The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-07


 Gibbons Overrated. Too
 Of late, Tommy Gibbons has come to the front and the news papers have published reams of dope about Tommy and his stuff. It's true that he has quite a list of knockouts to his credit, and has sent string of opponents down in the first round. His work, at a glance. smacks some thing of Dempsey's when that worthy was working his way to- wards fight with Willard. While I was in New York, how ever, l had the pleasure of get ting first-hand information from a number of critics .on this Gib- 'bons fellow The majority of experts up that way seemed to think that while Gibbons was in no sense a false alarm, that he was not yet ripe for. a whack at the man killer. In the first place, Gibbons would meet the same severe handicap confronted by Carpentier-weig sight In the sec ond place. the critics seem to think that the men Gibbons has disposed of in such rapid fire or der, have been set-ups for him. Certainly the celebrated brother of Mike should display his wares in fight with Carpenter before he makes effort for gog at Ia ,l. i. believe he will fall before the Frenchman. My opinion of Georges has been boosted fully 50 per cent since before the Jer- sey fight. A look at the glove wizard in almost four rounds of fighting was enough to convince me that Carpenter is among the topnotchers. if not the next best man in the world.
 Dope Would Favor Bill
 On the face of things, it looks like Knockout Bill Brennan would be the likely man to get the call, if they just must make the title-holder defend his cham pionship within two months time. Bill is the only boy who has ever been able to stay IF rounds with Jack in recent years. don't be- lieve he would stay as long the next time as he did the last. But looking at the thing from dope standpoint. 1t would seem that Bill has the edge on getting a see. however, how any man would be anxious to go against the Dempseyian fist. There is always a chance that the pow erful hitter, Dempsey, is going to knock some opponent for a goal one of these days, and the victim isn't going to come up for air at all The champion ex- plained away his poor showing against Brennan by stating that he was i'll for the first six rounds and really should have been in bed. That may have been ;he case. But boxing is not immune rom politics every now and then, and Dempsey's work with Bill certainly increased the interest in the Carpenters Dempsey scrap. Knowing that he could put Bill away any time he desired. may be Jack played along with the big fellow.
 Two More Likely Candidates There are two other men who have been mentioned for the proposed Labor Day bout. One is the former champion, Willard, and the other is Harry Wills, the negro. Dempsey nas hinted that the color line Is not to be drawn in his coming fights, and if 1t isn't Wills may get the chance. The wise birds are trying to shoo Willard from retirement. but T. don't think big Jess is overly anxious for another face-mang- ling. He is little over two years older than he was when Dempsey wrested the title from him. He was called an old man at the time he lost the title. Two also make a great difference in Willard. think it would be bloody murder to send him against Jack again, but the lure of gold will get 'em all, and it may be that Jess will sacrifice his facial beauty once more if the opportunity turns up. It would be mighty bad thing for the box ing game if Willard was pitted against Jack once more. His general flabbiness would send the fans away from the ring with a general nausea.
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