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GHOST GIBBONS DEFEATSDWARFED-GIANT DILLONWinner Will Visit Sydney: Darcy’s AbsenceThe following cablegram lo The Referee waa received Ja*« SaturdayST PAUL (Minn ). U.S.A.. Noe. 10. Mike Gtbbona. weighing Hat 41b out-pointedE:k Dillon, weighing Hat 91b. in a 10-round ttle here l»cl night.Thi» news will, no doubt, surprise a good many people who have watched Dlllon'a career. Everybody recognised that Mike Gibbons waa a remarkably clever boxer. He is the cleverest, at his weigh', in the world. Though entertaining the belief mentioned, many American authorities thought Dillon, a cruiserweight. would smash the defence of his lighter and much less rugged opponent up if the two ever got together.Gibbons' success n-er Dillon is a distinct triumph for boxing 'kill Here we had a I lightly-built boxer—so lean in structure that he | was often relerrcd to as the St Paul Ghoat or ; Phantom—up against one of the well-proved. | sturdiest, strongest, and toughest men in the game : a boxer who had beaten heavyweights of worldwide reputation and had. in several | different places, been declared to have a good 1 chance of demolishing that towering pugilistic | person, the human skyscraper champion of the . world. Jess Willard. Yet the shadow beat the *oltd substance wholly and solely because the shadow was a first-class boxer.When Mike Gibbons makes up his mind to fight he can fight. That has been abundantly demonstrated over and over again.WILL VISIT AUSTRALIA Mr. M. J. McLaughlin, secretary lor the brothers. Mike and Tommy Gibbons, writing me under date St. Paul. Minn., Oct. 13. says Just returned to the city. We were living up in the woods in the northern part ol Minnesota all Summer. Mike and Tom have started training lor the fall campaign.The papers you sent me were not forwarded, but on my return there were several here, and I read every one very carefully. I missel them greatly all Summer, as 1 like to be posted on what is going on over on your side. Afier reeding them I turn them ovfi to or.e of our local sport writer*, and he i» very grateful for the news the7 contein. and await* them as anxiously as I do.' Mike and Dillon are signed to box hete in St. Paul on Nov. 10. The weight is 161 pounds at 3 o'clock and this will give Dillon about l?lb, Mike very seldom weighs over 154 when in shape. Jack Skeliy has picked Gibbons to win.After the Dillon bout Mike is planning on a trip to Australia with his brother Tom and Harry Sherman, the far-famed motion picture man. wh« has made a million with The Birth of a Nation picture here Sherman mad- Gibbons a verv good offer, and he has accepted it.I feel very confident that Mike will beat Darry : but if Dafcy should «in. he would have to face brother Tommy before he would have a clear claim to the champion«hip Tom is forced to go out of his class and lake on the llght-heavyweights in order to get «o«-eon- to meet him. Battling Levinskv and Billv Week*, the Canadian champion, both ran out of matches with him within the Iasi month.“If Gibbons wine over Dillon the trip i* a certainty They plan on leaving for Austra'ia about Christmas time. 1 will send you the clippings after the bout ”A GOOD TIPSTER My well-infor*' ed friend, l.-ck Skelly. of New York, who contributes much interest.ng boxing matter to uany American newspapers, wrote as follow* in the Yonkers (N Y.) Herald test mon.b —If Mike Gibbon* and Jack Dillon meet within the fistic arena as prooojed, lor ten dreisionlcst rounds, in the near future, the bout should attract a lot of attention among the followers of the ring. Both are high-class boxers of two distinct types, and they should put up a very great di play ol the manly art for that reason clene.Dillon is of the rugged, aggressive school, who generally endeavors to take the lead from the first tap of the gone and hold it to the last, as he did with Frank Moran in almost every sessionWhile Jack is very clever and shifty in hi* own way. he does not show that lightning speed and very brilliant flashes of dassling artistic skill, frequently exhibited by 'Phantom Mike' when he's in fine form and out foe a dashing victory.' As a ten-round boxer. Gibbons, at proper weight and condition, it a wonderful scientist. He ahould be able, in my humble opinion, to stand ofi Dillon