Evening Star Newspaper, August 31, 1923, Page 21

SPORTS. g D PICKS CHAMPION TO WIN INSIDE OF FOUR ROUNDS South American Fighter Still Has Much to Learn, His Former Trainer Asserts—In Position to Know Prowess of Both Men. BY FAIR PLAY, EW YORK, August 31.—While fight fans and men who are in the N hahit of laying large sums of money upon the outcome of ring battles have been casting about for some definite opinion from worth-while sources as to what Firpo will do with Dempsey, Jimmy De Forest, who trained Firpo for his important fights, has kept silent. He is the onc man who should have a definite line upon this contest, having trained Dempsey for his Willard bout, and thus bting thoroughly ac- | quainted with the champion’s style and methods. But to date, Jimmy has maintained silence for reasons of his own, one of which, however, may be doped as an unwillingness to stand in the position of a sorehead. But out in Jersey, where De Forest's physical training camp is a visiting place for many of Jimmy's friends, he has not been so reticent. The writer is in a position to present this great trainer and coach’s opinion as to how the September 14 battle will come out. Here it i |that, Firpo has the idea that De “Dempsey,” says De Forest, “should ; Forest taught him all that Jimmy had win inside of four rounds. He should|to teach. So far as theory goes shat ¥i put Do away in that tgne. Jack is|is the truth. but lessons in boxing in- # natural fighter at the eak of his|volve more than theory. They involve powers. Firpo is a fighter who still| the long and rigid application of has much to learn. He is a made|theory, day after day of practice in fighter. That is all I can say at this|timing, in delivery and In learning tim {how to flash an opportunity and te There is no shrewder judge of box- tng form and physical ability than De Forest. Until the Argentine dele- gation of trainers arrived here the | Jersey instructor was bringing Luis elong very nicely, and it may be said avail himself of It when It appears. It remains to be seen whether Firpo has grasped the practical as cell _as the theoretical end of De Forest's teachings. (Copyright. 923.) FIRPO HAS DOPE ON RIVAL | HE NEVER HAS SEEN FIGHT the Associated Press. TLANTIC CITY. N. J.. August 31.—Among the remarkable things in the make-up of Luis Angel Firpo, challenger for the world heavy- weight title, is a memory of thing® pugilistic that carries back to the Roman arenas. The Argentino is an actual encyclopedia of boxing in- formation and knowledge. ¥ Called the twentieht century reincarnation of one of the great gladi- ators who fought for the entertainment of the Caesars, Firpo has in the back of his head the names of some of the fighters that history says won the udits of the heartless arena crowds . Of modern ringmen Firpo knows, — T TR all that should be known. He can GREB GETS CHA name the champions of all classes for NCE 3 s and years and tell of mncea, tacir sreatent tromone ant | AT WILSON’S CROWN their defeats. Naturally he has been | a o student of Jack Dempsey. whom he I to dethrone when| NEw Y st 3 = e lid A saesoronsl mben EW YORK, August 31.—Harr: The Argenthan has never seen Demp- sey in action, save in motion pictures, \Night at the Polo Grounds to take the but he knows all his best punches |middleweight championship away and can recite the champion's record | g joyoc 3 Afteen- wlthoat recking Me pamplon's record (from Johnny Wilson In a fifteen the names of the men who have been round match ble to hit Dempsey and the blows| Wilson. having been under oficial they used. In short, he knows ex- |ban for the greater part of his term actly what is ahead of him and is as middleweight title holder. has had Dréiarionito moeti Ifew buttles since he won the title In addition to his physical workouts | from Mike O'Dowd in 1920. cach day he has what may be called| Both men claimed to be in perfect “the study hour.” With his trainers, | condition. Horatio Lavalie. and his friends, he | It was announced the championship Rnalyses his dav's work, states the |match would start about nime o'clock, faults he has scen and others point | ®astern standard time. out his obvieus defects. Then cor- |, Greb, one of the most rugged men rective measures are discussed and {JN the ring, and former American el e i i light-heavyweight _titleholder, has the 3 |backng of numerous ring experts to janere 18 00 foar of Dempsey In the {capture Wilson's title, but the Boston jart of the man from the ATEeN- | hoter has restored confidence among tine. but he wants the title and what. : poXer Az festoreq, confdence among ever he can do to make himself {p® (olloWers by the cxce punch-proof he will do. The following comparison of Greb' Soon Shows Hix Prowess. and Wilson's measurgments show how Within three months after arriving ! Iclosely they are mafched physically In the United States in the winter of | WILSON GREB 1922, Firpo had three opponents, all | age 29 of whom he defeated by knockouts.