HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-11-08, Page 7First Knockdown
Was As Last
When Tominy Giblethr mid
Gene Tunney squared alt the
tight of June 6, 1925, in New
'York's sweltering Polo Grounds,
the two gladiators 'rwed a crisis
M their colorful 'zee Mg Meer,
Gibbons, who hal been fight -
Mg since 1911, emit) led through
the ropes for his 107th profes-
atonal bout at 37, a married
man with a laege family and a
reputation of newt having lost
by a knockout. Tunney, ten
years younger and aching for a
crack at Jack Dempsey's crown.
needed a clear-cut victory over
Gibbons to earn that title s:hot.
The Police Gazette Ringeider
at the Polo Ground that night
wrote of the battle:
"Tom ought a strictly defen-
rive fight and a poorly -conduct-
ed defensive one at that. Only
once — in the eighth round --
did he make any serious at-
tempts to carry an efferteive
against the enemy.
"In that round he lashed out
in a belated desperate rally.
When he did let fly for Tun-
ney's jaw, he connected solidly
with both right and left ewings
and hooks. The punches really
upset Gene's composure for the
moment, but they were not de-
eisive blows, and furthermore,
Gibbons made no attempts to
follow up his momentary ed -
vantage.
"With these few exceptiims.
Gibbons was invariably short
with his leads. It was seldom.
in fact, that Gibbons essayed to
come out of his shell and melte
a fight of if. Mostly he wae on
the defensive, perpetually dene-
Ing out of harm's way. and
keeping a blockade of gloves
and elbows forever in front of
his face and chin."
Then came the twelfth round
end the Ringsider wrote:
"Whether it was earelesenets,
remeee or eehether Tom WRS sfl arm.
eveary he eouldn't raise hie
dukes, or whether he just 'molt
one' to get the agony roe with.
we cannot say.
'But we clo know that licc
ofTered a wide open tareet, tot
Tunney simply walked in elf.sc
ond swished a short right, hall -
arm hook to the ncc,p, and Gib-
bons slumped slowly 16 the
til/cc of the ring.
"lie didn't pitch forward re
tome of the bey,: do when an
adversary mils them square nn
the button for a clean end total
knockout. Nor did he flop beek-
wards, kieleing. His arms simply
ren to his side and he keeled
aver sidewise enil'', almost e3t:'•
liberateIy.
"There was pandemonium
mama the sweltering arena
when the (Toted sensed what
had happened. Gibbons down!
First time ever knocked off his
reel! Thousands of voices
DM and re-eehoed in the mur-
ky reaches of the giant bowl—
bedlam crashed clownwarde from
l'he upper tiers of the steel eyed,
"Gibbons slumped down ‘cc
hands and knees. lie lay prop -
peel up en one elbow in the
pot of the 'Dying Gladiator.°
Tunney backed ;may into his
own corner whilst the count
proceeded to eeven, when upon
Tom scrambled to his feet and
with trembling legs spread
wide apart, tottered backwards
towards his one angle of the
ring, only to have Tunney, trots
everting victory by the Imre-h-
oot route, pounce upon him
mercilessly.
"Tom was badly muddled.
There was no semblance now of
the vaunted Gibbons defense,
Tom was wide open, wobbling.
pitiful in his helplessness as
with head bent forward, knees
and torso shaking like a poplar
in a hurricane, he awaited the
final blow.
"Wifh the impact of the sec-
ond short and jarring sock to
the point of the chin, Gibbons
Ohl again to the floor. He
wasn't put to sleep. He wasn't
cuckoo' as the boys say. He
was just a badly beaten, sadly
muddled, middle-aged shell of
o fighter who had (tarried the
pitcher once too often to the
well, and in addition, gone out
ef his class.
"Gibbons tried to get up,
tattered to his feet just at the
count of ten. But Dick Elven
of Buffalo, the referee, saw that
Tom had enough. He waved a
hand and the fight was officially
ever,
For Tom Gibbons, that hot
night at the Polo Grounds
marked the end of the trail. He
quit the ring, returned to his.
native St. Paul and his family.
A prominent and well -liked
figure in. Minnesota boxing
circles, Gibbons is now a county
Sheriff in St, Paul. Although
it's been a quarter-century
eince Tunney floored him, laW-
liereakers don't fool with Tom-
etty even now. After all, Gene
was the only man who ever
knocked Gibbons Off his feet.
Ple was the first and last one to
do it. — By George Roberts in
"The Police Gazette."
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fle.ld of 'wheat. "I/ori't 111 ti I;
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• the epring,' 1 said. •
. . !
flu said, "I 'wonder, can you
etglc 11 —. have -I got ;this thing
e
loaded right?"
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CIAIMS THE HEART OF TEXAS — Genovevo Rodriquez y
Hinojosa, 43, displays some .rt the documents which will, he
says, prove his claim to 750,000 acres of southern Texas.
Hinojoso bases his claim on a Spanish land grant to his great -
great -grandfather more than 1/5 years ago and on an American
land patent to the area issued in 1888. Within the claimed
territory are the city of Corpus Christi and some 20 other com-
munities. Riggers Local 575 of Detroit, Mich., is so impressed
by American -born Hinolosa's clrim that it is setting up a fund
to finance the long court fight ahead.
When The Hunting Season
October deemed bright and
elc;ar in these parte, although it
• . looked just like t1 e. last of sem,
tembee, and at first I didn't par-
ticularly notice the chance. But
later, when the significant dif-
ierence was called to my atten-
tion, I went and got my red hat.
The opening, of the .bird season
te observed faithfully around
le
I've been repairing my spring.
