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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
GATE RECEIPTS
REACH HALF
MILLION
Willard to Receive Approx
mateIy 100000 as Losers
End of Big Fight.

NEW YORK, July 1S.-Dollar
wheat wasn't bothering one Kansas
farmer today.
Jess Willard made his hay while
the stars shone," last night. Today
he packed his things for his trip
home to the Sunflower State and
the life of country gentleman:
Before 100000 folk who packed
Boyle's historic Thirty Acres" last
night, big Jess" traded punches
with Luis Angel Firpo, the Argen-
tine battler. and took exactly 43
solid blows in 20 minutes and 30
seconds, giving his opponent 80 ticks
in return.
Then the fight was over, Will
lard, a tired old man, sitting on
the floor-$180,000 richer for the
half hours demonstration Of the
well-known fact that "they can't
come back
The 100000 customers who passed
through Tex Richards turnstiles
dropped 100000 into the till, Rick
ard himself estimated today, as
corps of accountants labored on an
official check.
Willard will take 80 per cent OF
every dollar taken in. Firpo gets
% per n3-about $4,000. Rick
ard will pocket approximately $780,
600
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
KID
JOINS BOXING
FORCES
"HH ais
Canadian MiddIeweight First
"Gold Spoon" Lad in
Ring Sport.

There are millionaire golf play.
ers and sons Of n1iIlionaires who
shine as polo stars, but seldom
have there been reports of sons of
mililona1res in the boxing ring.
from western Canada comes a
story to the effect that Jack Red.
dick, SON Of a millionaire wheat
rancher, is soon to Join DIR. George
Lunt, OF Milwaukee, and his stable
OF boxing stars, on a tour Of the
states, meeting all Corners in the
various classes.
Young Reddick has had numer-
Gus battles In the Far West and
claims the middleweight champion
ship of Canada. He has never
been defeated in a decision contest
and aspires to a match with Johnny
Wilson.
Reddick lives with his father.
who is considered one Of the wheat
kings around Moose Jaw in the
Saskatchewan country. His latest
victory was over Mark Moore, of
Minneapolis, considered a tough
bird at 100 pounds and who as.
sisted at the camp of Tommy Glib.
bons at Great Falls as a sparring
partner.
Reddick will be given a little
preparatory work by Doc Lunt be-
fore starting on the tour. In the
party will also be Peter Gaues. a
clever flyweight, formerly Of Can.
ada, who now holds the champion.
ship of Wisconsin in that class.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
WAR DEPARTMENT WINS
FROM VETERANS BUREAU

Netmen from the War Depart
ment won four Of their five matches
from the Veterans Bureau in the
Departmental League:
The summaries follow:
Elliott and Adams, War Depart
ment. defeated McCabe and Long,
Veterans Bureau, go, GA.
Thomas and Stauffer. War De-
partment. defeated Austin and
Stutz, So, 6.2.
Weiss and Driscoll, Veterans
Bureau, defeated Delano and Fried
man, War Department, go, GA.
Smedberg and Beebe, War Depart
ment, defeated Whipple and Nelson,
Veterans Bureau, GA, GA.
Rowan and Van Zandt, War De-
partment, defeated McCosker and
Hager, Veterans Bureau, 60, 6-2.
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Richard To Offer Jack
Dempsey Bout
With Firpo

NEW YORK, July l3.-Tex
Richard will offer Jack Denlp-
sey a match with Luis Firpo,
the battle to be staged either
at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jer-
sey City, or under agreement
with the fight clubs holding
concessions to the Polo Grounds
or the Yankee Stadium in New
York. Richard announced to-
day.
Failing to get Dempsey into
the ring with Firpo on Labor
Day, Richard said he would
make every effort to have the
Argentine mauler meet Harry
Wills, negro heavyweight.
Jack Kearns, Dempsey's man
ager, believes Wills, not Firpo,
the next logical opponent for
Dempsey.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
New Madison Square
Organization Back
Of Big Fight

