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
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. 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.
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"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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