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Show I; ; GIBBONS WILL BE ATTRACTION I IN SUMMER SPORT CIRCLES , Mike Is the Same Old Mike, Says Monty, and Will Show Sport Wk Fans Some Lively Stuff This Late Spring and Summer l Meets Kid Lewis Next Thursday at Madison '; c Square Garden. i; (By Monty) H'l Now York, May 13. Miko Gibbons Hl' ' fs going to cut qulto a figure in pu- K' gilistio circles hereabouts In the late j spring and early summer. The St. H Paul wizaid has planned a long series B- of battles in New York rings, begin- H, ning with Ted (Kid) Lewis at Madi- j son Square Garden next Thursday M, night. Arier he gels through with H- Lewis his next opponent will be Jeff f Smith, whom he meots-jit the Stadium HL A. C. In the Manhattan" Opera House H' five days later, or Tuesday, May 23d. l Mike has a big job on his hands. K Ho says b. wants to piwe out tho l sour test caused by Ms bout with HH Packey McFarland at Brighton with I B last fall. Many who saw that affair Hi' , felt that Mike didn't try any too hard 1 or else that ho had gone back a good V distance, for not n singlo one of those H.'j, mighty swings of his found the marl: Kl and Packey was' able to output hhu W: by tapping" with the open glove. For Sa v.idely adertised exhibition, that! was one of the biggest disappointments disappoint-ments seen in these parts In some w time K Gibbons has been the worst sort ot Hf an in and outer before Gothamites. H His meeting with Eddie McGorty two l years ago is recalled as another un- a pleasant surprise. At about that time K McGoorty had been knocking out H nearly everybody he met In a few K rounds. He apparently had Mike ttt respecting his powerful right, so K much o that Gibbons directed almost jj. his entire energies lo avoiding it and Hv, cai-pd little about administering any Bf punlslunem on lilb own hook Mc-( fj Goort in Ills turn, seemed afraid of, Htj Mike's famous punch, so that ho, too.j H tried his hardest to keep out of i Hp liarm's way. Tho rosult was a farce Hb which disgusted all who saw it. Some I K. leferees would have lelt impelled by jk their conscience to throw the men out K! of the ring. Bj Mike also has fought some good 1 battles here, one in particular being li v gem in the feature lino. That was M his setto Avitb Hob McAllister, the tall 8 outh ftom California, who had been; outpointing every middleweight of ' note who would take him on during his brief visit in tho East It was & Hl ai ii i mm n-n i Mir-nr1 !- i year ago last winter that Gibbons met him McAllister, with a beautiful beauti-ful standup stylo of .boxing similar to that employed by Jim Corbett in his prime, made a monkey out of Gibbons in the early rounds. lie eternally poked that long left of his into Mike's face and gained an advantage on points m even,' one of the first flvo rounds. Mike "looked like the veriest novice before him. "He's not the old Mike," commented comment-ed the crowd Just then the sixth round began. McAllister resumed where he left off. snapping that left in and occasionally landing with tho right, too. Gibbons did little but crouch in that peculiar sldewise manner man-ner of his and shift about taking his punishment but getting away from as much of it as ho could. Then, just for a fleeting moment, McAlllstor left himself open Bam1 Gibbons shot oer that right for the llrst time during du-ring the bout Biug' He did the same thing again, Bam, bing, bam. blng bam! Gibbons shot over that right for the first time during the bout. Blng! He did the same thing again. Right and loft bettered McAllister's McAl-lister's head from side to side. The bell saved him. Gibbons orouched again to start the seventh. He shuffled In slowly and feinted for the Californian's body, drawing the guard low. Bam, bam! Two of those right swings landed one atter the other, then a left and another an-other right. McAllister was groggy. Ho couldn't hold up his hands any moio. He was dead on his feet with his glomes almost at hiH side. Mike set himself for the punch that might have taken por Bob's head clear off his shoulder, but the referee stepped m just in time to prevent a possible fatality. Such a Htirrmg tally at that one by Gibbons had not been seen in New York since the days of Tom Sharkey and nothing also like it has been heen since. That was one of tho really great fights here in tho hiht lew vpnr. So New Yorkers know what Mike can do. What ho can do and what he dooh do are not . always the same thing, howeor. Against McGooity ho seemed afar.ud. Against McFarland, McFar-land, he seemed well, if that affair was on the bquaro, ho seemed dazzled, by Packey's lancy work. Those are the two bouts of his that are remembered remem-bered best now. He must wipe out the Impression caused by them if he wants to be a popular idol here again. Plenty of Gothamites will pay to see him because they know what he can do, but they won't like him unless he does Lhat little thing. In Kid Lewis next Thursday Gibbons Gib-bons will meet a man who is constantly constant-ly on the move, who hits from almost any position and is a hard target to reach. Though Lewis was outpointed by Jack J3rIttou at New Orleans two weeks ago for tho welterweight championship, cham-pionship, the little Englishman h, pretty capable handler of his fists Ho travels so much around the ring that he offers the exact antitheses to Gibbons, Gib-bons, who hardly navigates at all, merely shuffling a bit here and thcro ufter the manner of Jack Johnson. |
