The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1923-09-15
Champ Is :
W inner by
Knockout
Ferocious Fight Goes to
Worlds Champion Aft
err Many Knockdowns
BY HENRY L. FARRELL

BY HENRY l.. FARRELL
NEW YORK, Sept. 1b.-Beaten 10
IN the floor nine times. after he
had twice downed the worlds cham.
pion and once Knocked him entirely
out OF the ring. Luis Angel Firpo.
the wild bull OF Argentina, was
counted out in the second round Of
the most sensational and most saw
agely fought heavyweight cham
pionship contest Of all time at the
Polo grounds last night.
Between $4,000 and 100000 spec
tators saw tho heavyweight crown
topple three times from the ecowL
ing brow OF Jack Dempsey and they
saw II grabbed back and set in
place three times because cham
pion with champions brain didn't
lose the fighting instinct when his
senses departed.
Perhaps no one win ever be abIeS
10 explain accurately and conseoo
lively what happened in the firSy
round OF that sensational fight
was patterned after that I a m ouN
first round at Toledo when young
Dempsey foored the giant Jess
Willard seven times.
Willard did not fight back. but
Firpo got Up seven times and vent
hack 10 the battle like the wild bull
that he has been called.
4 Willard struck hardly a blow in
defense. but Firpo dashed out in "A
frenzy Of anger and desperation and
three times he did what no other
fighter has been able to do since
Jack Dempsey became champion.
He fciled the champion three times.
Three times Firpo was within one
punch OF the title and it's million
dollars in assets. Three times he
had the champion punch drunk.
weaving around on the ropes,
groggy and almost defenseless.
Three times with the crown right
In his hands. Firpo lacked the tech
niaue TO finish It, He dashed out
wildly and missed. These misses
cost him the championship.
Dempsey was never nearer to be.
Ing knocked out in his life. He never
can come closer than he did and ~
cape.
The very first punch of the fight.
a staggering right hand that seemed
TO come up from the floor. caught
Dempsey on the jaw after he had
missed left hook and the champion
went to one knee.
Dempsey came up dizzy and he
fought the rest of the round as tho
he were out OF his head. He threw
caution TO the wind. he abandoned all
ideas OF defense and tore wildly into
the South American. The round de-
veloped into the most savage exhibit
ton of free handed hitting that ever
has been seen.
Showing great stamina and a
heart stouter than he had even been
thought to posses, Dempsey tore In
and turned the tide of the battle
when $1,000 wild yelling fans jumped
to their feet and prepared to acclaim
a new champion.
Under short left and right hook.
to the jew and rights that threat
cned to tear his heart out OF his
side. Firpo went down seven time.
In that first round. He came up
each time, not covered in defense
but lashing like a wild beast In a
jungle fury.
Another tremendous right hand
swing caught Dempsey on the jaw
and hurled him bodily clear out Of
the ring. Dempsey landed on the
shoulders OF Kid Mcfarland, one
of the judges. down in the press
pit. The count went to nine before
the champion was able to pull him
self up and back into the ring. -
Dempsey flung out crashing i
hook. and Firpo went to the floor.
The South American rose, flung
himself again into battle and drop
ped Dempsey to one knee with an
other right that was flying around
like the flanges on a giant fan.
Dempsey was Weakened and
groggy. His corner was panic
stricken. and from the other side of
the ring frenzied instructions were
being hurled at Firpo in Spanish.
But IL Firpo heard. he failed TO re.
spond.
Jimmy De Forest. who trained
Dempsey into the title and started
Firpo. said that the South American
could have won with one short
punch while Dempsey was on the
ropes. but Firpo. as experts had pro.
dtcted. lost his head in the heat OF
battle and did not know how to get
over the one punch.
Dempsey was SO obviously fight.
ing out OF his head that he hit Fir
po twice on the Jaw with short right
hooks after the bell rang. He
seemed to know that the round had
ended only when the referee grab.
bed him and pushed him headlony
across tho ring into his corner. 4
The champion has always shoNxx2
great powers Of recupcration and
revived under the treatment OF his
seconds. He came out cool headed
and savage In the second round and
In 81 second of fighting he battered
Firpo twice to the floor with a left
hook and right TO the Jaw that
landed almost simultaneously.