Show SAYS GIBBONS IS GLASS CLASS OF MITT SliNGERS Chick Wright the San Francisco billiard expert recently made a statement statement statement state state- ment regarding some f the time old-time boxers and was asked what he thought of the present crop I 1 have had Imad the thc pleasure of or watching watching watch watch- ing Gans Cans Ketchel Ryan Ran and many of the other great fighters of or I Ithe the time past but after watching Mike Hike I Gibbons the other night in lim his match with Jack Dillon I 1 do not hesitate In saying he is greater than any of them Ulem Wright has been a 3 close follower of boxing for fol a n. good many years ears and his imis Judgment is well worth paying attention attention atten atten- attention tion to Cans Gans was a n. real master He had hada a style that none of the boxers of to today today today to- to day have haye been able to copy with any success continued the expert I often read where this or that light weight is another Gans Cans but I 1 have seen only only- one man who really Is another master like Gans and that is Mike lIke Gibbons You know timers old old are mighty slow to c that there is anyone fighting now who would not have been easy tasy opponents for the champions of yesterday I think the same myself in inmost inmost most respects I do not not think that Willard VIard would have been heen champion chapion long with wih men like Fitz or Jeffries fighting in their prime prime rime Dillon Dion and Ketchel would have made made a great fight with the time chances in favor of oJ Ketchel on account of his wonderful hitting power but I dont don't think we have ever bad had a middle middleweight middleweight middleweight weight like Gibbons He has the 1 speed of a Griffo Grifo and the time cunning of Gans He e can hit bit lile Jle ToY Ryan and end possesses possesse a wonderful I Nw w there there- were times the other night when It i looked like Dillon Dion would figure Mikes Mike's style and wait for a left hand lead Whenever that looked to be the thE case Mike would change his style so j that after the bout had gone five rounds it i was a n. question queston of how ball bail Mike Uke would beat the time giant killer dller On top of that just stop to think of of th the weight handicap Dillon Dion and Gibbons Gibbons Gib Gib- bons We still si read about Walcott alcott giving away awa weight eight and winning and also of many other of the timers old old doing the same but they seldom gave away eighteen pounds and anti fought a champion champion Mike and Brother Tom are expected to pass through Salt Sal Lake on the way west within the next two weeks The champion and his brother will wi stay there for or a few weeks wEeks only and and- then return East where they have a number nUber of engagements to fill fi It I ma may be that Mike will wi sign sig for lor a abig abig abig big match snatch in New York shortly shorty if the plans of f the big city promoters do not fall fal through There are several in the te field feld after Mike to step one one notch higher and meet some good hea heavy weight One thing New Yorkers would like better than anything else and that thatis is to see Mike Ik Gibbons beaten an and it seems that they are not particular who does it So far they thay thy have hav had a hard J time finding moyne to make the St. St Paul boy move very fast If I they they- keep getting bigger Mike Ike will 1 soon be billed bied to box Willard Viard now that he lie has ha j I beaten beten the only little man they thought I I had a chance to beat the time Curley- Curley Jones Jonts meal ticket I I |