with all his great natural and superior strength in a ten-act affair. In fact. I'll go so far as to predict a shade or *o for Mike, if he boxes Jack the Giant Killer in his best style.But in a twenty-round combat much greater endurance is required, and Dllton might stand a much better chance of tiring and wearing down the Fhantom hy his hard, gruelling method, and great vigor.I fear that Gibbon* has not always cut loose and tried his utmost to win against many of his former opponents; but with Dillon he will be put to the acid test, and forced to show all his skill and trick* of the trade, to even get a popular verdict. However, this should be a corking circling match for all the enthusiastic fana lo travel many miles to witness.jack Skelly sired probabilities up very accurately.DARCY'S MISTAKEThe pity of it that Les Darcy has gone B'*ay. Was there no one to advise the hoy ? The amhilion of hts career would now have been achieved had he remained in Australia It n-.ay he that the Gibbons party intended combining business with pleasure when they decided to visit Australia. It is. if that be the case, possible they might come to this country even if it became known to them before their departure from America that Darcy had gone to the United State*.In outpointing Dillon. Gibbons ha* done something which entitles him to a holiday, and aa hia backer. Hairy Sherman, ia a motion picture man. and there ia a good field lor that claas of gooda in thia country, why should the proposed trip across the Pacific be abandoned ?In the event of the visit taking place. Darcy will find he has missed the 'bus hadly He will have missed it in some respects whether or no. Going away as he did and landing in America as he will land, he Is sure to be more or less in the hands ol the Philistines. Instead of being able to dictate terms aa he could have done from thia end before putting loot aboard any boat. Darey will have to listen to terms.The wide-awake American promoter, or manager. is hardly liksly to overlook the difference between Darcy's position now end what Itmight and ahould have been with ptoper counsel, And that cute person is sure to make the most of ,t Had Darcy left his native land as Australia would have desired, the bulk ol the money available for a Gibbons-Darcy match might have been for him Now it will be for the American. Gibbons n in a pow-tion to main In a sense Darcy will be a beggar, and beggars cannot be choosersSOME GIBBONS DOPE.In the belief that it may amuse Refereadcrs I publish some punted dope regarding the uibbonii brothers, forwarded me. as it i, usually torwarded to the whole of America . papers and the best-known journal* in other parts ol the world.—.. ‘ Who is wiUmg to fight Tommy Gibbon*, oi bt Paul. Minn., brother of the famous pusi-lis'ic phantom. Mike Gibbons ?Brother Mike, who is generally conceded to he the world's very greatest exponeni of the art ol self defenct. want* to find a list of opponent! for hi* little 'big' brother, and if rtl McCoy Jack Dillon. Jelf Smith. Jimmy Clabby. Bddir McGoorty. Battling Levinsky, Young Aheam. or. in iact. any middleweight or light heavyweight is seeking trouble, a word ti Phantom Mike will prove sufficient to bring brother Tommy into the limelight as a challenger.'The distinction of being the brother of no famous a boxer as Mike Gibbons work* no. thing but hardships for Brother Tommy, for whenever he seeks trouble smong the men of his clasa. they immediately answer that if there ■s any beating* to be taken, they would much prefer to be the victim of the elder and nor: famous Gibbons, as a defeat at the hand* o, Mike is not so difficult to live down as a setback by Tom would be.So—with the world's acknowledged greatest boxer a* a brother, Tommy Gibbons, who, by the way. is just as good as Mike any tune he starts nr.da the »lcdding»hard. Mike Gibbon* i* man.gcr of hit ow.i. as well as brother Tomf/'n business, and he threatens to retire from the ring unless some ol the so-called championship title a.ipiiant* agree to ho. Tommy. And if he does several well-known bat tic is will live and die without having experienced the chitll of a battle with th-Phanto-.. But—this is a promise made h-Mike—it a few of the middleweights. or even the light heavyweights, will only fight Tom he (Mike) will give them a chance