The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-03-13
EFFORT To- FORECAST
RESULT TONIGHT IS
IMPOSSIBLE, MENKE
BY FRANK G. NIENKE

Efforts to forecast what's going to
happen on March 18th when Tom
Gibbons clashes with Harry Greb,
meets with the same success as when
a bloke tries to answer the quizz:
What would happen If the irresist-
IDLE. force meets the immovable OBJ
ject?"
For, on one paw, person finds Glib
bons who has been irresistible against
all sorts of foemen throughout year
of fighting; on the other is Greb, who
never has been stopped in his ener-
getic lifetime.
Throughout his years as a mitt war
ior, Greb has confronted Bill Brennan.
Kid Norfolk, Battling Levinsky, Bob
Roper, Billy Miske, Jack Dillon, Eddie
McGoorty, Gunboat Smith, Mike
O'Dowd, Jeff Smith, Willie Meehan,
a score of others-and even Tom Glib
bons himself-without ever being
forced to grovel in rosin dust.
A wonderful, an amazing record for
man who rarely has bulked more
than 165 for any of his tits.
Gibbons Changed
The fact that Greb twice went the
distance with Gibbons makes many
believe that Gibbons not merely won't
achieve his knockout ambition against
the pittsburgh Rubber Ball. but is
| in imminent danger of taking a clout-
| ing himself. But it must be remem-
bered that the Tom Gibbons of this
day and age is quite different than the
Gibbons who mixed it with Greb be-
fore.
Until year ago, Gibbons was con.
tent to be boxer. Suddenly he de-
cided to do a little knocking out. He
discarded his hit, stop and get away
methods-and went In for sluggery
He took on through the year quite a
few of the same men who had gone the
distance with him earlier-and he put
them away with a few smashes OF
his mighty maulies.
| Meets SIugger Tonight
Greb fought Gibbons, the boxer
Now Greb meets Gibbons, the slug
ger-Gibbons, the possessor of one OF
the greatest knockout records eve,
compiled by heavy man in the span
of a single year.
Those who have battled Greb ever
will maintain that he is the hardest
man to hit that the prize ring ever
knew. A bozo of limitless energy
with the speed of a lightning flash and
the quickness of a panther Greh
never is still long enough to permit
anybody to land solid smash. When.
ever he is hit, it's usually on the
fy-and swinging punches rarely dc
much damage.
But those who have mixed it with
Gibbons Of late maintain that it makes
but little difference what you have
done to avoid it-Gibbons has a habit
of reaching out and landing with
crashing force. They will concede to
Greb eel-like movements, great speed
wonderful stiffness. And then they
will add:
Carries WALTON.
But Gibbons is no slew-foot him
self. He will catch UP with Grer
sooner or later, corner him-and land
And when he lands something is go
ing to happen. For Gibbons of TO-DAY
has wallop, especially in his left
hand, that carries with it as mucl
crashing force as Dempsey himself
can generate.
Whatever the outcome of this strug
gle on March 10, this fact seems Ger
tain:
There will be action from gong &
gong-furious, whirlwind action, witt
each man striving to the utmost limit
of his powers to beat the other into
Inconsistencies. For the prize thai
goes to the victor is the chance tt
meet Jack Dempsey.
And that's a prize worth while.
For even if the winner of the Grebs
Gibbons bout should fail in his ef
forts to wrest the crown from Demp
sey's dome. there will be solace il
the losers end-a solace which a
worst, should enhance the bankrol
from 100000 to 100000.
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