Evening star., 1923-09-12

Tt Hes, of course. in his right hand.
and In such power as he may show
to Withstand the walloping he is
likely to receive: John Lester John
son, the negro boxer who has been
working with Firpo, says of him that
he is 80 rotten that he is good"
There is a lot of sense in this re-
mark. Any boxer Will tell you that
it isn't the man who boxes along
conventional lines that he fears most,
but the big rugged guy who is apt
to do everything wrong. Meeting a
man of this sort, boxing science oc-
casionally falls short If only because
the clumsy fellow, in not doing what
he ought to do, throws the more skill
full boxer off his reckoning.
For instance. when Firpo rushed
Charley Weinert in Philadelphia and
the adonis covered up, Luis simply
stepped back and walloped Weinert
fearful blow upon the right arm,
causing it to drop, paralyzed.
Luis Open TO Left Hooks.
In leading with the right Firpo does
what every boxing instructor cautions
pupil against doing. This. because
of the danger of counter blows, nota-
bly, left hooks. But the second raters
wnom F'irpo has met, have either been
afraid to step in with their left
counters when they Saw that terrible
right coming at them or they have
stepped IN a 100 ldIe anu nave
gone to dreamland, or finally they
have pulled off the counter and found
it ineffective because of Firpos tough
ness.
The one remaining alternative when
Firpo leads with his right is to step
back and let it fall short. Most or
the South Americans opponents have
done this, and consequently have
failed to take advantage of the open
ings supplied by the right lead.
Dempsey unquestionably will aim to
step in, beating Firpo to the punch
with a left hook to body or jaw. To
do this successfully he will have to
have his nerve with him, will have to
be lightning fast and must be as ae
curate in his hitting as a sharp
shooter. If the fight is to end quickly
Dempsey will have 20 show all these
qualities.
Carpenter led repeatedlf with his
right. yet upon no occasion did Demp
sey take advantage of this. He beat
Carpenter bf softening him in in
fighting until he was ready to go
down before any hard blow. Not once
did Dempsey's left hook beat Car
pentier's right to the mark. F'irpo's
right is lower than the Frenchman's
but it is harder. If Jack finds him
self unable to hook Firpo he will
have to depend upon infighting. Here
he should have big advantage, but
infighting seldom produces knock
outs
In other words. through infghting
the battle is apt to go through a lot
of rounds, and the longer the battle
lasts the greater the chance that
Dempsey might make some wrong
move that would prove his undoing.
Brennan Marked Up FirpO.
To fall before a Firpo wallop and
not be able TO get up, Dempsey would
have to be pretty tired. Contrary to
general opinion. the writer does not
believe that Luis can stow Jack
away, in the early rounds at least,
with a single punch from his right
hand. Opinion in this respect is
based upon that incident in the fifth
round of the Firpo-Brennan fight,
when the two men stood toe to toe,
smuggling each other for all they were
worth. Firpo got pretty badly marked
in that little rally, but Brennan was
not distressed when the bell rang.
1T looks al If the writer has handed
Firpo all that can be handed. Out
side chance stuff-he is big enough
and strong enough and tough enough
90 have it figure-but not very heav-
lily. The fight ought to go to Demp-
sey easily on points, if not by a
knockout.