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...chief lacerators were Harry Greb, untiring Pittsburgh dervish, and Ted Moore, British challenger for Greb's world's middleweight boxing title. Moore's "beak"* and "button"? afforded the champion 15 rounds of target practice with few interruptions...
...harder Johnny Wilson (real name Giovanni Panica) pumped punches from his batteries, the faster Harry Greb attacked. After 15 rounds of bitter battle, at Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Greb was declared the winner. He retained thereby his middleweight championship of the world, won from Wilson last September. Greb fights like a windmill-revolving, waving, swinging, slugging. Wilson has heavier hammers in his hands but he could not hit the windmill on the head. For several rounds he battered Greb's body. Shifting his attack to points higher up, he lost his aim. Meanwhile the champion drew blood from...
Middleweight Harry Greb...
...years Harry Greb (of Pittsburgh) has been swinging wildly with his long arms, butting desperately with his head, and roughing it generally in quest of a world's title. Ever since Johnny Wilson, a second rate fighter, won the middleweight championship in 1920 Greb has been anxious to take the title from him. He succeeded in a 15-round fight at the Polo Grounds, Manhattan. Swarming all over the defender and slashing his face into ribbons of red flesh, he took 13 of the 15 rounds and was awarded the title by decision...
Although a better fighting man than Wilson, Greb is not in the class with his illustrious predecessors in the middleweight championship. Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Dempsey the Nonpareil (his international reputation in 1884-1891 persisted so strongly that the present heavyweight champion adopted his name), Tommy Ryan, Kid McCoy, Stanley Ketchel have held the title. So great was their skill that the heavyweight championship alone overshadowed the middleweight in national interest. Since Ketchels murder 13 years ago the middleweight class has been distinguished only by its consistent mediocrity...