The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-23
FIRPO HAS GAINED
FAME BY BEATING
A BUNCH OF DUBS|
South American Has Not Met
A Real Fighter In His
Career

NEW YORK, May 22.-1f your ice
man should roll down off the cart
and beat up half dozen fellow citi-
zens named Joe Mccain, Sailor
Maxted, Jack Herman, Jim Tracey,
Bill Brennan, and Jack McAuliffe,
the court would call him bully and
give him 80 days. Luis Angelo Firpo
did it and got $1,000 from various
sources as the first payment on
million.
The people whom Luis Angelo Fir
pc beat UP are tragically inoffen-
sive members of the community. Joe
Mccain is a nice church-going, short
winded, fat-waisted, semi profess
sional stevedore over the Jersey
dockside. Though he has fought
many times, never man can say that
Joe Mccain whipped him.
Sailor Maxted was compass boxer
in the navy and through some con-
fusion of terms he got an Idea that
the boxing business ashore must be
somewhat the same as his trade.
While strolling in the ring one night
with the uncombed human hedgehog
known as Tarzan Larkin, the sailor
accidentally clipped his friend on the
nose in pointing out the object of in
trest and what did Ladkin do but fling
himself for a swoon? But the good
sailor never poked any other fellow
man on the nose for the reason that
his fellowmen always have polled him
first.
Herman's Case.
Jack Herman Is an Italian boy.
His WAS a case. Firpo bent him
double, whacked him on his spine
and frogged him out In squat on
the floor. Italian Jack thought Luis
wanted to play leapfrog and while
he tainted, nang-yang went the gong
and he learned he had been knocked
out. OF course. italian Jack didn't
know it was a fight. This was OBJ
vious because he entered the ring
totally defenseless and unoffending
son Of immigrant parents, who went
out for an evenings entertainment
and was assaulted on the spine.
Jim Tracey was next to run about
of the wild bull of the pampas which
preys on the baa-lambs and guinea
pigs of the ring. Skinny and lank
free of ambition as a jellyfish,- poor
Jim was falling before Luis ever
struck him and he snuggled so close
TO the carpet that they had to send
it to the cleaners to get him off.
O o O
brennan whipped
Then came bill Brennan. Whipping
Bill Brennan had become one Of the
preliminary exercises for young
heavyweight prize fighters and Harry
Greb, a little fellow who lives down
in Pittsburg, had made 1t almost a
habit to the no little annoyance of
large bill. Luis Angelo poundered
and poundered and pGundered Bill
on the skull and 1t is scientific
fact that if you can pound heavy
weight prize fighters skull long
enough you're going to strike that
infinitesimal apparatus which corre-
spends to the human brain. Firpo
found it and large Bill traced a pat
tern in the canvas with his nose.
The latest of Luis Angeles victims
was the most pathetic of all. A deli
cate, locking glass type of boxer is
young Jack McAuliffe, with the most
winning smile and the finest, look
right at-you pair-of Corkonian Eyes
in his head that ever the gaze OF a
colleen melted into. McAuliffe's man
'ager hadn't the courage or the
friendship to stay with his boy and
sold him to a strange mavae Tor
$4,000 the day before young Jack
was to meet Firpo.
The youth went into the ring with
strangers. at his back, outweighed,
outmatched in strength and alto
gether in the most forlorn circum :
stances that could be imagined for
a sensitive younghter making his
first appearance in New York before
one of the greatest crowds that ever
went to a professional sporting
event in America.
These are the victories OF Luis An
gelo Firpo.