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LUIS FIRPO SMARTER THAN FOLKS FIGURE
FIRPO HO DUMB-BELL:
MK SET NO
NILE FROM FIGHTER
Argentinian Not Tightwad, But
Wise in Money Matters, So
His Trainer Says
M’CANN PRAISES BIG BOY
Firpo Said to Be “Mighty Sight
Faster Than He Looks ’ by
Those Who Know Him •
By 808 DORMAN
NEA Service Writer
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept.
10.—Louis Angel Firpo is no dumb
bell. '—
He had been listening to his
friend and interpreter, Carlos
Vega, read him an article by a
leading sports writer in which the
fight with Dempsey was called a
farce on account of Firpo’s sup
posed weakness on defense. (Firpo
has all the sporting news read to
him.)
Turning to Vega he said: '‘So
Senor Dempsey will cut me to
pieces. I am wide open for every
punch.
Look at my face carefully. Look
at my ears. Do you see any scars.
Are my ears what you call ‘cauli
flower.’
“No? Perhaps Louis’ face does
not take the full force of those
blows. Perhaps his face is moving
away, when they land.”
A good .story is going the rounds
of the light in New York regarding
Firpo’s canniness in money mat
ters.
A magazine which is devoted to
sport and which makes a practice
of runnjhg photos of athletes on
the front.coter, for which advertis
ing the athlete is supposed to con
tribute, sent their representative to
see Firpo.
The proposition to run Firpo’s
picture on the front cover for the
modest sum of SSOO finally was ac
cepted after two hours’ negotiations
through and interpreter.
'Two days after the appearance
of the magazine on the stands with
Firpo’s photo duly printed on the
front page, Firpo appeared at the
office of the magazine with a re
quest for SSOO, which he thought he
had coming for permitting his pic
ture on the front page.
Much of Firpo’s tightness in mon
ey matters can be laid to the fact
that he does not fall for the touch
es of the panhandlers who beset
every man in the pugilistic lime
light.
Firpo cannot undrestand his
would-be borrowers, and much of
the force of their appeal is lost in
interpretation.
K'is sparring partners deny that
Firpo is close. \
“They don’t make-them any bet
ter than Firpo who has helped con
dition Firpo'-for several bouts.
“He has always been liberal with
me in money matters.
“As for the bumg that try to pAn
. handle him, I don’t blame him for
■turning ’em down. They’d keep a
man broke if he fell for all of ’em.”
Valentino Suarez, who ordinari
ly keeps the Uruguayan consul-gen-
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fed state of mind ,is attending to
the culinary needs of Firpo.
Valentino was lent to Firpo, be
cause his mind was so continually
on his fistic idol, that the consul
was afraid he might make a mis
take in his salad, and use mustard
instead of myonnaise.
One daily item of the menus
t±at he prepares for Firpo is “pu
*ero.”
A mysterious name like that
should posses some mystic virtue
to its partakers, but, questioned as
to its component parts, Suarez
grins, and say “Puchero. It is
what <ze Americans call ze ‘lrish
stew.’ ”
Another illusion shattered.
Firpo has been called slow and
awkward.
Ask Frank Kobele,’ his sparring
partner, about it.
“Slow?” he says. “Say; that bird
is slow’ in the same way that a
bear is slow.
“Tigers have the rep for speed,
but ask any animal trainer and he’ll
tell you that a bear can move some
fast himself, despite his apparent
awkwardness.
“And it’s the same way with
Firpo. He’s S mighty sight faster
than he looks. If you dont’ believe
it, just get in the ring with him.”
Kinks O’-
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Player gets away a long ball from
the tee. His second shot, however,
is a poor one, the ball going out of
bounds. What is the proper proce
dure on the part of the player who
has driven out »f bounds and \Zhat
is the penalty if any?
When a player drives his ball out
of bounds, he shall play his .next
stroke as nearly as possible at the
spot from which the ball which is
out of bounds was played. A pen
alty of one stroke is aded to the
score for the hole.
In a four-ball match Smith and
Jones are partners, Smith putts,
and his ball strikes that 'of his part
ner Jones, knocking Jones’ ball into
the cup. Is the ball counted as
having been holed out on the prev
ious stroke?
The rule*states that in a four
ball match a ball displaced on the
putting green must be replaced
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
Yesterday’s Results
, At Chicago 4; St. Louis*2.
At New York 6-4; Boston 2-0.
At - Cleveland 5; Detroit 3.
At Washington 2; Philadelphia
5.
TEAM— Won Lost Pct.
New York 86 43 .667
Cleveland 71 57 .555
Detroit 65 60 .520
St. Louis 65 62 .512
Washington 62 67 .481
Chicago 58 69 .457
Philadelphia 54 73 ’ .425
Boston 49 77 .389
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterday’s Results
At Cincinnati 8; Pitsburg 3.
At Brooklyn 6; New York 3.
At St. Louis 3; Chicago 0.
Only three games played.
TEAM— Won Lost Pct.
New York ...84 52 .618
Cincinnati 78 55 .586
Pittsburg .... 77 55 .583
Chicago ......’ ..72 62 .587
St. Louis t 69 66 .511
Brooklyn 63 67 .485
Boston :..44 87 .336
SOUTHERN LEAGUE
Yesterday's Results
At Memphis 7; Mobile 5.
At New Olreans . 7-10; Little
P.oek 0-0.
At Nashville 2; Birmingham 1.
At Chattanooga .8; Atlanta 4.
TEAMS Won Lost Pct.
