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A A A’T WANT TO FIGHT BROTHER MIKE FOR A HE IS GOING AFTER THE HEAVIES.TOMMYGIBBONS DON TITLE SOBY HUGH 8. FULLERTON.*A» -AU the lightweights will have to watcl Young Shugrue, the Jersey City boy. He sure mussed up Freddie Welsh in theii recent bout, and the Englishman Is the head of the lightweight class at theup and take him on the batter pleased will Tommy be.This young Gibbons lad Is . only 28 years old, but to date he has knocked out such boys as Billy Glover, Bert Ftegen, Buck Crouse, AJ Wargin, Johnny Shaw and Tommy Nelson, while hla list of victories Includes Knockout Brown (twice). Tommy Bergen, Mike Donovan, Jack Denning, Young Mahoney. BillyWhat ■ would you do if you wore one of thd world’s greatest middleweight boxers and were blessed with an elderbrother who was really -the . world’s greatest boxer In the same division?Tommy Gibbons, younger. brother of the hfarvelous Mike of St. Paul, Minn., happens to bo face .to face with just such a problem. But Tommy has solved the problem. He is going to vacate the middleweight class and will step Into the lightweight division with a view of eventually annexing the world’s championship crown among heavyweights.Tommy Gibbons is going to be a heavyweight. Of that there is. no doubt. He boxed Billy Glover at New York on Thanksgiving day, and, although he had trained right down to the minute, thebattling brother of the Marvelous Mikeweighed 1.66*4 pounds. Right off the reel Mike shouted with glee: “Tommy isgoing to be a heavyweight.”Keep your eye on this second member of the Gibbons family. He is, indeed, a marvelous boxer. He has engaged in eighteen bouts since his debut as a professional, and ten of that number were won by knockouts. Tom Gibbons has never yet fought a losing bout. In fact, he has never beej bo unfortunate as to be held to a draw by an opponent.Just as sure as this hard-hitting brother of the scientific Michael meets such men as Bat Levinsky, Young Shern, Gunboat Smith and, Tom McCarty, he will win. He has most of the scientific qualities of Mike, and, besides, deals out a punch with either hand which will shake down the best man in the world. Tommy Is eager to box McGoorty, Levinsky, Dillon, Ahern, Smith, McCarty and, In fact, ©very light heavyweight in the world, and the sooner these fellows lineMlsfce, Knockout Brennan and Frank Logan, to say nothing of many lesser lights.
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Fort Wayne Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Dec 05, 1914
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