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DEMPSEY-FIRPO BOUT WILL BE A FIERCE SLUGGING MATCH, SATS JESS WILLARD
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CLEVTP IT BOXING
Firpo Is Evin Less a Gymnasium
Sparring Partner and Fight
Will Be Primitive Battle
DETERMINED SCRAPPERS
Dempsey Doped to Rip Into
Firpo in First Round With
Everything He Has
By JESS WILLARD
Former Heavyweight Champion
t The Dempsey-Firpo fight will be
a slugging match, with the result
a toss up.
Dempsey is not what you would
call a clever boxer, and Firpo is
even less of a gymnasium sparring |
man. It will be a primitive bat-1
tie. s
A grizzly bear will rip into a
gorilla. A pile-driver will crash
against a buzz-saw. (
They talk about the wallop in
Dempsey’s punches, but I want to
tell you that Firpo hits the hardest.
My ribs have bent and my head
has whirled under the blows of
each. I know.
Both Determined Scrapper*.
And the punches won’t fan the
air in this coming battle. Both
men can be hit.
Dempsey hasn’t often had to
take the full force of a straight
blow in it vital place, but his policy
is to plunge in regardless of pun
ishment.
Firpo looks from the ringside as
if you couldn’t miss him. He isn’t
as easy as that. But the trouble
comes when you crash home your
sledgehammer blows and they fail
to make any impression on him.
Both have the fighting spirit.
That is an essential element, and
if it isn’t born in a man it cannot
be trained into him. They have
plenty of confidence and determi
nation.
Dempsey has the advantage of
experience. Firpo is larger and
heavier, and I think stronger.
Why is the result a toss up?
Equally Matched.
Well, as I analyzed their quali
ties in fighting them both and in
thinking them over while my bruis
es healed, they are prettily equally
matched, man to man. They are
much more on the same level than
the'erowd In the arena is going to
believe before the fight starts.
The champion hasn’t any walk
over nt .all. The could
do better later, but he is a first
class fighting man now'.
Then count in a large element of
luck. It is a greater factor in a
heavyweight fight than anywhere
else in the boxing game. I
luck for at least 30 per cent*
With big men evenly matched
one is almost as: liable as the other
to be first with a decisive blow.
The one who lands a knockout
need not be the heaviest hitter.
Jess’ll Be There.
As soon as the gong sounds, as
I dope this fight, Dempsey will rip
into Firpo with everything he has,
Dempsey doesn’t wait for them to
come to him.
Firpo, in our fight, started .right
in the center of the. ring, never
gave any ground and kept hammer
ing away. That is his style. I
believe Dempsey will find Firpo
ready to stick right along at his
pace and shoot back as savagely
as he fecieves.
Usually I don’t go *to fights as a
spectator. I intend not to miss
this one.
It ought to be a superbattle for
fierceness and intensity. •
(Copyright, 1923.)
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SALLY LEAGUE
Yesterday’. Results.
At Macon 4; Spartanburg 3.
At Charlotte 3-1; Greenville 1-2.
At Augusta’B-1; Gastonia 4-4.
TEAM— Won Lost Pct.
Macon 35 28 .556
Charlotte ,35 29 .547
Greenville 31 t 29 .517
Augusta ‘29 28 .509
Spartanburg 37 ,30 .. .508
Gastonia 21 38 .356
i AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday’s Results
At Boston 1; Washington 3.
At Philadelphia 0; New York 2.
At Detroit 5; Chicago 2.
At Cleveland 6; St. Louis 2.
TEAM— Wen Lbst Pct.
New York .82 43 .6561
Cleveland _69 56 .552
Detroit _..64 56 .533
St. Louis _...62 60 .508
Washington 66 GO .470 1
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Boston ’...'48 TO .390
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterday’s Results
At Pittsbrug 1; Cincinnati 2. ■
At New York 3; Boston 0.
At Chicago 3; St. Louis 2.
Only three games played.
TEAM— Won Lost Pct.
New Ydrk 82 150 .621
Cincinnati 76 52 .594
Pittsburg 74 *53 .583
Chicago *7l 59 .546
St. Louis 65 65 .500
Brooklyn 60 66 .476
Boston 43 85 .336
Phialdelphia 42 84 ..333
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Yesterday’s Results
At New Orleans 3-1; Atlanta
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At Mobile 9; Birmingham 2.
At Memphis-Little Rock, post
poned, rain.
Only three games cheduled.
TEAMS Won Lost Pct.
New Orleans 84 48 .636
Mobile i 77 58 .570
Birmingham .... ....67 62 .519
‘ Nashville 69 67 .507
Memphis 66 66 ,50Q
Atlanta 66 68 .493
Chattanooga 55 80 .407
Little Rock 46 8,1 .362
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player so places the stone that, by
putting one foot on it, he builds
up his stance and greatly improves
his chances for a good drive. Is
this permissible?
There is nothing in the rules that
definitely forbids the building up
of one’s stance, but it seems such
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A considerable amount 'of sand
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Player drives his second shot into
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would probably have - reached the
green and the player been in a
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'Has Xhe player the right to lift
the ball and drop it without pen
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Since the material,. sand, was
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In such <• case the player has a
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In the last half of the fifth in
ning there are runners on first and
second and two out. It is Smith’s
turn to bat, he being the fourth
man in the batting order. Instead,
Jones, who is the fifth man in the
batting order, triples, scoring two
runs.
