Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-27
BOXING FANS WANT
Recent Contest Between CIasby and Gibbons Too Short to Decide Middle weight Title.
A LONGER BOUT

The boxing world still echoes the result Of the ten round bout betw cen Mike Gibbons, the St. Paul marvel, and Jimmy Clabby, of Hammonds- port, Ind. In the opinion of the ma joIity of experts who witnessed the contest Gibbons won by 8 fair margin and for ten rounds at least can whip any man In the world at his weight There are many who argue, how ever that Mike is not built to go a distance, and they declare that in a battle of twenty or twenty-five rounds he would surely be found lacking. Ii is pointed out that in the tenth round Clabbv closed with a rush and drove his man across the ring. beating him hither and thither despite the most desperate efforts Mike could make to retaliate.
 There is only one way in which this question of supremacy may be set tied. Let some enterprisinS promoter offer an attractive purse, or agree to some fair percentage of the gate re- cipts and match the men over what Gibbons is pleased to call the Derby route'' of twenty rounds or more to a decision.
 Some ten thousan nd spectators were i in Tom Andrews club in Milwaukee on Thursday night to see the men go through a ten round bout to no de- cision. It was estimated that more than $50, 600 was taken in at the gate. If so many fans would pay first class prices to watch a bout of such short duration they would surely welcome the chance to see one on which some thing definite hinged.
 Gibbons issued d statement some time ago declaring his intention of meeting all corners in the middle l weight division over the distance route. in order to prove once and for all that he is the greatest man in the boxing world at the weight C1abby has long proved his worth as a. dis tance fighter. and he said on Thursday night. immediately after the bout, that nothing would suit him better than another chance at Mike in a long bat tie
 Championships will never De decided in these ten round sprint races. No one may proclaim one man or an other the best in the class, unless. per chance he is so effective a s to be able to land a knockout punch in short or der. 4 ten round battle between high
 grade men in many cases proves notl- ing and when the power to decide is taken away from the referee the quan- dary of the fans is the greater. But if the word of those who were at the ringside is to be taken, the ad- herents of the Hammond warrior had better think twice before they pro- claim him the master of Gibbons. It
 is true, undoubtedly, that Clabby earned some Snght auVantage In the final round He drove Gibbons back across the ring with a furry of blows I in a three minute sprint.
 This sort of thing. however, is com
 mon in short bouts. Boxers do that in the hope of influencing the crowd. It remains that Gibbons, boxing
 steadily along and sound in wind as
 at the start, met every move of Cla.b-
 bys, outboXed him. outfought him and was the aggressor throughout. Clabby
 won the first and the final rounds,
 while two more were even.
 Now Gibbons is to meet Eddie Nc Goorty in a. ten round contest which
 will be held in Milwaukee some time
 next month, in all likelihood on Feb
 ruary 22. If Mike manages to defeat
 the Oshkosh fighter by a decisive mar
 gin in ten rounds and it is not at all
 unlikely that he will. there will be
 few who will dispute his claim to su-
 premacy. Clabby has already whipped
 McGoorty in a decisive manner. Me
 Goorty and Gibbons met some time
 ago, and the bout was disappointing.
 At that time, however, Gibbons was
 in no condition to box, while Mo
 GOOTty was at his best