The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-02-19
Harry Greb Will Meet
 Gibbons on March 13
Blond Pittsburger Realizes SThat He Will Be Facing the Big Opportunity of His Career
By SPARROW M,GANN

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 (CopyriEht, 1929, by The Age Herald)
 New York. February 1S.-Tex Rick ard received word today that Harry Greb of Pittsburg and Tommy Gib- bons of St. Paul have begun light work in preparation for their 15 round bout at the Madison Square Garden on the night of March 1S. Within short time, probably ten days, Rickard expects the two fight CTS to move on to New York to com- plete their hard training. It is ex- pected that neither will establish in d1yidual training quarters, but will take their workouts in local gymna- slums.
 A letter received today from Harry Greb says he is feeling fine and ex- poets to surprise those who think that his chief asset is energy. He does not expect 10 weigh more than a pound or two over 160 when he enters the ring.
 Greb'S Big Opportunity
 Harry appreciates the fact that the Gibbons battle means his big oppor- unity. He appreciates the fact that Gibbons has eafned fame not oniy through his long string of knock outs but by his style of boxing which filled experts in the metropolis with admiration when he appeared here last year. It Is recognized that the men Gibbons has sent to dreamland have not slacked up even in the sect ond class. Nonetheless, Tommy's method Of disposing of opponents has been most impressive. The bout with Bartley Madden which ended Gib- bons' consecutive knockout record IS regarded by the discerning merely as one of those things" At the same time 1t should be remembered that while Madden is not an offensive marvel. he is a glutton for the hard est sort of punishment
 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 con test of the boxing season thus far. This goes not only for New York but the country generally.
 Greb Has Good Record
 For Hary Greb his performances have been workmanlike. When he was novice of 1e, the Pittsburger met Joe Chip and WAS put to sleep in the second round. That was in 1913 Since then Greb has met them all big and little always with credit to him self. His list of no-decision bouts reads like a directory of modern top line scrappers. while he has beaten such good men as George C1ip-pay- ing him back for the 1913 knockout Nap Littleton. Jeff Smith, Bartley. Madden, Kid Norfolk, Charley Vein ert, Chuck Wiggins and Bill Shade. Twice he has met Gibbons in no de- eision fights and in the second bout did bit more than hold his own against the St. Paul artist
 Bill Brennan shy
 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 then the man who 1st frequently is mentioned as Dempseys next oppo- nent has refused to climb into the ring with the clown" as Brennan calls the lad from Pittsburg. Earlier in his outs. He has 30 to his credit, but in 1919, having sent Lon Rowlands, sol- dier Jones' Yankee Gilbert and Joe Borrell into dreamland, he began to concentrate upon the modern art of piling up points-a practice popular with most of the best fighters these days. The idea may be expressed in the phraseology of a powerful wal loper. towit Why knock the poor guy to sleep; he has living to earn?'
 Anyway, Greb's modern stunt has been to throw a million boxing gloves at opponents and accumulate so many points that it takes a lightning meth cmatician to keep track of them. whether Gibbons will interrupt him in his work and turn out the Pitts burger fighters lights remains to be seen.