The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-07-11
YELL OF "NECKEL" TURNS FERPO INTO FIGHTING DEMON
Wild Bull Of Argentine Went Wild, ThroWin' NickeIs
 Away
By wEsTBRooK PEGLER

~NAS " oIAAA' uly IV.---T dI LlOIl Lut cattle-acres and busted banks of Shelby. the largest aggregation of beef on the boot ever maneuvered into one corral will be shown to some 90,000 connoisseurs in Jersey City Thursday night with Luis Angelo Firpo and Jess Willard at the vortex of the stampede.
 Luis Angelo is known as the wild bull of the Argentine because he has a vast plantation on the pampas de- voted to the raising of G-strings for bull fiddies. What makes him wild Is not so easy to say. James De For rest, Luis AngelO's mahout, says Luis first showed symptoms of going must (craZy) when he discovered that exit through the subway turn stiles were free of charge. Luis An gelo had dropped at least five nickels ! 1 nthe slot at various times before De Forrest caught him at it and ex- plained that the subway is not a re- | ligious edifice. and that once inside the customer needn't pay to get out.
 Luis Angelo has never been able to get his money back and his widest fighting is done when his seconds, squatting on the steps i nhis corner, poke their heads through the ropes and shout: "NickeI Nickel"
 luis Trains In Open.
 Luis Angelo has been training in the open in New Jersey. This places him not far fro mthe arena. If he
 makes an early start Thursday he will be able to walk there. Jess Will
 lard, who has been training in Yonkers, N. r, will have to spend at least s125 in fares for himself and his hangers, which will be practically total loss as he gets no allowance for expenses. However, Willard can better afford to squander money than Luis, for Jess will get something like | $180,0 whereas Luis will be lucky | to make $ettaoon out of the fight. The collision between Luis Angelo and the old farmer will be the most colossal conflict of raw fat and hir- l zute wishbones ever engineered for price of admission. Firpo weights about PA pounds, including the fur, | and Willard, stepping ont to the free end of the teeter-totter would flip l 2O0-pound anvil over his head into the next country. He gives his weight as 235 pounds, and it Is so seldom that Jess gives anything that people are not inclined to look the fiugres | too closely in the mouth. However, 250 pounds might be more accurate. Old Jess became quite content with his condition when he fought Floyd Johnson at the Yankees park few weeks ago anu uihQACO iiiiAi uS" '' after q grotesque exhibition of ex- cited paving and noundering. There was no fat around his middle then. but his youth was all gone and his tummy fluttered like loose drum head as he lollopped about the ring l Firpo has been taught to strike at this region in his recent training and if he should get over one oI ms risn. hand drives just at the instant when his men are shouting Nickel" at him. the doctors will have to blast to get it out.
 Jess Worst Enemy.
 Contentment has always been Will lard's worst enemy. He was satis- fled with himself just before the Maumee massacre in Toledo and he wouldn't train. And now. completely pleased with his showing against Floyd Johnson, Willard has been pos ing as a divine adonis on the brink of the Madison Square Garden pool with bathing beauties splashing about him and otherwise idling when he might have been training for fight
 Firpo has again discovered that he has a left hand. Ills attention has been called to this before every fight but Luis Angelo never can remember it when he gets in the ring and the chances are that he will forget 1t again. In training, however. he has used his left for jabbing purposes to the great grief of Bill Tate and sev- eral other sparring partners.
 The Rickard bowl on Boyles Thir- tx Acres is said to have been rein forced again with another $40,ooo worth of steel. When they want Rickard to reinforce his plant over in Jersey they always guage the i'm . provement by dollars worth of steel and not by tons of resistance. Rick ard reinforced the arenn once before, but the politician building -contrac- tors in Jersey arc very high priced men and would take a ma asnet to find any steel structure In the plant even to thls day,
 However, the receipts for the werl. undoubtedly will bolster the stTuc- ture just &s well Ss Ii the steel were actually in place, The brother cf United States Senator Edward l, Ed wards got the contract to build the plant in the first place when Ed wards Was governor of Jersey,