The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-03-05
GIBBONS TO MEET
 CREE IN NEW YORK BOUT ON MARCH I3I
Premier Slugger Is Matched With Master Boxer in
 Elimination Bout
BY mEs J. CoRBETr

Copyright 1922, by King Features
 Syndicate, Incl
 The business of tossing Tom Gib- bons and Harry Greb into the same ring ought to be productive of some thrilling results. And perhaps it will furnish new answer to the old old question of what happens when a box CT meets slugger.
 The boys are slated to go Ia rounds in Madison Square Garden on March 1a, with the winner gathering in the privilege-if such word fits-of meeting the mauling Mir. Dempsey some time during the summer
 In one corner will be a man who has compiled one f the most impressive knockout records know to heavy weight pugilism; in the other will be a human rubber ball without punch. but with speed, certain science and toughness rarely equaled in any pe- riod in ring history.
 Gibbons Knocks Elm Out
 Gibbons, in something like 23 fights has won all but one with knockout blows. No man other than Bartley Madden really was able to stand up before the furious onslaught launche ed by his powerful hands. And includ- ed in the list of those who went down before the fearful Gibbons attack were men who never before, in all their lives, had hit a canvas with broken bodies or pounded jaws.
 the other hand, is Greb. who. in something like % of his last fights, has been able to put away only four or five men, but who never in his life weakened under the impact of a drive. The whirlwind Pittsburger has met the best and toughest men in the prize ring, has foug' almost all of them but Dempsey nd never has been knocked out
 Greb Is Boxer
 Gibbons. once a boxer, has devel- oped into a slugger. Greb. always a boxer, has. through the years, improv- ed his style, increased his speed and stands forth today at his fistic best. Of all the men the prize ring ever knew. Greb seems to be the most dur able, the most energetic, the most tireless. and one of the swiftest of arm and leg.
 So the fight will bring togather two extremes.
 If Gibbons yearns to achieve pres tige, and a crack at Dempsey, through the medium of that March IS clash, there is ouly one real way in which he can do it. And that is to knock out a man who never was knocked out in his life; to punch into a state of coma a man who has taken everything that Bill Brennan, Kid Norfolk, Bob Roper, Bartley Madden, Jack Renault, Bat ting Levinsky and host of others have doled out and still held to his feet.
 What Greb Must Do
 If Greb wants to establish the right to fight Dempsey, he must beat into submission man who hasn't been hit a solid blow by any foeman for nearly a year, he must stop or cut to ribbons, the fighter who hasn't had black eye bloodied nose, a split lip or any other fighting mark in several years of busy ring warfare.
 The meeting of Greb and Gibbons. therefore. could. in certain sense. be called a clash between the immovable object and the irresistible force. For when Gibbons hits 'em they go down, when they hit Greb they cant stop him.
 Therell be action in that fight. per haps mare action that the Garden has known in long. long while. For Greb is a human dynamo. From bell to bell he is never still. He is always rushing jumping, tearing in, circling. and the air is full of flying gloves, He may not hit hard, but he tries countless times in evry round and he hits often.
 Will Use His Speed
 Greb undoubtedly will use all the speed that is his to baffle Gibbons His hope is to use the old "hit-stop- getaway" plan. He realizes that Gib- bons carries concentrated dynamite. especially in his left hand, But Gre5 undoubtedly will charge it, land with his left or right and then try to jump out of the danger zone before Gb- bons can flash forth with his power ful drives.
 The Greb adherents figure that the speed of the Pittsburg boy is his long forte: that his speed will win for him. But Eddie Kane, who pilo s Gibbons. simply grins and says
 Toms a little bit speedy himself. Whenever he needs to hustle along he hustles. amasine Gseb wiil force h.n to travel fast, So you just watch him go. If Greb expects to save him self from being knocked out that night, the best thing he can do IS Jump riet over the ropes when the