The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 7, 1923, Page 21

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, | DEMPSEY LACKS STRENGTH AND WIND, SAYS WAULIFFEFrrpEs TIRES} 1923, THE SEATTLE STAR *FIRPO IS IN BEST SHAPE FOR HIS BATTLE WITH CHAMPION Luis Angel Looks Fine and Ready Question of Courage Is All That Keeps Firpo's Chance in Air BY HENRY L. FARRELL TLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept Everyone who has seen Lut Firpo in training for his fight with Jack Dempsey in New York a week from tonight believes he is in dition ‘He has no urplus welght as he rried in th Brennan and Will i é@: He has a good color. Hq are clear and snappy and there ~ unmistakable signs of vitality d power in his limbs, arms, sh ders and chest His boxing and ring work may & fas poor as some of his stressed, but he is w than he did in train’ fights with Brennan If the mind American could be read of cou want to wager money on the cham plonship fight would be better gulded than they are w Most of the experts who have come to see of his tra championship most entirely on how m take and how m th come. It ts being sald now that he wanted to quit along about the sev. enth round of the Brennan fight, when it was going bad for him. He says, however, that he was almost Diinded by the flow of blood in his eyes from a bad cut on the fore bead “My seconds forgot to bring any thing with them to their corner to stop the flow of bloed and th to go to the dressing room for he said. “It was two rounds bef they came back with it a at time I naturally look backing up an I kept looking at m:; to see if they were back.” Others doubt the gameneas of the Argentine because he took so muc precaution after Willard had rocked | him with a left hand punch in one Of the early rounds of the fight. Firpo explains: “I wasn't expect ing a left-hand punch and I would have been foolish to expose myself to another one. I had to slow up and fight a different way. SENTIMENT IS LACKING WITH TEX ies FIRPO explains that he ts fighting Dempsey because he wants to keep his word with Tex Rickard. Rickard probably !s patting Luls on the back and telling him what a ine young fellow he is for feeling e way he does—how honorable | is. The day after the fight, tho, if Firpo is whipped, he may find that Rickard doesn't think as much of/ him as he does now. Rickard is a business man. There fs no sentiment about him. He thinks only In dollars. The cents he doesn't bother with. Firpo has stated that he thinks he could make a better fight with | Dempsey if he walts a year to ac quire more experience. Rickard knows Firpo has said That, So why, if he thinks any- thing of him, is he rushing him into the ring now? Firpo, to my way of thinking, Is Very foolish. If he doesnt’ think he| can whip Dempsey now, he ought to| gay so, and not be going into sure defeat for no other reason than that he sfyned a piece of paper for Rick. | tournaments,” modestly deciaros the | “at least until | FP ard—a Sogdian seat blooded money-maker, WILSON HAD FEW GOOD QUALITIES ARRY GREB {s the middie- weight champion of the world. ‘s better than having Johnny Wilson as champion. Greb is a good boxer. Wilson was boxer nor puncher. It was a ques- mm whether he or Al McCoy was poorest champion the middle eights ever had. Greb’s one fault Is that he can- not hit hard, and that, of course, fs not a vital fault in these days of short fights, when a champion fs not expected to stop his chal lengers. Greb doesn’t class with Tommy Ryan, or with Philadelphia Jack O’Brien, or with a dozen other old-timers that one can mention; but he is better than any middle. weight chatipion we have had since Mike Gibbons, who, of course, didn’t clase with Stanley Ketchel. WILLS ANGERS JACK DEMPSEY | WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, N. Y., Sept. 7.—Just for that Harry ‘Wills will never get a chance to win the world's championship, not from me,” said Jack Dempsey, when he received from the United Press his first tidings yesterday of the injune- tion suit brought by Wills from New Orleans. “I never will fight Wills.” @DDIE KANE TO WATCH BATTLE Eddie Kane, manager of Tommy Gibbons, is now en route to New York, where he will take in the Firpo-Dempsey fight. Before loav- Ing he termed the coming serap as a “Punch and Judy show." Gibbons le now appearing at the Pantages Mheater in San Francisco, neither} a Mrs. Hagen Follows Hubby Around Links (Expert Says Something About Bagshaw Critics —-~— start of the second round of BY ROY GROVE R HEIGHTS, 0., Sept. 7 iter Hagen, ‘the world greatest golfing professional, has but one pupil—we hesitate here in memoriam of tne golfing widow, be | cause that one pupil is his wife. Mrs. Hagen is belng carefull groomed by the master of the and, in due time, will able to pace around with the best of them. on her way to the woman's nations title. “Mrs. Hagen is one of the best |puptles I have ever taught,” enye Walter. “I don't say that because she sg my wifo, but will leave {t to your judgment when I tell you she | went around in 