Evening Star Newspaper, July 13, 1923, Page 20

- 90 SPORTS. THE EVEN NG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, -FRIDAY, . JULY 13, 1923. SPORTS. Firpo Now Ready for Dempsey : Real Punching Power Beats Willard, Says Referee ARGENTINIAN K. 0.’S JESS | NEAR END OF ROUND EIGHT Former Champion Puts Up Great Fight, But Is Worn Down by Constant Rain of Blows From Fists b 4 of “Wild Bull From Pampas.” EW YORK, July 13.—Luis Firpo from Argentina last night knocked out Jess Willard of Kansas before the greatest crowd ever massed at a ringside, and today was shaking his fist in the face of Cham- pion Jack Dempsey and challenging his right to the heavyweight crown of the world P The knockout came in the eighth round, one minute and hity-five seconds after the round began. The South American rushed his oppo- nent to the ropes with an attack ds furious as ever has been seen in the ring. A right cross to the jaw sent the giant Kansan to his knees in his own corner, and before he had risen, the fatal count of ten had been given " counted. the referce. . _his eves bleared, gazed straight downward at the resined canvas. “Two—threc—four—five ” 5 Jess shook the sweat from his eves as a Great Dane coming out of water Six. For a moment it looked as if the former champion, attempting the greatest come-back in pugilistic history, might yet rise. The gameness was there, but the terrific blows of the ambitious youngster had done their deadly work. Again the fallen giant shook the sweat from his eyes. “Severi—eight—nine.” et Jess raised a trembling hand for the top rope in a final attempt to pull himself to his feet. The hand wavered and missed its mark. Jess was through—t reback [when th r faced Dempsey at had failed—he left the ring for good. | Toledo, remains yet to be seen Not a w’hld did he utter x"»- Willard Praixes Firpo. Siyed In his corner be furr 8 ombi| But Winard has something to say on in the darkness toward his dressing | this subject. ~Willard, who has taken Yoom. = & il blows from both men, declared in his d so 8 SRt - locker room last night that Firpo was fommged Oy ioday the sporting world | good. tough hitter” and would make brown young giant with the black,|® Ereat match for the champion vellow “and® parple bathrobe, aine | Firpo wore an inscrutable expression when he stepped into the ring last night Not a smile, not a scowl flitted across I his face. He recelved his ovation with- out emotion. He gave not a sign when Willard, climbing into the arena a min- ute after him, received even greater coming norih from the pampas about fifteen months ago, battered his way to the fore ranks of heavyweights with the tremendous sledgehammer blows of his rignt fist Looks Sut; cheers. to Dempsey Bout Willard gave a gayer appearance as Firpo this morning looked fondly |he bowed to the crowd, posed with his at the contract whic d signed | opponent for the cameras, slipped out of with Promoter Tex 1 . agreeing | the worn gray coat that hung over his massive shoulders, shook hands and gave to fight the champic st night he | battle at the bell had fought before an estimated crowd of 100,000 and today he was looking| Each man eyed the other with a forward to the throng he would face |strange intensity. Willard's eves opened when he stepped in the ring in an|wide, seemed almost to jump from his attempt to te head of Dem r the laurels from the ¥ victor over Tom Gibbons whenever he delivered a blow. other hand, still wore his ad, ¥, 1 expression. He seemed to hang by a decision only after his oppouent |back. sizing up his opponent, befare he had gone the full fifteen rounds at |loosed his whirlwind attack. ' There w Shelby, was not at the ringside last [a perplexed look on his face when his night. He was on the Pacific coust, | first furious rights failed to sfagger the resting after his only combat in two |giant from Kansas. Once he glanced years. angrily out of the ring when spectators But his manager, Jack Kearns, was | Spontacousl cd a cry of “Hurrah, present. and he told newspaper men |Jess,” and repeated it with the rhythm his protege was ready for Firpo any {0f a well trained band of college time rooters jj!;a.bn: day?’ some one cribd Firpo Quick to Mix It. Any time st it Firpo was first out of his corner, .,,f,l,’,lm:,‘l‘ e erld T ipks forlrushing Willard at the very stroke North and South “Americe in Gl |of the ‘first bell. In the first round ring. 5 " ™ | he had landed a few on Jess' ribs, Crities who have seen botp|had cuffed him about the head und Dempsey and Firpo in ac TeadScut Snislan o . cated ST Jess carried the fight to Firpo at airanged Ahis Saninr the besinning of round 2. but he 1 ety seemed unable to susta s of- SRR b she tiarinion. fensive and Firpo shook him with a Experience With Dem hard