Great Falls tribune., 1922-02-21
G|BBO|Vs-GREB BOUT
To Be HIGH LIGHT
IN BOXING WORLD
Tommy May Face Air Full Of
Gloves in Battle ON
March 13.
By SPARROW M'GANN,
Special Correspondent of Great Falls Tribune

Copyright. 1922 by The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Feb. 20-Tex Rickard
has received word that Harry Greb
of Pittsburgh and Tommy Gibbons of
st. Paul have begun light work in
preparation for their 10 round bout
at the Madison Square Garden On the
night of March 13. Within a short time,
probably 10 days, Rickard expects the
two fighters to move on to New York
to complete their hard training.
A letter received from GreD says he
is feeling fine and expects to surprise
those who think that his chief asset
is energy. He does not expect to
weigh more than a pound or two over
16O when he enters the ring.
Harry appreciates the fact that the
Gibbons battle means his big oppor-
tunity. He appreciates the fame that
Gibbons has earned not only through
his style of boxing which filled ex-
perts in the metropolis with admira-
ton when he appeared here last year.
Method Is Impressive
It is recognized that those Gibbons
has sent to dreamland have not stack
ed up even in the second class. Never
theless Tommys method of disposing
of opponents has been most impress
sive. The bout with BARLEY Madden,
which ended Gibbons conclusive
knockout record is regarded by the
discerning merely as one of those
things"
Such prestige as Gibbons lost
through that bout counts for little
just now. Gibbons failure to put
Madden to sleep has been forgotten.
Undoubtedly the battle on March 13
will stack up as the high light contest
of the boxing season thus far.
As for Harry Greb his performances
have always been workmanlike and
consistent When he was a novice of
10, the Pittsburgher met Joe Chip and
was put to sleep in the second round.
That was in 1913. Since then the
Pittsburgher has met them all, big
and small. always with credit to him
self His list of no-decision bouts,
reads like directory of modern top
line scrappers. while he has beaten
such good men as Chip. paying him
back for the 1913 knockout-Hap Lit
tleton. Jeff Smith. Bartley Madden,
N't 4NofItIh. = marley W elIeTt. \ HHth
Wiggins and Bill Shade. Twice he
has met Gibbons in no-decision fights
and in the second bout did bit more
than hold his own against the St. Paul
artist.
Has 80 Knockouts
In no-decision bout with Bill
Brennan. he skipped around the big
fellow so energetically and filled the
air so full of boxing gloves that since
that the man, who most frequently has
been named as Dempsey's next op-
ponent. has refused to climb into the
ring with the clown. as Brennan
calls the lad from Pittsburgh. Greb
has 30 knockouts to his credit, but in
1919, having sent Lon Rowlands. Sol
der Jones, Yankee Gilbert and Joe
Borrell into dreamland he began to
concentrate upon the modern art of
pillng up points-a popular thing with
some of the best fighters these days.
Anyway, Greb's modern stunt has
been to throw a million boxing gloves
at opponents and accumulate so many
points that it takes lightning mathe-
matician to keep track of them.
Whether Gibbons will Interrupt him in
his work and turn out the Pittsburgh
fighters lights remains to be seen.