Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-13
GIBBONS HAS WISH
FOR ANOTHER MILL
WITH HARRY GREB
Winner of LOughran- Tunney
Go May Meet Tommy to See
Who Fights Champ.
BY SPARROW McGANN,
peciai Correspondent Of Great Fails Tribune

Copyright. 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Aug. 12-After the battle
between Tommy Loughran, the Philly
throned king Of the light heavies, on
August "a, it is cards that there will
be some doings in what the British
call the cruiserweight division. The
inside dope is that the winner of that
contest will exchange blows with Tom
my Gibbons and that in turn the winner
will mix it up with Harry Greb for
the champion title.
The writer had a word from Tommy
the other day. He is filled with but
one ambition and that is to show the
world that Greb is not his master. To
this end he has been preparing him
self carefully, taking on a few second
rate opponents and knocking them
endwise. and above all paying careful
attention to his condition. Tom was
overconfident when he met Greb and
was not in the best condition either.
There are many who will wish him
well in his ambitions. for Tommy is a
lkeable mauller. He realizes that the
time has come for him to put in his
best ticks because age waits for no man
and Thomas now acknowledges 3:3 years
of existence in this vale of punch and
jab.
The writer first recalls Gibbons back
in 1913 when as a novice with nothing
but a wallop to aid him. he slowed
away Tommy Bergen, Joe Borrell.
Young Mike Donovan. Johnny Ehaw
and Jack Denning. the dark faced, eagle
eyed mixer who now spends his days
handling younger fighters. The next
year he did a big thing. although east
erners. did not realize it at the time.
He beat Billy Miske in eight rounds.
What did attract attention. though.
was his victory over the highly touted
Muck Grouse in four rounds that year.
In 1915 Gibbons gained a lot of pres
tige although fighting only three bat
ties. He handed a lacing to Billy Muir
ray, the west coast favorite, beat Miske
again and won easily over Harry Greb.
In 1917 he won some fine victories
over such men as George Chip. Bob
Hoha and Battling Levinsky. After that
he defeated Larry Williams. Harry
Greb. Bob Foster and Miske again.
His course would have been altogether
triumphant had it no been for a rainy
day in Pittsburgh when, again meeting
Greb. the Pittsburgher plastered Tom.
my good and proper.
II WIS not untll last year tbat Gib-
bons became a pubilistic sensation. He
had taken On weight go fast that mid
dleweights were too small. so he enter
ed the heavyweight division. Tony Mel
cher and Al Reich were easy for him
and then he came to New York and put
Paul Sampson away in so workman
like q style that the critics at once
touted him as the most promising con-
tender for Dempsey's crown.
Thereafter pugilists fell before his
Underway like wheat under the reaper.
Those who enjoyed pleasant dreams as |
a result of contact with his fist were
Larry Williams. Porky Flynn. Jack
Heenan, Ray Smith. Jack Clifford. VIII
lie Meehan, William Keller. Dan
ODowd, Billie Reeves. Fred Aller and
a number of other heavies.
Tommy was on the highest crest
when he went against BARLEY Madden
and failed to put him away. although
he beat him up. Whether this failure
to send BARLEY to ~dreamland affected
Iommys nerve, or whether as sug-
in the foregoing he held Greb
cheaply, the fact remains that he
was beaten by the Pittsburgher and
since then he has beer treading tho.e
outer regions of darkness wherein
abide those who have failed.