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*rriin jonnsion or oan rrancisco ivlt;VETERANFANPREDICTEDRESULTWOWEEKSAGOksBert Scribner, Who Has Seen Every ChampionshipSaved Butte MenThey Were InclinedThat Gibbons Would NotiAnswer Hell in Seventh Round. He Told Them TontimFirst BaiHorribin'hi-ted ing 1.» 3.meec-isc.indir dit e.liesreerc.But Could Not \\jBy the Associhen all the professional prophets fell do\yn and many of the newspapercritics pulled the wrong dope” onTommy Gibbons* chance with Jack empsey, there is one man who, twot'a before the big scrap at Shelby,m the nail on the head and predicted almost round for round and blow for olow the progress of the battle as it actually took place on July 4 in the sun-baked Hoole county arena. i .? Tnan is Hert Scribner, oil capi-.* '*■ i VJ of P’Ulas, Texas, and Tampico, * j exico. tight fan extraordinary and amateur sportsman of many parts andtalents. Himself a boxer of no poor a ulity, Mr. Scribner has followed the game of the padded gloves from his early youth. More than that, he has °u 11 Pied a ringside seat at everyworld s championship battle in the lastyears. He saw .John L. Sullivan, the mighty idol of sportdom, go down to defeat before the dapper, dancing C ornett 31 years ago. He saw Gorbettpass the title on to Hob Fitzsimmons, and tlie latter go to defeat before the sledgehammer blows of Jim Jeffries, hut in all Ids loner career as a man. he«'■* t. fa • * . _ m..m matters of fighting: lore, thov determined to take his advice. The Mudro boys and Patsy Sullivan and Pom Walker did not bet their goodold simoleons that Gibbons would notbo ready at the bell for the seventh and thereby saved themselves a lot ofor-Ivn*lor ahePO-his■ v: ^ ~ v ^ « fc ^ Cl, * » * # f » * * » f! s i vs, he never saw a battle to equaleldrstndeldust•ed1 **dia*K.*1the masterly tactics disclosed byTommy Gibbons at Shelby, where, t having no chance tn win, the man from St. Paul avoided defeat and ,ried the fight to his brawnier, heavier, jharder hitting opponent. Hemps* y won the fight hut Gibbon** won *he crowd, and when the pictures of Gwj memorable encounter are shewn, j Scribner says, they will demonstrate J m- j that finer ring generalship never w is jan * shown by a little man to stand off a ! strong and dangerous opponent* jMr. Scribner came to Butte from jGreat Falls yesterday on his wav h*un** : to Texas. He is mo«Bsf, almost t * * • * -turn, when the subject of his um aum*prediction is mentioned; but hethe story as told by Butte men whose imoney he saved. jJoe Mudro, Charlie Mudro, patsy !Sullivan and Tom g|| gr* it 1Dempsey fans, wer* gathered st the jPark hotel in Great Falls, won* than t w *» w eeks be for e the tight, Their t money was going up that Dempseywould dear tin4 ring earlv In tin* fight. Joe Mudro was offering his coin th i? ! Gibbons would not answer the bell j for the seventh round. The others were Inclined tn back his judgment At that stage of tin proceedings Bert Scribner showed up. Scribner is an old friend of th*' Butt** quartet More ? h an that, h e w; i s their s % v i o r c # n«* e !efore. When I c f n I sey put the quietus on big Jess Willard these Butte ooys had put up th* ir money on Willard to win Scribner protested againstsuch h bet He prevailed upon them to copper every wager they had made and to place their money on *he challenger. He predicted ’that Willard would go down m the third round ofDempsey Is not the Dempsev who whipped Willard,” said Mr. Scribner yesterday. “He lias not been active enough to keep fast. He needs a fight every three months to keep him in top shape. Still there isn’t a man on the horizon today who can take his measure. I give Firpo and Willard one or two rounds with him, and Wills twoor three rounds, and that’s all. Gibbons is the only man who could stand up and go the whole distance, and yet Gibbons didn’t have a chance to knockout the champion or even win fromhim on points.”Scribner declared the Shelby fightone of the finest exhibitions of thegame he had ever iiKiin.