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GHOST GIBBONS DEFEATSDWARFED-G1ANT DILLONWinner Will Visit Sydney: Darcy’s AbsenceThe following cablegram lo The Referee was received last SaturdayST PAUL (Minn ). U.S.A.. Nov. 10. Mike Gibbon*, weighing Hat 41b out-pointed Jack Dillon, weighing 11*1 91b. in a 10-round battle here last night.Thi» new* will, no doubt. *urpriac a good many people who have watched Dillon’* career. Everybody recognised that Mike Gibbon* wa* a remarkably clever boxer. He i» the cleverest, at his weight, in the world. Though entertaining the belief mentioned, many American authorities thought Dillon, a cruiserweight, would smash the defence of hia lighter and much lest rugged opponent up if the two ever got together.Gibbons' success r-er Dillon i» a distinct triumph for boxing skill Here we had a lightly-built borer—so lean in structure that he was often relerred to as the St Paul Ghost or Phantom—up against one of the well-proved, sturdiest, strongest, and toughest men in the game : a boxer who had beaten heavyweight* of worldwide reputation and had. in several different places, been declared to have a good chance of demolishing that towering pugilistic person, the human skyscraper champion of the world. Jess Willard. Yet the shadow beat the * olid aubstance wholly and aolely 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 for the brother*. Mike and Tommy Gibbons, writing me under date St. Paul. Minn.. Oct. 13, says :— Just returned to the ctty. We were living up in the woods in the northern part of Minnesota all Summer. Mike and Tom have stalled training for the fall campaign.The paper* 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 I like to be pasted on what is going on over on your side. Afier reading them I turn them ovfr to or.e of our local sport writers, and he i* very grateful for the news the? contrin. and awaits them as anxiously a* I do.Mike and Dillon are signed to box here in St. Paul on Nov. 10. The weight is 161 pounds at 3 o’clock and this will give Dillon about nib. a* Mike very seldom weighs over 154 when in shape. Jack Skclly ha* picked Gibbon* 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. who has made a million with The Birth of a Nation picture here Sherman mad* Gih-bona a very good offer, and he has accepted it.I feel very confident that Mike will beat Darcy : but if Dafcy should win. he would have to face brother Tommy before He would have a clear claim to the championship. Tom is forced to go out of hi* class and take on the light-heavyweights in order to get so-r-eoivr to meet him. Battling Levinskv and Billv Weeks, the Canadian champion, both ran out of matches with him within the last month.“If Gibbons wins over Dillsn the trip i* a certainly. They plan on leaving for Australia about Christmas time. I will send you the clippings after the bout.”A GOOD TIPSTER My wrll-infor-t «*d friend, .leek Skelly of New York, who contributes much interesting boxing matter to trany American newspapers, wrote as follows in the Yonkers (N.Y.) Herald Uttt mon.b —“If Mike Gibbon* and Jack Dillon meet within the 6stic arena as pro*v«ed. for ten decisionlrss round*, 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 type*, and they should put up a very great dt play of the manly art for that reason clone.' Dillon is of the rugged, aggressive school, who generally endeavors to take the lead from the first tap of the gong and hold it to the last, as he did with Frank Moran in almost ever/ sesaionWhile Jack is very clever and shifty in hi* own way. he does not show that lightning •peed and very brilliant flashes of daaaling artistic skill, irerjuently exhibited by 'Phantom Mike.’ when he’s in fine form and out foe a dishing victory.’ As a ten-round boxer. Gibbons, at proper weight and condition, is a wonderful scientist. He should be able, in my humble opinion, to stand ofi Dillon with all hi* great natural and superior strength in a ten-act affair. In fact. I’ll go so far as to predict a shade or so 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 Dillon might stand a much better chance of tiring and wearing down the Fhantom by his hard, gruelling method and great vigor.! fear that Gibbons haa not alwaya cut loose and tried his utmost to wm against msny of his former opponents; but with Dillon he will be put to the acid test, and forced to show all his skill and tricks of the trade, to even get a popular verdict. However, this should be a corking, circling match for all the enthusiastic fan* lo travel many milt* to witness.’’Jack Skclly sired probabilities up very accurately.DARCY S MISTAKEThe pity of it that Lea Darcy has gone away. Was there no one to advise the boy 7 The ambition of hu career would now have been achieved had h* remained in Auitralis. It may he that the Gibbons psrty intended combining business with pleasure when they decided to visit Auitraiia. It is, if that be the case, possible they might come to thin country even if it became known to them before their departure from America that Darcy had gone to the United States.In outpointing Dillon. Gibbons has done something which entitles him to a holiday, and as hia backer. Hairy Sherman, ia a motion picture man, and there ia a good field for that class of goods in this country, why should the proposed trip across the Pacific be abandoned ?In the event of the visit taking place. Darcy will finJ he has mi used the 'hue hadly. He will have missed it in some respects whether or no. Going away aa he did and landing in America aa he will land, he ia sure to be more or less in the tianda of the Philistines. Instead of being able to dictate term* aa he could have done from this end before putting loot aboard any boat. Darcy will have to listen to terms.The wide-awake American promoter, or manager. ts hardly likely to overlook the difference between Darcy’s position now and what Itmight and should have been with pfoper coun-aeJ. And that cute person ia sure to make he most of „ Had