right to the jaw just before the Dempsey w his years 1e | Bong sounded. e e e i) viears n) ahel” Willard scemed content to employ an arsenal of blows, us varied as thes |defensive tactics in the third round are powerful. He 18 still in Lis and at_the beginning of the fourth Firpo, on other hiand, i% sti]Jdarred Firpo with a left to the head green. His st powerful blow is| Both mixed at a lively pace, with &1l his right swing. His mouchs | Firpo landing the most blows touted left, said to huve been devel.: The fifth round found Willard mo- cped by his veteran trainer. Jimmy | Mentarily with the upper hand. It Forest, hardly whipped out onee | Was in this round that the crowd night. and then it had no sting, | obviously on the side of the big He still rushes to the attack, leaving | American, raised the cry of “Hurrah Vulnerable spots unzuarded Jess.” Willard did more than any of his| FIrpo seemed to find the range in previous opponents in holding his | the sixth, jolting the Kansan with wicked right in check, but even the & series of rushes that were a fore- former mpion weakened when | cast of what was to come. He chased once it got through his defense. Had the big fellow about the ring, but the Kansan giant fought anvthing | found a stiff defense to most of his but a defensive battle, a different tale | attacks. might be told. | The seventh witnessed the dying But despite the crudeness of his|spark of what offensive Willard pos- form. Firpo is a natural fighter. He|sessed. He sent Firpo to the ropes has developed rapidly and has stam- | with a hard right and openedl a slight ina and zrit. Youth is on his side.|cut under one eve, but Firpo was Whether he could take without wine. | fighting back at the bell. ing the terrific blows which sent Wil-| The story of the elghth and its lard spinning seven times to the mat | unexpected end has already been told JOHNSON SPOILS PLANS BY K. 0. OF McAULIFFE Associated Prees By the EW YORK, July 13—Floyd Johnson, heavyweight, hailing from Des Moines, spoiled the plans of Promoter Tex Rickard for diluting the homeward-bound stream of fight fans assembled on Boyle's Thirty Acres for the Willard-Firpo bout. The program. as originally arranged, called for Johnson to meet Jack McAuliffe, 2d, of Detroit just before the main bout. But this was switched at the last minute so that it formed an epilogue to the chief attracion, the idea being that part of the 100,000 would depart after the Willard-Firpo g0 and the rest would linger for the lesser show. 3 This would have been all very well if Johnson had not knocked out McAuliffe very dramatically one minute and four seconds after they began fighting. This upset all the dope. for McAuliffe had lasted three rounds against Luis Firpo at the milk fund bouts held recently in the Yankee stadium. If the Johnson-McAuliffe hout had|last, and gave the huge crowd its Dot been an anti-climax, it would | first chance to stand up and shout, have attracted considerable more at-| Kramer iwelghed 195 and Herman Tention, for it was but star- | 218, tling episode of the ring Kramer dropped Herman in the Johnson jumped into "the fight at|sixth ruond, but the latter didn't take the very start and began battering|a count, aithough he got up in a his opponent around the ring. In a|groggy condition. Herman, Who &p- few seconds he had him flat on his | peared to be fat, started with a great back. His head hit the canvas like pile driver. He got up, but the fight was all knocked out of him and in an- other instant Johnson had driven him half through the ropes and left him in a sitting posture on the end of the ring. The Detroit boxer crawled lan- guidly “back burst of speed and had the English- man backing along the ropes to avoid his left and right swings to the body. A right hook opened up a cut over Kramer's left eve and he appeared to be in a bad way as he went to his corner in the second to the ring, but never |round. He took & lot of punishment rose from his knees until just after|in the third and in the fourth, but Joe Jeannette, negro puglist, who was | in the fifth he appeared to get Her- refereeing the match, had counted |man's measure, and drilled through ten. While McAuliffe still was!a series of hard jolts to the jaw. ¢rouching by the ropes in his corner.| These had the effect of slowing up his handlers flickered a shower of | the Omaha man perceptibly. In the water over the ropes on his back.