Show Mike Gibbons One of Marvels of Also One of the Mysteries Quibbles Over One Pound of Weight Yet Appears Able to Beat Men Much Bigger Than He By MERLIN M. M TAYLOR Br By International News New Service to lo The Tho Telegram CHICAGO Nov 25 Mike Mike Gibbons of St. St Paul i jg is one of the marvels of the padded ring also one ono of the mysteries The Phantom demonstrated the first part of this statement recently when he took on Jack Dillon light heavy weight and handed him one of the most scientific lacings the Indianapolis man killer ever got in in his long and honored career of eight years Gibbons is the last word in clever cleverness cleverness clever clever- ness speed and ring generalship He I scored d a flock of points before Dillon I got oot into action and before the scrap I Iwas was over he had piled up enough of I Ithem them to win six fights Yet Dillon I strong man of the ring slugger of note cave man wildcat and all else that he hal has been called did id not man manage ge to toland toland toland land one single solid blow on Gibbons and at the end of the bout he had scarcely succeeded in mussing the Phantoms Phantom's hair Gibbons displayed remarkable ability to shift his body Just enough to make every blow of his antagonist either I glance off oft harmlessly or miss entirely Bill Brennan In the warn days a big league umpire and in the winter a boxer for pleasure and of no mean ability at either boxed with Gibbons all last winter v And I never laid a glove on him with enough force to kill a fly Brennan swears Listen to what a veteran sport writer of Chicago says about Gibbons Ive been looking at boxers for thirty years and I never would have believed that any man could show such marvelous work as Gibbons displayed In the Dillon contest Dillon was ready trained to the minute having put in ten desperate days to fit himself for the fray Yet Tet he was slow and compared to the St. St Paul flash Every time he landed and that was not often otten Gibbons was slipping along In the same general direction that the punch wa was wa'S going and thus nullified the effects of it You would think a man who could win such euch praise would be fighting every few days and reaping in the golden harvest which awaits the clever boxer Yet Tet Gibbons Gibbons Gibbons Gib Gib- bons hasn't made enough out of ot the ring to keep him In feed teed for a year ear The principal principal principal prin prin- cipal reason reason seems to be that Gibbons doesn't care for money although he is no millionaire The general supposition has been that any boxer would fall readily when approached by a man with coin in both fists and in this day of ot inflated purses for ring encounters Gibbons should be cleaning up Instead of which he fights very every few months and almost always there has been a little report of gentle mens men's agreement or the fight has been a fiasco Gibbons scoffs scores at thousands of dollars when only a pound or two of weight has stood in the way yay yet he be e- e ought to be able to give almost any of them twenty pounds and then be so far In the lead at the finish that I you couldn't d see h his opponent Wherein e lies the mystery of Gibbons obo Perhaps It Is because he Is not a business busi busl- ness jess man and Insists upon handling his huis own affairs instead of ot getting a live manager manager manager man man- ager to handle them for him Ritchie flitchie Mitchell classy light weight of Milwaukee is another one who should be reaping a golden harvest yet is not His brother Billy is his manager and while Billy is a nice little fellow tellow and a good sport what he doesn't know about managing managing managing man man- aging a fighter Is considerable If It a live wire had hold of Ritchie it wouldn't be long hong until he would be a championship contender Yet Tet he seems content to go along and fight every few months and al always always always al- al ways before the club In Milwaukee which gave him his start You Tou might Include Eddie McGoorty 1 just now of Australia in the same class He ic went over there to do a little fighting proved a great drawing card and Immediately immediately im un mediately began to eschew the ring to bet on horse races and get out of ot train train- ing Latest reports are he is so fat now that It Is doubtful if he ever will fight again Yet Tet McGoorty in condition would find the loot pouring into his strong box either in the antipodes or back in the U U. S. S A. A If he would only go after aster it It Some fighters are past reckoning Oscar Mathew Battling Nelson once champion of the light weight ranks and one of the gamest men who ever pulled on a glove Is almost broke To those who recall Nelson as one of ot the busiest ring men who ever wore a crown who remember his long theatrical engage engage- ments his closeness when it came to money affairs this may sound like a pipe but it is a fa fact t nevertheless Bat says so ao himself This Is the way it all came about Bat as is well welt known i is the one big man Ill ever produced And Bat always has been as proud of the old home town as It has been of him So most of the which he accumulated In the heyday of his career went into real estate then unimproved Bat conceived the idea of compelling the Illinois Central railroad to build a station on property which he owned But the railroad refused and Bat Eat soon found himself swamped under ordinances passed b by the city council requiring him to put In sewers lewers to pave some streets to grade others to make all kinds of Improvements Improvements Improve Improve- ments on his property He made them but it Just about ate up all his money money Now he cant can't get rid of his property and and it if he tie could It is doubtful If he could cash it in for a third of what it ha has cost him From Bats Bat's own statement It Is doubt ful If he could rake rate up more than 10 in cash even if iE it would give him that long cherished but now dead ambition of regaining the crown which once adorned his battered head Bryan Downey of Columbus O. O J. J is likely to prove one of the welter weight of the winter boxing season Just now he ho Is more moro of a puzzle than anything else He has his own peculiar style of fighting a a. style that a s od many of the clever lads including Johnny Griffiths Grif Grit have found It hard to do no anything I with Downey packs a knockout punch In either hand he is fast on his feet and his gameness is unquestioned He holds wins over such good boys as asu ase ase Ritchie e Mitchell e Willie Beecher Cal Delaney Delaney De- De laney J Jimmy Duffy u il and Jack Perry erry e and anda d da a round fifteen-round draw with Johnny Grif Grit But he has gained weight and now he would head the list of ot welters Jack Britton is the man on whom he has his eye and he proposes to fight any and all comers if It will wili give him a crack at that elusive person This Downey bird is a won wonder er says Packey McFarland who was no slouch at the wonder thing himself in the not too far distant past He has all of ot the marks of a terrific puncher but he doesn't know enough yet to make the most of his wallops He is a natural short hitter but butI buthe buthe he hasn't learned yet to cover up enough I When hen he mends these bad points watch out |