The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-05
Referee 0augherty Accused Of FaVoring Dempsey At Every Opportunity - Gib-
 bons Made Great Fight Against Big Husky Jack
By wEsTBROOK PEGLER Ieased Wire to ARe-HernId)

RING SIDE. SHELBY, Mont. July 4.-Tommy Gibbons a St. Paul steam filter who took to boxing as an after thought late in his youth to matchc the earnings and the glory of his brother MilIe blasted Jack Dempsey's reputation all over the Montana prairie'by fighting the late man-killer 15 rounds here this afternoon, as the first man to go the limit with Dempsey since Jack won the title.
 Dempsey was given the decision by Jimmy Daugherty of Philadelphia, his room mate and private referee, who favored him in foul work all through the mauling. It was disastrous aft ernoon for Dempsey, for he lost as much in prestige as Gibbons gained, and that is a large measure. Glb- bons managed to last through the fifteenth round only by clutching the champion and hanging on with the tenacious embrace of an exhausted swimmer in deep water The rough work in the clinches, the mauling and showing and pounding in which he was always at a disadvantage. had told on Tommy by that time. When Jack came out with a raging rusn to smash down the defiant little man in the last spell of fighting, Tommy leaped in, locked his left arm around Dempseys body, dropped his right elbow across his middle, buried his head against Dempsey's buttered wishbone and clung. Daugherty, grunting and perspiring from his toll with the heavy struggling bodies, threw his weight between them and gradually forced them free. Demp- sey cooked his right, flung it into the cup of Tommy's neck and shoul- der OH the left side, missed and was clutched again. And so Gibbons bare ly did stay to the finish on his feet i'd Feet Indians who waved their feath-. cred headdresses and pounded the war drums in the strongest demon StratIon ever seen at rinSside. The instant it was over, the head man of the tribe, Chief Curlcy Bear, was boosted through the ropes and clamped his precious war bonnet on heavyweight the greatest compliment the red man could pay to the white.
 Later, Tommy learned the meaning of the term Indian giving" The chiefs wife called at his house after the fight, tied her horse to the gate post and said her old man had sent her to get back the war bonnet. Tom gave 1t up.
 As Daugherty raised Dempsey's SoEgy right glove giving Jack the decision and saving the million dol lar title for him, Tommy was at his opponents side in a stride, and of fered his hand with word: Con gratulations."
 Same to you,' Dempsey said, and moment later the champion of the world was logging it through the crowd, naked to the waist, followed by his breathless handlers and body guard across the baked clay plain in 200-yard sprint to the private car on siding where he had dressed for the bout. His white trunks were slightly flecked with Tommy Glib bons' gore, for Tom had bled little at the lips. Nobody cried to modest him and the hostility to the champion
 was never expressed in any nor, violent manner than abstinence from cheering. He wasn't even booed al- though he was so unpopular in Shelby where eight hours ago that it was | thought he might need a sheriff's guard.
 Crowd Was A Large One.
 The crowd might have been as ! large as 10000. It was hard to esti- mate, because the people were con stantlY shifting from the cheaper tC the more expensive sections until tho main event was about to be called Several thousand were let in for S5 apeice, free to take the best avail able seats in the bowl, after the zero 1 hour, 3 o'clock. had passed and the promoters had noticed that thousands
 were still hanging off outside tho