El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-05
GIBBONS PREFERS BEST boxers;
SAYS DUB5 ARE HARD TO FIGHT
One Unknown With Wild wing Handed Gibbons CauI-
flower Ear; He Says Clabb Gave Him Awful Beating
Once, but Another Match Would Be Desirable; Aus
traIian Champion Real Middl eweight Contender
BY T. s. ANDREWS.

.,,o-. -,,.,- ,otbinq left but to admit
that Mr.. King had delivered the Boo!ut1I,
ne is now in line for malcn W.
Jimmy Clabby, who is acknoWIeu55 a.
CHAMPION in America, for the worm
IN Mo r7i,-bters scarce In England.
BOXING news is very scarce from
across the big pond these days ana Ll .
following letter from my COT e9POIi
dent, Mr.. Dyer, will no DOUBT pIO''
interesting. He says; - 10,
@The National Sporting CLUB mas
started its weekly shows, despite tne
war. but nothing in the way OF Dls
matches have been staged as yet your
Milwaukee welterweight champion An
ton the Greek, who succeeue4 N 49,
ting out of Greece and PACK mere, M1u
a hard bout the other night at the Ma
tionaI club. when he met Eddie ELTON
a boy weighing 1855 pounds. An! ton
weighed about 145. It was a terrlIlC
struggle all through the 20 ROUNDS anu
ended even. Anton was not III as SOou
shape as Elton, but he put up re-
rnarkablv good battle, so good JnaI ne
was again matched by the club 1or
10 round bout with q good WeIIeI
weight whom the matchmaker dlu not
name as yet 1 understand, however
that it will be corporal Hail. he Is
also matched to box 20 ROUNDS WIZ
Nat Williams, the welterweiGht VINO
recently returned from Australia.
After these bouts he intends to return
to America.
Conflicting Reports Received.
Reports We're received. here about
the White and Welsh match, but they
differ and no one seems to know Just
what the verdict was. White must De
good to hold Welsh that way. We all
felt very sorry to hear about poor
Charlie LedOuX, the European champion
bantam, being killed at the front He
md a INF
going to America this winter to meet
Kid Williams for the title. Georges
Carpenter was not injured, as far as
7 can learn. He Is with the aviation
corps, but has not seen any real active
service in the field Adrien Hogan, the
wounded at Verdun and Eugene Stuber,
who had just returned from Australia,
was killed at the same place. There is
no sport Of any kind in Paris and very
little here, except boxing and football
Moha Took Off 50 Pounds.
Boxing fans the world over were
very much surprised when it was an
nounced in Australia three years ago
that cyclone Johnny Thompson had
jumped from a lightweight to a mid
dleweiEht within a few weeks time,
but Bob MOha, the beer city middle
weight, can so Johnny one better as
to the weight business Vincent MOha,
brother of Bob and who acts as his
manager, is authority for the state
ment that Bob reduced from 245 pounds
to 10 within a month or two. Before
Bob was matched with Mike Gibbons
at Hudson" said Vincent, ''he was
away above weight; in fact, during the
summer he scaled 245 pounds with his
clothes on. That did not bother Bob
and when he started training in the
fail I was surprised at the rapid man
ner i'm which he reduced Why, in a
short time he was down to 10 pounds,
having taken off IS pounds in weight
and made 100 at for Mike Gibbons.
That was taking off IS pounds all
told-sOme work, believe me"
Had Gained % Pounds.
In the case of Johnny Thompson It
might be well to mention that at the
time Of his jump in weight he was
matched to fight Hughey Michigan at
40 pounds rinEside. He was told that
ne would go stale if he tried to keep
down so fine, so Johnny decided TO
forfeit his $500 and go in at catch
weights He did not weigh himself and
supposed he would go to about 145
or 146 pounds The night OF the show
the official asked Johnny to step on the
scales. It was not necessary as he had
forfeited to Hughey, but he thought
nothing of it and got aboard He was
nearly paralyzed to see the pointer
move to 1872 pounds. He had gained
p pounds in two days. From that
time. on Johnny was middleweight.