San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-05

South
In all Argentina his bash is the. best.
He doesn't know how TO. win fights
with his mouth, s
But he puts punch over with beauti'
full zest.
Yea, that's Angel. A couple of years
ago. more or less. Louis Angel Firpo ar
rived in New ork, straight from the
Argentine. Through an interpreter
Louis explained that he'd been tipping
EN- over down there when times were
dull between earthquakes and that he
thought he could fight a little. no
championship claims, or anything like
that but just that he could SOCK a DIT
and would like 10 see how he stood
among american fighters. LOUIS is a
big, tall fellow, well over six feet. built
for fighting, strong but not too heavy.
Firpo was matched with three fair
second.rate heavyweights, and he rIa1e
good in each bout by seeking his oppo-
nent with a heavy right hand. His few
fights proved Two things: He could taxi
6 punch and lie could surely s;cG with
that right lie didn't know a lot about
boxing at the start but he learned
quickly. He he'd S2SCd.
Louis also had sense. Instead OF
hanging around and challenging Jack
Dempsey when he'd had couple of
f,ehts. Louis bought return ticket and
went home. He kn,w that Just hay
ing a good right, hand punch wouldh
c,t him by with the top.notchers. He'd
g ne as far as lIr could at the start.
So lie went home to train ami learn
more about boxilc.
Acclaimed rs Champion.
incidentally, thttT thousand people,
eight bands, cavalry regiment. four
teen generals AMI eight mayors mot him
al the wharf and acclaimed him tic
first Argentine chrI1pion Of the world,
They thought lie vas all taa:, down
in South .Amn'ra. IL not yF'--spLE
anyway. For N."Uld not Louis .A"fei
F,rpo ! rick Dempsey for-whnt you
call - row Of tombstones? OF GER
tI;nty. yes.
Firpo tipped over a couple of wan
dering boxers who heard there was
money in Argentina and went down
there to pick it up. Then an Austria
liam heavyweight, one Tracy, who had
been given a bunch Of advertising in
New York and had Topped for good
gate money, went down TO find some
thing easier in South America. An i'm
mcnse crowd packed the arena when
Firpo fought Tracy and knocked the
lengthy Australian on his ear with a
right hand punch. They could have
timed that knockout with an cight-dsy
clock. That's the kind Of bozo FirpO
is.
Sixty thousand people, eight bands.
two cavalry regiments. twenty.eight
generals and sixteen mayors gave a
parade in his honor and said that now
he was the worlds champion without
n doubt. Dempsey? Carramba. When
Dempsey heard Of it he would gladly
hand the title over TO Firpo and retire.
So that was that. II not, Firpo would
fight him. The result? Pouf. why
question it? Look at Firpo. Is he not
the picture of a champion?
Coming to New York.
There was some talk Of bringing
Dempsey to the Argentine. But nego-
tiations takes time louis Angel Firpo
y
sooner by going to New York.
Louis is on his way. In the middle
of March he fights Bill Brennan. Since
Floyd johnson beat Bill. the big fell
low has shifted from Dempsey chal-
lenger to n trial horse. Much moro
business in that line.
IF FirpO knocks out Brennan he'll
be matched with johnson. and. il he
flattens the ironworker, thcre1l be
nothing TO separate him from the heavy
weight championship but Dempsey OF
the iron hand.
Down in the Argentine they think
that isn't much.
With Johnson and Gibbons also meet
ing TO open the spring season the heavy
weight class is in for n boom. Johnson
will be a new problem for Tom. who
has been knocking over a lot of dead
ones like Billy Miske and nOvices that
never showed above the novice class.
Gibbons is n very clever boxer and he
can hit. He is aggressive and conf
dent. But johnson is coming fast. Is
tough and strong. quick enough. and
uses his left hand continually. He won
BE- an easv mark even for Gibbons
sbifty boxing and clean punches.
Battling Sikh. worlds lisht-heavr-
weight. and European heavyweight
champion by right Of conquest and in
spite of the French Boxing Federa
tons effort to declare" him out OF
the titles. is TO fight Carpenter again.
The chances are that this next time Sill
will stay down in the fourth round. IL
not sooner. If he won again he'd prob
ably be deported as an undesirable
alien. For some reason or other he
wants n stay in France. Il
French boxing fans are now speak
ing of Carpenter as "the rhamnion. :
If Carp is billed as champion in the
coming match it will be the first time
in history that a challenger had toI
knock champion out for teu-cOUnt
twice before getting the title. But per-
hans the French think Ski. being al
foreigner. ought tn spot Carpenter at
least one knockout.
Dempsey was thinking. last YEAR
nj boxing Carpenter in France. Sun
rose Dempsey knocked Carp ont again
over there. and the French Federation
decided that Dempsey had forfeited his