Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-29

New York, June 2S.-Tom Gibbons
Of st. Paul was in line for matches
with Georges Carpenter and Jack
Dempsey until Harry Greb closed his
way to a decision over him. Since that
affair Gibbons has gone back to the
bushes and he has resumed his knock
out career, flattening all corners but
attracting no particular attention.
Gibbons was a great disappointment
in his bout with Greb, but his perform
ance was not so poor that he deserves
to be cast aside. Heavyweights are
so scarce these days that the fans
cannot afford to ignor him. Gibbons
is not all that he should be, but he is
a great deal better than the average.
II is not at all likely that if Demp-
sew were TO tackle Greb. the champion
would emerge from the encounter with
fresh ~laurels. Greb has an unpleasant
way Of making all his opponents look
far worse than they really are. The
tactics he uses are so peculiar that
ordinary boxing methods cannot pre-
vail against them.
Gene Tunney says that Greb is not
a boxer at all but a contortloulst
Why he can't hit hard enough to
knock over a lightweight declared
Tunney. Honestly | thought he was
pulling at first. They told me he was
a man-killer. but his hitting was so
light | could not believe he was trying
Greh Is a Puzzle
But although Tunney charges that
Greb won the fight by using the top
of his head. he admits readily enough
that the Pittsburgher is a puzzle. He
thinks that Greb would beat Carpen-
tier and make Dempsey look foolish.
Both Gibbons and Tunney want re
turn matches with Greb. Unless Car
p~entier speedily shows a desire to come
here and defend the world title against
the Pittsburgher, the latter should give
his two victims another chance.
There seems to he a great differ
ence of opinion in New York and New
Jersey rs to what constitutes a foul
. Harry Greb was allowed to hold anC
hit as much as he pleased in his bout
with Tunney. At one tine Harry hat
Genes head in chancery. but he wa,
allowed to get away with the trick
| that was barred when the Marquis o.
Oueensberry rules were substituted
for those Of the London prize ring.
Recently Charley White was refused
a license ms referee because he once
| DISQUALIFIED q boxer who insisted upor
rushing into clinches as fast as he WA
broken out of one.
Holds His Man
Inst what is legal and what is illega
when the men are partly locked in {
cIinch is a matter that no two referee:
agree upon. Greb holds his opponent
fast with one hand while clawing ava,
with the other. If what he does il
fair. then the rule that says 3 boxer
must not hold and hit should b'
scratched out of the book. 1t doe:
not mean anything.
f, Boxing fans are not so much con
cerned about holding and hitting n
they are about straight clinching. Il
! tho principals are free TO clinch rs
often as possible the fans would rather
see one arm free hitting than no hittin!
Mt all. What ring followers do wan
is a rule that would compel the mer
10 fight in the open. Constant clinch.
, ing is unsightlv and unscientific. 1t i.
| the one thing that makes bouts dul
| and uninteresting. With clinchin!
barred anv bout between evenly match
cd men would be full of interest.
Gibbons and Tunney Eliminated
Greb, for one thing, should imme
| diately lay claim to the world it'll
which Carpenter refuses to defend
When Carpenter went home to Franc
last summer after receiving a knock
| out at the hands Of Jack Dempsey Il