New Britain herald., 1923-03-26
ARGENTINE WOULD PAY WELL FOR BOUT
%00,0oo or Even Million to See
 Dsmpssy-Flpo Fight
By Charles P. stewart


 from Buenos Aires for . fight be tween Luis Angel rrpo and Jacl Dempsey don't know the Argentine.
 Buenos Aires, with It's suburbs, 10 city of 2,o00,oo0 population, therc' barrels of money there. the Soul Americans are free spenders ant they're light crazy.
 Whats more. they don't like Norti Americans. There are mighty 'fev Arsentines, even among those wht don't care particularly for fighting who wouldn't dig up the last centavs they could steal. beg or borrow to se' one of their countrymen try to lick { "Yanqui"
 And they certainly do believe Firpt can lick anybody. The personal ele ment enters into 1t good deal more than in this country. Jack Dempsey'I only name to the average Nortf American. About fourth of the population of Argentina lives right ir Buenos Aires. where Firpo lives. and in Buenos Aires. which has lot oi small town characteristics In spite ol its size, everybody knows everybody Mighty few of the inhabitants haven't seen Firpo with their own eyes and there are thousands who, even If he isn't aware that he's acquainted with them. think they know him, at least to speak to.
 Then again, in fight matters, South Americans lack a sense of perspective They have lots of fights but the fight CTS. while they slug all right, have precious little science. In Buenos Aires a good pork and beaner ranks as topnotcher. Now Firpo, though possibly not in Dempsey's class, is bet : ter than pork and beaner. The Buenos Aires fans have seen him knock the tar out of men that they don't realize aren't the best the world has to offer. Naturally they overes- timate him.
 Buenoa Aires, as crowd center, Is at the disadvantage of being long way from other big towns whence to draw visitors.
 Buenos Aires itself however, could be depended on to turn out almost in body and there certainly would be a big attendance also from places like Rosario, Cordoba and Bahia Blanca, which are pretty fair sized Argentine burgs; from Santiago and Valparaiso, over In Chile: from Montevideo, in Uruguay. and even from as far away as Santos Sac Paulo and Rio de Jan- eiro, tip in Brazil.
 Maybe if an Argentine syndicate should put up as high as $1,000,000 1t would have to gamble a little on get ting all it's money back with profit, but at that it wouldn't be such a bad bet--not half as bad as other chances Argentine money has taken afore- time.
 It's also suggested that perhaps the Argentine authorities wouldn't permit the fight within their Jurisdiction.
 Bosh!
 True, theoretically fights are forbid den in Buenos Aires, but the Univer- sities club and the Police club hold them there right along just the same, with the utmost publicity, and mo- body interferes with them.
 Even if the municipal 'intendente" were to have fit of virtue and shut down on a go between Firpo and Dempsey, there are plenty of facilities for getting outside the city limits. and beyond them anybody can pull off anything
 But that Buenos Aires itself should object is beyond the bounds of reason- able probability.
 If a fight offer should come, or has come, from Buenos Aires, it's an ab- solute certainty that one of the prin- cipal men behind it is Carlos Seguin, the leading Argentine amusement maj gnate and a multimillionaire. Any. thing Seguin asks the Buenos Aires authorities for he gets, and he's prov ed it by asking for and getting some things that aren't mentioned here for fear he might come up and sue for damages.
 And behind Seguin is Carlos Torn auist the Argentine banker, who was reputed couple of years ago to have bought the Monte Carlo gambling concession for the equivalent of $10,- 100000 in United States money. Whether he really did buy it or not is neither here nor there. The point | Is that nobody questioned his ability | 10 pay s1o,0o0,ooO for it without | missing the money.
 That's the kind of cash and influ- ence that would look after a Firpo- Dempsey fight, if one should be staged in Buenos Aires.
 Of all the people mentioned in con- nection with the fight in Argentina plan, aside from Firpo himself. Tex Richards the only one who knows much of the country.
 Tex Knows The Country
 Tex knows a lot. He lost a roll there. estimated to have contained about $1,0oo,oo0, U. S. gold.
 Richards idea was to found big estate in what's known as the Chaco, which, roughly translated, means wilderness" a vast region in the extreme north-good land. put practically uninhabited, except for a few Indians and vast numbers of man -eating wild animals and poi son snakes.
 He got concession the size of Texas county. fitted out an expedition at Embarcacion, the point of rails. and started to trek week through he jungle to the Pilcomayo river, on which his land was situated.
 The expedition left Embarcacion with everything necessary to build modern city on the Pilcomayo bank, ut not much of it ever got that far. The mules and cattle strayed away in he jungle and were lost. Expensive machinery, finished lumber. all kinds If supplies were dumped alongside he trail for Jack of transport Indian .uides deserted. Imported American cowboys got sick of it all and went