Show AICE altho was the toughest piece of V rawhide that ever came to the ang death of recent chuck wig gins brings this ar in XH aument ito into i the 1 spotlight for com H mander gene tun j ney says chuck J wiggins was the i a roughest piece of hu man rawhide he HL ever met in a ring j and chuck picked bj harry greb it might be men ws that tunney kniland nice places P greb b a close second to the unbreakable chuck in the way of toughness ness not as a fighter greb was as the fellow tunney always placed on top as the best man pound for pound he ever met Corn commander mander tunney is now help jg dynamic stan griffis in the bavy relief belief drive we were talking about wiggins almost nationally and about harry greb ill give ya you two examples gene said which bring in both nen men on my way to my first dempsey fight I 1 met chuck wio wiggins at the time I 1 was working on I 1 right uppercut to the body I 1 was still till raw with this punch As wig fins came in I 1 happened to hit him low punches on two occasions each time dine the referee warned me wig sins fins could have dropped and ClAin chimed led a foul either time and would have been awarded the fight but when the referee warned me ine wiggins turned to him with a snarl leave us alone he said tunney hit me low it was a lair fair punch naturally that stopped the referee the gamest camest fighter about the fifth round tunney continued 1 I whipped in with a right body uppercut and I 1 used all I 1 had chuck had come in fast and the punch landed low way below the belt again the referee warned me and once again wiggins told him to get away that the punch was belt high bat as we moved into a clinch wiggins iggins ff whispered say gene leep lem era up a little that last one tart that was chuck wiggins the jamest earnest toughest man mah I 1 ever fought he could have claimed the fight three times against me that night and gotten away with it but not chuck wiggins always said greb was the toughest man he ever fought I 1 suggested to Tun tunney 1 I cant say he was vas wrong gene said faid with a grin ill tell you something about greb too the last time I 1 met harry he was blind in one eye maybe the other any too good but he wils was still something to handle in ill one round as greb came charging in I 1 nailed him with a full right to tie the body I 1 could feel my glove his spine I 1 saw his mouth ly Y open and his eyes start rolling I 1 topped stepped back to let greb fall I 1 imea this was a knockout punch the next thing I 1 knew harry had me ine on the ropes trying to hammer my 1117 head off I 1 felt for a few seconds that I 1 w was as in in a cage with a wild ild tiger I 1 had to finish the round protecting myself that was harry greb 11 the making of tunney commander tunney will tell ell you that at his bittles battles with chuck wi wiggins 9 gins md harry greb were the two main factors actors in getting him ready for the ast st dempsey f ight fight tunney wont a dmit admit that he be thinks both bath wiggins an and dereb greb were even bagher her than dempsey but how ow he be feels do down wn in his heart I 1 flint dont mean har harder der punchers nei ther ul was a killing puncher but I 1 mean rough tough to hell with the wes es anything goes 11 in getting read ready Y for dempsey ill say the y for tunney that he never picked e rose patched or the violet bordered road when he selected chuck ciuck Rubber wiggins wiggin harry greb and nian he elected to valk ik through a garden of thorns and poison ivy anyone who could vade ade through this trio especially we 60 6 grell 0 i part even though he was all w blind d wa was about ready to walk amay wa ullo w a abage a cage and grab the raw meat from ni a bengal tiger they still rates greb the great 59 suet lighter he ever met so does everyone Ive try alle else who ever met greb G reb especially the bigger fellows who mickey re his ineat or yo you might ask and lid aa walker on the smaller side the about Is as good and as tough as Y happened to come along olar of the great 6 ing 16 know 10 s a far longer g list K ahting 9 men under wild pounds iny than over ove r that mark k jime wilde T J oe gans kid lav sa V a I 1 cott ott moran ran be leonard owen frank erne mcgoe 11 terry ll att driscoll 1300 W welsh ish attell nelson ta t on i and on and pound how wrany many fighters fieh pa pound for greb gith ever c othild match harry ford or sta ney I 1 K PU etchell sam lang jack agns gns blackburn G reb at ama heavy heavyweights almost murdered such labons CC weights as gene ty tunney tom jack stoops billon a 8 nd others Ot to oOps pounds |