San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-03-13
|uth American Knocks
Out Bill in Same Round
Dempsey Did.
l. BILLS FOR ELEVEN
'po Outpointed Until Sud-
den Finish-Home
Folks Go Wild.
BY FAIRPLAY.

Wright, by The San Antonio Light.
New York, March 10. - Prepare
i, not for the battle of the CEN
N. but for the battle of all time
K Dempsey versus Luis Angel Fir
champion of everything south OF
Rio Grande. Many moons ago 1t
set forth in explicit terms that
enos Aires would be the scene OF
great encounter and that a mil
dollars would be split, perhaps
Nell. Monday night at the Madi-
Square Garden, before pop-eyed
|,ng of nearly $4,000, the curtain
Her for the mastodonic encounter
staged. Luis the Larruper. pre-
ed over "Twelfth-round' Bren-
by a knockout in a bout which
III three and three-Quarter rounds
4 of the stipulated distance.
Tor eleven rounds Brennan had mt
South American with everything
the ring posts and the arc lights
sputtered high in the roof OF
big amphitheater. He had plas-
d him in the ribs, socked him upon
inv, and, with unerring ann,
nd by rouAd, had with uppercut
lebt jab reopened nasty cut over
right eve Of the Argentinian.
imam had so many points on his
Ionent that it would have taken an
ling machine accurately to register
In. Then the twelfth round +!
Round Dempsey Got Him.
$ the men faced each other for this
Inc. one of those condolences oc-
red that are so rare as 10 be
Fth chronicling. n man next TO
|writer turned TO his neighbor and
hts the round he went out in the
knpsey fight. you'll recall" ,
Ehe man addressed shrugged and
khed.
|You,re crazy" he said. "Bren-
Is got it over him like a tent and
wjll win by a thousand yards. -,
Hardly had the words been uttered
IN Ffrpo rushed Brennan and Bill,
Throughout had been slipping in
{iat failing right and FASTING
L good and plenty, seemed TO nave
MI his cunning. His hands only
rose to block a left swing. Bing
-ed was Brennan's curly head.
lie! Firpo's right went to the
BAN, In came the left again.
10 and behold! Down went Bren-
All. brothers, it was sad to see
40 set at naught all in the turn
hand. as It were. 1t was more
h sad: it was tragic. So wasn't
a strange coincidence, that re-
X of the writer's neighbor calling
turn at the start of the twelfth
nd? But that is the beauty of the
lie of pugilism as practiced III tins
and generation-uncertalnty. One
pr can tell. 1t also demonstrates
in fighting one mans guess Is as
as another's.
Panning the Winner.
( course. we NAV all be wrong
|It Dempsey and FirpO but if the
do mec.. as cable dispatches from
nos Aires say today in the not
ant future. ssy next summer or
heaven helm Luis. His right is 50
that Brennan. after the fourth
nd, never had any trouble ut ell
or In hooking it or Stepping inside
it. and never. never did he fail
anding his counter. Firpo was
ark for straight LETT, even Rren-
IS. end Bills jab was never light
/. Luis right for the body started
b the floor and came by Slow
rht. He had one blow that was
" good. either left or right-hand
circuit i'm close. But after the
rth round it never touched Bren-
until the twelfth.
IN TO the time he was knocked out.
had no mark on him. His hair
not even mussed. while Luis was
ight to behold. Every round the
am of blood from the cut over
cvc flowed down over his face
hairy chest so that he resembled
SAINT. -
He Can Take II.
I least one thing. aside from the
ckout was demonstrated Luis
take It. Gloves landed on The
tn American as though it was
wing leather, and fell much more
Willy than snowdrops. Stolid,
bdy. his black hair flowing down
n his forehead. his hairy chest
wing, he accepted everything that