The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-10-19
ny FRANK G. MENkE


This Tomasco Gibbons person has
returned.
The st. Paul larruper demonstrated
the other night before a critical, al
most skeptical New York audience.
that he is a real two listed gladiator
and, in brilliant fashion. redeemed
himself for the Woody showing he
made months ago in the tusslae with
Harry Greb Gibbons, over a period
OF year, amassed an amazing record
OF knockout victories He bowled
over something like u men in row,
ana was a sensation wherever he ap-
peared. 1t looked like a Ger; ainty
mat he would be matched to battle
with Jack Dempsey-and then came
the bout with Harry Greb last spring
Gibbons was outpointed by Greb,
and made such bad showing in that
light, that those who saw him in &C.
ton were absolutely unable to couple
him with the same Gibbons they had
heard so much about because of his
wonderful string of knockout triumphs
accomplished in the bushes.
Takes Good Lay-off.
Gibbons took lay-off after that bat
tie and hadn't fought anyone since
the latter part of May. Then he was
matched to meet Miske. in Madison
Square Garden; the same Miske who
had knocked out Fred Fulton, Al Rob
erts, Charlie Weinert and a flock of
others; the same Billy Miske who was
being mentioned again as a possibility
for return match with Dempsey.
Gibbons, in fighting Miske the other
night, demonstrated that he is not
merely terrific two-handed puncher,
but that he has wonderful cleverness
and good ring brain. He made Miske
look like the worst novice that had
ever climbed through the ropes for the
first nine rounds, and won each of
those sessions of battling by the pro-
verbal mile.
1t is true that Gibbons lost the fight
because of an unintentional foul blow
in the tenth round. Whether the blow
was really foul is truly D debatable
question. Many who saw the battle,
insist that he hit Miske well above the
belt and that Miske took the flop
merely as the easiest way to save
himself from a knockout. The Grub
physician, who examined Miske after,
ward, barred out the contention of the
Gibbons adherence by this statement:
Found No Evidence
when / examined Miske in his
soever that a foul blow had been hit"
Even the referee-Kid Mcfarland
wasn't certain that the punch was re-
ally foul. When he saw Miske fall
to the floor and go through emotions
of agony he looked at Gibbons, then
looked again at Miske, and then turn
ed off to look at one of the judges.
Mcfarland did nothing until the
judge nodded his head. Then Mozart,
land pushed the amazed Gibbons to his
corner and the fight was awarded to
Miske on a foul.
1t is probably the luckiest thing
that eevr happened to Miske in his
whole life that he won the fight in
that fashion. If he hadn't-if the
battle had been prolonged for a few
more rounds-it seems almost certain
that Miske would have been knocked
out. Gibbons through the earliest
rounds of the fight, simply chopped
and backed away at Miske, and bat
tered Miske down to point where he
was WOODY and groggy
His Narrow Escape
In one of the rounds Gibbons stag
gered Miske with short right hand
Jofts, and Miske saved himself only
by hanging out
But where Gibbons displayed his
greatest brilliance was in his defen-
sive tactics. In the 81 minutes OF
fighting which preceded the delivery
of the foul blow, Miske never hit
Gibbons once with real smash. To-
masco was phantom on defense if
ever there was one. He either would
back away, side-step or duck under