The team in The field then dis
covers that Jones has batted in
place of Smith and an appea lis
made to the umpire for a ruling
on the play. , .
Do the runs score? Who is call
ed out on the play? How is the
batting order cared for in the next
inning?
THE INTERPRETATION—
When a player bats out of order
and the mistake is discoveerd be
fore a ball is pitched to the suc
ceeding batsman, the proper bats
man is- called out. Incidentally no
bases can be run on any act of
an improper batsman.
Since Smith was the improper
batsman, the umpire in charge
should have called Smith out when
Jones batted out of turn. The two
runs thats crossed the plate are
void, as no bases can be run on
the triple made by the improper
batsman, Jones.
The first batter in the next in-<
ning should be Jones, as he fol
lows Smith in the batting order.
Smith was the third out in the pre
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YOUTH. COURAGE ANO I
MM ME GREAT
ASSETS m FIRPO
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Argentinian Challenger Has
What Corbett Had When He
Took Sullivan’s Title
IS CONFIDENT HE’LL WIN (
Has Single Track Mind That
Permits Nothing to Obscure
Ambitious Goal
By 808 DORMAN
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.; Sept.
s.—Whht had Corbett when he
fought and took the title from
John L. Sullivan?
You, eoulrag'a, JtonjlJidentee jand
ambition. •
And those qualities sum up the
chances of Luis Angel Firpo to
take the same title from its pres
ent holder, Jack Dempsey.
But 27 years old, he is in the
prime of life —at the height of
his’ physical powers.
Though he has not fought men |
of the first class, such men are ■
scarce in his division. And from I
some of those he has fought, he ;
has been compelled (to take hard j
wallops.
From none has he flinched.
' His courage has met every test
to which it ■ has been put so far.
His confidence is sublime.
That he is to meet Dempsey, the
world’s heavyweight champion,
means nothing in his young life.
To him it is just- another- fight.
He does not worry.
“Why should 1?” he says.
“Dempsey is just a man, He can
be beaten the same as anyone else.
“AU champions are unbeatable
until they are licked. Then the
new champion is unbeatable’’
Firpo is ambitious. The heavy
weight title is his goal. All
efforts are directed toward it.
His is a singletrack mind. He
penfiits nothing to interfere with
his plan.s
Women mean nothing to him.
' He is courteous to them with ever
ready gallantry of th6 Castillian.
• But he , makes no intimates among
• them.
> “Women,” he says, “I have no
■ time for them. They hinder a box
er in his work. Many a fighter’s
“ hopes have sunk in the depths of
J a woman’s ~ eyes.
1 Someday, perhaps, I shall
> marry. But not until my ring days.
: are over. No girl holds any claim
a on my heart, and until I meet the
r right one, no one will.”
Youth, courage, confidence and
- ambition.
They ca nearly a man far on
. the road to his dreams.
Can they carry Firpo to his goal
1 —can they overcome the handicap
of his boxing deficiencies?
STRIBLING STARTS >
TRAINING-FOR BOUT
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Georgia Boy Preparing Now For
First of
Meteoric (SBb*
MACON, Sept. s—Young Strib
ling is in training for the- first
world’s championship fight he ever
took part in.
Pa Stribling, father-manager of
the youthful challenger for interna- I
tional honors, seems to believe his |
boy is in the best condition of his
career.
“His arm looks fine,” he said yes
terday. “W. L. looked as good in his
workout as 1 could want, and I be
lieve McTigue is going to get a big
surprise.”
The Macon sensation, who has
fought his way to a chance at -the
world’s title at the age of 18 years,
yesterday began his first -real cam
paign of workouts for two and a half
months. His arm has been X-rayed
and found to be in sound condition,
and there now seems no possible
hitc-Kto his engagement -With Mike
McTigue in Columbus on Oct. 4.
Striblng worked ten rounds yes
terday, and seemed to enjoy it. His
I long rest has undoubtedly done him
; good, and has made him a much
• mot-e dangerous opponent for the
j Irish-American holder of the world’s
I light heavyweight title.
McTigce, in his fight with Strib
ling, will be defending his title for
the first time since he defeated Bat
tling Siki in Dublin, Ireland. There
is little doubt but that the .cham
pion believes he is fairly safe in his
bout with the Macon star.
Strib included in his workout yes
terday three rounds of boxing, two
with Joe Burman and wie with Jack
Kid Woffard.
He will fight for the first time in
nearly three months Monday, when
he meets Jimmie Conway in Rome.
Pa Stribling said he was receiving
a number of inquiries about the bat
tle.
“Why is it that McTigue is com
ing down here to fight Stribling for
/$10;000 when he copld get much
more in New York?” he,is asked.“
The reason for this is that the
boxing laws in New Yoi*k require
that ajchampion musb defend his ti
tln at least every six months. Jf M-’-
Tigue fought in New York he would
,have to fight a man who is selected
for him as the most likely candidate
and as he fights Stribling to a reLl
erees decision he will be obeying tho™
law and believes he is enabling him
self to rest another six months.
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