The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-08-20
FIGHT STILL ON
 AGAINST FIRPO
Canon Chase Declares Single Standard At
 Stake

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.--Luis Angel Firpo. Argentine heavyweight boxer, will still carry perjury charges upon his shoulders when he faces Harry Wills September II.
 Federal Commissioner Hitchcock to- day held him in $2.000 bail for hear ing September 20 on complaint brought by Canon William Sheafe Chase, president of the New York Civic league. Canon Chase charges that the boxrr. made false statements to the immigra- tion authorities regarding his acquaint- ance with Sannrita Blanca Lourdes Picart, who came here on the steam CT which brought Firpo back from South America Firpo returned to Sara toga Springs this afternoon to continue training.
 I've are down, but we will be up at the bell, said Canon Chase when. the postponemeht had been announced. We have not been attempting to pre- vent the fight. We have been working for clean sdminisfra ton of government and laws, for clehn and a clean, single standard of morality for men and women. No, hardly think will attend the bout. don't think would be wanted"
 Firpo's appearance here early today came as the result of what Canon Chase termed stealing q march,"
 With cancellation of his coming bout in prospect, Firpo and his retinue huf- Eied to the metropolis on learning that the warrant has been Issued and that Bernard Sander, attorney for the civic league, was on his way to Saratoga Springs to assist in serving 1t. This left Mir. Sander in Saratoga Springs today and so Canon Chase appeared at the federal building without an attor- ney.
 Hyman Bushnel, attorney for Tex Rickard, promoter of the bout, appeared for Firpo and requested the postpone ment to which Canon Chase acquiesced. At one point Mir. Bushnel declared that the head of the civic league should be arrested for perjury as he had made mis-statementss in obtaining the. war rant. He argued that Mir. Chase was without information, only to have the Canon produce a letter from E J. Henning, first assistant secretary of la bor, said to contain a resume of what the immigration officials learned from, Firpo as taken from the actual record.
 The South American champion was accorded a rough reception by half hundred news gatherers and foreign CTS. He was pushed and pulled from almost every room on the floor. All the time he appeared serious, refusing to smile.
 'sThe Stolen March" by which Firpo and his attorney obtained the postpone ment while Mir. Sander visited Firpo's empty training quarters at Saratoga Springs caused MT. Sander lone of the keenest regrets of my career" he as- serted in q statement upon his return to New York.
 Referring to BushnePs remarks in asking for the postponement, Mir. Sand Ter said: .sCanon Chase, not being fa- miIiar with court procedure, was at a great disadvantage"
 ''When the smoke of the Firpo- Wills battle will have cleared away and the million dollars taken from the custo- mers will have been divided among the prospective participants" he added "the public will then learn the truth when the evidence at hand will be presented tu an impartial tribunal"
 He denied that blAckmail had any part in the proceedings, saying Bushnei would be given afl opportunity to prove this contention made in his argument.
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.-Louis Angel Firpo, the Argentine fighter, met Blanca Pieart, Cuban and Brazilian manicurist, only casually, once in the United States and again in Brazil, be- fore the two took the, same ship from South America to this country, accord ing to the statement Firpo made to im- migration officials as result of his detention with the woman when they landed in New York.
 The immigration bureau, has declined to make public the record of Firpo's statement, but it was learned today that both the fighter and Miss Picart denied in emphatic terms that she had ever been in FirpO's stateroom on the ship in which the two travelled to the United States.
 Firpo told authorities that he did not know that Miss Picart was to be aboard ship until he saw her there, and that throughout the trip their relations were limited to conversations at the dinner table, and dancing on the ships deck in which most ofsthe passengers partici- pated. He did not escort her to her stateroom after the dances, both testi.. fled.
 Asked by one of the immigration in- spectors what he would say if told that an officer of the ship had seen Miss, Picart in his stateroom many times dur ing the trip, Firpo said the charge was wholly false.
 The immigration bureau is investigat-