San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-08-26
CRITICS FIND
F|RPO A PUG
HARD TO DOPE
Never Have Experts Been
So at Loss Concerning
Challenger.
HE HIDES SOMETHING
That's General Opinion
and Conclusion From
Private Showing.
HE HIDES SOMETHING
BY SPARROW MGANN.

Copyright. by the San Antonio Light.
New York, Aug. 25.-Right now.
as Luis Firpo begins his training for
the battle of his career against Jack
Dempsey, experts in the boxing game
were never so greatly at loss as to-
the real merits of the challenger. One
critics, who is usually correct in his
deductions and knows as much about
the game as any man living, says that
it will be the easiest fight of Demp-
sey's career, or the toughest. He
doesn't care to say which.
You can find men who have fcl-
lowed boxing for years who do not give
Firpo any chance at all; others who
say that the big Argentine is due toi
give the champion a surprise. You will
meet experts who assert that Dempsey
will not be able to hurt Firpo while
Luis with some Of his wallops will bel
able to do serious damage to the title
holder. There are all sorts of opinions,
there is dope of every kind.
The whole trouble is that there Isl
something mysterious about the man.
Personally, the writer has the sus-
picion that such stuff as he has shown
in public to date is not the only stuft
he has. For instance, down at Ridley
Park where Jimmy Dougherty holds,
forth, Firpo went through a couple
of exhibition rounds before a selected
group of spectators and put on stuff
no one knew he possessed.
Jabbed With His Left.
He jabbed with his left in a man
ner that made the oldtimers think he
had been working for months with Jim
Corbett or Kid Mccoy. And he had a
right Jolt that went about half a foot
and had the Furnishing power OF u
steam pile driver. OF course. work
outs in the gym and before crowd
with a real classy opponent in front
of one are two different propositions:
Many a man would be champion II
he could flash in actual battle the
wares that he displays in the gymnas'
ium.
Then. after showing all this goods,
Firpo the following Monday went into
the ring against Charley Weinert
and looked like truck horse. Maybe
he is one Of those guys who go out to
get results and adapt their methods
to the task that confronts them. 1t
certainly looks that way.
Perhaps, because he was in Phila-
delphia and not in New York, Firpo
unmaslAed his real ability at bag
punching. Believe us he put up a
classy performance at Ridley PARK
where he cavorted with the skill of a
lightweight at the expense of Spike
McFadden.
He's q Suspicious Guy.
From now on Firpo will be closely
watched ut Atlantic City and more
will be known rs to his ability than
now is in the possession of the fight
fans. just how much more depends
upon the calibcr of the men whom he
engages. But the chances are that
Firpo will keep a lot of stuff up his
sleeve. He has very suspicious ma
ture. which is just as well for anyone
as closely associated with the Ameri-
can fight game as he is. And. being
suspicious, he has evidently developed
the idea that there are a lot Of things
he had better keep to himself.
Maybe the stuff he is supposedly
concealing won't look as good when he
gets into the ring with Dempsey as il
does now. The chances are that i'll
won't. But you never can tell.