Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-07
typo, but he will have to go some 10 |
rench tho heights OF popularity his !
famous anteccdcnts attained.
Imagine Gibbons and Willard.

typo. but he will have to go some to
rench tho heights OF popularity his
famous antcccdcnts attained.
Imagine Gibbons and Willard.
Mike Gibbons Is TO he congratulated
Tor his temerity in consuming TO meet
Gunboat Smith In bout here. At last
tho st. Paul flash seems TO have de-
Soioped that ambition he has been in
need OF so long. II he really is sim
cere in his announced intention of sail
Ing into the white hope brigade. there
Will be some OF the most interesting,
ring battles of the decade shortly.
There are plenty of followers of the
hstic game right here in New York
who hold mighty respect for Glib
bons's ability in his new venture. They
reason that his cicVcrncss in ducking
blocking and side stepping when at
long range will enable him To nullify
any advantage the heavy weisii,s
or reach than he. And they believe he
will DO able 10 get inside thetS guard
for close work or else fire swing over
1t is not improbable tina, Mike will
be able to lick the Gunhoat II the two
ever get in the same ring. There is
not any tremendous difference in. size
between them. Smith is two inChs
taller. being FIVE feet eleven inches TO
five feet nine inches for Gibbons. jim
Flynn is just FIVE feet nine and one
half inches tall. and Tommy Burns.
who held the heavyweight champion
ship before Jack Johnson. is only five
feet seven inches in height. Gibbons
will not he UP against an insurmount-
able handicap on that height and reach
proposition. In the matter OF weight
there probably Will be about thirty
pounds difference, Gibbons weighing
about l55 and smith So pounds.
Meeting n man like Jess Willard is a
different thing from the standpoint of
middleweight like Gibbons, who would
look like ten-year-old boy pitted
against that six feet six inches and $50
pounds of flesh. Get after the light
heavywe!shts, Mike, and tackle all YOU
can get a crack at. but. Mike me boy,
Sfn 81 u a., 30
straight jab that will keep you eight
feet away from him all the time.
Dundee and WolEast Toiicrs.
II Johnny Dundee and Ad WolEast
get together in Madison Square Gar
den. as Promoter Jimmy Johnston am
neunces they Will, packed house will
fellows VINO can he depended upon TO
deliver red hot fight every time out.
No matter who he is pitted against,
Wolgast always makes n hummer of a
scrap. Against careful cautious
boxer even, he can make n boxing
match into n battle, always carrying
scarcely let up for breathing spell
Dundee Is Just about the same thing.
Kilbnne. holder of the featherwetcht
championship, it was he and not Kill
banc that made the contest a battle
Dundee has grown into a lightweight
himself with credit against such good
boys as Willie Ritchie Freddie Welsh.
Dung Shugrne and Charley White, not
being outclassed by any OF them lie
gave Champion Welsh such a furious
argument in New Orleans on New
Years Day. 1914. THAI the Englishman
meeting with the little Scotch Italian.
That bout was a ten-round. no decision
anair, and many Of those who saw il
thought Dundee had tho better Of tho
scrap lie now has designs on the
lightweight title, and Wolgast in the
same vein processes an ambition to re-
I. n frn, of
mind, their little argument should be
worth listening to.