| Sft.®im. he'ght 51815 He reccived less than 31,500 for all| 42 hewt = I these « Rements. = B Firpo @ frat opponent was Sailor | 18 ek 15 Maxted. The sailor mussed up Firpo' 3§ e In the first three rounds, but ran into| 12 1415 & sledsehammer right in the fourth | 103 1118 that took the wind out of his sails. | T He was knocked out in the seventh! 2174 tound 1314 Joe MeCann, a New Jersey young- Nig ater, was the South American’s second victim. Joe was finished in six rounds, but he holds the distinction of being tne of the few to land effectively on Greb of Pittsburgh will endeavor to- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, ARGENTINO NOT AFRAID OF DEMPSEY’S SPANISH By the Assoclated Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., August 3L—Luis Angel Firpo read today & report from Saratoga Springs that Jack Dempxey was learning some Spanish in order that he might taunt the challenger for hix title when they meet In New York . September 14. Luls Angel smiled one of his rare smile: go crazy. “Good,” he wald in English, then added in hix native tongue, “but 1 don’t think there'll be any time for talking In any langu Punches are the only things derstand In a fight, anyway.' DUNDEE WINS OVER COOGAN ON POINTS “Old Man" Mel Coogan found rug- |ged youth and aggressiveness too much of a handican for him last night TLANTIC CITY, N. could beat me. 1 eat much meat. All my life I have {eaten much meat. Red meat. A few {days ago Philadelphia Jack O'Brien comes to see me here and when they tell him what 1 eat he says that my when he lost a twelve-round decision | Glet is not good for me. He says that e if T am to beat Dempsey I must not t2 o Dundse of Bsltimore in e |yt oo much red maat. He siys that feature bout at Sportland H»lshu|1 must eat more fruit and vegetables. to deliver the K. O. and the bout 80 much red meat. All I know is that lacked slugging. ~ Mel displayed oc- |5 me what I cat is good. Al my casional spurts in which he demon- ! 50 5 \CAEE b S 0 strated that he once was a topnotcher. much red meat and ! “PRIDE OF STOCK YARDS” CHICAGO. 31 Lynch. | I world's bantamwelght champion, is | matched with Harold Smith, Chicago. | | “the pride of the stock yards™ in a| boxing match tonight at Joe August AGAINST M’AULIFFE By the Associated Préss. ARATOGA SPRINGS ten-round Aurora. N. Y. Augzgst stons are not glven in Hlinols e training grind | The champion. if he follows his pro- settled down to his intensive Dempse®s impressi showing yes- out convinced his friends that he was rapidly rounding into form i CHICAGO. August 31.—Miss Louise | McAuliffe started to give Dempsoy Tl v St i two rounds of boxing, but he was Fordyce of Youngstown. Ohlo, olf| D7 3% )"0 it atter three minutes, champion and sensation of this year's women's western tournament, faces her most critical test in the semi- finals today, when she meets Miss Flor. ence Halloran of Salt Lake City, one of the most expert of the younger western stars. Three veterans of the women's western champlonships have fallen before Miss Fordyce. Four down_ at the eleventh hole | vesterday to Miss Dorothy Higbie of Chicago, she made a sparkling reco ery. winning four of the next five holes, halving the last two and win- ning the nineteenth with a perfect 5. | Roing back to the rubbing room with his right _eye shut and his left ear lecding from a slight cut. In the ome round. Dempsey had McAuliffe dangerously on the verge of a knock- i out 1" Meauliffe saia after the workout that he hadn't pulled on a glove since his fizht with Floyd Johnson and was not in the best of shape. However. he said he did not want to detract from Dempsey's punching power. “Dempsey is a harder puncher than Firpo, and I will be the most sur- S vemi-finale. Miss fiai. | prised man in the world if the South Bl g g B ol | g et tn come out for the Iof Chicago, three times champion and | econd round,” McAuliffe said. once runnerup, by 2 and 1. A 