|sixth Kramer let go & right to the Howls came from the Johnson corner | chin that put Herman flat on his and Jeanette turned and gazed at thelback. Referee Eddie Dugan started MeAuliffe handlers. His pantomine at first was taken to indicate that he had disqualified the Detroit heavyweight. but it was afterward explained that Johnson really won on a knockout because the referee had finished his & count over him, but Tiny Jim hop- ped to his feet and continued the conflict. From that time on Kramer pasted Herman about as he pleased. count before his attention was called N l | RAGE to the miniature Niagura Roper Outpoints Bright Tom Roper of Chicago and Al FOR BIG RING CLASH Bright of England opened the heavy- weight card. Roper weighed 180 and Bright 206. They went eight rounds. They swung wildly at each other| HAVANA. July 13.—Havana wants and provided the crowd with a lo A ( of preliminary amusement. Their | to see Dempsey and Firpo in action. wild swings came closer to hitting| A meeting composed of three prom- Jimmy Haley, the referce. than (0| inent local sportsmen, two bank of- making the iarks for which they | M were aimed. In the third round | ficials. two members of the Cuban Bright started a roundhouse swing from the floor that opened up a cut over Roper's left eve. It was the first_splash of crimson and seemed to_please the crowd In the fifth round the Englishman aimed a terrific right at Roper's jaw which missed by a foot or more and caught the referce squarely on the chin, almost putting him out of busi- ness. Roper was the winner. Kramer Whips Herman, Cliff Kramer of England and Tiny Jim Herman of Omaha met in the second preliminary. It went eight rounds and Kramer won by a wide margin. It was a slam-bang en’ counter from the first bell to the congress and two_local hotel man- agers today decided to deposit a certified check for $50,000 with A. R Hopkins, editor of the Havana Tele- gram, within the next five days as a guarantee of good faith When the check is delivered the names of those interested in bring- ing them to Havana will be made public. It is planned by the pro- moters to outbid competing cities, no matter what sum is necessary to clinch the contest. Any date between December 1 and March 25 will be suggested, as during the above named perlods the races are on in Havana and the city is full to over- flowing with sport lovers. Mighty Poor Way to Settle . BY RING W, LARDNER. JERSEY CITY, N. J, July 13.—The first man put out in last night's bouts was mywelf. I hate to talk about myself, but must tell you about this one. X came into Boyle’s Thirty Acres with what I thought was a good ticket, be- cause it said working press on it, but a large policeman evidently thought that no one connected with the press ought to be working, so they started to give me what I nicknamed the bums’ rush. This lasted up the whole length of aisle, and I give you my word, which is worth nothing, that I was willing to go the rest of the distance, but a sense of duty detained me. ‘Wil state at this junction that I could of wrote a much better story had T not seen what went on in Boyle's 30 Acres. Will state incidently that the reason they call it Boyle's 30 Acres ix because Mr. Boyle couldn’t quite buy 31 acres, which would make u section of land. Well, anyway, a man named William A. Brady, who has built up quite a reputation in some way another, followed the large policeman up the aisle and told him to leave me back, in which he did. So if anybody wants to read this story they must thank Mr. Brady. Well, when the policeman allowed me to come back into Boyle’s 30 Acres, the next thing was to try and get a place to set down and it seemed like you had to meet the mayor of Jersey City, in order to get a Seat. Having just met a whole lot of mayors I did not think it feasible to meet the mayor of Jersey City. so I borrowed % a chair from Walter Trumbull and I kope he didn't suffer no more than I did. Now in regards to the big fight. Two big boy asked a work press man whom they were and he named Jess W rd and Luis Firpo. So out of a cl e one the Pottawatamie Giant and the other the Wild,Bull of the Pampas, T : wild bull wax the same ns 1 wis in one rexpect. He hnd not had a shave. Bu no policeman tried to put him out. A man from Kansas, who is not on ( 3 Police force tried to put him out and had no success and Luis did not even half to be rescued by William A. Brady. I have now saw big Jess. as I call him, in three battles and he has won m'l:: and has took more punishment than cven a working newspaperman. Not even the last-named would be willing to take it for any amount of momey, but it scoms to be Jess' life work to try and take punishment and I take off my hat to him "l that respect, but none of the bystanders seemed to be able to tell what the qun;fl‘ was all about. If it was some arguwment about whether North America is better than South America, I showld think they might settle it in some friendly way. 1 100,000 PAY TO SEE BOUT; BOXERS TO SPLIT $200,000 ntered the ring d they were two ky I nicknamed them, By the Associated Press EW YORK., July 13.