Mike Gibbons Appreciation Thread

They were discussing boxers in general at the day's fanning bee and the talk turned to Mike Gibbons. All hands spilled a little chatter about the famous St. Paul middleweight and then Joe Mandot, who usually has little to say, broke in with something that startled the gang.
"They don't make language that fits Mike's case," said the New Orleans boy. "He's absolutely the last word in all that goes to make up a boxer of the highest class. There isn't a thing he hasn't go and besides that there is a lot of stuff that Mike shows that isn't in any book that ever was printed.
"Know what I'd do if I had what Mike's got? Say, I'd go right through them from the middleweights up to Jack Johnson and never ask a question. If you're the greatst boxer in the world prove it to them, and Mike comes nearer being that than ever Jack Johnson."


That newspaper printed a lot of good stuff on Saturdays.

Also, while we are at it, here's a header of the write-up by Jack Skelly from several pages further in the same newspaper:

Boxers of today haven't got dash of old battlers
Modern ringmen go round after round in half-hearted manner and lack aggressiveness and fire in their work