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About The Klamath news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1923-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 6, 1925)
Saturday .Tunc 6, 1925.- Tunney Knocks Gibbons Out By Bearing Down Hard 1 40,000 SEE GAME TOMMY SUBMIT TO TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT METED BY TUNNEY; 12th ROUND DRAMATIC Tunny Clamoring For Bout With Dempsey In Postmor tem Statement; Tommy Is Clearly Outclassed And Ad mits It I ' By VRSTimoK PKGl.KIt . R1XGSIDK, l'Ol.O CiROlXDS, X. Y., Jiuie 3. Tommy Glboons, the from Huffalo ea in and told Gib- PELICANS LEAVING FOR SHASTATO W IN A BALL GAME; BAITING ORDER AND LINEUP SWITCHED FOR HITTING Willi 10 straight defeats stsr-1 theloss. the buys r full of the old Inn him in the U- Manager Fred "ulrU nd r ""' '" 'I hard , ... lu keep their percentage at .loo Glover Ion n it announced a tilft ( ' r . . ' ' uiurir uh yruicu of running It higher In the lineup for Sundays game it , , Kl.m..h r., . work from Sunday with Duuimtilr. Mhlr will bo alerted In the boi j waa brought In j peclally. stepped bona he was out only fighter who has been able toi Both Gene and Tommy made rub-i keep a pair of shoe beneath him in bor stamp statements after the bout, a fight with Jack Dempsey since Gibbons was all In. Ho said he Dempsey became champion, tumb- didn't even know what round was led weakly to the mat in the 13th the last. round of his fight with Gone Tun-j "I did my best," Tom said. "But aey tonight, got up and went down it wasn't quite good enough. I -. mihmi, ,1 ,13 UfllQ UU U1IU1. 1 IU1UK 1UUUCT UUS'T1,AVA wnMd ,:,,,.. 1. ...... ,1 .... I. . . . ,. ..... . u i' i u ki-ic utucB nuiu mc oiuwu . uuuj amau tt rill in lie r Ul 1IIV BUfll 1, spread-legged or stepped around i certlan Gibbons who went through weakly. Intent only on getting put, 104 flghta without being knocked! of the way, or easing the shock of oft his feet, including those is SUson with the Phaataa that he mlj;hl produce hitting team. : " V ss? i "GENE" L; O I In order stronger batting order for Klamath Falls Sunday, Street oulflrld. roady to The has been JUKKlvJ around (or mo will ue in in same nurpuso. I laka up whora It that Scors-, Lo. A,u, ""flss-li Baa rtsatu,, PoriUad Uaitk IUrl llolllmiworu, Scors 1 Salt Lake Mohler lea tea off0.k,,.. J has become clearly apparent i It the southpaw la sol la the pink! iuii-- the relloaus' main waakouaa of condltlun. has been with the stick. Not that the team as a whole, la weak In that way. hut several' players hare kept winning run from belug scor ed at opportune times, through fail ure to gut on. t'artur will be seen on third base Sund.iy. replacing Ilaymsia. Car ter showed up flue on that bag In llr li lineup for the batting order and Ibe Shasta gs-ne: Nor- west as, Watts lb, Mathews If, Nuel it Btreet.cf. Street or Clark rf. Carter 3b, Arnold lb. Mohler p, Demllt c. Blalcy will be In the dugout toady to ba called 10 tha Infield or outfield It occasion arises. The special train planned tor car- Tunney's punches, with no thought rounds with Dempsey In Montana, of seeding anything bark. More than 40,000 persona swel- Only In the eighth round did, Gib- lured through the 12 rounds. practice yesterday. Cold weather rylng 200 fans to tbo game boa been has kept the Pelicans from practice called off due to lbs list being about nearly every day thla week and SO names shy. Many fana, how- SP.ORTS DOME BRQV they', are going to have time in the game Sunday. tough are, are waking , tba trip by aulo- Nerer-! mobile. - ' ' POLO OPEN ARENA What will be Gene Tunney'st of course. If he topples Charlie status if he slips OTer a victory, j Weluert. And after the following knockout, or point, on Tommy Glb-j Wills hns drummed np Welnert hons can well claim the rltsht to a match This query furnishes food for ' with Tunney should Welnert ellm conslderahle discussion. Inate the colored fighter. Im of the opinion that such a j,ulg Klrpo. If someone else will wUtht wnl down and out In lltel,, result ot me coming ligni win no Doy f.,r ,he