Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, September 15, 1923, Page 5

EP TASTES SS | SATURDAY, SEPT. 15, 1923 Re Sa sii eee World Results By Leased Wire ape Casper Dally Crivune *) THE TRIBUNE’S PAGE OF SPORTING NEWS | PAGE FIVE. First in News Of All Events DEMPSEY STOPS FIRPO IN TERRIFIC RING BATTLE TNAYEART'LL BE BACK’ BIG ARGENTINAN SAYS AFTER LOSING Challenger Takes Count After Minute of Battling In Second Round But Not Until He Sent Champion Flying Through Ropes. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—(By The Associated Press) .— Jack Dempsey and Luis Angel Firpo fought last night for the heavyweight crown of the world as two cave men in pre-historic days might have battled on the edge of a cliff—and Firpo lost. But he lost like aman, fighting to the last agonizing gasp—m glorious in defeat than ever he had been in victory. Knocked out in three minutes and 57 seconds of the most furious fight- ing ever recorded in ring history, in which he was floored seven times but managed to send the champion crashing clean through the ropes/ after battering him to his knees, the styrdy son of the Argentine still gazes with determined eyes on the crown which Dempsey barely saved by a right uppercut which stretched Firpo flat on his back. “In a year I'll be back again,” he declared, when, lifted to his feet by | the man who had floored him, he} staggered uncertainly to his dress-| SS made that Losing fighters have tl statement before, and been laughed at for thelr pains. But not so with) Luis. A vast majority of the 85,000 who witnessed the battle believed him, and Tex Rickard, the man-who put on the fight declared he was ready to stage another Firpo-Demp- sey battle next summer, or match the Argentine tomorrow aginst Har- ry Wills, the hard hitting negro, who has been itching for a fight with Dempsey, “Firpo is not done for yet,” as-| serted Rickard. “He will be heard from again, He 1 young fellow and a The battle was perhaps the most dramatic in the history of pugilism, even eclipsing the terrific fray in| Toledo in 1919, when Dempsey tore the laure’s from the bloody head of Jer Willard. In less than four minutes was crammed more action than usually is spread over 16) rounds.. The crowd realized they were gazing unpon no ordinary box- ers; they were witnessing an ele- mental, gripping, nerve-shaking bat- tle between two great lion hearted | fighters, to whom the verb “to quit” was unknown, The challenger made as incon- spicuous entrance as could be ef- fected in his staggering bathrobe of purple, gold and black. He slipped into the arena while the last round of the last preliminary was nearing its tiresome fin!sh and dropped into a front row seat surrendered to him by a spectator. He was first into the ring. A burst of applause greeted him. No filcker of emotion slipped across his A minute later Dempsey jumped through the ropes, clad in white trunke, a white sweater buttoned| over his shoulders. He was a buo- yant Dempsey; a laughing, confident Dempsey; a Dempsey far different to the champion who two years ago, with worried glances from side to side, stepped into the ring in Jersey City to face the renowned Georges Carpentier of France. He received @ thundering welcome. Luis sat in his corner, as watchful as a beast of the jungle with the combat impending. He scowled as Dempsey took his corner, Not for ® moment did he take those keen eyes from the face of the champion. His handlers loosed a deafening volume of advise but Firpo never heard them, | Jack, squatting on his stool with an army b'anket draped across his Kernees, cast sidelong glances at the crowd while his seconds rubbed his muscles and fondled his ears as a trainer might caress a race horse. Once he jumped from his stool and danced up and down his corner to Umber his leg muscles. Then the champion and challenger were called to the center of the ring for a conference, a conference pro- tracted by Firpo's need of an inter- pretor. They grew restless as tech- nicalities were expounded to them. Then the gong. The fighters New at one another Uke savages. Dempsey hurled him- self across the ring, slipping to one knee with the fury of his rush which carried the South American against the ropes. Then a right