35-foot | know what I'm taiking about. Tvej | putt on the seventeenth to halve the [faced both men = Dempsey steps) hole clinched victory for Miss Hal- |around so fast and shoots his punches | i1ozan. with such speed and force that Firpo | JIn the other haif of the semi-final [ Will be bewildered. — Dempsey will Miss Miriam Burns of Kansas Clty, |hook him to: pie Firpo's best He is made to another of the vounger stars, meets |punch is a long right | 3 L. Reinhardt of Dallas, Tex., | order for one of Dempsey’s left hooks. who as Miss Elaine Rosenthal twice | Firpo hasn't a chance unless he hits won the women's western title. Dempsey by accident.” the Argentinan. McCann sent Firpo to his knees with a heavy right to the chin in the fifth round, but was so Vadly battered immediately after that he proved an easy victim in the sixth. Italian Jack Herman of Newark, N J.. holds the distinetion of sleeping onger under a Firpo punch than any other man who opposed the South American giant. Herman managed to evade Firpo's wallops for four rounds. but forgot to duck in the fifth. | A Firpo right landed on his jaw, then & left found the point of his chin. He was raiscd a foot off the floor and landed flat on his back. Thirty min- utes later he woke up and asked: “Was anvbody else hurt?” His v easy wins T t_histo tory in over Willard and his an exhibition tour are " Footwear Open All Day Saturday REED BIRD SEASON OPENS TOMORROW GET YOUR REED BIRD LOADS Here Tomorrow one oz. 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Maybe for all other prize- | the show. 1 fighters in the world it is better to| Neither scemed to have the streng&th | eqt more fruit and vegetables and not Both must make 118 pounds at|31.—With his heavyweight champion- 3 p.m., but a change in the world title | ship fight with Luis Angel Firpo just depends upon a possible knockout or | two weeks away, Jack Dempsey. al- deciston on a foul, us referee’s deci- | though still suffering from a cold, to- | mpsey Will Whip Firpo, Says De Forest : Fina FIRPO EXPLAINS WHY A HEAVY MEAT DIET IS BEST FOR HIMSELF BY LUIS ANGEL FIRPO. August J31. person in the world who knows what is best for Luis Angel Firpo. If T did not think that I know best what is good for me I would Each person who comes to see me tells me what I must do to make myself better and each one tells a different thing. everything that the American prize fighters and trainers and doctors tell me to do pretty soon I would be so weak and sick that any little child do not think the American trainers and doctors are all wrong. 1 Oh, no, they are not all wrong, they are only wrong for Luis Angel Firpo. ‘ \ | | I Dundee-cut Coogan's left eye in_the | MUty cB&s. If meat and cikgs were St Dl am nea e pecking | BOW. If they have not made me weak away that =ave him the decision. The | Pefore now I have faith that they Baltimorean anpeared to have im- | Wil not hurt me for two weeks more proved his style of attack since he xamined by a Specialist. made his last appearance here against | 1y is not necessary for me to Secure, and his rushes more canny. | coCHIE 16 RO that what 1 cat § Plows by clever dodging and ducking | Gt S 0, 1 NaUT on fmons taved him from a more severe lacing. | fie s ex ed me ;. The elght-round semi-final proved [ fie, 18 the heart ' speciallst, Dr. J a Floomer. Joe Chaney of Baltimore ellly, who has done I“All'h work for complotely outelassed Roy Taylor of | Y0Ur government in Cuba and the “I ll:v\xn(\lly In livfl second round § Philippines and has examined all the | Chaney delivered a knockout punch jigreat a:mo:es of this country and many Reddy Tendler outpointed Terry | cther places. d 1 0'Day In the ix-round special. Neither | He has a wonderful machine which | fighter kncw much of the art of selt- |tells all about the heart. You know | detense. O'Day's ability to take ter-|the heart is the same to a prize deThody sunches pleased the erowd. | ighter as the engine to a racing au- Tn the six-round preliminary, Bat- | tomobile. If the heart is good the tling Woodman was given the deci- | Prize fighter can do his best, and if slon over Silent Patterson . e i | {JOE LYNCH WILL FIGHT |JACK SHOWS POWER i D. C, FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1923. 