rah,.,Iram from South "lrrt round of a fight with Athletics Continue At Remarkable Clip By Beating Tigers iCvery western ball club In the American league look licking In i a una VUIDI u BUUal a a auam v . uuw us s SJ 5. Jack McDonald, a colored heavy- - .,,.. ,h.t the ... l'Ol.O C.ltOL'NDii. New York. June more to discredit Gibbons than it ' will n hnrt Tunney's stcc- r .,a..i,l,lln- f AHA rflalvlt pot away in the end by slams to improved 100 per cent since I saw the jaw, but the real reason foiVhlsjhim last. Ho is a fast fighter, very collapse seemed to be exhaustion j clever and a good hitter. I wish from various causes. He was an old; him the best of luck." ian for the rough, tough game ofj Tunney said he wanted Jack taking hearty young slams on his J Dempsey next.- - - - wumi irmiif, n nns uiuzing noi j in tne recused glare or some 30 fun . . .... ... Itnllnn I...U lr..m I,M Ul....l,u I. .. America, will tie among the rirsl i -. ""j,),B (Uirr. challeneers of Tuiinev. ahoiild ihm 1 ifSpond.-.! to tint ham of Johnny i .,'..,..,,. .....,...i heavyweight however unfair this younR man wm. Firpo ,. poln, ( Kokm In tb. preliminary. Umrd hi , ,.n,udlph , .to the fact that he lifted Dempsey """ misionuu. to ,o , llmnUng ltlelr remarkable .i c.ooons .s oea.en me general . out of ,ho rlnK aH tt valhl r,.ttHon ; get cornered witn bis arms over , , h , f , ,hrm fool I n r n'lll tia t n . . .... ' s. it . I. I a s. ' .. . ! - wny lunncy should be tried out,"" -" B1 31 victories lo only 11 defeata. The He has bowed to aKe-rlng age. hlm h?fort. n. dls.y and was unable to fall down S(,nnr, .,mpl!r,d hom. ,rom New , me ring against tne champion. I ...... . Wa.hln.ton and arrived In A defeat for G!!.U,ns will bo dl. 1?M0 "pp'd hl,n out ln,a ,he,tm. to w.lroma the While Sox with however. Ho I. " ,m". COUDl or" " a pasting. 8 to 3 Ho has scaled the : " , ,u ,u ul ,n,' The Indiana lost to the tied Box match for tho tltlo. .. . 1 " '"" "' " l'",u,in lioston S to 1 and the Browns with Dempsey If Dempsey was try ing. alFiiii, in film He would now make a mighty . . " . along in years. puoi uftpoucrin lor me K i height cuaiup even conceaing inai ucmp. -to a sey has slipped Borne. That he bowed to youth more than to a great fighter. There are several logical rea- did something that Dempsey sons for believing this will be the couian t do when I stopped Tom , sentiment should Tunney cop. A defeat at this time will start him on the toboggan to the end. In fact Gene was in front all the way. Those who had seen Gibbons Jack KearnB, who lost round battle with Kstcllu to Dempsey will ring. Tho timer countod three a McDonald started to rise but the referee put up his arm and yelled "that's all; Its stopped." "Dud" Gorman, the Hessian soldier ot pugilism, who has been sparring partner to both Gibbons jand Tunny was next In the ring to I moot Jack Deuinvc, a yellow haired athlete in niirul.t Irnnkit soon become middle-' ,, i Dejiiuvo after six untidy rounds. It i one-Taylor Tunney is a light heavyweight. H is many pounds lighter than Detnp sey at his best weight. Tunney nas proved himself a clever boxer.!"""- -""" ' aier raptVatIiia: charm of fairly hard hitter and a willing "' B'c"' nimseu 10 nis second proni.,(in. !any new land the polar explorers find. Kcnrns asserts that Walker was a messy fight with nono of tho a real bloody mixer. But In none ot bis fights tnrono by knorllnK """y Greb ' nolhaiuul -I-.. 1 (t... 1. Jl. I .u,, Glubons... Gene said. "I was in a merciless flood of ray. onto thejcommand of ,he gnt a, tne "T', "? , . ,hun'P1:i think I have earned a fight with and clouted on the head and ribs! Dempsey " mil ue was worn 10 tne point or collapse. kki! a11; fight Dempsey at Shelby, where he1 has he proved himself a formidable for " row of JP"e howling al hons wh 1 t v ( th i blocked off Dempsey's furious rushes contender for the heavyweiBht title. ' ,J- Shoals. Ala., won the decision from ..ZTa i ! ,S a!iand popIed hlm impudently on the This may be partly because of the J'y he. may bo. But Walkcr.iuny Ncumiin, a white boy who was a second guess In life, developed ! v K ,k. . ,.'fn, ,h, h . JlliI ii n,ur i,.,l. - 1 -.. ' . . . . 