to the body and a left to the jaw and the chal- lenger crashed to the canvas. ‘A short count and Firpo was again on bis feet, His eyes shone with! the fire of battle as he lunged at; the man who hed felled him. Dempsey stood his ground. For the second and third times he knocked his heavier opponent to the floor. Firpo's mouth gushed blood, but ..the champions ribs weathered from out. He drove his sledgehammer right | into the first f rushed his rival. It was a stupen- dous, a staggering rush that sent Dempsey to his knees, Jack rose battered but game. But Firpo was at him in an in- stant. He loosed a right swing that landed squarely on Dempsey’s jaw. The crowd, crazed by the drama it was witnessing, gasped as it saw Dempsey dashed through the ropes out of the ring, landing flat on his back on the press benches, In an instant he was back, but he was groggy, stunned. His legs quivered under him. He was pale But Dempsey had fought more battles than the daring younger man from the Argentine, and his strategy saved him, He fe'l promptly into a ciinch until his rain cleared. Had Firpo then been able to land one of his staggering rights, a dif- ferent story might be told, but he was unable to follow up his advan- age before the bell tolled. Before alking to h's corner Dempsey cuffed the South American several times about the head, but the ref- eree appeared not to notice it. The crowd was quite unable to recover from the thrill of the first round when the fighters were at it again, fighting like wild men, Nel- the thought of putting a defensive fight. Sach was out to win im- mediately to crowd all thelr chances rounds. re Dempsey sent the Argentine crashing to the resined floor. But when it seemed ‘mpos- sible for the fallen giant to rise he was on his feet again, And then the knockout. A left to the body, a tremendous right to the jaw and the great Ar- gentine Iay flat on his*back umier the cluster of arc Hghts. His face worked in agony. Blood streamed from his mouth. For a count of two he lay quite still, Then he struggled to rise, but the champion’s magnificent attack had been too mugh for him. He flung his left arfh across his body, half rolled to his right side, strove vallantly to get his legs under him, but the count of ten sounded, Dempsey rushed to his fallen foe and lifted him to his corner. An ovation worthy of the fighting man he is, awaited him. Frenzied fans crashed down on the press sec- tion, stormed it, captured it, leaped to the ring itself. For a moment it seemed as if the police would lose control of the crowd, but finally vic- tor and conquered were escorted to their dressing rooms. The whole evening had kept the police on their toes, for outside the grounds was gathered a throng as great as that massed within the sta- dium walls and on several occasions, during which the prospective specta- tors rioted around ticket wagons, mounted officials had to be called into action to club the crowd into Une. The champion himself, who ar- rived at the main gate, had difficulty in entering, and Jess Willard, who eat at the ringside, spent 45 minutes fighting his way through the throng. <_< —— Once, twice m THE FIGHT BY ROUNDS ROUND ONE, Dempsey missed a left and Firpo dug a right Into his body, sending him to his knees, Dempsey floored, Firpo with a left hook to the chin but he was up after taking a count of one. When got up, Dempsey sent him to the Moor for the second time with a hard right but he did not take a count. Dempsey knocked him over for the third. When he got up Jack chased him to the cor- ner, knocking him down again. After being floored for the fourth time Firpo knocked Dempsey through the ropes and Dempsey came back groggy. Firpo pounded Dempsey on the jaw with sledge hammer rights, bringing blood from his mouth. .Firpo also was bleeding when he went to his corner. ROUND TWO. Firpo swung a right to Dempsey’s back. Dempsey hooked a left to the chin. Jack drove both fists to the body and Firpo fell to the floor. Firpo bleeding and groggy, stag- gered into the center of the ring. into Dempsey’s ribs with a thud that Dempsey hit him with a left hook to ‘could have been heard a block away.