New Orleans 87 50 .635
Mobile ~..81 60 .575
Birmingham ...70 65 .519
Memphis- 69 66 .511
Nashville 70 70 .5,00
Atlanta 64 71 .474
“ONLY 38” HAS BIG
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William de Mille’s latest Para
mount plrojluction, “Only 38,”
which is the Rylander attraction
today and Tuesday, is a delightful
comedy of character, having for
its central theme, the rejuvenation
of a widow of thirty-eight years,
who because of the Puritancal
course of her late husband, a min
ister of the gospel, believes her
self to have become old and fad
ed. The complications which at
tend her attempts to regain her
fancied lost youth, with ultimate
happiness, supply unusual situa
tions.
There are four featured play
ers in “Only 38,” among the best
stars of the Paramount studios.
They are May McAvoy, Lois Wil-,
son, Elliott Dexter and George
Fawcett.
On the program with this pro
duction is being shown one of the
Mack Senrtiett two-reel comedies,
“On Patrol.” <
r THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER
FIGHT IB STIFF IT
8 P. HI. EASTERH TIE
Fistic Preliminaries to Be Includ
ed With Returns From Wil
lard-Firpo Bout
.The first of the preliminaries of
the Willard-Firpo bout in New
York, next Friday, will start
promptly at 8 o’clock, Eastern
time, and returns from the ring
side will begin to be received in
Americus at 7 o’clock, Americus
time. This was definitely stated
in a telegram received today from
U. L. McCall, district superintend
ent of the Associated Press, which
will furnish the dispatches to be
read in the Rylander during the
fight.
The fight, as Jias already been
stated, will be staged at the Polo
groumte in New York City and
the Associated Press will have a
special ’wire at the ringside over
which the news of the fight will be
’ transmitted to fight fans every
where. This report will follow the
fighting closely and fans who at
tend the matinee at the Rylander
will be kept as closely informed as
those at ‘the ringside.
The Polo grounds, home of the
New Gians and one of the biggest
baseball plants in the country, will
be converted into a massive arena,
with a seating capacity of approxi
mately 80,000. The playing field
will be covered with temporary
scats around the ring, which will
be erected in the center of the dia
mond.
The greatest crowd that ever
saw a boxing contest gathered in
the pine bowl on Boyle’s Thirty
Acres in Jersey City, N. J., July
2, 1921, to see Dempsey defend
his title against Georges Carpen
tier. Close to 93,000 persons were
jammed into the great. spaces of
the bowl that day. The total re
ceipts apporixated $1,600,000.
Claims were made that this fig-
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arena, Rickard estimating the at
tendance at 100,000 but revised
figures showed that th‘e paid at
tendance was only 75,000 and the
receipts $429,920.
The champicmship bout between
Dempsey and Willard at Toledo on
July 4, 1919, although seen by on
ly 19,650 spectators, drew a gate
of $452,522. This enormous rate
was made possible because of the
side seats sold so S6O, while the
cheapest benches brought $lO
each.
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TO STOPBIG FIGHT
Negro’s Efforts to Block Demp
sey-Firpo Match Through N.
Y. Courts Unsuccessful
NEW YORK, Sept. 10—Harry
Wills, negjro pugilist, today failed in
his efforts to stop the Denipsey-
Firpo championship bout next Fri
day night. Supreme Court Justice
Haragon, of Brooklyn, denied his
application on a writ of mandamus.
GEORGIA TOBACCO TAX
FOUGHT BY SMOKERS
ATLANTA, Sept. 10—The cigar
and cigaret smokers of Georgia,
said to number 900,000, have
started a movement to demand the
repeal of the 10 per cent tax im
posed by the legislature at the re
cent session. The consumers, call
ing themselves the Georgia Tobac
co association, are circulating pe
titions all over the State, demand
ing repeal of this special tax at the
extra session called for Novem
ber:
The smokers say that if the tax
is allowed to stand, it will take
$6,500,000 a year aditional from
their pockets. They expect to or
ganize county by county and work
in close relations with the tobacco
growers.
MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 10, 1923
PHFPAPATIOHS GOING
FOBBBD FDR' BTCH
Pa Stribling Confident His Boy
Will Fight Dempsey During
Next Three Years
COLUMBUS, Ga. Sept. 10—Prep
arations are going forward for the
first championship battle that the
south has had in a score of years,
now that it is a certainty .that Mike
McTigue, world’s light heavyweight
champion and' Young Stribling, the
south’s leading contender, a Macon,
Ga., high school lad are to meet.
Final articles foj the battle, to
be fought October 4, have been
signed by manager of McTigue and
Stribling, it has been announced
here and all arrangements for the
scrap are under way.
McTigue, who won the title from
i Battling Siki, conqueror of Georges
Carpentier,‘is said by.his followers
to be in fine condition for the first
time he has entered since copping
the crown.
The “Macon Flash,” as Young
Stribling is called, has been laying
off ring activities for some time,
allowing a dislocated arm to heal,
and his father-manager, “Fa” Strib
ling says he is fast jetting back
in fighting trim.
“Strib”'weighs slightly over 160
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pounds and is around 19 years of
age. Since entering the ring activi
ties at the age of 14, he has held the
bantamweight, lightweight, welter
weight and middleweight titles of
the south and now is believed ready
for a crack at the light heavyweight
crown of the world.
It was with a spirit of confidence
that “Pa” Stribling, three months
ago, picked his son to light Jack
Dempsey for the world s title in
1925 or ’26.
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