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Mike Gibbona' Birthday.Michael J. Gibbon*. the well known Mike, the man who hm mule *St. Paul famous. will celebrate hln thirtieth blrthd«y today. Anionic the midd e-weights, Mika, haa rarely had hia elt;iuul.Mlkr wm born in Hi. Paul, of parent# who hailed from the KmeraM Igle. on July ». issh After leaving a«hooi In entered a railroad workahop and after four yeara became a full-fledged sheet-metal worker. In the meantime he hadinterested himself in several sports. but he preferred boxtnic to all others and was aoon able to lick ail hi# fellow workers.Mika was eighteen when he decided to try to pick up a little extra coin a* a boxer. With hia boyhood chum Kddle Reddy, aa hi# manager. Mike started hia professional career, txmking whenever a ten-spot was hung up as a reward. Gib-Iona went along without defeat until1910, when he. lost a ten round lout with Jirnmy C ahbv in Ht. Paul The following year the two met again In Milwaukee and the result was a draw A little later Mike defeated flabby In Winnipeg Jimmy had claimed the welterweight chain-pionahlp title, and Gibbons then announced hlmaelf as the successor to that title, and held it against all comers until he entered the midd ewelght division.In the fall of 1911 Mike derided to Invade New York Hia hotjts In the northwest had attracted little attention in the metropolis, and when Mike drifted intothe big town nohodv knew him. He had landed In New York practically broke.but he cleaned up 91.656 in his first three bouts there He soon forged his wav to the front until he was the acknowledged middleweight champion.
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Lincoln Daily Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sat, Jul 20, 1918
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