The New York herald., 1922-05-24
PITTSBURGH BOXER
SETS A FAST PACE
Fighter of Many Glasses Gains
Success in Sanguinary Bat
tie in Garden Ring.
BOUT GOES Is ROUNDS
Soldier Boy Was Game but
Was Like Man in Cage
With Wildcat.
By w. O. M'GEEHAN.

BY w. o. M'GEEHAN.
Harry Greb, the Pittsburgh light
heavyweight, clawed sanguinary
fifteen round decision from Gene Tun-
ney at Madison Square Garden last
night. Every one Of the fifteen rounds
was monotonously like every other. In
tho first round Greb drew a crimson
rivulet from the nose and mouth OF
Tunney. Later he opened cut over
Tunney's left eye and then over the
right.
The victory carries with 1t the title
of American light heavyweight cham
pion. If that means anything. Tun-
ney. who was the champion Of the
A. E. T. in France, won 1t from Bat
ting Levinsky. who retained the
American rights after being knocked
out by Georges Carpenter.
Tunney showed the dogged doughboy
courage of his mates overseas. but II he
had anything else he did not have a
chance to show 1t. He was as busy as
man who had stepped into cage with a
wildcat He stood up bloody. but un-
bowed for the fifteen rounds watching
for a chance to land one punch. That
chance never came.
The crimson flow that started in the
first round from the mouth and nose
of Tunney lasted all through the fight.
1t spattered down over Greb's shoul-
ders
1t dyed the white shirt of the referee,
Kid Mcfarland. 1t dripped down into
the rosin.
Perhaps this Is not sanguinary as 1t
sounds. Tunney bleeds easily and pre-
fusely. Certainly he made the ring look
like a shambles last night with blood
shattered Mcfarland a weary chooser
OF the slain.
Greb After Carpenter.
IT occurred to all sitting at the ring
side last night that Greb would give
Carpenter fairly reasonable fight. II
would be something close to matcn.
Tex Rickard announced after the bell
had closed the sanguinary display that
he would cable to Carpenter In the
morning II Greb weighed about twenty
pounds better he certainly would give
Dempsey some trouble. but as 1t stands
he would have no chance.
IneT6 II no uouDt ehAS ho "OeAN -
willing to take one though.
AS soon as Tunney stepped out OF his
corner In the first round Greb sprang
at him and clawed at the face. Clawed
seems to be the right word, for Greb
uses few straight punches. There is
something catlike in the way he hooks
those gloved fists and welts or blood fol-
low each blow.
From tho first round he had Tunney
bewildered. The ex-doughboy marched
steadily and sturdiiy into those whirls
Of clawing, but the blood continued TO
flow and he could not land squarely on
the whirling, twisting wildcat. Some
times Greb seemed TO be coming at him
with a cat spring from behind. Some
times he seemed to be swooping down
on him from a high place.
ALWAYS Greb rushed in close where
Tunnsy could not find him. Frequently
Greb held with one claw while with the
other ne lashed into Tunney's crimson
twisted face. Tunney slared at him
sometimes and sometimes pssred at HIM
bewildered through crimson mists
Tunney a Crimson Smear.
In the sixth round the shirt of Nc
Partland took on a deeper hue of RED
Greb had opened q cut over Tunney's s
eye.. wide cash that dripped blood Tn
the ninth a slighter cut was opened over
the right eye. Tunney's face had b.
come one crimson smear. Between
rounds the seconds sponged the blood
away and Tunney's clear cut profile
would emerge from the smear.
But as soon as the bell rang the Wild
cat would be Mt him again, and once
moro tho senblance of a face would be
pbIiterated. II was so redly monotonous
that your correspondent turned away
ones or twice 10 see a blonde lady smll-
ing as she chewed her gum and dis
cussed some alien subject with her
escort She was bored.
Tunney put ND Drawer show than
Tom Gibbons. who seemed 10 have a
chance with the Pittsburgher but lost it
through sheer stupidity. Tunney was
trying always. When Greh came at him
b. sometimes would try to hold him,
vtlt Il was like embracing n wildcat.
When II was over Tunney came out
smiling a crimson smile to congratulate
Greb nice boy that Tunney and a
good soldier. as the entire A. f. +. will
testify but he has not the instincts for
this kind of fighting nor has he the
speed. That dream OF any kind of a
boxing champion from the A. y. +.
vanished In the crimson mists at Madi-
son Square Garden last night.
It will be Carpenter and Greb now
of the world. II Wilson. the travesty OF
middleweight champion, would sign for
match with Greb the Pittsburgher
would have that title. II belongs TO
him. He weighed IN at 162 pounds last
night and could make the middleweight
limit. Tunney weighed just a shade
over 1S4.
Jack Stark defeated Patsy Scanlon In
= four round bout.
Harry Martin and Patsy Leonard
boxed a six round draw.
Piet Hobin. the Belgian wetcr. stopped
Moo Herscovitz OF Canada in two min
utes eight seconds of the fifteenth
round. Herscovitz had been fioored for
a cour. OF nine in that round and was
helpless when Referee Haley stopped
the encounter. Hobin had the better of
the night all the way and several times
had Herscovitz on the verge Of knock
out