—The second “battle of the century” passed into | the prize ring history today, and with it a new record for fight crowds anywhere in the world. More than 100,000, according to promoters’ estimates. thronged to overflowing the great bowl at Boyle’s Thirty Acres, and around 25,000 nore were turned away in the last hour's rush for the gates : Standing out in: striking contrast to that vast spectacle of promotion to ring followers was the nnancial debacle of the Dempsey-Gibbons title match at Shelby, Mcnt., a failure fresh in the minds of hundreds who were at the ringside last night. In that contrast they saw the les- son of the futility of selecting boor towns for the staging of important | | The scale of prices was among the lowest on record for an attraction of from fights. Nearly all of the 100,000, who the show’s caliber. It ranged paid. it was estimated, around = 400,- .50, with a large bulk of the 000 to see the Willard-Firpo battl about 30,000, selling at $1 thin comparatively easy reach arena. With a following of proportions from which to draw, the risk of financial loss, such that at Shelby, reduced to a minimum. Willard Firpo will draw down ntly more than half of the “gate 1t for the ner champion per cent the South but eve Tex Rickard tidy profit and paved the greater attraction— | Firpo Not was the huge crowd the largest that ever gathered in an ath- letic arena in this country to wit ness a boxing match or any other| attraction, but it was the most pic- | turesque. Men high in national and| state governments, bankers, soclety | men and women sat side by side with past and present ring celebrities and the 99.000 or so dyed-in-the-wool stic fans. From ‘clock in the afternoon, Figured on the $£300.000 estimate.|when the big arena was thrown open, | Willard's share will be about $12 until the start of the first bout at and Firpo's $50,000. Other expenses of | dusk, a constant stream filed into all{ promotion. purses for remaining | sides of the bowl. Filled finally to the | fighters on the program and repairs|uttermost corner, it was @ pulsing. to the arena will cut heavily into! colorful spectacle that added a red- Rickard's profits lettered page to pugilistic annals. BATTLE BY ROUNDS only i and 2 America reaped way f a Jack ter for the world title. a encoun- | ROUND ONE. Firpe walked across the ring and drove his right for Willard's body, Jeas’ right arm. Willard shot across se ut they did not land misxed a right 10 the jaw and took a hard jolt tal | the body as they came to a clinch. Firpo led with his right and backed Willard into a _corner as they clinched again. Willard missed a left and Firpo brought his right to the body, and they cl'nched once more. Firpo shot his left to Willard's enr and brought the blood trickling from that member. It was Firpo's round. ROUND TWO. irpo continued hix aggressive tactics, but Willard met him in mid- ring and forced him into a ral corner. There was xome lively sparring in the ce: of the ring and Firpo drove in a fieree body blow ay they came to a clinch. Willard after the break shot in two light lefis to the xtepped In with a right that landed over Jess' heart. They and Referee Lewis tore them apart. This was followed by light sparring that ended fn another clinch. Firpo let go a round-hander that went over Willari's shoulder. Willard mixsed a left jab and they clinched again. Firpo backed Willard against the ropes and Jess brought up a terrific right-hand uppercut that missed by a wide margin. It was Firpo's round. ROUND THREE. Firpo tore out of his © r and dreve in flerce rights to the body, but Willard countered with lefts and rights to the chin that caused the South American to retire to the ropes. They clinched, and ax they eame out Firpo let go several rights to the jaw that missed as Jess rolled] his head back. Jess jabbed Firpo three times with his left and the crow yelled “Go on Jess!” The left hand seemed to confuse Firpo and he clinched. Both were missing badly at this time. As Firpo stepped In trying for a right to the body Jess jabbed him very roughly with a left. Jess jabbed Firpo to the ropes with a hard left as the bell rang. It was Willard's round. ROUND FOUR. Firpe was alower in coming out of hiy corner in thisx round and Jess backed him into n neutral corner under a series of left jabs. Both minsed right swings and they ch a» kept leading with his left. came in with a rush Willard ripped a terrific right to the sparred in the center of the ring and clinched as Firpo missed a wilde right to the jaw. He missed another punch a second later and aw they clinched another left o the jaw. With one hand locked Firpo drove one right after another to Willard's Jaw with all ki strenxth and Jess laughed as he laughed when Johnson was doing the same thing