The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-01
TOMMY TAKES ON
 AN EASY AIR ASI BIG BOUT WEARS
Blackfeet Tribe Posses In To See Its "Brother"
 Work Out
Fly WESTBROOK PEGLER Leased Wire to The Age-Herald.'


 SHELBY, Mont, June 30.-Attended by tribe of Blackfeet Indians who filed into the stockade behind the venerable Chief Plenty Bunions, Tom Gibbons, the St Paul landlord, gave his semifinal 50-cent show in Sage brush Manor, Shelbys most exclu sive surburb, Saturday afternoon Near-beer was poured and there was a dainty collation. of T-bone stakes followed by dessert of spearhead eating tobacco, but -in-all. it was very pleasant function.
 MT. Gibbons prowled through a dogged workout with his sparring partners and the reason became ap- parent why he could not in wisdom accept a postponement of the fight with Jack Dempsey. which proposal he mad turned. down earlier in the Gay. Gibbons Is drawn very fine now and it will take delicate balance of light gymnastics and not too-tiring road work to keep him fit until We'd nesday afternoon. He might even dispense with the grand ultimate sparring show which Is planned for Sunday afternoon without harming himself except in the region of the wallet.
 Blackfeet Are Wily.
 In this connection, 1t might be re- marked that there seems to have been more guile than impulsive gen. erosity In the decision of the Black feet to accept MT. Gibbons and his two little boys into the tribe. This was accomplished with shrill cere- mony the other day and the St. Paul landlord is now known as Chief Many Teepees With All Modern Conveniences. His motto, beaded III tribal characters, was presented Sat urday by Chief Plenty Bunions, liberal translation being: q want me rent"
 But In return for these distinc- tions, Chief Many Etceteras learned that he was expected to dead-head all tribal kinsmen through the pass gate of his training corral and great was the anglish of Edward Kane manager of the Gibbons properties as he stood at the deserted pay gate dangling a few half dollars in his wampum bag.
 Tuesday and will not go out of his front yard Wednesday until it is time to go to the arena. Whether it is heartfelt or affected, Gibbons seems to regard Dempsey's condition as a matter of very slight impor- corning Jack, and, in fact. discusses anything but the fight. He com bined training with excitement just before leaving for the arena Friday afternoon by pursuing gray wolf cub three times around the barn on his lot. and then half way up the Butte.
 A Tip To Mir. Kearns.
 Shelby is so elated now. by the news from Great Falls concerning tho pledging of Dempsey's final s100,000 that any further hitch in the arrangements might cause some of the more impulsive citizens to show violent annoyance.
 If Jack Kearns should come here Monday night for his money. fail to get 1t. and abruptly call off the fight, he would be fairly certain to have the crease roughed out of his clothes, for Shelby is in a mood to blame almost anyone for the disap- except Mayor Jim Johnson, whose unreasoning optimism about the sec ond hundred thousand was the cause of the original jar to public confi- dence everywhere. Those who ex- pected to come from Chicago or any where to the east of there probably are lost to the fight now. because there is still some vagueness about the bout and Shelby is two- -and-half days by rail from Chicago.
 Bands are playing in the streets. ballyhooing customers for the two tent shows and for the wild west eX- hibition which has a stadium of it's own almost as big as the fight bowl. Tourists are beginning to tricl<le into the place. and the signs of prosper ity which were nipped by the un- timely frost are timidly renewing themselves throughout the settle ment.
 Whatever may be the state of the beer supply, which fluctuates from hour to hour, the Chamber of Com merce has asked that the world be informed that Shelbys water system Is as cnnd as any in the state.