Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-03-13
Possibility Of Winner Tonight
Being Picked a. Foe
,~ for Dempsey
FIFTEEN ROUNDS At GARDEN
How Gibbons and Creb
.... VIII Shape Up Tonight
BY LOUIS II. JArTE

Ix11TH possibilities Of Z prospective
w foe for the Mansssa Mauler. j.
Dempsey; worlds heavyweight cham.
pion, being developed tonight. together
with the fact that the. AFFAIR Is for
the benefit Of the "Milk Fund" of New
York City, the bissest crowd to Jam
the Madison Square Garden ID expected
there to zee Tom Gibbons and Harry
The: champion himself, according. 70
word from New York today, will be
ringside spectator.
Neither Greb nor Gibbons is a. heavy
90 the conqueror Of the French idol,
Georges Carpenter, still this pair have
been going along on the hstic highway
knocking heavyweight material asunder
20 that they loom today as the best
Of the big boys on Dempsey's trail.
They are Of different schools Of fisti.
cuHs-0ibbons being q terrific puncher,
while Greb 10 q speedy scrapper.
This will be their fourth meeting.
Once Greb and Gibbons clashed in st.
Paul and on the other two occasions
they duns fists in the general direc.
ton Of each other in Pittsburgh,
Harry's home town. Tonight's encoun.
ter 10 to be fifteen rounds to q deci-
sion and there is no reason why one or
the other should not be able to score
. decisive victory.
Gibbons IL being made the favorite.
Al Wagner. of this city, win appear
In one OF the other bouts, meeting
Louis Kid Kaplan, Of Meriden, Conn
George Marks will meet Abe Attell
0oldstein and Joe yelling boxes Clonie
Tat. There 10 z lot Of interest in the
last named match, too. yelling beinl
q 7.to-6 favorite to win.
Easy for Freshman.
| Sailor Freedman had q cincb Of 1,
q ~ National Saturday night. Frank.
Brooklyn. and appearing In his firs'
match in three years, was unable e
stand of the Chicago mariner, and h,
was being administered such 4 terrifi,
drubhing that Referee Lou Crimson
humanely stopped hostilities In the sew
enth round.
For two rounds Callahan was abl,
to make the bout look like fairly evel
match. but after that It was no con
test-that 10, It was one sided. Still
although the Sailor. slambanged Frank
man was unable to score a knockdown
Joe Welch, TIE former winning be,
cause Of his terrific attack with boil
hands at close quarters. It was a sen
satlonsl set-to. Another corking con
test was that between Kid Wolf an,
Charley Ray, the former being a vict
tor. Harry Burke easily whipped Jacl
Francis and Johnny Gardner defeate,
Johnny Grihen.
Tender Boxes Tonight
| After scoring a technical knockou
In the third round against john,
Sheppard, Of England, at Brooklyn OF
Saturday night, Lew Tender, local sta
lightweight, is back in town and h
will 70 after another X. o. tonight a
the Olympia Club. Tender will pai
of with Alex Hart. Of Cleveland.
A game and gritty battler, Hart ma.
upset the dope-then, again, he ma,
not. Fans still remember his recen
brilliant battle against the hefty .hittin
George CLANCY. In that match Alex
while socked around pretty much, reall,
wasn't outclassed by any means, AM
be won lot Of friends by his good bout
A bantam match will be decided Il
the other eight-rounder when Pats,
Wallace. short, and Battling Mack
long, will get together. Other numbers
Ping Bodie vs.. Ray O'Maliey, Younl
Sherlock vs.. Buddy Fitzgerald an,
Jimmy Hutchinson VS.. Bobby Wilson