1, Luis Angel Firpo, am the one If T should do the heart is bad it is no good then to be clever or powerful. Then a fighter s Itke an automobile with a bad engine. It makes no difference how good the wheels are If the en- gine is bad the car cannot win a race. So when the doctor used the machine on my heart I was anxious to know what he found out, just the same as & race driver would like to hear from a fine mechanic who had examined the engine of his. car. Has a Perfect Heart. ‘ou have the most perfect heart I FOOTWORK IN BACKHAND have ever examined, Luls” he said| What are the commonest faults in to me. You can bet I felt good when | the average player’s footwork? 1 heard him say that. “You have the veres v heart of a ten-year-old boy.” he sald ADnmered by “You can see in the paper here the MANUEL ALONSO pen writes when your heart beats, and marks down every slightest * * kK movement, how regular the marks e ;. ¢ e. For line after line it is all the T'he commonest faults of the aver- same. Your heart is as perfect injage player's footwork are an im- its working as the movement of finest watch. Of all the many hundreds of athletes of all kinds 1 have examined | proper position of the feet in fore- hand and backhand strokes, and not yours is the most perfect heart 1,keeping always up on the toes. have found.” In the first place, always keep up h;“i;;l«;['\ l'l'""" "’_f'_“J "]u"‘}"‘ll h"";'* '-wf(rl'l'l"" }on your toes with your knees slight- for me. “No Luis” he seiq. “ertElly bent. Then, in making a_return, d you eat must be good for you |have your feet in line with the or you would not have such a fine |stroke. In making, say, a forehand “‘,‘li'r:'fn Hel laughedlacine anabaata drive, my feet are in a line at right | angles to the net, and when I start jthe stroke my weight is on my right 1foot. As 1 make the stroke, the ! weight shifts to the forward foot, while in the backhand stroke just the opposite is the case. Never play !a backhand with vour left foot for- If an American ‘longshoreman should eat the way you do he would get sick and die. but what you eat is the best for you because you have a better digestion than any one I have ever seen. You can digest and assimilate more food in & shorter space of time than any one I have ever known. Too SPORTS. i - | Davis Cup Matches Begin Today JOHNSTON AND TILDEN WILL PLAY FOR AMERICA Little Bill to Face Anderson and U. S. Champion to Meet Hawkes in Opening Contests—Yankee Doubles Team Not Yet Chosen. OREST HILLS, N. Y., August 31.—Little Bill Johnston, twice Ameri- can national tennis champion, takes the brunt of the Australian Davis cup contenders’ attack today on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club, when he meets James O. Anderson in the figst of the singles events. In the second match William T. Tilden, present national tilte holder, faces John B. Hawkes. Anderson announced that he and Hawkes would play in the doubles event tomorrow, but Capt. Williams of the United Statés team was not ready to name his pair, and will not do so until late today. The final singles will bring the matches to a tlose on Monday. MEET IN NET FINAL The first will be a doubles match be- | tween the Australian reservists, Ian | McInnes and Richard Schiesinger, and the members of the American team not chosen for the cup doubles Vin- | cent Richards and Williams are the teammates of Tilden and Johnston. . Y., August 31.—Robert and = Manuel Alonso, & panish star, and G < 2 . e 3. 1. C. Norton. South African player, Howard Kinsey of California will |y, oo G J0fion, South A70can piaver, meet on Sunday in the final round of southern New York tennis champion- singles match as another feature. In Eighteenth Contest. ship. g This year's challenge round. mark- Yesterday in the semi-final round | ing the climax of the elghtecnth In- Robert Kinsey defeated his‘fellow- | ternational contest for the Davis cup 3¢, |team championship emblem. will be Californian, Harvey Snodgrass, 6—4, 6—2, and Howard Kinsey elimi- nated Rene Lacoste of the French Davis cup team in convincing fashion, 6—0, 6—1 The Kinsey | the semi-final the third in four years in which the United States and Australia have been contestants. Incidentally, America's chief hopes this season rest in the hands of the same two players—Til- Gen and Johnston—who brought tha trophy back from the antipodes in 1920 and have successfully defended it since then. Japan was repelled in the challenge round of 1921, but Aus- tralia again came to the fore last season, only to lose. four matches brothers also reached | round of the men's doubles, defeating Crawford McPher- A Cluett in the second —1. Robert Kinsey