“Gibbons.” he said, “fought every moment with the mastery of a great general facing terrific odds In the third and fourth, eighth and ninth, tyjd again in the twelfth rounds, he carried the tight to the enemy. II ' made his attack, arid when he found thatthe enemy was able to withstand hisonslaught, he carried out a clewr and protecting defensive. Having won practically all bets in th** fourteeth, he went into the fifteenth round taking no chances whatever. Dempseywas unable to put over the knockout punch. Gibbons was too smart f*»r himall the \\av.”II APPEALS IdCOURT FOR RELIEFlC*!Battler TellsHnIs! e - 1'a -Tired Fighting for Glory.Wants Monev.iItp r « * Tig* 4Ic-' he; e v1 e rIn-* 14 Vlen00that encounter The furdown and practical !y ro.it m So this day in Great Falls earl again saved his frh** wan In *Ing. hut Gibboniis -Tinshe firstthe Park hotelin June Scribnerend*.is due for a pluck -not the lad to pluck bin-./* is the wav Scribner put it jGibbon* cm t lick the big fellow jalthough Dempsey has gone back* IF* ;per cent »!nc* he whipped Willard.Put Tomrnv In the clever hoy. He bus ’ * Tioodle The big fellow won*!n# I Lund his haymaker Tomrnv will *uf-heI * -E#nv*r? him. one lad that will ! eSit there on his reins at. the nninh.D*-mpey wf i m * him on thjn, f here will be a timefloor, j... Mwff ........_ ^ H thatfisrht when Jack won*? know when the sgloves* that will he ^ticking in his fac* [are coming from Gibbons will be the jfirst man to hit D* rnpsey and get iway ;with it since the Salt Lake lad has jbeen champion, Gibhona will armwer jnth. You bet he IBy the A*: oc iatni Press.1 A H IS, J u 1 y *. — 1 hi 11 ling S i k i n t a * 1 •*a pathetic appeal to Judge EscoffHr of the French civil tribunal this afternoon against what he termed*#tfee |ier**cuti**n” to which he hasbeen subj^*aed fog the past severalmonth'*, culminating in an attachmentplaced by on** of his numerous former managers on any and all purses m• ike, for which the battier may Ugh; in the future.M Edmond Lapart, of Toulouse was the p i tit Iff in the case. He already had a lien on Hiki’s end of the purse for his fight against Morrelie on June j. and today an injunction was served upon promoters forbidding them to pay the Senegalese gn moneyfor fighting Marc** Xilies tomorrow, M Lapart, who was one of Siki’senrhcN* managers, holds a b*gu 1 contract entitling him to 30 per cent of Sikhs earn mgs. Tin* contract is daed1918.Siki has had better than a doz» nmanager? o far. The Senegalese h.»has Lff-n training earnestly for th-*Xllles battle tomorrow, appeared inlow spirits. H* d;”1 am tired of n ting for gloryI got o?jlv chick# n ft ed when I 11*1 c * 1i a r pen t j* r Why lt;loiTt they lei up onm* ’ I need money for my famihThf couri po.stpoup'd judgment itJuly 14 Meanwh|l« Kiki will nut i ceiv'e anything for fighting N.UrI hrW I! 1Ilfnth,1ie ^n I s 30W lt;4#i | i * we r the be 11 in t K ^ the fourteenth, and he’llbe t lie re tn. the finish.1'*Ho snu.,ng was Scribner’s argument,^ a* ? ui 11»* biv estimate of the two fighters who » training he had wit-fiessed lifid studied tM1MFT DILLON PSCFSFASTEST MILE IF SEISMrnaue adhis word*non de* p impression on the Butte)® — , .. .. -M jiik afcitr: '-or-knowifig s ribner’* wisdomny th# A**oel*t#4 Frw*NORTH RAN I»A Lh, fdevelatid. Ohio.•a -set by PIMay 15, 1 the record and came the Amerlinff 13 runClevelantrame, S to the Indiaiyion of nelt; First gti Boston . . Clevela ndBatterieison and leski, Meft Second j Boston . . Clevela nd Batterie;Bedgood,ni ;n vHy the AsrrG1IICACGated Ch double he| to 2, rmwere unaMogritlge*: counter, a I t wo of 1 lappeny two more Goslin w i The visit second k ; paving tT by Happetured. SiI First r j WashingtChicago .BntferhIer and ' i Second Washlngt Chicago .Battert Blankensl Schalk.THHy the AmDETKf moved u standingheader ftthe first second, game bythe s* eon1 lellnmnrcenter ftscoring ^ •Miller.a Iso scoidrive ov eighth inager GoLeonda ea eighth itafter FUr l»ad off tFirat gPhiladelpDetroit .Batteri and PerkSecondPhiladelpDetroit ,BatteriPiilette iI I I JkTWO IB the AssocST. LOl seven runsenth innini.*lt; e w York, got two ho visit ur»’ taManus hit for the hfi for a four and Jacobia or five hii
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Sun, Jul 08, 1923
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