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Show I can BOX H When Forced to, Mike Shows That He is H Game Hj A New York sport writer has the H following boost for Mike Gibbons, who H is looked upon as the best of the H -welterweights. This Is a detailed ac- H count of his bout with Jeff Smith- H Mlko Gibbons of St Paul went Hj through an ordeal of hard fighting H with flying colors with Jeff Smith of H New Jersey at the National Sporting H club last night He was put to a se- H vere test ond came out of tho 10- H round fray 'with greater honors than H any ho has galnod in this city. He H failed to knock Smith out, but the H bell and not hl6 lack of a punch H robbed him of his triumph in the last H Gibbons showed the red badge of H courage in this fight. For the first H time In his career here he was forced HJ to defend himself. Smith gave him a H battle and punched the westerner hard H and often But Mike stood up under H the fire of hooks and swings to tho H fuce and body like a man of Iron. H Can Gibbons take a wallop and H stand up under it? has been a ques- H tton often asked. Ho can. Ho proved H this last night. The sturdy Smith hit H hm threo pile-driving swings to the B stomach one after anothor that would H have knocked over many another man. H But if those punches hurt Gibbons ho H failed to show it. They simply served H to drive Mike's "gastritis" out of bis H S3 stem and to call forth nil his fight- H ing spirit H Mike never fought a faster or hotter H battle. There was no tlddle-dc-wlnks H with his hands, no turkey trot move- H ments with his feet, but straight, H clean, sclenntlflc fighting. His judg- H mont of distance was never at fault H He landed his punches with the pro- H clsion of a sharp shooter and sent H them In like a bullet He was too M fast for Smith and too scientific. Time H and again Jeff made many hard I H swings for his face, but Mike either H ducked the blows or side-stepped H them. H In the fourth round Mike cut Jeff's H nose. In the sexenth, ninth and tenth H he opened up the wound until the H Jersey man looked like a study In H scarlet After boxing In thlti fashion H a perfect whirling blizzard of blows H for nine rounds Gibbons put over the H premier punch In tho filial 15 seconds H of the last chapter of fighting. Ho shot 1 over a light that caught Smith flush M on the jaw. Jeff went backward Hl three feet, cwung out his aims con- M vulslvcly, but regained his balance H and rushed to a clinch. Just as his H knees were buckling under him the J bell rang. H Smith put up a good battle tho j best ahat any fighter has handed Glb- H bons here but he was outclassed. H The men weighed In at 3 o'clock ' j under 1-iS pounds, but at the ringside 1 Gibbons weighed 152 and Smith half H a pound more. |