The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-05
Luis Angel Firpo Says He Has 4 More Efficient Staff Of
 Sparring Partners Than Champ

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. H. I know as well as anyone that good staff of sparring partners Is the great need of man training for a championship fight If any one can tell me where and how I can get better sparring partners than the ones I have I would like to be told. Good sparring partners are a great help and only the biggest kind of a fool would neglect the chance to get the best of help to prepare for a fight at so big a price as the cham pinoship of the world.
 l do not see why so many people say my sparring partners are not good enough, I am sure they are better than the men Dempsey has in his camp. Dempsey has Jack Burke who they say is a very good light heavywei ght, but I have frank Koe- ble, and l surely believe that Koeble Is as good if not better than Burke. koeble is young man who has not been a professional for very long. He Is from Brooklyn and weights TIP pounds. He was the Metropolitan ltght heavyweight amateur cham pion and snce he has turned profess sional he has easily won the three fights he has had. He is very fast and hard hitter.
 KOebIe Is Aggressive.
 He carries the fight to me always and with him, each day, I have two good rounds of speedy fighting, will bet that he gives me as good a workout as Burke could give me. Dempsey has Jack McAuliffe, but l have Joe McCann. have fought and whipped both men and l want to say that Joe McCann hit me harder than any other have fought.
 I think that I get as much good sparring from McCann as I would from working out with McAuliffe.
 Does anyone think that Dempsey's colored fighter. Godfrey, Is better to work with than Jeff Clark. if the two were to have fight I am sure both would bet their money on Jeff Clark
 Then Dempsey has Jules Rioux, do not know but people who have seen him say he Is just big strong fellow who does not know much about fighting, I would rather have my countryman, Pera, to work with Pera is a god strong young heavy weight. Some of the Americans who watch him work me say he is not a good fighter. I do not pay much at tention to that because when I first came here from my country they laughed at me and said that I could AOt AA6hb oA oii.
 Says He Can't Fight.
 Many of them still say that l cannot fight. Stll I have whipped all the men they have asked me to fight and l am training now to fight for the championship of the world. If I cannot fight at all why Is this so, haps even the people who say I can not fight are mistaken. I think they are so, I do not pay attention when they say Pera. is not good fighter. If they were mistaken about me they can be mistaken about Pera.
 I think he is a very good heay- weight ad I am sure he is of more help as sparring partner than .Rioux would be so you see I think my sparring partners are better than Dempseys and if the champion of the world training in his own country cannot get better men to work with. why do they criticize me? If many well of me and my way of fight ing at least I have the physicians in my corner. Some of the boxing writ CTS watch me and say, how can he win" But all the physicians who ex- anime me say only. Hhow can this man loser"
 The last one who examined me was Dr. Ryan. a famouu dentist from New York. He says that my jaw bone is nearly twice the thickness of the average and that the little holes on each side of chin where the nerves come out, the button. the American prize fighters call these places. Is much smaller than on most men. and that all around each of these holes. is a growth of bones that makes 1t hard for me to be hurt by blow there.
 do not kncv If that is the req son. but I do know that have never been hurt in any way or even made dizzy by a blow on the jaw since l was very young man.