Show I Gibbons Cinch Ch to Defeat fet Bloomfield Edgren Says I Even With English Rules on Points for Defensive De De- W Work Work Tommy Is Safe Bv By Robert Ederen t NEW YORK Aug 8 Tommy S.-Tommy Tommy I Gibbons oUght to to tot at t least earn his trip expense expense money by boxing Jack Bloomfield in England A bout between between between be be- tween Gibbons' Gibbons and an English champion should hould be worth something something some some- thing thing as an ran exhibition m. m It will be perfectly safe even with the English English En En- glish gush method of bf scoring points under under un un- der Which the best dodger wins the om official ial verdict and the purse Gibbons dodged six fifty six of CarpentIers CarpentIer's Carpentier's Carpentiers Carpentiers Carpentier's Car- Car whizzing rights at MIchigan Michigan Michi MIchi- gan an City That marks him as the thesta sta star stair dodger of all all the world Crowds will flock to se see him and wonder how he does it No English fighter over ever dodged any of Carpentiers Carpentier's rights Joe Beckett may be hauled out to fight Gibbons There has been some talk about Joe Joo recently In the English En En- gUsh glish papers It appears that Beckett when he was knocked out I IP P by hi Carpe Carpentier In two punches the first time and in one punch the second time they met mt et ha had the wrong system From the beginning of ot his c career reer Beckett has pursued one one line of strategy It has been his scheme to let the enemy knock him down lown two or three times This wo would ld naturally Induce dence The enemy enemy would then rush rushIn In hastily lea leaving Ing an an opening you yot could drive a n truck truc c through When I this occurred Beckett would sI over oer the grand slam slam- and begin wo 10 o count th the winners winner's end of oJ th the tho I purse Joe Joe tried this for several years years In t fact ct he it thorough gave a try- try out He refused to become discouraged discouraged discouraged dis dis- when his strategy failed No matter how often otten ho to was wa knocked out he never lost Jost his pa pa- Hence or or- his confidence in iri th the soundness of his plan Ho TIc was as optimistic as a Texas gent geni with a. a an up anoil oil on lease leabo bits len left to to buy breakfast and start drilling nn Un oil well with Cl Carpentier flattened Beckett and broke a couple of worlds world's speed records doing It ft Beckett reaM reasoned ed it all ll out after after- ward The trouble was that after the first knockdown he ho couldn't get getup getup getup up to take advantage of Carpentier's Carpentiers Carpentiers Carpentier's Carpen Carpen- tiers tier's I carpen-I Beckett now ow l has a new scheme I that will overcome the weakness of I his original j Plan lan He Ho will fall down at the first feint instead Of waitIng waiting wait wait- in ing until he Is w walloped llop d. d Two or three falls will make his IUs opponent so BO confident that he lie probably wont won't lift lIrt hi his hands and then Beckett can hop up fresh as a daisy and nd sock him But hell he'll never work that on Tom Gibbons Toms Tom's streak of caution begins two weeks before a fight and extends to the tho evening of f t tho d day after after it it ft is over over Joi h ny p Dundee uno nd tf doesn't think ho hJ i 2 rt- rt 0 i i i. i t t Is slipping Rather Johnny says says- the th class of fighters is improving Take Vicentini s said id Dundee He H is one of t the best hitters I 1 ever met Nobody else has else has hit me meso meso meso so hard In a long time I ought to have the Inside dope on that boy Hes He's coming fast He Isn't the only one In the bunch who Is bet bet- I i ter right now than Benny Leonard was when he started There Thele are i several young oung fellows who handle I themselves like champions I fe feel l as strong and as good as ever ever Dundee went on on and I Ii haven't oven even begun to think of re re- re I tiring Say Im I'm down to fighting I w weight now but f If I stop training Ill I'll fatten right up like Packey MacFarland Last time lime I r saw I Packey he weighed pounds and ho he used to be a lightweight An Anyway Anyway Any Any- and wa way what fun would I 1 have hae if T J didn't box I like boxing I never feel md I at the fellow Im I'm fighting I never L got mad In the ring In my life When I loo look mad Its It's only because I set my muscles and that screws my face up When Im I'm going in m against a who can hit I set my body muscles neck and my jaw and harden up so his punches wont won't hurt You Tou can tal take e almost any punch Mf if youre you're all hardened up for It But Im I'm not mad Say the guy who gets mad madis is the easiest guy to lick I just I set my muscles muscles that's that's what makes me look so savage |