NEW YORK, July 1S.-The
Willard-Firpo fight at Jersey
City was promoted by the New
Madison Square Garden Corpor-
alton and is its first venture, it
was learned today. Tex Rick
ard, who headed the old Garden
organization, is president and
general manager of the new
group. Among his associates as
directors are Anthony J. Drexel
and Kermit Roosevelt.
The New Madison Square
Garden Corporation is negotiat-
ing for the purchase of block
in the heart of the Broadway
theatrical district, where it is
planned to erect mammoth in
door athletic arena.
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charging like the wild bull Of his
own broad Pampas.
Willard was backed up close to
his own corner again. Firpo was
hammering that terrible right. One,
two. three blows landed and the
Kansas giant began falling from
the knees. He could not keep his
arms up. Thew fell to his side
much like the ribs of a descending
umbrella. One terrible right landed
flush on his jaw as he sank, push
Ing him over upon his stomach
close to the ropes
Referee Lewis was bending over
the fallen giant, barking his num-
bers, waving his hand with each
count.
F'irpo went across the ring almost
TO his corner, but he went back
sidewise, scowling at his fallen
rival. He was ready for another
wild attack.
AS Referee Lewis called "Ten."
willard reached up with his right
hahd' seized the middle rope and
lrled 10 rise He got to one knee
as his seconds jumped to his as
sistance. They got him to his chair
where he sat like a huge thing of
putty, a small red smear decnrat-
ing one ear, his gloved hands
crossed in his lap, his eyes staring
into the dark skies above those
cleaning flares surrounding the
ring.
flrpo retired to his corner, donned
his gaudy bathrobe and sat there
fully three minutes before he left.
II was as II he wanted more of the
same something farthest from the
Vacuous mind of the fallen Kan
san across the ring.
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brows, the wild Bull Of the Pam
pas" lived up to his name by dash
ing from his corner and swinging
his right to Wizards body. 1t was
blocked but Jess could not connect
with his futile left jab and his one
uppercut met only air. One OF
Firpo's wild swings drew blood from
Wizards ear and the South Amer
can pressed the giant into a neutral
corner and failed away with both
hands He was entitled to the round
on aggressiveness, if nothing else.
Willard fairly pranced from his
corner for the second round, meet
ing Firpo's tearing attack in the
middle of the canvas floor. FTpO
got one hard right to the short
ribs before they cEnched.
Breaking from the clinch Firpo
drove a hard right to Willard s
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
ASHTON READY TO SELL
HIS NEWARK FRANCHISE

BALTIMORE. July 13.-Billy
ashton is ready to dispose Of the
newark franchise to the highest
bidder. a friend of the Baltimorean
said mere today that Ashton has
."il MIN ne Is sick of the trials and
.rlDuiatlons of a baseball magnate
and wanted to snap out of It as
soon as possible.
ashton and Jack Dunn of the
orloles nave travelled closely to-
eedher Tor some years and BiilyS
aIialrs at Newark prevent him from
being near'the Baltimore club owner
as frequently as he would like.
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Willard, who said he was better
than ever" and probably vas,
sagged to the floor. Some will say it
was a furry of punches swung by
the furious South American And
these may be right.
We prefer to believe, however,
that it was the heavy hand of
Old Age that forced Willard to the
floor, pressed on his shoulders as
he vainly tried to stand erect, and
kept him there.
Willard lost because he was I'M
able to keep UP the pace; lost be-
cause he had in front of him not
only the madIy lunging Argen.
tinian, but an opponent to be
dreaded far more, one who always
gets his man-Old Age.
Willard was getting along in
good enough style until the col
Iapse-it was nothing else-came.
Earlier I'm the fight he discovered
that q left hand, properly applied
would bother the South American.
Urged on by frantic yells from
his corner to use the left, Jess
j0Ited and jabbed and stuck out
his stiffened Ieft-a tantaliZing,
bewildering left.
And F'irpo was annoyed. He
showed it in his every move.
He rushed again and again. He
swung his heavy hands against the
old mans body. He pounded
against his chin or many times
against the gloves that Willard
kept before his face.
He never gave up. He must
have known that Old Age was
lowering close by. ready to lend a
helping hand. He was persistent,
was Firpo, and determined. Even
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
Nineteen Knock-Outs
For Firpo During
Two Years