at the Yankee Stadium. Immediately after this Firpo launched another attack and rained rights and lefts to Jess’ jaw untll Willard showed sixns of grogginess. It was as flerce a battering as the latter ever got outside of his battering by Dempser. Tt was Firpo's round. ROUND FIVE. Both came out cautiously and Willard jabbed Firpo into a corner his left hand. Firpo lunged in with both hands and clinched. After the break Willard again jabbed with his left. Willard seemed to have fore ®otten that he had n right hand. In a neutral corner they mauled ench other and Firpo brought a short right hook to Willard’s chin. Willard shook up Firpo with a terrific right to the jaw, then followed with a series of left jabs and they eame to a clinch. They wparred in the center of the ring and clinched ax they both miswed rights to the head. It was Willard’s round. - ROUND SIX. They sparred in the center of body. They | f the ring. Jess missed with a left and they clinched. Jess jabbed Firpo to the ropex and they locked again. Jess missed a lett jab and Firpo hooked him with a right swing to the chin that carried no power behind it. Firpo swung ,weakly with his right to the jaw, but Jess seemed to have no trouble blocking this punch. The Pace was rapldly slowing down. Firpo opened up an attack in which he let rights and lefts g0 to Willard with no apparent damage. Firpo was earrying the fight to Willard, Jess missed a left jab and Firpo went wide that would have carried the ex-champion out of th Just before the bell Fi left jab. It was an even round. ROUND SEVEN. auickly and brought his right to Willard’s jaw. ropes with lefts and the crowd roared its approval, r the break Willard feinted Luls into a corner with at never landed, and they clinched again. As Firpo &0 @ right uppercut which secmed to be a feeler, as i it Jess jabbed repeatedly with his left and raised left eve. Willurd sparred Firpo to the ropes, and Wwith a terrific attack in which he drove rights and These blows hud everything behind them that Firpo with a right uppercut e ring if it had landed. rpo landed a light left and Jess countered with a Firpo stepped out Jess backed him to the They clinched, and nfte; a series of punches th: | came in Willard let it had no power beh a bruise under Firp. the latter came lefts to Jess’ jaw. had. Tt was Firpo’s round. ROUND EIGHT. Firpo walked over to Willard’s corner, They sparred in the center of the ring and while Luix tried to swing hix right to the Immediately after this Firpo tore In, swingi ‘bot nds. Under a right-hand drk ars et o hio B A TIe ve to the jaw Willard went to his knees and e ———————————————————————————————————— MAKES $600,000 OFFER bur)"; fonnv. on IAor ¢ay. . FOR DEMPSEY-FIRPO GO Mulvihill said he had engagements with Firpo and Jack Kearns, Demp- NEW YORK, July 13.—Joseph P. sey's manager, late today, when itl Mulvihill, fight promoter, announced would be decided whether the bid would be accepted. today that he had offered ap§600,000 romoter of the purse for a Dempsey-Fii heavy:- Mulvihill_was the weight championsh! where they came to a clinch. Willard jabbed with his left, body. t i {provement over his early Jerse; ilast night. KANSAN BATTERED DOWN, An Argument, Lardner Says| DIDN’T QUIT, HE ASSERTS BY HARR ERSEY CITY, N. superiority over Jess Willard as J punches in the eighth round, for afte In the seventh round I was puz: took two heavy right-hand smashes me then, but now I can see that it w. pay much attention to it. I\Vlllard probably was as much beate There's no question that Firpo has a most wonderful right-hand punch. It is terrific. It makes you shudder when you are alongside of him and hear it crash into a man. He hit Willard a _lot of times in the body with it. They didn't seem to hurt Perhaps he didn’t catch Willard just right. Two Blows Wilt Jeas. But there {s no question that those two wallops to the head—one of them was on the jaw, one of them on the side of the head—with which he nail- ed Willard in Jess' own corner in the eighth were clean and hard. 1If any one says that Willard quit, and I have heard that there are some who say so, 1 do not agree with them. Willard was stunned. it seemed to me, He seemed absolutely to wilt. I counted up to eight with Willard kneeling beside me, his arm resting on the ropes. He never went on the floor with more than one knee. As I reached seven I felt him make a move as though he intended to get up. At nine he reached his arm and scized the upper rope as though to 1ift himself up. But he couldn’t make it. No he didn't quit. He was simply beaten down by tremendous force. The body attack was hard all through the early rounds, but Willard seemed to stand up under it. But the culmi- nation came in that seventh, and any man who could have stood up