latei■'If Tom Gibbons happened to be Tom Brown. Tom Mulligan, or even Bob Slob, he would le accepted a* one oi the greatest fighting machine, the middleweight boxln; division has ever seen. But—jnforturjtelv for Tom—he is Tom Gibbons, brother of ihe marvellous Mtke. and therefore he -rust suffer the grief experienced by an athlete of little or no ability. Bui Tom is coin* to get therr, for Mike has taken off hi* coat, rolled up hi* sleeves, and shouted a world challenge from the house-toj**.MAGIRL AND KAYGood Go LikelyArt Magirl and Fred Kay, who fought -0 round* in Melbourne some htt'c time ba«V. when the American wa* declared the winner on points, arc expected to supply an unusuallv interesting contest ai the Stadium next Saturday night. Kay will be in much better condition this time. I will finish str ng I could not do that when Magirl goi the decision over me * said he the other day. Writing from the Whhe Hart Hotel. Melbourne, on Sunday rr.ornln:.. Patsv Burke said Art Magirl ha* hern ing hard for his contest with Fred Kay net Saturday night. Will continue training at Da»e Smith's room every afternoon We have our old sparring partners. Waller Weems and Claude Decar of the Tivoli Follie*. Weems weighs about 12st. and i* a giou tough fellow, in good condition. Magirl and Andy Kerr, the Coogee Bunyip. do six miles every morning on the road. Magirl is a good worker and an easy fellow to handle. He is a careful liver, rure to stay in the boxing game a good while. Magirl was unlucky when Darcy departed I am sure that pair would have fought a great fight. Art say* he will be sure to get a match with Darcy in America. 1 think Magirl will teat Kay because he just know* how to fight him. Of course. Kay's move* %o very fast, but Magirl will be with him all the time, ami will land all the punche* he starts. |Patsv'% apparent confidence i* indeed great.—W.F.C1 He out*boxed and out-fought Kay in Melbourne. Of course, the Sydney ring is a bll bigger. a» I mentioned to Art. hut he just laughed, and said. 'I'll catch him all right' This is Magirl's last fight in his contract, but Mr. Baker i» going to give him a contest tn Brisbane with either Kay or Holland o-i Dec. 2. I have Matt Murphy working with us. He i* to be matched with McCoy or Benny Pa.mrr on the 25th. Mat! is certainly coming along good, and looks like being a good fighter.Burke shoct* dope, really well, doesn’t he ?Melbourne Item*Jack Munro. writing at Melbourne on Saturday. says :—Bill Lang is still going well: in fact, he ia displaying better form than when I saw him training for his contest agsinst Arthur Pelkey .n Sydney Bill Squires is still in Melbourne, and wants to oppose the winner of the Lang-Me Mahon contest Bill ha* been training easily for some Urn? in anticipation of returning to the ring. Welterweight Barney Thompson. ,wlio was looked to to meet Owen Cairn* in Sydney on Monday. November 20. is now. owing to his wife being taken ill. unable to make the trip. I am arranging for Melbouma'a Fighting Fireman. Vic McDonald, to take his place, and I can tell you thia fireman is a real fighter. Ask Jimmy Dime and George Chip what they think of him. Dart Hunt, who meets Tommy Ryan on Monday. November 27. will arrive in Sydney next Satur-dayAn American exchange My*: ''AI McCoy figure* he »* a better man than Darcy because he atopped Chip in. one round, and it took Darcy nine. But McCoy will let it go at that. He wont insist on proving in a ring that he ■* the better manI have a long letter from Alex McLean, of Boston. who brought Jack Johnson to Australia for Mr. Jamea Brennan on the occasion of Johnson'a first viait to this country. McLean is doing well in the moving picture busi-BAKER'S STADIUMPraoast IhrmiMi...... .. IIKU L BAKER.UOMMKSCtt MX m MDECtDED. IMaMf KiMbUWae b An Magirl. KM. Kay. O..o I-If*-. V*. MH-i-14, Pat* Brsn Mpn. and Mil Ooniw) Kxwlln* VsudnitE Procruunr .nd otlwt •Top aMlMtMqs.J.mlt;m : BiasMAIN KVEXT. SJO Ml AKP.IIKKJT imUBAflUIHIi MHmiXWXKHIT lt;.ART MAGIRL V- FRED KAY(CAA.I (Al'CTRAUt.)nVJorfc. rim TV* on. T.IA rir* Prr)l»hwrv. 7.45. LM *1X0 bee-ad rrriimli-r,. Aft. JIM MU/VAN » HDaiilc otvyuNEXT*MONDAY^NICjHV. 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Sydney Referee
Sydney, New South Wales, AU
Wed, Nov 15, 1916
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