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TOMMY GIBBONS IS HAVING HARD TIME TO GET MATCHES BECAUSE HE IS BROTHER OF WORLD CHAMPBy Tiny 'I received a telegram from Eddie Kane Wednesday, date lined Phl.arielphia, Pa., announcing that he had arrived there aafdy, in the best of health and that it would only be a few days now until he would be able to arrange a match for .Tommy Gibbons vjth either Battling Levin-sky, Harry' (Jreb, Billy Miske, or maybe Mike O’Dowd.The eastern papers, from St. Paul east, show by the. short squibs or the sport writers, that Eddie is barnstorming, and believe me that little Irishman is some publicity-getter.While in Chicago, lie must have thrown lots of Salve around, because Ed Smith, the - sports editor of the Chicago American has the following to say in his column of Wednesdays ■ “Reflected glory or the glamour of a family name made famous by one man often is a serious handicap to other members of the same ilk. This fact is brought out sharply in the I case of Tom Gibbons, a brother of Mike, who claims the mid-/ die weight championship in the boxing world.“Eddie Kane, who is handling both of the brothers in a managerial sense, has discovered this and is bemoaning thefuel that Tom Isn't any nearer ---anykin then a cousin /or. some-thing of Urn ?ort to ill© famous Mike. The handicap 01 being st brother Js almost too muth for Eddie and Tom to over-come.TOM MAYBE? *, You sec, Tom Is U pretty fair sort of a fighter—In fact Bome of Tom’s intimate friends think he is as great a man in the ring as hia brother. If not actually greater, in that he is younger, stronger and apt tolast a considerably longer time in the ring. Hut that's a matter that is riot pertinent at the present time, excepting to show how great the handicap under winch the younger brother is working.Bddie bturled out boldly to B«t Tom a lot of matches, * I will box anybody in. the mid-dlev/eight division, and. failing to get on bouts there. I'll meet Any of the light heavies,’ was Tom's declaration in starling h!s campaign. Then sec wliat happened. .Aa boch Qs Kane broached the .BUbJect cf a match for Tom with any of the stars of the •game, th-re tvns immediately el-lenco on the part of the oilier fighter*.• “If I'm going to be licked by0110 of Iho Gibbons boys, 1 prc-for to take on Mike, the one with the reputation, they argue. For the purpose of pafe-guardLig themselves, they tell proinotejB, according to Kane, that, if lliuy cannot get Mlkothen he must cut out negotiations nUngcthcr. Tom has boxed Just enough with some of tho good ones, to command a lot of respect from ah hands, in and out of Ms particular division.Tom. hy I he way, doesn't look to bt getting any bigger. It wag thought for a- time he wight develop into a light heavy, but he says Ire can still make the middleweight limit. He looks it. too.' • MIKE ANXIOUS Thcro arc n lot of the sport writers who seem to take it upon themselves as an especial duty, tc bawl out all the professional boxers who have taken positions as instructors, under Uncle San; at the canton monUi.•' Of courso I am not familiar with how tho majorily ol them feet over the ‘war, and tho part they are playing In It, but I have taken special, pains to query Mike Gibbons.“I didn’t think ul first that I would like Iho position aa boxing instructor at Camp Dudge. nor dt any camp, because cf the thought
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Des Moines Daily News
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Thu, Dec 13, 1917
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