under it proved himself to be superman Argentinian Shows Skill. Firpo may look clumsy in the ring. but to me it seems he boxed with a great deal of skill for a man as young in ring experience. He always seems to be punching, and that, as any boxer will tell you, is a defense in itself. For a man who welghs more than 200 he is remarkably fast on his feet, though no one will say that he shows any great y in side-stepping. But he didn’t have a great deal to evade in the attack of Willard, for Jess' best blow, his up- percut, he didn’t use more than once or twice. As to the Dempse ™, chance of Firpo with opinion is worth about as miuch as any other man's. Dempsey can hit awfully hard. With them it might be a case of who got in the first_wallop. Firpo can take it. for that one up- percut that Willard landed had power behind it and' it hurt. But Luis ecmed to be able to shake it off. Some persons seem to think that Willard falled to press his advantage, but to me it seemed he was not over- cautious and the finish shows that he knew what he had to fear. When the men met me in the mid- dle of the ring I cautioned them as to low punching and hitting back | handed. 1 did not look for any foul blo but T wanted to be especifally careful that the bout was not spoiled | by any careless punching. Both men seemed perfectly cool, there was not a trace of nervousness that 1 could see. The last thing that 1 sald to them was to come out fighting Both Display Gameness. It did seem to me that Willard was a little nervous when the fight really began—that for about half the first round. Then he seemed to find himself. There wasn't a quiver in elther man after that Firpo landed some heavy body punches in the first two rounds, but they didn't bother Willard. Firpo seemed to me to be playing for the stomach and heart. Willard landed it he would do when he hamme: But in fulfilling apprehensive ex say Firpo has improved a great de De Forest. Well, we are willing to As Firpo | Brennan fight last spring the Argentinian had shown v form. Against Willard, Firpo showed,| nothing to indicate that he had ad-'| vanced a step since the battle against | Knockout Bill in the Madison Square Garden. Reports from his training camp had it that he had developed | a left. If so, he left it in Long | Branch. Willard saw nothing of it | Perhaps he did not miss | the avalanche of rights that found asylum in his stomach and upon his w. Just the same, that left was missing. Fights One-Handed Battle. Firpo put up a one-handed battle. He used his right as a shipwright uses a maul and, while there was no sudden death attached to those ponderous hooks and swings, each one jarred when it landed. In the end Jess sank to the ring floor suf- fering from fistic indigestion. He wasn't knocked out in the approved sense of the word. It was simply | that outraged nerves telegraphed to his brain the mystic word," “suf- ficlency. Jess didn’t put up half as good a i fight as his well wishers—which in- |cluded almost every one in the arena—had hoped. Never in all his career had Jess impressed any one as being endowed with the genuine fighting temperament. Never any- thing vicious about him, no ferocity. But last night he was at his blandest. He was just an amiable old gentle- man, intent upon providing himself and family with the wherewith for their declining years. To this end he stepped before a kindly multitude and took a pasting for elght rounds. Evidently he thought that was enough for the money. So far as punishing Firpo was con-* cerned Jess put up the feeblest sort of a - showing. In fact he surprised even the experts by his lack-lustre efforts to lelI Firpo feel the weight of an Anglo-Saxon fist. Of course, he claims that he in-; jured his left hand three days before it in the fight. Every one thought he would cop the Argentino enough to test FArpo' ability—not to say willingness—to take it. But he did nothing of the sort. The gameness of Luis is still a debatable question and millions no doubt will be paid to see Jack Dempsey put it to th Be sure friend, Jack will do just that thing. Jaw an Open Target. For Firpo is as open as the day to any sort of a punch that a fast man elects to send l;-'.hlil- ’"; wf“(l}lm“ before Dempsey rock o = before the it of a sailing ‘The iron it contains 23 3 Firpo’s Right Hand Blow Makes You Shudder When It Crashes Into Opponent, Declares Third Man in Ring in Big Scrap. (Referee of Willard-Firpo Fight). J., July 13—There is no question about Luis Firpo's Thirty Acres last night. In my opinion Firpo also outboxed Jess. Yes, I was surprised when the South American put over the winning | to look to me as though the battle would go the limit. Willard looked dazed—queer in some way. But he went to his corner apparently light on his feet then, and I did not Now I can see that those blows hurt and that SOUTH AMERICAN FAILS TO SHOW TITLE CALIBER| BY FAIR PLAY. EW YORK, July 13—Luis Firpo did what most of the fans feared | ring in the arena at Boyle's Thirty Acres last night self to be the fearsome guy that almost every one expected to see. Y LEWIS ! | I 1 | i i a fighter. He proved that at Boyle's ! r the fight passed the sixth it began | zled when in two instances Willard without fighting back. It puzzled as the beginning of the end. To me | I can’t exactly describe it.