Evening star., 1923-09-09
LUIS IS OUTCLASSED
EXCEPT AS PUNcHER
Only Chance of Challenger
Against Crafty Champ Is
a Wild Swing to law.
BY SPARROW IcGANN.

n TLANTIC CITY, September 8.
~ Having looked over both
Jack Dempsey and Luis
Firpo in the course of their prepa-
rations for the word championship
battle at the Polo Grounds in New
York next Friday night, the writer
sees no one but Dempsey.
AT the same time Flrpo, through a
etroke of luck. could win.
II; py chance, that powerful right
OF his should connect with the cham
pion's jaw at a time when the con
tender has not been weakened by
punches then new king would take
ms pIace upon the champions throne
aer IN otner words, man with Ftrpos
enorHouS strength and massive build
WIZ prove dangerous to Dempsey so
lohg as he is upon his feet and in
command of his faculties. If you try
20 WORK out d result on the basis of
ooNlhg science YOU stop half way
Lhfough sheer disgust. For Firpo
doesn't figure at all. Not in any way
can You give him look-in.
ne doesn know anything about
ooAlhs as the sport is practiced by
our expert mitt wielderS. The yerv
thlnSS that the best teachers tell the
novice not to do Firpo does and, on
the other hand. he doesn't do things
II a boxer is to get anywhere in the
game " '''e
The writer doesn't know how
tlrpo's amateur advisers feel about
y, but personally he would suggest
that the Argentinidn stop trying to
learn to fight after the American
manner and go into the ring against
dempsey resolved to do battle accord
Ihg 10 his natural gifts. This state
ment is made because Luis does so
very badly the things they have been
trying TO teach him. He has not got
left hand and he will not have one
against Jack Dempsey. This is not
70 say he may not try to use his port
nlpper against the champion. He
pro6abIy viii. But il will not bother
Jack any and after the South Amer
forget all about his left and seek to
beat Dempsey's head off with his
right.
And if he lands upon the champions
head with this right Dempsey will
know he has been hit. or, perhaps.
ne may not know 1t until some time
atterward. But there is where the
luck viii come in. Firpo will be
lucky II he lands it, not only because
ne teiegraphs il, but because it moves
slowly.
Dempsey VIII Keep Moving.
neglect to keep moving always to
Flrpo's left and this will make il
extremely difficult for Firpo to bring
his th-dealing fist into play.
Firpo'S bouts in Atlantic City have
shown that any one can hit him. His
Sparr1ng partners have no trouble
doing II. 1t is the simplest of their
problems. And they can avoid a lot
OF Firpo's wailops;, But always they
even granting that Firpo is pulling
all his punches against his sparrinE
partners. So Dempsey can hit him
and will hit him early and often.
be spurred to- anger. dashing in with
a whirl-wind of fearful blows. any
one of which is qualified to put
Dempsey down, or Will he get into a
panic and virtually quit? No one
can tell. ~
Firpo is not worried at all about
Dempsey. He doesn't figure that any
living man has chance against him.
No one can tell-not even he himself
can tell-how he will act when the
big surprise comes.
II Dempsey shows he can hit as he
hit at Toledo the battle ought not
20 go beyond the first round But
every close observer of the champion
doubts that he can throw his fists as
he did against Willard. Yet again,
you can bet he has it in him to hit /
harder than he hit at Shelby, a great
deal harder.
If you saw Guhman whom you /,
knew to be sharpshooter up |
against another gunman who was a I
poor shot, and yet was fearless and |
had a forty-four from which he could |
spray death-dealing shots, you would !
pick the sharpshooting Eunman to /
win. Yet you would concede that the |
other guy had a chance of getting |
home one of his bullets That is the !
only way you can dope out the result !,
of this coming battle between Jack |
Dempsey and Luis Firpo. |;
F'irpO Champion mt Table.
AS a man this Firpo is a grand guy. !
He, has a kindly nature and Is every |
thing that Carpenter looked to be !
and wasn't. He lives in little cot !
tage in the Chelsea section and his i
chief amusements are card playing. !
dice throwing and eating. He enjoys !
eating more than anything else. An !
American trainer would throw up his ,
hands to see Luis dig in at table, but |
that is the way he always has trained
and he sees no good reason to change. /
One wonders what will happen when |
Jack hooks a left into his bread bas-
ket Maybe nothing. You can never |
boxes according to his own views and |
trains according to his own views.
The sort Of training instructions he |
receives from Felix Bunge in Buenos
Aires is as follows:
BE prepared to battle to the death |
for your native land, Argentine is |
watching you with prayers"
Ac which Luis laughs and taps his
head significantly.
Copyright 1921
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