In his short ring career, since
1921, Luis Angel Firpo has en-
gagged in twenty-five fights, win
ming nineteen of them by the
knockout route. He is heavy
weight champion of South
America. His record since he
began fighting in the United
States follows:
1922-K c ko u ts-Sailor
Maxsted, 7; Joe McCann, 6;
Jack Herman, s; Jim Tracey, A.
1923-Knockouts-Bill Bren-
nan, 12; Jack McAuliffe, 3; Joe
White, 2; Jim Hubbard, 3; Jess
Willard. 8.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13

IN LEFTY Lew Tender, former
newsboy, Leonard will meet his
greatest hazard when they face
each other in the squared ring at
the Yankee Stadium here on the
night OF July %. Tender ranks
only a fraction of a notch below
Leonard in the standing Of the
lightweights. Their clash in Jer-
sey City last July served to demon
strate that cOnclusively.
quarters that Leonard is almost
Through" His recent fights are
cited In support of this assertion.
Yet the champion has exhibited
possession of the rare faculty of
coming through when occasion de.
mands, and both he and his ad-
herents are confident of his abil-
ity to take" the challenger.
Leonard is training as never be-
fore in preparation for Tender
He realizes that it will be no easy
task to stand off the Showdown
southpaw for fifteen rounds. Tend
Ter, with the coveted title at stake
also is making no preliminary
errors.
If he loses again his chance for
championship honors will have van.
ished The Leonard encounter will
be Tenders supreme effort-the
goal at which he has been point
ing for years.
1t is likely that a crowd second
in size to that which saw the
Dempsey Carpenter fight will
wend its way into the great am.
phitheater the night of the con-
test, for the memory of that last
hectic Leonard Tender struggle
persists.
Between fifty and sixty thousand
bugs are expected to aid in the
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"betterment of the sport"-at top
prices.
No matter which way the fight
goes both Leonard and Tender are
assured of winning. for they will
clash for the largest purse ever
hung up for contest between
lightWejghts
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
CARDINAL OUTFIELDER
TO COACH AT INDIANA

BLOOMINGTON Ind, July ID
Announcement has been made that
Leslie Mann, outfielder with the st.
Louis Nationals, will be an assistant
TO Fora Vlevenger, director OF ath-
letics, at Indiana University.
Mann will assume his new duties
Immediately after the close of the
National League season.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
Hoover Has Hopes.

LONDON, July 13.-Walter Hoo
Yer, who last week lost his title to
the Diamond Souls. is reported as
saying that he hopes to qualify TO
represent America in the Olympic
sculling on the Seine in 1924. He
plans to return to Englhnd next
May and train for the Diamond.
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tually, his moment of triumph
came.
Now, perhaps, the wild bull"
will demand a match with Jack
Dempsey. He is within his rights
in so doing. But he showed nothing
last night that led any one to be-
lieve that he is ready for the
titular test just yet.
He was wide open. As he lunged
and swung, a faster man than
Willard would have had no diff.
ficulty in Countering heavily upon
him. A hitter like Dempsey would
have pounded the FirpO of last
night merciIessly. Those savage
rushes, those wide open dives to-
ward his man would have found
Dempsey "sharpshOOting." pick
ing him off as he came in.
There is nothing of the Gibbons
about Firpo. AT times last night
he stumbled into clinches in the
crudest sort of a way. In close,
Willard tied up his arms, save for
a savage attack in the fourth, when
Firpo landed a series of nine rights
to Wizards chin without a return.
1t was in this round that Old Age
began to make his presence felt.
AS Willard, putting harder than 1t
any time previous, returned to his
corner, a fan cried out, "Good-by
Jess
But here the old man of the ring
put forth his last and greatest eff
fort to shake off his oppressor. So
was his stand. the
Come on, Jess!" roar swept the
crowded bowl.
They cheered him when he took
the lead away from Firpo in the
fourth, and they gloried in his tri-
umph as he held it right up to the
end of the seventh, when Firpo,
aroused at last, shook the old mans
frame with a shower of
savage rights and lefts that battered
against his body and chin and sent
him to his corner a beaten man.
The end came with a suddenness
in the eighth that was startling.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
Kamm Gets Doubles.