| n in the seventh as in the eighth. | mome stiff lefts and rights to the ribs himself, but his first real blow came in the fourth—right uppercut. That punch seemed to awaken| Firpo, and he went after Willard with ‘a_swinging right to the jaw. He hit Jess half a dozen times—good free swings—but Willard only smiled. | A few seconds later Firpo landed an- other right swing to the jaw. It was | solld, but it didn’t seem to hurt Wil- | lard. | Willard had the better of the fifth and stung Firpo with several short lefts. These blows don’t seem hard outside the ring, but I can tell you that they hurt. Willard did the best countering. Firpo fought in just the style he seemed to like. in the seventh Willard started ofr in good style and put over several nice counters, but toward the close of the round Firpo more than evened things up with three of his wild right swings. There was power behind | them—a lot of it. Willara went to his corner looking rather shak During the time the men were boxing I never had to caution efither as to holding, rough work or anything even approaching a foul blow absolutely a clean fight (Copyright, 1923.) “Y” BENEDICTS’ TEAM IS SEEKING REVENGE Married men of the Terminal Rail- road Y. M. C. A. still are confident | that they can trim the single tossers In their last fray the married men, under the name of the Just For Fun team, fell before the Just Enough nine, made up of bachelors. The com- | binations will hook up tomorrow at 1:30 o'clock on the diamond east of Unfon station | | Tt was | Rovers were to do battle with the Warwick Preps today at 5 o'clock and the St. Martin’s team tomorrow after- noon. Commissioners nine has canceled its game with the Washington Barracks team tomorrow, and instead will clash with the Natlonal Capital Press Com- pany's tossers at 1 o'clock, on dia- mond No. 4 of the Monument lot. Liberty Athlatic Club is booked to entertain the Simpson Athletic Club tomorrow at 0 o'clock, on the grounds at Union plaza. Boys’ Club Junfors are seeking games with any junior teams. Tele. phone_chalienges to Lincoln 6823-W. after 5:30 o'clock Mount Rainfer wants to hook up with some fast nine Sunday, accord- ing to Manager Newman, Main 2109 Call him between 12 and 1 o'clock. Trinity Bearcats are combing the city for games with teams averaging seventeen and eighteen years. The | manager can be reached at West 727 Mount Pleasant Junfors canceled their game with the Liberty Athletic Club because their diamond will not | be available for Sunday. The man- ager of the northwest club would like to arrange a game with the Libertys on a later date. Telephone him at Columbia. 162: i red Jess Willard to the floor of the pectations Firpo did not prove him- 5 They struction of Jimmy p to the time of the some surprising im- But no world-beater. will determine how long he can stand up before the champion's socks. i As clever as Dempsey 18 today—and | jnake no mistake, Jack fs the cleverest | boxer that stands in two shoes—there is | hardly a doubt that he will be able to make Firpo look like a sucker in point | of skill and with his missing wallop re stored there can only be one answe: that is with Luls as he is today. Will he imprave if the big title fight is held | off @ year? The writer doesn’t think | 80. Firpo is just a big stupld guy. And we all know that one of the supreme Tequirements of a champion boxer or al under the in concede that u RESULTS OF FIGHT CARD STATED IN BRIEF FORM Luls Angel Firpo, 214 pounas, of Argentina, knocked out Jess Wil- lard, 242 p of Kansas, in the elghth roun Charlex hert, 160 pounds, of Jersey City, defeated George Wext, 160 poun of London, in four rounds. Bout stopped by referee. CHE Kramer, 193 poundx, of E: land, outpointed Jim Herman, 218 pounds, of Omaha, in eight rounds. Tom Roper, 180 pounds, of Chi- ©ago, outpointed Al Bright, 206 Pounds, of England, in eight rounds, NEW YORK, July 13.—Negotiat are under way to bring together T Gibbons and Gene Tunney, that he talked with sald Kane, Gibbons' manager, over the lox ston light-heavyweight champion, in a ch plonship match at the Yankee Stadiu the latter part of September, accord to Jimmy Johnston, matchmaker. 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