|the chin and a right to the same but the champion’s rigs weathered | spot, knocking him flat. He rolled the blow and he returned the attack ‘over on his back with blood trickling with a fury that sent Firpo to the /trom his mouth, remaining in this floor for a fourth time. A few positfon while the referee swung the seconds and he was down again, this count over him, time in Dempsey’s corner. This) Dempsey, nervous, rushed over time it seemed as if he could not) ang helped pick up his fallen foe, rise again. The champion stepped) and then trotted to his corner. over the fallen body of his adversary pantera Snacmnsaas looking as if he thought the fray had ended. But it hadn't. | vith the count of nine the South American was on hia feet again and “Meet me at the Smokhouse.” ———_—_—. Dance and supper at Haygood's, Ssturday night. & y's Orchestra, Caddy! Hey, an even bet that ® girl will come shuffling out of the caddy house. Here's a typical caddy on the course of the St Briac club. — Club Standing National League Club: Won Lost Pet New York .. ~86 53 619 Pittsburgh . .--.80 56 588 Cincignati - 1.81 53 583 Chicago . .-—-._.73 64 533 St. Louis 66 515 Brooklyn . 69 489 Boston - .. 90 333 Philadelphia . .. 89 +330 American League Club: Won Lost Pct New York .....--.89 46 659 Cleveland ~ ......71 59 546 Detroit . . 523 St. Louls -. 508 Washington . -. ATT Chicago — 451 Philadelphia . +430 Boston — -400 National League At Cincinnati— 913 2 Batteries—Oeschger, Marquard and O'Neil, Gibson; Luque and Hargrave. Second game— RHE Boston . .--—.. Cincinnati . Batteries—Barnes and Smith; Keck, Donohue, McQuaid and Wingo. At Chicago— RHE New York ~~... 1 5 21] Chicago . . wrmnnnncnnsl 9 9 Batterles—McQuillan, Ryan, John- son and Snyder; Keen and O'Farre Bee At St. Louls— Philadelphia . -. St. Louls emnees +3 10 1 Batteries— Bishop, Betts, Head and Henline; Haines and Clemons, American League At New York E Chicago ». .-nne-=. ene. 2 New York ,2---_.. 0 Batteries—Leverette and Schalk; Shawkey, Pippgrass and Schang. At Boston (12 innings) RHE Cleveland . 811 2 Boston . -.---. .-—~. 4 9 38 Batteries—Shaute, Morton and O'Netll, Myatt; Quinn and Picnich, At Washington— Detroit . .---aanees. Washington . Batteries—Cole Zachary, Ruel. Western Oklahoma City 13; Sloux City 7. Denver 6; Tulsa 2. No others, Salt Lake 11. GRID WARRIORS OF "BIG TEN’ OWING INTO ACTION TODAY Keen Competition for Places on All Elevens in _Sight as Wealth of Material Looms With Opening of Fall Season: CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—(By The Associated Press).— Five “Big Ten” football teams swung into practice today | with lineups practically unimpaired through losses of var- sity material by graduation a petition in the big circuit thi: nd unless all signs fail, com- 's year will be even keener | than in 1922, if such a condition is possible. Michigan, undefeated in 1922; | Chicago; Minnesota, in the second | | year of a building up process that \has been predicted to carry the jteam to vast heights; Ohio State, | |tikewise in the second period of a | formative policy, and Illinois, shy | only two regulars, starting line with exceedingly few 1en of known football quality to take these places. Almost any of the other five may develop into teams of the dark horse variety and the very un- known quality of their squads, serve o make them look dangerous. At Iowa, the undefeated team of 1922 has been ripped to pieces. Eight graduation and two others will not return to school. However Coach Jones 1s reported to have the call n a bunch of freshmen, developed by Aubrey Devine, that gives promise of making the Iowa root- ers temporarily forget Locke, Shut- tleworth and the rest. But only time will tell what the result here will be. At Indiana a similar condition prevails. The team loses 14 var- sity men by graduation and will Ukewise undergo an entire change in training methods under the di- rection of their new coach Bill In- gram, former Navy star. At Pur- due only nine men return of the entire first string squad and the 1923 team will be built around this nucleus, At Northwestern, while the loss will be serious, through graduation, yet there are 23 play- ers who were on the big squad last year who will again fight for po- sitions with the new comers and 60 men reported for practice today, while 