,My •pipeline froze up during that
long cold spell we had last win -
fel, and we were- without run-
ning water for time enough for
oreto reeolve it would not hap-. -
pen attain. I started remedial
ecd preventive alterations as •
soon •as the frost went out of
the ground, 1 didn't rush 1!-
301, becanse it isn't the kind of
job that need:: rushing, and I
Led all summer.
The Spring is nn the side hill
back of the buildings and has
.11,tol gently end abundantly
• flowing exeellent water for a
Jung. time. Grendfather dug out
the basin and stoned It up when
was ti young man, using oxen •
and hirc.d hands who shered a
degree of mental and muscular
complexion which -suited them
ideally for the task. Some of the
boulders are as big as pianos.
Then when I came along I ran
a pipe from the 'spring to the
hetet; without disturbing any of
Ii s rock week, and with an elec.-
Irk pump was in business.
Gramp'•., job is still all right
tip to a point, but in orderto caij.
the thing over with cement I
had to go down a Ways and level
back, I had to put in a plank
form and provide Inc a remov-
able cover, designing the thing
P1 I could get my planks out efe
ter I ran the concrete. My aim
lar to fix the placeso freak
winters would never again shirt
us off. And having no oxen and
hired hands, I fixed up simple
machines out Of the elementary
psy.sies book, dawdled along as
I felt like it, anti -found the pro-
ject an interesting and enter.
Mining summer diversion.
I rigged a tripod and chainfell
with which I hoisted nut the
leeks I couldn't lift, and made
o ramp so I could beck the trac-
tor -trailer beneath them and
haul them away. It worked fine,
and as September waned I could
sere that all would be finished in
ample time.
So on the first day of Oelobet
I was down inside the spring,
standing on a plank platform
just above the water line, point-
ing up the;masonry just prior to
starting up the cement mixer,
malting euro my new work would.
join properly with Gramp's old
work, and I came up out of the
hole to find a beautiful dog
pointing at me. It was a lady
dog, and just as I discovered her
my dog, Prinee, leaped on his
feet from a snooze and exhibited
great interest in her presence.
- Prince is a lady's man, and he
was glad. The other dog, being
a bird hOund,• held her point
rigidly and we looked each other
in the eye warily. Prince tried
to disengage her attention, but
she knew her obligations and
with one front paw in the air
and her tail as stiff as a ramrod
she pointed at me inflexibly. It
Starks
3, a disturbing thing to find,- in
a Maine October, that some-
body's bird dog thinks you
partridge. -
I looked beyond the bird clog's
motionless shoulder, and Few her
master stealthily Corning any way;
fowling piece at the ready. He
'VHF clearly shortsighted, and
was peering eagerly. 1 could FIT
he didn't want to blast away
until he might see something
move- and he could locate the av-
crage direction.
I called a cheery greeting to
him. and momentarily he show-
ed that he was surprised to hear
a partridge speaking English.
But he quititly recovered and;
raid it was a lovely day, an ob-
zervation with which I concurr-
ed. and Said he was out to do PI
little hunting.
The clog remained at a sharp
point, ignoring even Prince and,
at this Mew sc;emed an absurd
project to pursue, the gentle -
Mail on the other end of the gun
pulled nut little whistle, which
he blew lustily, but being. one of
those. whistles only a clog rem
heat it didn't make any, noiee.
Ilie dog pedd re, attention end
eolith -rued to point me, evideote
ly egpecting mc' to take MT FOCI
fly away any 'minute, but Prince -
who has sensitive ears,' ran off
at ems into the woods and I
haven't seen him since. .Anything
louder than the jarring of a •
cook it b o w 1 cover °fiends:
Prince. -
The hunter then felt his way
along by setting cash font out
front gingnrly and worked his
way sip to my sorinehole. and 1
think he might have fallen in if
his doe: hadn't been in the way.
He was wearing a fine cdive-
green hunting costume spang
out of the catalogue, with ample
zipper game porket, belt for an
ax and utility cord, and had on.
at least thirty .dollars worth af
-boots. His cap was livid red,
adorned with a fish and game -
club emblem showing crossed
sholnitw with leaping deer and
salmon, and a cock pheasant in
Thus 1 realized it was now Oc-
tober, and our sylvan acres would
be populated daily by gentle -
Men Wilt expected a farmer 10
leap up and fly away if he is
point d. I suggested to this
gentleman that his best chance
would lic clown along the east
bete t;theting at the big pine firld
orkin,.; through the swamp. I
lever knew any birds to be in
there, and the growth is too
thick to swing a gun if any
should appear, but it is a fine
place to test new boots to see if
they leak. I tilways send huntere
le there and they thank me,
ileaet year only four times did
we have to'form a posse and go
lo after. lost hunters, but twice
it was for the same man.)
This gentleman thanked me,
stumbled over my shovel, con
-
rolled his eompaes, and took alt
with the clog stripping every ten
feet to point. After he was gone
went up to the house and dug
out my red cap, and for a month
sholl sing songs, loudly, at my
work. Nonbird songs. By John
Gentle]sci 'rhe Christian Scierien
Mon i .
Wiucicwer
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Strength of Canada's armed
forces has fallen - to its lowest
figure in two years.
A Defence Department spokes-
man eeid thestrength of the
Meties at the end of Julyeelatest
figtaf available, • was 11591)2,
The -breakdown: Navy, 18,824:
Army, 47,397; R.C,A.F., 49,761.
Toward the close of 1954, eer-
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ectallv in the infantry, but im
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ter and •partioderly in pnt.5t1.r
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"Provision has berm made for
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Bat the liTtres shoW the.
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icss-
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01 leTw.1 etene men Ow these new
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1s7511 in Mont 15 menthe.
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