DEMPSEY AND GIBBONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 145, 20 June 1923, Page 5

DEMPSEY AND GIBBONS.

PBEPARATTONS FOR MATCH. CHALLENGER IN GOOD FORM. (Received 10.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, June 19. With tlie world's heavy-weight championship bout but two weeks off, Jack Dempsey and Tom Gibbons are in serious training! the former at Great Falls and the latter at Shelby, Montana. According to newspaper observers the fight will "be no one-sided affair. Gibbons is in the pink of condition, while Dempsey is regarded as lacking hiß old time fire. It is only within the last few days that the champion has taken any serious interest in training, his trainers having been forced to allow him a holiday on several occasions in order to take on weight. Evidently the reports concerning Gibbons' condition have caused Dempsey to "wry, as he has suddenly spurted. The men will probably enter the ring with little difference in weight. The scene of the fight is somewhat extraordinary. Shelby being a small frontier town full of bars, gambling foraws, and dance halls, which were operating in full swing until the State wthorities stepped in and closed them Up aa the usual fight characters began to 'each the town. The huge wooden stadium where the fight occurs is almost completed, and tickets are reported to « selling well.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)