0 " " " v, . " ' " ' uucicu'- - " " 1 i w ii oi jnri uemDSCV Nttarrlnv him few real opponents. One can- Perience against a man like flreb. partner's, while ho was training at noi snow ins pesi against a dun l"" "" nunuicup me welter-, Saratoga for Flrpo iignter, Ilu'i Lawson. tho muscular pick and shovel virtuoso from Muscle With ottWlln nnt.b.A.. l. ,u. 1 o.i. f1 ' - m iu- i-m-j,. He had aged and lost his Tunney had been cork ng Gibbons ,.,.,,. . u '"" "' tt.lv. a ,.t. . , " science. Gibbons, who Used to have on tho head with clouts that were f,, i i i . . . , , the finest precision in his fists, was Lv S, 'IT- T u De?P" "inging wild blows at Tunney. and ZJ, T,L ,aT 6fT in.g'a"8afoot short. He went back blows that must have made Tom s , .i,. .i , , ... ,, , ... . , . " to the principles of the preliminary bead resound like the peal of a . ,. , . . . ,, . V , " fighter before he was long n tho ? '"nge;: 1Sufdenly he ? t:rig, lowering his head and raising on the side of the head, a short left as many smashe8 a8 he could- "i ficulj ueei in PUCK OI U. I followed by a quick and helpful right. Gibbons swayed over to his left, tripped over his feet, and slumped ; On his Bide. His halrv loiri. atnlnorl i green from the dye of his silk tights, lashed the air for a few sec onds, and the knock-down timer, standing at the margin of the ring, had boomed seven blows with bis mallett before Tom could get up. He wobbled sidewise to his own cor ner and swayed there with his head lowered, and his forearms half up raised In a weak effort to block off the hurricane that he knew would be coming In an instant. Tunney, who had backed away, now rushed at him and smashed him on the lips with a right. That started Gibbons tottering again, and an auxiliary punch tipped him over, half on his back. Tommy went flat for an Instant, his wot shoulders gathering a coat of gray resin powder from the floor. He struggled to sit up. His left eye was half closed and eye-brow was raw from one of Tunney's many pokes. Tom seemed to know per fectly well that he was on the floor and had to get up. He was not In Hio comatose condition that over takes some fighters, but he was all the way out for tho technical pur poses of tho ring. He groped for the lower strand of the ropes at the count of seven and managed to get his straying feet beneath him nt nine. At ten he was crouching to rise, and an instant later he was up again, teetering on uncertain foot ing, and facing about to withstand another collision. But Dick Nugent, the referee who Should Tunney win the malls will be flooded with challenges of the run-of-mine heavies who be lieve that Tunney should go Into the ring with Dempsey beating them. weight champ. No man who hasn't foiiKht Greb. knows his stylo. For no one can talk authoritatively about boxing a windmill until ho has pulled a Don only after Quixote. Don has a horso and a nice long spear to help him and Harry Wills will be one shoutcr, lost the decision on points SIX IIK.tT VICTIMS IX X. V. NEW VOHK. June S. New York saw six more death added to Its list, the result of a temperature of 97 today. Schools were dismissed this afternoon because of tho Intense heat. were the Yanks' victims In New York 10 to 7. None of. the teams changed post lions but the Yanks and red sax moved up slightly, closing In on the .Tigers'. It Is years since sixth j place was "up" for the Yanks, j In the nntl'inal league the' result I was tho sumn us in the American with tho exception of the victory of Cincinnati over Boston. I.uqus the Cuban pitcher for the Reds shut out the Braves la a game tbat was scoreless until the last of the tenth tuning when Itouah slngtod and scored on a doublo by pinolll. I.u que allowed only three hits through out the 10 Innings. The Giants took tba Cards Into camp, winning from tbem 11 to 5. The Dodgers defeated the Cuba In Chicago 7 to 0, while the Phils won over the Pirates 6 to 6, In 11 In nings at Pittsburgh. 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