing wrong with Mike on that occa-
sion, for he came into the ring
weighing 14S pounds, when he might
have weighed as much as 1853 pounds,
at which weight the match was
made. And all during the fight Glib
bons acted as IL he was scared out
of his wits, yet when he essayed to
| fight he easily outfought McGoorty.
1t was on his work in the McGoorty
bout that his chances against Nc
Allister were judged, and all the
great battles he had fought previ-
ously were completely lost sight Of.
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The receipts of the Gibbons-Mc-
Allister bout were s1o.SO3.5o. Glib
bons and McAllister each got rs per
cent of the gross, which made their
share $2,70S.37 apiece. The Garden
was pretty we'll filled and the prices
were surprisingly low for such con-
test, only 81 to IS.
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J. P. N:
! A bets that the horse Uhlan has
done a mile in 1:54A. B disagrees
| Who is correct?
JOE ADAMS, JR.
B is correct. The worlds trottins
record, held by Uhlan. is 1:5415. This
mark was made by the famous trot-
ter in special trial against time al
Lexington, KY, on October 8, 1913.
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J. P. NJ:
We have rented q fiat with the
understanding that the rent included