El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-01-22
SAY GIBBONS BEST MIDDLENIEIGHT
BUT RECORD DOES NOT PROVE It
Is Not in the Same Glass W it'll Tommy Ryan, Stanley
Ketchel and FitsimmOns, Though is Clever Boxer;
Benny Kauffs Purchase Price to Federal Treas
ury and Not to Indiana polls; Sets Precedent.

PHHE Old saying that once fighter
knocks out another fighter he
can repeat the trick almost any
time he wants to was confirmed in St
Paul this week when Mike Gibbons
put Young Ahearn away in one round
On June Is. 1913, Gibbons stopped
Ahearn in four rounds in New York.
Some eastern scribes, with whom
Nike Gibbons is a great favorite, are
openly claiming that Nike is now the
greatest middleweight in the history
OF the ring and go so Tar as 10 say
that he will stOD Les Darcy as quick
" as he did Ahearn.
But is Mixes record so wonderful
Take a squint through the record DOoh
and it doesn't look so great Accord
ing 10 the record in the Tom An
drews publication. Mike has lost but
one bout and that to Jimmy Claoby-
They can lose sight OF bouts win
lesser lights but a match with CIapD9
can't be overlooked, great as the temp
tation is to the manager who IS 1lNihs
VI a nice looking record
In Mikes record there appears no
decision" bout with billiard Lang IN
1911. Now Nike had considerably the
better Of the weights in that bout Dul
Lang certainly gave him a licking
In his list OF 1911 and 1912 knock
outs Mike didn't score with the 'kayo
He even let such men as Freddie HICKS
Tommy Howell, Jack Denning ana JACK
AIcCarrOn stay the limit with him. IN
1913. his most creditable fight was the
knockout Of Ahearn- His opponents IN
1914. taken as a whole lacked class
True he stopped Bob -MeAlnster Wnen
the latter was being tOuted as a Won
der but McAllster has done nothing
since then that would indicate any par
ficular class. Mixes 1878 bouts were
all no-decisiOn affairs and he lost the
popular verdict in at least two OF tnein
Soldier Bartfield got credit for trim
ming Mike in Brooklyn last May and
Packy Mcfarland certainly had the
popular verdict in the September Isnl
Mike Gibbons may be an exceptional
" good boxer but he is hardly the
clever boxer and tricky ring general
that Tommy Ryan was he hash [
shown the knockout Waliop OF old bep
Fftzsimmons, who was rated as mid
dlevveight for many years, he certainly
isn't as formidable a proposition as
was the late Stanley ketchel and ms
record doesn't look a bit better than
that Of FL PasO's own veteran AUS
traiian" Bill, Smith. In the old days,
fhe fighters went into the ring for de-
cision bouts. Now they Chamber through
the ropes and can stall 10 ROUNDS with
the knowledge that the marks no
Dec" viii be tagged after the bout IN
the record books, il they can stick the
Mike. Gibbons viii not be generally
recognized as worlds champion unlll
he wins a referees decision over Les
Darcy and that's a task over which
Mike will hesitate a long time before
attempting
Benny Kauff has been purchased by
the New York Giants from the defunct
Federals for a record price, estimated
at as high as $50. 000. But the money
goes into the old Fed treasury and does
not 20 to the indianapolis club, which
held Kauffs contract before he jumped
10 the outlaws"
BY failing to reimburse the Indianap-
oils club. the major leagues viii set
precedent through which, in years 70
come. players may jump their baseball
contracts. Taken TO task, they can reply