Show I I I I I DEMPSEY fiNDS BUT FE rEW TITLE CD TEND ERS Heavyweight Champion Champin Is Supreme in His Field No Now Gibbons Has Lost n fly J RY 1 t T lm l u If V NE BW YORK YORI March MardI 22 Neither Neither Tom Gibbons Gibbons' nor Harry Greb are ready to be thrown In the Hie cage with Jack Jacle Dempsey I It was perfectly clear ar to all who saw I the tho n recent ent Greb Gibbons fight that If It they theY are are the nearest contenders Dempsey will II not have to go 10 to bed early arty every night The Tue very serious doubt now that I either will wilt ever be a worthy opponent for forthe I Ithe the champion I Most Joet of the aspiring heavyweights go along on an the theory Well ell let Dempsey alone for a a. couple of years and hell he'll whip lf hims lf S It may b be beall all right to figure that Dempsy Demp- Demp y s-y will lose lace sonic soma class with Increasing ag age but both Oreb and Gibbons will begetting bo be getting older at the same time and anti both have three years on on the champion GJ GRUB m TOO SSI ALL I Greb Is a a. great little fighter but he Is hardly more than a D. heavy middleweight If It h ha could ever over lure luro Johnny Wilson Into the ring the title would pass paSA over to him If It he 8 could get Gene Tuney into th the ring tha-e tha would be a fine CIne chance chanco for a new newlight newlight newlight light heavyweight champion but It If he pot got Demps y there could be nothing but hut II another victim on the Manassa maulers mauler's list of ot the Pittsburg boy point out Urt t h h. a mussed up the c a i- i ably wh w n he was sparring with him beloro be- be loro 1 th Dempsy Brennan fight tight He lie may 1 bothered him then and he would annoy annoy annoy an an- noy the champion for awhile if they went into the ring now but It would be only for tor awhile Against Gibbons Greb showed that tha t he ho cant can't hit a lick licit and no one Is going to stand a chance with Dempsey who cannot hurt the big fellow TO TOMMY DY LACKS I Gibbons ought to make an opponent for Dempsey but he lie lacks something In the gym gm he looks bolts like a a. million dollars doUar He lie HeI has the size he Is Is' clever and can punch Against slow second rate heavies he h. Is a a. skilled great gnat but against Greb r ro- ro lie Ite looked sluggish slow thinking a aid Ill wild Usually h ho h is a sh sharpshooter with either hand but he he- hadn't an idea of range ran that night I Jck Britten Britton welterweight champion who had seen seon Gibbons GIbboni working In the gym advanced the theory that he was Vas stale from too much indoor boxing and not I enough road wark work It was strikingly apI apparent ap ap- ap- ap parent that Gibbons was vas off form for some I reason or other DI IJ SEY SUPREME While it i Is III plain that Dempsey Is out of ot othIs his class It may be that judgment on I Gibbons ought to be bo withheld until he has another chance with a a. first class opponent nent On his showing against Greb it S seems seems that Gibbons would be be- easy for tor Carpentier end and that he lie could not whip Gene Gen Tunney Certainly to get a a. decision he w would uld have havet to td work I harder a hit l more accurately u y and r ohe ohead ad I I IThe get t around n quicker ke than h he ha did with G Greb b The writer Is of ot the opinion that Gibbons I Iwas I was stale that he left himself in the gym I Ian an and 1 that the next time he be will b ho be a much better fighter With a a. couple more hard fights tights under his belt he be ought to be about No 1 among th the light heavies If he I ever gets Greb again ind nd there is small chance cnance for it it it-be he will be almost sure to I II I I beat him However r. r the wore spore the logical contenders contenders con con- i I tenders show themselves the more su suI supreme supreme su- su preme ex looks bolts In his class 1 I I |