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Show uu MIKE GIBBONS IS WELL FIXED Disclosures purporting to have been made by Michael Gibbons at Portland, Ore., recently are to the effect that the gentleman named has acquired a fortune for-tune of over $170,000 from his prowess prow-ess as a boxer and that .approximately .approximate-ly $36,000 of the amount was made during the last year. Advices of the above purport must bo disconcerting and discouraging to one less equipped and gifted. Of course, we newspaper men are accustomed accus-tomed to that sort of thing, but it must "rile" a diligent and fairly well educated edu-cated cuss who works hard and faithfully faith-fully eight or ten hours a day year in and year out, for perhaps a hundred a week or much less, to read about such fabulous figures, which spell tho earnings of brute force and cunning. |