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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1956-11-01, Page 3First Knockdown Was His Last When Tommy Gibbons and Gene Tunney squared off the might of June 6, 1925, in New York's sweltering Polo .Grounds, the two gladiators 'Iced a crisis • in their colorful 'tc !ng careers. Gibbons, who hal been fight - Ing since 1911, cras4 led through the ropes for his 107th profee- 'lienal bout at 37„ a married pian with a large family and a reputation of never' having lost by a knockout. Tunney, ten years younger and aching for a crack at Jack Delnpsey's crown, needed a clear-cut victory over Gibbons to earn that title shot. -The Police Gazette Ringsider at the Polo Ground that night wrote of the battle: "Toni fought a strictly defen- sive fight and a poorly -conduct- ed defensive one at that. Only once - in the eighth round — did ' he makeany serious 'at- tempts to carry an offensive 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 swings and hooks. The punches really. upset Gene's composure for the moment, but they were not de- cisive blows, and furthermore,. -Gibbons made no attempts to follow up his momentary ad- vantage. "With these 'few exceptions, Gibbons was invariably short with his leads, It was seldom, In fact, that Gibbons essayed to come out of his shell and make a fight of it. Mostly he was on the defensive, perpetually danc- 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 and the Ringsider wrote: "Whether it was carelessness, or whether Toni was so arm - weary he couldn't raise his dukes, or whether he just 'took one' to get the agony over with, we cannot say. "But we do know that he offered a wide open target, for Tunney simply walked in close tend swished a short right, half - arm hook to the map, and Gib- bons slumped slowly to the floor of the ring. "He didn't pitch forward as some of the boys do when an adversary nails .them square on the button for a clean and total knockout. Nor did he flop back- wards, kicking. His arms simply fell to his side and he keeled ever sidewise, •easily,: almost de- liberately. "There was pandemonium around 'the sweltering arena when the crowd sensed what had happened. Gibbons down! First time ever knocked off his feet! Thousands of voices ech- oed and re-echoed in the mur- ky reaches of the giant bowl— bedlam crashed downwards from the upper tiers of the steel oval. "Gibbonsslumped down on hands and knees. He lay prop- ped up on one elbow in the pot of the 'Dying Gladiator.' Tunney backed away into his own corner whilst the count proceeded to seven, whereupon 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, now seer ting victory by the knock-. out route, pounce upon him mercilessly. ... "Tom was badly muddled. There was no semblance now of the vaunted Gibbons defense. Toni 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. "With the impact of the sec- ond short and jarring sock to the point of the chin, Gibbons slid 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 huddled, middle-aged shell of a fighter who had carried the pitcher once too often to the well, and in addition, gone out of his class. "Gibbons tried to get up, tottered to his feet just at the count of ten. But Dick Nugen of Buffalo, the referee, saw that Tom had enough. He waved a hand and the light was officially Over. For Torn Gibbons, that hot night at the Polo Grounds anarked the end of the trail. I e quit the ring, returned to his ]dative St. Paul and his family. A prominent and well -liked gigue in Minnesota . boxing circles, Gibbons is now a county •sheriff In St, Paul, Although. It's been a quarter-century mince Tunney. • floored him, levy - breakers don't fool with Tom- my even now. After all, Gene Was the only man Who ever letked Gibbons off his feet, tis was the first and last one to do it. — By George Roberta in *The Police Gazette,'• CLAIMS THE HEART OF TEXAS — Genovevo Rodriquez y Hinojosa, 48, displays some •,f the documents which will, he says, prove his claim to 750,000 acres of southern Texas. Hinojosa bases his claim on a Spanish land grant to his 'great - great -grandfather more than 125 years ago and on qn 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 Hinojosa's claim that it is etting up a fund to finance the long court fight ahead. When The , Hunti ig Season Starts October dawned bright a clear in these parts, although looked just like the last of se tembe", and at first I didn't p ticularly notice the chance. B later, when the significant d ference was called to my atte tion, I went and - got my red h The opening of the bird seas is observed faithfully arou here. I've been repairing my spring. My pipeline froze up during that long cold spell we had last win- ter, and we were without run- ning water for time enough for nee to resolve it would not hap- pen. again. I started remedial and preventive alterations as soon as the frost went out of the ground. I didn't rush the job, because it isn't the kind of job that needs rushing, and r had all summer. The spring is on the side hill back of the buildings and has been gently and abundantly flowing excellent water for a long time. Grandfather dug out the basin and stoned it up when he was a young man, using oxen and hired hands who shared 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 house without disturbing any of his