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-ISTEADY RING WORK ENRICHES GIBBONSeAltho Late in Cashing In On His Pugilistio Knowledge the Big Money Flows Toward Him How.STL-PAUL, Minn., Aug. 7.—(A. P.) —Pugilistic preaOge and big purses jare at last coming to Tommy Gib-1 1 bons, at a time when the Sl Paul heavyweight is long past the age 111 when most lighters are in their n' prime.Fighting gamely up the long, hard hill to ring fame, Gibbons achieved a formidable summit when he stayed fifteen grueling rounds with Jack Dempsey in Montana a year ago. That “moral victory/1 after nearly seventeen years of ring experience, opened the way to the largest purses the St. Paul fighter has ever received.shofchedonillthheveia-?a-se-es-hehele)mgelidheofforheofto-y.”There wAs no direct remuneration for Gibbons in his fight with Dempsey, but now at the age of thirty-three, he is “cashing in” on the showing he made, and apparently is at the zenith of his ring career.For his fight with Georges Carpen-tier at Michigan City, last May, he received his largest purse, $62,000. Previously, his top had been $12,500 for a match with Harry Greb. He received $50,000 for his fight with Jack Bloomfield, the English heavyweight, in London.It has been no cushioned road for Tommy, however, for under the expert eve of his older brother Mike Gibbons, he has followed a rigorous rule of living, full of self-denial.There is npne of the “bar room” fighter in Tommy’s makeup. He has carried the gentlemanly befcHng of his private life into the ring, and finds in his home life his greatestINugtve I delight. Most of his time, aside from op- engagements, is devoted to iiis wife or- and five children, all boys. The rly youngest are twins, born only a few weeks ago. His oldest boy is eight.
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Nebraska State Journal
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Fri, Aug 08, 1924
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