The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-11
By wEsTRROOK PEGLER

X NEW YORK, Sept. 10.-The bally- hoo for Luis Agel Firpo's fight with Harry Wills, Thursday night, climbed to a screaming crescendo as the op- ponents of the show ran in widening circles all over the state of New Jer- sey Wednesday afternoon, trying to have Luis Angel arrested for some thing.
 It didn't matter whether he was ar- rested for beating his horse or his wife, of which he has neither, as long as he could be arrested. At late hour no warrants had been reported but the re- turns from some of the mountain coun- ties were still missing and there was atchance that some rural justice of the peace had consented to entertain a charge of violating the Curfew law. All this activity was gratefully noted by Tex Rickard, the promoter. as the publicity drew a long line of customers to trade with the hitherto languid young men who stood in the ticket office with black pistols close at hand and there was a brisk days trading in the preferred issues of tick cts at prices ranging from $5 to S27. Luis Angel, however, became nervous and shied skittishly every time anyone rustled a newspaper, sound vaguely suggestive of the ominous flutter of subpOenaes.
 Once during the afternoons long so- ', cial and business session in the gym nasium at Madison Square Garden some fiend in human form flapped a sheaf of oil stocks just behind Luis Angels back and he bolted from the place with his very expensive lawyer, Hymie Bushel, of Broadway, clinging to his coat-tails and yelling "Who !! Wild Bull So, boss!" It took the very expensive Mir. Bushel two hours to re- assure Luis Angel and bring him back.
 When they came back, the expensive Mir. Bushel explained that Luis Angel merely went out to little shopping Luis Angel then inserted himself into his enormous overall tights, manufac- tured by the firm that makes the tents for the circus, and went through his last training exercises.
 Later, Mayor Hague of Jersey City, who recently laughed off the protests of five reform organizations operating in his town, had discussion with Rinkard, the expensive MT. Bushel and Frank Coultry, one of Richards busi- ness operatives, in a secret chamber of the garden. Their deliberations were about as public as an executive session of the grand lodge of the black hand society and, naturally, the boys in the alley could only, guess at what was being arranged. Being versatile guess CTS, and not generally averse to fixing matters before a fight, themselves, the lads guessed many things, all of a sus- picious nature.
 As these big fights are usually pre- ceded by number of rumors, it will serve the purposes of convenience to set down the leading rumors in tabloid form. These are that:
 l. Wills won't be allowed to win.
 2. Firpo won't be allowed to win.
 There are many reasons to support each rumor, each reason being about as authentic as the rumor to which it pertains but no more so.
 Patsy Haley, the most prominent re- fierce in New York, visited the Garden to sec Firpo in action before forming his opinion.
 From what I see of him and from what I know about Wills, 1 should say Harry will knock him for some new height, distance and sustained flight records" Hr. Haley said.
 How much did you see of Firpo," Mir. Haley was asked
 ''Well, I'm a short guy and I'm standing behind a lot of tall guys," MT. Haley replied. "So the view isn't very good. I think I saw his knee but he's so hairy it might have been his ear. Anyway, judging by what l see, I think Wills will lick him.
 After his last training exertiOns, Firpo went back to the cheerless, love less little apartment in which he is stop ping and heaved sigh that blew all ,. the wash off the line next door.
 His corps of Argentine si-senors, or yes, gentlemen, whose on purpose in life is to tell him he's great and that everyone else is trying to rob him, were in close attendance and amused them selves by exclaiming over his manly beauties as portrayed in some photo grapic studies of an "art" nature which were taken recently. One of these shows Firpo draped on the floor in q Joe Beckett attitude with one finger dreamily supporting his chin and his eyes rolled upward, pensively, suggest ing either love or acute indigestion :. This one has been called 'the \tired scrub-lady" and is described by thing.
 Harry Wills remained around his home in the coal scuttle of New York sometimes called the harlem black belt He had shown all the observers at hi: camp that he was in magnificent shape and was taking life easy until ring time. He and Luis Angel will meet fol the first time when they weigh in al