40 more are expected to be in uniform within a weel. But the big mystery seems to hold forth at Wisconsin, Jack Ryan, of Dartmouth, the new coach will start with very ttle veteran material but all reports concede that he has a veritable gold ming of promising youngsters who have made wonder- ful records on the freshman squad. All‘reports from the Badgers indi- cate that they anticipte big things from their team and the confidence displayed appears to be amazing in view of the fact that an almost en- tirely new squad, learning a new type of football, will have to be molded. SPORT BRIEFS NEW ORLENAS—Mel Coogan of Boston and Basil Galiano of New Orleans fought 15 rounds to a draw. OMAHA—Joe Simonich, Butte, Montana, welterweight, won a news. paper decision over Morrie Sch'aifer of Omaha in @ 10-round bout at Council Bluffs. CHICAGO—Hughle Dwyer, claim- ant of the lightweight boxing cham- plonship of Austrailia, was matched to meet Joe McCabe, Philadelphia lightweight In a ten round bout at came to the | osses and in every instance with | of the regulars have departed by@ THREE HOMERS DEFEAT YANKS Collins, Sheely and Barrett of “Chicago Star in Game. CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—(By the As- sociated _Press.—The New York Yankees were defeated yesterday by three homeruns from the bats of Collins, Sheely and Barrett of tho Chicago White Sox. Bob Shawkey. the Yankees' star moundsman. seemed to throw them over at just the right speed and height to meet with the approval of the Chicago- ans, who won, 7 to 4, “ Cincinnati and Boston split a doub'eheader, the Reds winning the first, 9 to 1, and losing the second. 4 to 0. The St. Louls Cardinals beat Philadelphia, 3 to 2, while the league leading New York Giants were defeated by the Chicago Cubs, 7 to 1. The only other National League game, between Pittsburgh and Brooklyn, was called because delphia game league. in the American The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cleve'and Indians, 4 to 3, in a 12- inning game, with Burns taking the limelight with an unassisted’ triple play. In Washington the Detroit Tigers defeated the Senators, 8 to 8. Chicago's victory over the New York Giants and Cincinnati's even as National league leaders. Luque registered his twenty- fourth victory of the season tn the first game of the Cincinnatt!-Bos- ton double header, holding the Braves to four hits. Edd of cold, as was the St. Louis-Phila- break with Boston, cut the lead of the world’s champions half a game Sox added two stolen bases to his American league leading record which stands at 41 thefts for the season. Zachary of the Washington Sena- tors was a puzzle to the Detroit Tigers for seven innings before they broke loose and hammered him and Russell in the eighth for six runs and defeated the Senators, 8 to 3. Today’s Games National League, Philadelphia at St. Louis, Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Boston at Cincinnati. New York at Chicago. American League. St. Louis at Philadelphia, Detroit at Washington. Chicago at New York. Cleveland at Boston. Dundee-Chaney Battle Tonight CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 15.— Johnny Dundee, featherweight champion of the world, and George (K. ©.) Chaney of Baltimore today announced themselves in perfect condition for their 12 round no-de- cision fight at Newburgh Heights, on the outskirts of Cleveland to- night. They weighed in under the required 135 pounds, Sport Calendar Racing. Meeting af Westchester Racing association closes at Belmont park. Meeting of Dorval Jockey club at Montreal. Rowing. ‘W H. Hoover versus W. E. G. Gil more, for single sculls champion ship, at Duluth, Golf. »| U. 8. national amateur, champion ship tournament opens at Chicago. Washington State Women's cham- pionship tournament, closes at Spo- kane. Polo. International military champton- ship match at Westbury, L. I. Annual tournament of Onwents!a club opens at Lake Forest, Ill. Track. Canadian A. A. U. outdoor cham. pionships, at Halifax. Boxing. Pancho Villa versus Mike Castle, 10 rounds, at Haverhill, Mass, Billy De Foe versus Harry Brown, 15 rounds at New ork. Dance and supper at Haygood's, Saturday night. 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