The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-08-23
|S0UTH AMERICAN MAY
MEET JACK DEMPSEY

Luis Angel Firpo. the Argentine
caveman, is now in the process OF q
build up" for Jack Dempsey.
The South American giant who
knockout over some of the best heavy
weight divers last winter, and in the
early spring, is to be matched vita
Jim Tracey, former Austrian champ
ion and then he is to be sent to Lon
don to tap Joe Beckett, the British
champion on the chin.
| Then Dempsey unless something
| happens.
Something may happen, however,
as reports are coming from South
| America that his little success is go
ing to his head and several OF his
native papers are decorating him with
| raspberry.
/ Commenting on fights in general,
| the Buenos Aires Standard ian Eng
lish language paper) discourses as
| follows about Firpo:
THE fight game in Argentine Is
sure booming now, thanks in no smaH
| degree to Firpo's mighty CD achieve
ments. Every fellow who has taken
a lesson or two in the noble art or
self-defense believes that he's got the
pasta in him to make the champions
look like suckers. The local boys will
tell you without battin' an eyelash
that there's only two top-sawyers III
the heavyweight class in the world,
one, of course, being FIRPO 1--WE think
we've heard his name before) and the
other an American bloke called JACK
Dempsey.
One of Firpo's admirers told us the
other day that it was quite obvious
that Jack Dempsey wasn't at all COM
Portable with himself since Firpo slip
ped into the United States and started
in cleaning up the ring of the duo
puglists who constitute Dempsey
\ bodyguard, This fellow also remark
ed that once Firpo stepped through
the aforenamed ring, Dempsey Woulo
= either have to step forward and take
q his medicine or quit the game for
;. ever By gosh, it's awful, isn't 1t.
il "Firpo by the way has been having
s glorious time since he returned tc
Argentine. They've been presenting
him with Illuminated parchnents
gold watches, medals about the siZf
/ of dinner plates, and they've ever
gone so far as to pour champagne In
to his 61nards And they say, mino
u you, that "Lu'' was never known tt
e touch drop of booze in his natural
q Well he's learning, anyhow.
Lots of fellows who made the triI
= back on the ship with Firpo are terri;
o bly, peeved with 'Lu''. They almos
n killed the giant with kindness anC
d naturally enough. expected thai Fir
:, pos gratitude would be exposed il
= golden dollars for the parties at th'
= end of the trip. Luisto, however
= stalked off the ship without unload
> ing rudy dime. We figure that j
: 'Iu" dosen't manage to capture thu
: heavyweight tide, he's at least certain
= to become Va magnate."
- One Rough-House Ware, a dusk,
gym fighter, will furnish evidence i
= anyone doubts that Firpo is thrifty
=. Ware was engaged to go to Argentin
= to act as Firpo's sparring partner
- Thinking that a peso was worth abou
Q five dollars, Rough-House thought h
= had stumbled into Paradise when FIJI
= pc offered him fifty pesos a month 70
~ his end. He nearly starved when h
i, arrived down there and found that
y peso was worth about fifty cents H
- had to stoke his way back home
- Jimmy De Forest started to trail
= Firpo when he first arrived in tn
= United States and was making goo
u Roadway with him until Firpo suddeT
ly Cancelled all business relations. D
Forest learned later that some of tn
- South Americans in New York ha
O. told Firpo that De Forest was a frien
>. of Dempsey's and was being paid b
al the worlds champion to teach hiT
10 the wrong way to fight.
He didn't have a thing to lear
of So MANY things arc bnine n1IIe
in the fight game that it would not b
IS a surprise to see Dempsey and Firp
IN in the ring next summer
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