The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-13
By LUIS ANGEL FIRPo GAS Told to William SInYen McNuttl

By LUIS ANGEL FIRPO
 JAS Told to William SIaven McNutt)
 ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 12.-
 Yesterday I began to lessen my training. I boxed only four rounds with by sparring partners, one round with each. I am in condition for the fight. There is no doubt in my mind about that. I am physically fit to dc my best and if my best Is not good enough, then I will not say that is because l am not in shape.
 Some have said that l do network enough, but that is not true. My problem has be to avoid working too much. My physician and my train CTS have been worried only for fear l would become stale and so short workout of four rounds.
 T will arrive in New York on Wednesday evening. There I will rest from that hour until time for the fight l wish to say again that am in good condition. What the issue of the battle will be all will know Cn the morning of September 15. It would be futile for me to pre- dict what the outcome may be. I say only that l am in condition and have confidence.
 VIII Tell Rest G in H Rins. 1
 "The end of the story I will tell In the ring with fists. I think that it will be a fight of great interest. Many have wondered why there was so great interest in this fight. think l can tell. It is like fight between mer1 bers of the same family.
 Dempsey is North American and am South American. This is the | first time in history that a North American has fought South Amer ican for the championship of the world That is to say it is the first time that member of the South American branch of the American continent has tried to win the title
 Since this is so, then all the mem- bers of the family, both North Amer ican and South American, who can afford the time and money will be at the fight to see which of the sons is best
 Perhaps some will think that what l say is foolish, but after all a fighter is something like a race horse. He must come of a racing strain. It is known that the son of two blow horses is a blow horse and not racer. So also it is true that the son of parents who have not the fighting strain is ditch digger or a banker or a railroad president, per haps, but not a fighter. So, then it gives me confidence to know that l come of fighting people. My father was an Italian and came from Genoa to te Argentine. I have had men who make the tracing of ancestry their business look up the people who were Firpos before me. These men have told me that the Firpos were famous fighters in Italy as far back as the twelfth century.
 50, then, perhaps, it is not strange that I. Luis Angel Firpo of Argen- tina, shouldt be fighting with my fists for the heavyweight championship of the world
 Tn the old days my ancestors were fighting with the sword for the rulership of the world, and fight well. So you see that while am of the American family I am completely Latin. l am Spanish and Italian. One cannot be more Latin than that. l is like be- ing an Irishman whose mother was from Belfast and whose father comes from Dublin. That man is Irish.
 "So also am l Latin. Dempsey l understand, is Anglo Saxon, so after all, while it. is a fight between men of the American family, it is also battle between a Latin and an Anglo Saxon. It will be a fight, that promise. it will a fight to which men will speak in years to come It will be a fight"