Darcy left hi. n.t.ve land as Australia would have desired, the bulk of the money available for a Gibbons-Darcy match might have been for him Now it will he for the American. Gibbons n in a position to insist In a sense Darcy will be a beggar, and beggars cannot be choosers.SOME GIBBONS DOPE.In the belief that it may amuse Refereaders.1 publish some printed dtpe regarding the UiDDono brother*, forwarded me. a* it i» usually inrwarded to the whole of America . pnoer* and the best-known journals in other parts of the world —Who :s willing to fight Tommy Gibbon*, of St 1 a ill Mmn brother of the famous pugilistic phantom. Mike Gibbons ?Brother Mike, who is generally conceded to be the worlds very greatest exponent of the art ol self defenc*. want* to find a Im of opponent* for hi* little ’big’ brother, and if Ml McCoy Jack Dillcn. Jeff Smith. Jimmy Clabby. Eduir McGoorty. Battling Levinsky, Young Abeam, or. in fact, any middleweight or light heavyweight is seeking troublr. a word t Phantom Mike will prove sufficient to brine brother Tommy into the limelight as a challenger.‘The distinction of being the brother of no famous a boxer a* Mike Gibbons works nothing but hardships for Brother Tommy, foi whenever hr seeks trouble among the men of his class, they immediately answer that if there is any beatings to be taken, they would much prefer to be the victim of the elder and mors famous Gibbons, a* a defeat at the hands oi 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 Gibbon*, who, by the way. is just as good at Mike any tune he st;ru». find* the *lcdding*hard. Mike Gibbons is muitbgcr of hit o*,i. a* well us brother Tamf/’s business, and he threatens to tetuc from the ring unless some ol the so-called championship title a.tpiiani* agree to bo. Tommy. And if he doe* several well-known battlcis will live and die without having experienced the thiill of a battle wuh the Phantom. But—this is a promise made byMike—it i few of the middleweight*, or even the light heavyweight*, will only tight Tom. he (Mike) will give them a chance laterIf Tom Gibbons happenel to be To-n Brown. Tom Mulligan, or even Bob Slob, he would be' accepted ax one of the greatest fighting machines the middleweight bovine division ha.i ever seen. But— unfortunate!’, for Tom—he is Tom Gibbons, brother of the marvellous Mike, and therefore he must ,utfer the grief experienced by an athlete of little nr no ability. But Tom is soing to get there for Mike has taken off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and shouted a world challenge ion the house-top*.•'MAGIRL AND KAYGood Go LikelyArt Magirl and Fred Kay. who fought 30 rounds in Mclbotirre *omc little time bail:, when the American was declared the winner on points, arc expected to supply an unutuailv i teresting contest a» the Stadium next Saturday night. Kay will be in much bettei condition this time. I will finish Mr-ng I could not do that when Magirl got the decision over me ' said he the other day. Writing from the Wh ie Hart Motel. Melbourne, on Sunday r-.ornin.. Pat** Burke said Art Magirl ha*, hern tr.-'n-ing hard for his contest with Fred Kay nest Saturdey nigfit. Will continue training at Da*e Smith's room every aitern-on We have our old sparring partners. Walter Weems and Claude Decar of the Tivoli Follies. Weems weigh* about 12s«. and i« a good tough fellow, in good condition. Magirl and Andy Kerr, the Coogce Bunyip. do six miles every morning on the road. Magirl is a good worker and an easy fellow to handle. He is a careful livet. •ure to stay in the boxing game a good while. Magirl was unlucky when Darcy departed I am sure that pair would have fought a eteat fight. Art says he will be sure to get a match with Darcy in America, I think Magirl will teat Kay hcrause he just knows how to fight him- Of course, Kay’s move* »o very f**’. but Magirl will be with him all the time, ami will land all the punches he start*. IPatsv * apparent confidence t* indeed great.—W.F.C1 He out-boxed and out-fought Kay in Me'* bourne. Of course, the Sydney ring is a bit bigger, a* I mentioned to Art. hut he just laughed, and said. 'I’ll catch him all right' This is Magirl * la*t fight »n his contract, but Mr. Baker i* going to give him a contest in Brisbane with either Kay or Holland on De‘-2. I hav* Matt Murphy working with u». He i* to be matched with McCoy or Benny Palmer on the 2Sth. Mall is certainly coming along good and looks like being a good fighter.Burke *hoct» dope, really well, doesn’t ha ?Melbourne ItemsJack Munro. writing at Melbourne on Saturday. says Bill Lang it still going well: in fact, he ia displaying better form than when I mw him training for hi* contest against Arthur Pelkey «n Sydney. Bill Sejuire* it still m Melbourne, and wants to oppose the winner of the Lang-McMahon contest Bill hs* been training easily for some time in anticipation of returning to the ring. Welterweight Barnev Thompson, .who 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 Melbourne's Fighting Fireman. Vic McDonald. u take hi* 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, wh'o meet* Tommy Ryan on Monday. November 27. will arrive in Sydney next Saturday. _An American exchange says: Al McCoy figure* he is a better man than Darcy because he stopped Chip in. one round, and it took Darcy nioa. But McCoy will let it go at that. He won’t tnaist on proving in a ring that he ia the better man. _I have a long letter from Alex McLean, of Boston, who brought Jack Johnson to Australia lor Mr. James Brennan on the occasion of Johnson's first visit to this country. McLean is doing well in the moving picture bust-llBAKER’S STADIUMPnsoaal IHrxtlM.......... UtXi L. UAKKR.TO-NIGHT AT 8 P.M.—“POPT ... „-—EH;- AXII nATHKSWM OUT TOt kNAMtvr QOMMBKCB. MX Mr.ATfi WTU.RKnrctDED. TVsmir* Kxhikit««* b, Art Hsaul. Krrd. 8*3. Ov.n Calm*. Vie. MrOw-M, »*s»V *»»• aim and M Qodtn, KwrtMst VasderilC Prcem»me »nd «h*r Pop” .UrseUotu- Frie- ; Blag -de V... 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