The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-01-06
GIBBONS CHANGES
WITH JACK DEMPSEY
EXCITE ARGUMENTS
BY FRANK G. MENKE

BY FRANK q. MENhE
On one side of the street they'll tell
you:
Tom Gibbons is false alarm"
If you cross over you'll hear them
shouting:
Tom Gibbons is wonder and he'll
whip Dempsey if the champion ever
gives him a chance"
No fighter in modern times has eX-
cited quite so much speculation as has
the sensational performer from st.
Paul Some men who have seen him
in action claim that his style in fight
ing makes him a perfect setup for
Dempsey; others insist that this very
same style of ring warfare is the style
that will battle Dempsey and enable
Tomasco to bump the champ into
Kingdom Come.
Those not enthused over Gibbons
assert:
What if Gibbons did knock out 10
men in row? Look over the gang
that he has knocked out and you will
see that there aren't but two or three
that couldn't be knocked overheard
by first-class middleweight. He won't
fight good man and he has been
| trying to make reputation for him.
self by knocking over the soft ones"
Backers Insist
The faction favorable to Gibbons
insists
ANY man who can knock out 10 foe
men in row is a wonder, no matter
who they are. Dempsey couldn't do
it; Jefries, Johnson, Corbett, Sullivan.
and Willard couldn't do it. 1t doesn't
make any difference whether the man
you face is a soft one or not. The
trick Of knocking him out cannot be
accomplished unless you have a real
craftsmanship, real speed and terrific
punching power.
But all this stuff about Gibbons
knocking only very soft ones is bunk
Tom put to sleep four men that never
| had been knocked out in their lives.
| They were Dan O'Dowd, Tony Mel
| choir, Hugh Walker and Paul Samp-
son. The faf-famed hitter, Bill Bren-
| nan, got crack at O'Dowd and not
| only couldn't put him away, but
ODowd actually beat Brennan. Paul
! Sampson has taken on the toughest
! men in the game and no one ever
| stopped him until Gibbons turned the
| TRICK. Hugh Walker was going along
| great and assembling a knockout rec
i ord himself until he met Gibbons and
| was punched asleep"
Scoffers Rise Up
| Gibbons string of knockouts ended
/ with 10, because he took on BARLEY
| Madden in Grand Rapids. He do,ed
out an unmerciful beating to Madden,
| but couldn't stop the big Irishman.
| Thereupon, the Gibbons scofferS rose
up and CALCULATED:
!, That just shows up Gibbons Mad
den is just bum-and yet Gibbons
couldn't put him away"
In rebuttal, the friends of Gibbons
retort:
Madden is the toughest man to
knockout that the prize ring has
known since Joe Grimm's time. He
has fought every heavyweight of
prominence in America, with the ex.
ception of Dempsey. and nobody has
stopped him. Madden met Fulton
when the tall Minnesotan was going
at his best and Fred couldn't stop
Madden. Bill Brennan took shot al
Madden and couldn't put him away
Frank Moran, Charlie Weinert, Harry
Greb and a dozen others tried to stop
Madden. but their efforts were use
less. Madden seems to be man with
an iron jaw and an iron stomach"
Cite Dozen Reasons.
The outfit which can't see Gibbons
can cite a dozen reasons which, in its
own opinion proves that Gibbons is
not yet in Dempsey's class. But the
Gibbons admirers rise up with tive
dozen causes to prove, conclusively, as
they claim, that Gibbons is the mos
formidable Dempsey foeman of the
present time-that Gibbons with q
crashing right handler. a wonderful lef
hook, cool. calm ring Judgment and his
remarkable left hand stab for the body
can whip Dempsey.
Gibbons, says
Gosh, ] don't know who is right
Maybe I'm what my spoilers say
: and maybe I'm not. But if somebod,
will please page Mr.. Dempsey and tos:
: Us into the same ring, I'll try to fur
nish the answer and halt all furthe
arguments
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