The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-13
TOM GIBBONS FAVORITE TO
 DEFEAT CREE

More than 200 Bridgeport fight
 fans will be in the Garden tonight
 to witness the battle between Tom
 Gibbons and Harry Greb. Not since the Carpentier-Dempsey battle last July has local fistic circles been wrap
 ped it's tightly in an outside battle.
 Among. local sports to make an carly start included the Big Four.' CoI!nie
 Lewis, George Dwyer, Schang WSleel- CT and Fritz Musante.
 It's a long stretch since fight has
 stirred such interest People from all
 over the country, from all walks of life, including many proTn1nent m SO ciety and public life. will jam the old Garden.
 The proceeds are for worthy
 cause.-the Milk Fund for New ork s iPoor-and, of course, society wants to help Yet there is a suspicion that ithe fight itself is no sruan lure, to the elite, as well as the everyday Hover of boxing.
 Among notabIes who will look on ere Mrs. William K Vanderbilt, As lsistant Secretary of the Navy and Mrs lTheodore Roosevelt, MT and Mrs: Vincent Astor, MT. and Hrs, kermi. e,a7nl. tRoosevelts MT. and Mrs. Nicholas lLongworth, Mrs. Angler B. Duke fCharles Sabin, Price Kinney and oth-
 CTS. All have boxes
 The fight promises to be one or the ] greatest in boxing history, with rep tresentative audience as becomes such affairs these days
 Gibbons Has Advantage Gibbons. clever and knockout shap shooter, with ten pounds advantage in weight is an 8 to favorite, but many think even money would De , more like It. The men met twice | before, Gibbons winning. popular 1 fnewspaper decision their first meet ing and GreS getting the scr1bes yer { dict the second time. This leaves { them the way they began.
 Then too, a number of the Wlse :.lns argue that Grcb's sty le of fight ing. cyclonic all the way, may prove hard for Tommy to solve G1ppons fperfornls best with his sIeep-SocRS at stationery targets, and Greb IS any thing in the wide world but that linen too Greb's windmill onSlaughts and everlasting hopping about will count heavily in his favor, unless lnonnn1v manages to land sIowing-up smashes.
 From a distance, Greb looks we'll nigh wonderful to the onlool1ers, and twill be no easy task for judges and ,taferaa to nick a winner unless Gib- | hons land effectively Greb is a com l paratively light hitter to Gibbons. lie 1 has enough power to knock a man pal l,is feet, as he proved against Charley weinerst but finds it hard to Keep ! lem down. especially a fellow of GID bonS' size But his continual responsiveness of ten is a great oint.winner, and, Ii Snhe( fight goes the distance, as no small number believe it will. he stands Ia fine chance for a. decision The fight should settle a much-discussed | question as to who's who News paper decisions, ordinarily, don't mean | much.
 into the ring at about 164 pounds. Gibbons, standing fives. feet, 152 inches. will scale at 174; Such ad- vantage helps, but in this case, 1t would seem, not such a. great lot.
 There is much at stake for both battIers. They are popular ringsters, and a dsecfsive victory, the public likes to believe. might see Jack Dempsey tr Geoorges Carpentier against either in the near future. A Gibbons victory, however would be more attractive, as Greb is rather small for Dempsey, to say the least, and far from a Bob Bftzsimmons or a. Stanley Ketchel, small men, but with terrific hitting powers. Still, the high art of public 1ty seems to be able to do most any thing these days, and Greb is looking to the future with an eager eye
 If not Jack Dempsey. he figures, 1 then there is Carpenter and Gene Tunney, American Hghtheavyweight champion. Gibbons, of course, fig 0res tine same way. Just now, how ever, Carpentier is i'll in a. hospital in Paris, and rumors are that the pun fshment lfe got from Jack Dempsey last summer set him back so far that | he may soon quit the ring.
 Both Gibbons and Greb are gentle manly fellows. much out of the aver age run of others in their profession, and typify the best in the boxing game. The winner will have a, host of acelaimers, and the loser a host of eyunp athiZerS. ,
 Their friends from St. Paul and Pittsburgh, who will see the fight. number about 200 for each. They , got their tickets long ago. Greb's young wife will be the most interested i specta tor. Gibbons wife and two ( children are in St. Paul, but his re- nowned brother Mike is expected to