rock work, and with an elec- tric pump was in business. Gramp's job is still all right up to a point, but in order to cap 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 for a remov- able cover, designing the thing se I could get my planks out af- ter r ran the concrete. My aim was to fix the place so freak winters would never again shut us off. And having no Oxen and hired hands, I fixed up simple machines out of the elementary psysics book, dawdled along as I felt like it, and found the pro- ject an interesting and enter- taining summer diversion. • nd is a disturbing thing to find, in it p- ar- ut if- n - at. on nd I rigged a tripod and chainfall with which I hoisted out the rocks I couldn't lift, and made a ramp so T could back the trac- tor -trailer beneath then and haul thein away. It worked fine, and as September waned I could see that all would be finished 1 ample time. x: So on the first day of October I was down inside the spring, standing on a plank platform jest above the water line, point- ing up the masonry just prior to starting up the cement mixer, making sure my new work would join properly with Gramp's old work, and 1 came up out of the hole to find a beautiful dog pointing at nie. It was a lady dog, and just as I discovered her my dog, Prince, 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 tlbe pointed at rise inflexibly. It° a Maine October, that some- body's bird dog thinks you are a partridge. I looked beyond the bird dog's motionless shoulder, and saw her master stealthily coming my way, fowling piece at the "ready. He was clearly shortsighted, and was peering eagerly. I could see he didn't want to blast away until he might see something move and lie could locate the .,av- erage direction. I called a cheery greeting to him, and momentarily he show- ed howed that he was surprised to hear a partridge speaking English. But he quickly recovered and said it was a lovely day, an ob- servation with which I concurr- ed, and said he was out to do a little hunting. The dog remained at a sharp point, ignoring even Prince and, ass this now seemed an absurd project to pursue, the gentle • man on, the other end of the gun pulled out a little whistle which he blew lustily, but being one of '. . those whistles only a. dog can hear it didn't make any noise. His dog paid no attention and continued to point me, evident- ly expecting me to take off and fly away any minute, but Prince who has sensitive ears, ran off at once into the woods and I haven't seen him since. Anything louder than the jarring of a cookie b o w 1 cover offends Prince. The hunter then felt his way along by setting each foot out front gingerly and worked his way up to my springhole, and I think he might have fallen in if his dog hadn't been hi the way. He was wearing a fine olive- green hunting costume spang out of the catalogue, with ample . zipper game pocket, belt for an ax and utility cord, and had on. at least thirty dollars worth of boots. His cap was livid red, adorned with a fish and game club emblem showing crossed shotguns with leaping deer and salmon, and a cock pheasant in CANADA'S FINEST •".:IGARETTE a field oe wheat. "Don't fall in the spring," I said. Re said, "I wonder, can you tell xne -- have I got this thing loaded right?" Thus T realized it was now Oc- tober, and our sylvan acres would be populated daily by gentle- men who expected a farmer to l+e,ap up and fly away if he is pointed, I suggested to this gentleman that his best chance would be down along the east line, starting at the big pine and working through the swamp. I never 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 always send hunters there and they thank me. (Last year only four tinies did we have to form a posse and go in after lost hunters, but twice it was for the same man.) This gentleman thanked me, stumbled over my shovel, con- zulte,•d his compass, and took off with the dog stopping every ten feet to point. After he was gone I, went up to the house and dug out my red cap, and for a month I shall sing songs, loudly, at my work. Nonbird songs. By John Could in The Christian •Science Monitor. Our Manpower At Lew Ebb Strength of Canada's armed forces has fallen to its lowest figure in two years, A Defence Department spokes- man said the strength of the faeces at the end of July—latest figure available — was 115,982. The breakdown: Navy, 18,824; Army, 47,397; R.C.A.F., 49,761. Toward the close of 1954, ser - rice manpower stood at about 117,000. In March of the same year it was 112,500. (• The manpower ceiling set for the armed forces is 120,000 - 20i000 for the navy, 49,000 for the army and 51,00 for the air ?farce. At the end of March last Year, total strength stood at 118,- 077, the highest figure reached Pince the defence buildup started with outbreak of the Korean War jai 1950. er ><, An army official said the army is: trying hard to recruit men, Aspecially in the infantry, but is laving trouble. He added that ecruiting always appears to be lower in summer than in win- er and particularly in prosper- , W' Thetimes, shortage of army man - ower is shown in the. strength ''• the Regiment of Canadian etOtrdrds..The regiment has four battalions which normally would have a strength of about 900 men each. But not one of the batta- lions has more than 500 men. 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