also son and J. round, 6—0, | o1 e deciding series with this; gained a place In the final ound of the | ong; I the deciding = » mixed doubles. Paired with Miss| Australia and America each have Marie L. Potter, he defeated his|won the Davis cup six times since it brother and Miss Chatillon, 7—5, —1. | was first competed for in 1900. The Howard Kinsey's decisive victory| British Isles won the cup five times over Lacoste was the most interest-| Australia is the survivor this yvear ing feature of the day's play. The| of a recozd field of seventeen nation youthful French player was expected | that started elimination play early in much meat is bad for most men be-|ward, unless you are left handed.|1o give the Californian a severe tus- | the summer. Under the zone system. cause nu,'- ;-:.rnn‘mum'uv:t”!l P‘"‘If""::;,,v.\mn with the weight on the left|sie for the honors after his victory | in operation for th first time, France t 18 wood foBRyou Decsune o ! ‘ednesday ancis Hunter. emerged victor in Europe and Aus- completely digest it without effort. | {00t and shift it onto the front f°°'-|2’§,§",’,‘f.,{’i"e¢"{<’f,{,f;’had e aend e ot e ‘hu tan i ha Before the doctor told me thix I did | Beginners should praetice footwork. | 1% s mercy, confusing him with his| American area. The Anzacs carried not know why it was good for me to|as it is most_vital—later on it will| mixture of chops and drives. Lacoste | off the honors by four matches to gat the way 1 do, but I did know that | come instinctiv was repeatedly caught out of position | one in the final interzone contest it made me feel good and strong. “It is the same way (Copyright, 1023.) with my train- ing. I do not know If the way I train is the good way for some one else. 1 only know that it is best for TITLE TO MISS COLLETT. Luis Angel Firpo. That is enough EASTERN POINT, Conn., August 31. “And this is true about the way 1 Glenna Collett of Providence, fight. To win 1 must fight the w; e [national woman golf champlon, won the WONDER CL "14th and N. Y. Avenue as the other changed his length, and played at Boston pace caused him Kinsey’s mixture o to make far more than his usual . number of nrere The Cehioinier MRS. MALLORY REACHES away a point, with the result that he ran away with the first set at love. In the second set Kinsey ran into a TWO FINALS IN TENNIS EDARHURST. N. Y., August 31.— [¢ ¢ fight best There are many men lead of 3—1, and then lat down. Main- = - Who know more about the science of | Shennecossett Club invitation tourna- | 1%/ % Toiuit of his errors and partiy | Mrs. Molla B. Mallory of New York boxing than I do who could not help | ment toduy by defeating Miss Edith | due to an fmprovement in Lacoste's|former national champion, and Miss me 1o fight better because they would | Cummings of Chicago in the final | voileving, the French star pulled up|ouiic Bancroft, Boston net star, will try to make me fight in a way that|reund, 2.and 1. {to 4-all. Kinsey then called a halt to e e would be geod for somebody else. but < his opponent's advance, stopping his|meet in the singles fina . would not be good for me. All the net attack with passing shots and | woman's invitation tournament a he Ume 1 am training to leara to fight YACHT RETAINS TITLE. cross-courted chops that caught La- | p,cxaway Hunt Club, In the semi- etter, but always 1 must fight het- e s b coste within the service court | allors 2 s ter in'my own way. I know that |n-_r“-\‘ IDE, N. ¥, "“b:‘:‘ ":-"::“: | Anats, Mrs. A\x.nltwr_\x «liurm_ledl énm a vear T will fight better than I do | Tauru representing e v | Edith Sigourney o oston, 6—1, 6—-, now }n\;‘v 1 will not fight dm;»r»m |Long Island eound fleet, successfully CANADIAN BOAT WINS. ““m.e Miss Bancroft eliminated Mrs. “No. My way is my wary. cannot | st 4 E = 7 - Ay as Yok RS t|defended the international trophy for | DETROIT, August 31.—Commodore | Helene Pollak Falk of New York, change it, and T do not want to try | (f *Siar clags by winning the last of | Hors: B - 'Grecaing of the. Roval |oore 5 o hanEe I gy Dot be @ Bood | the serles of three races on Long Is- | Hamiiton Yacht Club, Toronto, Ca In' the doubles, Mrs. Maliory and B e e IE s [land souna 5 ada, won the firat heat of the twenty- | yiss Sigourney reached the’ final hort time 1t has brought me Fiches | firsi annual gold cup race here When | round with Miss Phyllis Walsh “of e e S haa | he drove Rainbow III. 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