Show Two Plucky Scrappers Hero are likenesses of Mike Gushing and Austin Gibbons two well known lightweights light-weights who hammered each other recently for the 125 pound championship The defeat of Cushing surprised nearly everybody who knows anything about pugilists for he has held the 120 pound championship champion-ship of the world since 1884 From the moment they F4h kibi entered the ring I4 until Cushing fell L unconscious from aright a-right hand smash in the stomach it l wasagenuine fight CDSHING In the twentythird round after hard and rapid fighting dishing swung his right for Gibbons jaw and broke his arm on his opponents head After this it was an easy matter for Gibbons to plant his fist over Gush ings heart and finish the fight Gibbons is only 20 years old He was born in Paterson 2s J He is a boilermaker by trade and works every day His first ring experience ho got when he was only u 14 years old Ho whipped Jimmy Green and won the bantam championship champion-ship of New Jersey His other fights I were with Luke Clark whom ho defeated in six I rounds George I Youhg oC Louddliy tin t-in three rounds Geoige Butler of I Newark in eleven rounds Jim Liildy of Elizabeth in five rounds Frank Allen in eleven rounds Frank Moore of Eliza be t h in nine GIBB05 rounds and Jack Kenny in seven rounds He was never defeated and never fought a draw Cushing was born in Elizabethport He is 24 years old He did his first fighting in 1883 when he defeated James Clarke of Elm Park in ten rounds He also defeated Joe Harris of Elizabeth in two rounds Ned Harrigan in three rounds and Jimmy Liddy in five rounds He fought three rounds with Tack McAuliffe and the referee ordered a fourth In that round he was disqualified for clinching At a New York Athletic club i competition Gushing defeated J L Day James Barry Horton and Ellingsworth He fought Jack Hopper for thirtytwo rounds and was beaten the last fourteen rounds ho fought with a broken arm His last fight was with Hairy Bartlett of England whom he beat in fourteen rounds |