Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-07-30
DEMPSEY And
F|RPO TO MEET
SEPT..14|N n. Y.

New York, July 2S.-(By A. P.)-
The next heavyweight boxing bout In
on the calendar.
Champion Jack Dempsey will meet
Luis Angel F'irpo OF Argentine at the I
Polo Grounds on Friday. September II.
Promoter Tex Rickard announced the !
place and date today. Early next week (.
he promised TO make known the purse I
and the percentage each boxer would l
receive.
Under the laws of New York state !
the match will be a 15-round decision
fight. -
According to figures dropped today
from Richards Office in the tower Of.
Madison Square Garden the latest
heavyweight fray will have fewer.
spectators than massed on Boyle's
Thirty Acres in Jersey City for the
Dempsey-Carpentier and Firpo-WillaId
bouts and the gate receipts will be less.
$4,000 to See Battle
The promoter announced that when
he had constructed new stands around
the ring which will be erected on the
Giants home diamond, $4,000 personS
would be able to witness the battle:
Richard estimated that more than 90,-
900 persons watched the Dempsey4
Carpenter go and more than 100000
the recent fray, in which the former
drug clerk in Sucnos Aires knocked
out the giant former champion FROM
Kansas.
Tickets will cost less than those for
any other previous heavyweight chang
rionshup bout of recent years. They
will range from So to $25. about half
the price that Richard collected on the
pastcboards for the Dempsey-Carpens
tier bout. But since that famous "Bat-
tie of the Century" Jersey has passed
law fixing SIS as the maximum price
which may have been no small factor
in bringing the present bout across the
Hudson.
Richards choice of the Polo Grounds
was not unexpected. Firpo wished to
fight in his native city and at firstEthe
promoter. indicated that his ambition
might be fulfilled. But doubts as to
the financial prospects awaiting bult
in tho Argentine caused him to side
track the South Americans desire.
Calls Dempsey East .
Kearrs today wired Dempsey. who is
in Los Angenes. to come east at once
The champions manager announced
that Saratoga Springs had been tent5-
lively selected for training quarters
and that Dempsey would begin prepar-
ing himself for action as soon as he
arrived.
His sparring partners probably viii
include George Godfrey and several
other of his stable mates who helped
him prepare for his battle at Shelby.
Firpo, on the other hand. may train
at Atlantic City. according to RICK
ard. who added that he believed the
SouthAmerican would include John
Lester Johnson in the ranks of HIS
sparring partners and that other big
heavy and fast men would be ser
lccted.
Firpo is scheduled to return to
this city about the middle of next
month after fighting Homer Smith
at Michigan City. On barnstormt
ing tour of the west, he is scheduled
to enter the ring three times before
meeting Dempsey.
Richard today expressed himself
confident that battle royal would
be waged at the Polo Grounds. Both
mon. he asserted. were in wonderful
shape If anything, he said. FirpO
was in better physical condition be-
cause he had been fighting right
along. whereas Dempsey has had only
the Gibbons bout under his belt since
knocking out Carpenter in the fourth
round. AS a proof of Firpo's condi-
ton. Richard pointed to the fact
that he had knocked out Joe Burke,
in two rounds at Grand Rapids,
Mich. last night.
The tentative choice of training
grounds came as n surprise, for it
was believed that the champion
would select Atlantic City, where he
prepared for the Carpenter mill, and
that Firpo would remain summer
-,
where he dropped surplus pounds for
the Willard go.
Experts today indicated that at
present the champion was their
choice. They pointed out that he
was hard aggressive fighter with
diversity of blows.
Firpo, on the other hand, while a
grim and gritty fighter, still Is
green. His uch-touted left didn't
do much more in his bout with Will
lard than it did last winter when he
met Bill Brennan in Madison Square
Garden. His knockout power was
still clinched in his massive right
fist.
Both men have been up against
Willard. 1t took Dempsey only three
rounds to finish him. 1t took Firpo
eight.
On the other mana. dempsey. wiz
was expected to polish off Gibbons
early in their match. found that the
slishter man was able to go the
whole distance. The expected knock
out did not come.
In this connection, however. 1t was
recalled that the champion had per-
mitted Brennan to last IL rounds be-
fore he put him to sleep. Then, with
Carpenter still fresh from his brill
liant victory over Rattling Levinsky.
Jack stepped into the ring and had
him in dreamland before the end OF