Willie Kamm, the White Sox
thirdsacker, got his twenty-sixth
two-bagg of the season off Ken
Sedgwick, the Griffs newest hurl-
ing recruit.
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~
o'clock eastern standard tinoe.
terrific trembling Of the earth
curdled the public water works
There is much Indignation.
SHELBY, Mont.-The last shoe.
shining parlor in town has gone
bankrupt. German marks are
selling at par. One dollar Ameri.
can money would start a STAN.
pede.
NANKIN, China.-A severe gan
logical disturbance estimated to
have originated somewhere in the
eastern seaboard Of the limited
States corrupted the annual con.
Vent1on of the Amalgamated Ban.
dts Auxiliary.
GRAPESHOT, Tex.-Two navs.
FERROUS articles, thought bv scien-
lists to have been Jess frort
teeth landed in corn field near
here, digging a pit into the ground
big enough to bury a half-grown
steer.
ROOSEVELT, Ariz:-The gov.
eminent dam sustained a crack
nine feet wide about dusk last
night as the result of a PROLONGED
seismographic orgy estimated to
have started twenty-five hundred
miles away. The whole town is
talking.
SHOESTRING, Alaska. Presi.
dent Harding's special dog sled
was detained forty minutes as the
result of a rift of Mt. Sausage
over which his special caravan
was touring. Cause of fissure un-
determined to date.
INCANDESCENT, Sas.-The en-
tire wheat crop was ruined early
last evening following a terrific
wind storm coming in from the
Atlantic Coast where the atmos-
phere was mysteriously erratic.
POkETOWN, Ga.-A pair OF
boxers trunks was, for some I'M
accountable reason, waving from
the spire OF the local fire hous@
when the enraged citizens awak-
ened this morning.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
Pirates Are Grabbing.

The Pittsburgh Pirates look like
team on the slxids and suffering
from nervous tension. They are
hopping on the umpires and are
even taking pot shots at one an
other.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-07-13
QUAKERS FEEL TENDLER
IS NEAR THRONE

NEW YORK. July 13-Whe lightweight
champion tolls aborous these hot sunbaked
the oppressive atmosphere of
State somnolen Philadelphia slowly awakening fact that
it has in its midst potential lightweight
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FIRPO WOULD BE EASY
TARGET FOR CHAMP
BY WARREN w. BROWN.
written for Cosmopolitan News service.)


NEW YORK. July 13For
Of them mady roaring "COme tones
then
exchapion, of the
entitled to another "shot at JackD
And them just when appeared if his
its would
stronger opponent Luis Angel Frpo he Wild Pampas
old had
hardf ashackf
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Lewis VS.. Rather.

Ted Lewis and Augei Rather
have signed articles to meet in
London at the end of this month:
The fight will probably be staged
on July IS or 80.
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with Firpo leading. He landed sew.
eral rights and lefts but they had
no weight He missed with a right
uppercut just before the bell that
would have knocked Willard through
the ropes, had 1T connected. 1t
didn't. That was an even round.
The beginning of the end came
with the seventh, though few
realized it till Willard went to his
corner. Firpo rushed with the bell,
landing a right to the jaw. There
was much sparring and half clinch'
ing and then it came.
Like a sumJnery thunder storm,
FirpO fairly smOthered his ri.
gantic opponent with right and
lefts, driving him into the ropes
close to hfs corner. The lefts
merely irritated, but those awful
rights beat like drums upon VIII
lard's face and neck.
Look at his legs" was the muir
muir all around the huge packed
arena.
Wizards handlers, Scotty Mon
tieth, former manager of Johnny
Dundee, and Jack Sicily, once a
great boxer himself, were rubbing
Wizards legs, trying to drive away
the cramps that threatened the
end. The bell halted their fren
lied efforts and Firpo was again
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papers to be
f i l e d with
laughing static.
If you don't
b e lie V e that
Firpo stea NJ
c l e a n e d and
pressed Willard.
run your eye UP
and down this
crease in the
days unverified
developments.
8 A NDUSKY,
Ohio. All the
milk in the mu-
nicipal creamery
turned sour last
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Says SKILLET"
Finn, ESQ.,.
Exaggerated Reports From
Neighboring Towns In
dictate They Grabbed
Backwash of Big
Fight
D. KHnX lRYR m
By KIRK MILLER.

