Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-26
Firpo Confidence
Dempsey's Danger
Silent Giant from South America Has
Forced Our Attention And Has
Reaped Fortune in Eighteen Months
Especial to Leader-Enterprise)
By ROBERT FULLER
(Autocaster Seryice(

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NEW YORK, July 25-Luis Angel
F1rpo, a joke yesterday, maybe a
champion tomorrow. PA pounds Of
beet, or PA pounds of that which the
world has always turned to gaze upon
lighting superiority.
Eighteen months ago the mention
OF Firpo's name meant nothing-ex-
cept a smoker from the wise ones"
who claim to know all fistic Hoyle.
Say, if we wait for this Firpo bird
to learn to fight we're going to have
Dempsey as champion until his whis-
kers are down to here" Such was their
final summing up.
Firpo Had Just One Booster
ls Months Ago.
The huge, bulky, sulky, scowling,
s1nllelesS stranger was nobody,
A big, youthful, and inexperienced
soldier of fortune; far from his South
American home; unable to speak the
language of the land he was in; he
himself the only person in this Queens
bury atmosphere of ours who thought
he could fight.
But that was eighteen months ago
Ioday-pretty we'll fixed financially,
thank you, even though a battle with
champion Dempsey does not develop.
But the clash with the champion is
coming. 1t has to come. Public inter-
est is demanding it and public inter
est Will pay the price asked to see it.
IIH1 e a.
Angel Firpo is sitting pretty Luis
has a full appreciation of the dollars
and cents a bout with Dempsey is
going to bring him. He mo spek" our
English but in his Buenos Aires. Ar
gentina, South America-our Ameri-
can dollars can be- understood. Luis
knows that.
10 those versed in fistic maneuver-
ing, methods and systems, first impress
sion was that Luis was a bull in a
china shop, so far as getting muclf4
money out of our American fight
game as conducted by experienced
managers, promoters, etc. However,
Luis has given ti.em all something to
think about 1t didn't take him long
to decide that he didn't want an Amer.
can manager, He decided to manage.
his own affairs. He couldn't speak
Engllsh--but he could hire an inter-
prefer tor a very reasonable sum =
Luis decided to do his own deciding.
1t is estimated that Firpo has colec-
ted about 100000 for his fighting
turing the last eighteen months. His
light with Willard Noted him $4,000
Ills two other big fights of the wear
we're his knockout of Bill Brennan and
Jack McAuliffe II-both of which
we're staged in New York.
Firpo VS. Dempsey Now i,
The Argument
The discussion amongst fans all
over the land now is whether Firpo 4
S ready for Dempsey; what chance
lie would stand against the champion?
S he at all scientific: Is he game Can
lie take Dempsey's punches? etc.
None of those questions will be set
led until Dempsey and Firpo crawl
through the ropes and fight it out.
The old saying "a difference of opin.
on makes horse race" is as true in
he land OF wallops.
Fitpo is not clever. He is fairly fast
or big man. He can hit hard
Whether he can hit fast moving and
Elusive target is yet to be learned. He
took" all Jess Willard and Bill Bren-
IAN could serve out-and never falt-
.red once. And this is Firpo'se greatest
lsSet-the factor that makes him dam
5erous even to Dempsey, FIRPO
TO FIGHT.
Interviewing Firpo today for the I
leaders of the Leader Enterprise he
lad this to say, through his man Fri
lay:
! never went into fight but that
leep down in my heart / felt conf
lent l was going to win? About my
biggest fights recently | can only saw;
Il thought | could whip Mes-ter
orennan; | thought I could whip NJ,
McAullffe; thought | could whir1
Mes-ter Willard, and
'ey." e07'e' 0'iiip :
So there YOU are. If confidence won
al fights-Firpo is going to be chGn-
oion some day.
.Reeords show, however, that some
mighty confident men have written
heir names on the resined floors of
he 24-foot ring.
In conclusion, THE Wild Bull of
the Pampas" has arrived. The fistic
Joke of eighteen months ago is among
those present today Will Dempsey
anne him?
Your guess is as good as ours,