" CHOES of last nights earth
II, quake estimated by Father
- Tondorf to have occurred
in the vicinity of Jersey City, N.
j., are still disturbing radio COM
munication and causing the news
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heart, bringing him up on his heels.
Willard looked foolish with a weak
jab, and there was much clinching.
though both men broke readily
enough at the word from Referee
Lewis. Before the bell Firpo led
another wild attack, driving Will
lard against the ropes and as Will
lard missed a right hand upper cut
by a foot or more, the round ended
in Firpo's favor.
The third round was a hot one,
with Firpo rushing at the bell only
to be halted quickly by two left
jabs to the chin and one good hard
right to the jaw. Firpo missed sew
eral wild swings, and the chorus
of Come on, Jess" soon to shake
the arena, was heard for the first
time. Willard was smiling as his
long left confused the Argentinian,
and made him miss with both
hands. That was Wizards round
by considerable margin.
Firpo started the fourth slowly,
moving around the ring awkwardly
and waiting for the sluggish Willard
to do something beside grin. Willard
paved with left and then, as
Ffrpo charged, met him with a
hard right to the body. Then came
the first real sign of what was to
| come
Firpo tore in. Willard held his
foes left hand and FirpO swung
and beat upon the big mans face
and neck and jaw with that aw,
full right. The blows sounded like
pistol shots fifty rows away from
the ring.
| Under that rain of blows Willard
grinned sickly. But he could not
escaped. Again that torture began,
Ffrpo's terrible right landing with.
out return and the bell found Viii.
lard weak and groggy as he fell
into his seat. He had been beaten
/ IN his own corner and did not have
TO move away from his chair.
The fifth started slowly. Wizards
seconds had fixed him up well in
their one minute and he besan
poking out his left There was M
weight in it and clinch followed
clinch. Finally Willard drove in a
hard right to the jaw. Firno shoot
his head and clinched. More wild
. swinging and the bell. The round
belonged to WillardA
, The sixth also st4.Led slowly. but
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Night about TO
o'clock eastern standard time. A
terrific trembling Of the earth
curdled the public water works,
There is much indignation.
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Ffrpo's weakness right now is his
open attack. Dempsey would en-
JOY showing his short left into
Firpo's face as the Argentinian
charged. moving away to his right
and popping away at the big fel.
lows face.
Firpo's moving shoulders are al.
most always seen when he is back
upon his heels. Furthermore, he
seems bent a bit backward thus be
ing easily pushed off balance by a
man as quick as Dempsey, who
boxes on his toes and ever on the
offensive.
Firpo's attack was seen with the
opening bell last night. Glaring like
q wild man from beneath his heavy
Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1923-04-02

rector. the Eev. Dr. Edward ID. john
son. The singing was lead by the
boys of the choir
After the professional hymn, Super
intendent Alden read the service and
the lesson appointed for the day and
then briefly addressed the congrega-
ton. taking for his theme the words
found in the sixth verse OF the twenty
fourth chapter of St. Luke. He is not
here. but is arisen" 1t was pointed
out that many people apparently do
not realize this fact, but think our
Lord is still in the sepulchre. The
message that the superintendent en-
deayored to impress upon his listen
ers was Our Lord is risen and Is
NOT in the sepulchre.
Or. Johnson also addressed the
school. He asked those present to re-
peat after him several times the
words of his text This is the victory
that overcometh the world, even our
faith" He very clearly explained, in
simple language. the meaning OF
these words. especially the signifi-
canoe of the last three even our
faith.
Mite Boxes Collected
After Dr. Johnson's address, the
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irca during the Lenten season. The
money so collected is given toward
the support of missions. Last year
al out $4,000 was collected this way
in this school. Judging from the
large pile of Ioxes that were collect
ed yesterday. il is believed that the
total Offering this year will exceed
last years.
The beauty of the service was en-
HANGED bv the lighted candles and the
floral decorations. In addition to the
Easter lilies, palms and other flowers
that were used at all the services
during the day. the children found
a large number of tulip plants bank
cd about the chaneel steps. Perhaps
the most important part of the serv-
ice from their point of view came last
when these were distributed. Every
child present received a pot of tulips
and an Easter card.
The few adults that were present