96, the other day, jover a tough Pennsylvania course “That's a score most men would | ike to turn {n, and In a few years we ought to hear from her as a con- sistent tournament player. Walter is teaching her dally and she in turn,is watching him con. jstantly in his tournament and ex- | hibition playing. Under these condt- tions she sees Hagen at hia beni and learns exactly what her golfing be | cumstances with the drive mashie. “I am not expecting to play in| and the bashful Mrs. Hagen, Walter tells me I may. No, I never took an Interest in the game nor swung a club until he showed mo how, That was not until two years ago, and then it was everything at first sight. “I play as hard from the gallery ag Walter does off the links, I al | ways go around with him in his ex- | hibitions. I love to watch hia gamo as well as the other people.” | Not alone that, but Mrs. Hagen ts sort of barometer to the specta. tors, start down the fairway and stop at a point ‘where she judges Walter will drive his ball, and nino times out of ten she Js right. | Mrs, Hagen knows his game ns well as he does. By following her jaround closely In these rounds, you jwill see the great Mr, Hagen on every play The writer accompanied her over the links at the Shaker Heights Country club during the Professton- | 7ounds, | Walter broke with a 68. the course record il Diamond Dust } The Giants strengthened their bold on firet place yesterday when Jack Bentley held the Phils to m single run and tho Gtanta won, 6-1, The Pirates were on the long end of n 5-1 score when their game with the Cube was called at the end of the fifth inning because of rain, ‘The Athleticn won the firet game of thelr series with the Red Box, 6 to 2 Rommell weakened slightly in the sixth inning, and allowed the visitors their only runs COAST PLAYERS TO MEET REDS LOS ANGELES, Sept. 1A com- bination team of members of the Lon Angeles and Vernon Coast league clubs will meet the Cincinnat! Reds here, whon the major leaguers como here for a post wequon series, Upper photo shows Walter Hagen and wife before the Below, Wi alter instructing Mrs. Hagen in her daily practice, | husband would do under various cir- | At the various holes she will; 1 Golfing association’s qualifyqing | |“Pesky” Sprout, Former University of California Gridiron Star, Thinks Those Who Would Oust Washington Coach Are Entirely in the Wrong (Bditor’s note:, “Pesky” Bprout, former University of Californta foot- | ball star and new gridiron critic for the Ban Francisco Hulletin, saw an article in a certain Seattle paper, which told ita readers that Enoch Bagshaw's days at Washington were numbered and rambeled along | with other such bunk, Sprout, who knows MMe stuff, wrote the follow ing article as a result.) BY A. B, “PESKY” SPROTT MAJORITY of. the conference football coaches sur- vived last season with little adverse criticism. How- ever, a storm has been centering around Enoch Bagshaw, the University of Washington coach, according to the latest reports from the Northwest. It seems that there is quite a diversity of opinion as to! the ability of the former Everett high school coach. One section of the Washington students and alumni are heartily in favor of giving Bagshaw|*ystem if they start be the “the air,” while the rest are|°°eches toc soon Bagshaw's opponents realize this determined to give hira more |, he to run his aselatant into of a trial, |tho head coach's position A losing coach certainly has &/ Consequem if the Huskies 1 tough time of it No matter what/to make qu & showing against kind of material turns out for the/the Bears this fall, Bagshaw w team, the footers seem to think t]no doubt be out of a 4 b, is up to the coach to put out ——— —~— winning aggregation. | Bagshaw didn’t have much ‘| GRIFFO S AYS anything to work with during his first year at Seattle and the 72 to % defeat meted out to his crew by JACK COULD | the California Bears that year gave LEARN MORE him an awful black eye j | Things were a little better las} \ZOUNG GRIFFO, superboxer of year, ag far as material was con- his day, says that Dempsey, cerned, and the “Husky” support-|tho world’s champion, should learn Jers in Seattle felt quite confident| how to duck. |that thelr teams would wend the} “The way Dempsey digs in with Bruins back on the short end of/out caring whether he's hit or not the ncore, |x be all right now, while he's} However, after they found the! young and able to take hard| score of 46 to 7 staring them | punches,” “but after a| In the face, things didn’t look quite | while, w to slow up, so rosy. [he'll w to avold punchés and Washington is a proud unlversity;|uniess he learna he won't know thelr pride being the result of Do- | how ble's 10 successful years without a| hn ZL. Sullivan was a fighter defeat, Now thoy put too much/ something lke Dempsey, but he emphasis on the winning of the) could duck a littl, tho r nough California game and as a result Bag-|1f he'd known how to 4 [shaw is credited with being a poor) would have given Corbett a bet coach, | ‘The “Frusktes" Jost but one ons Ww jlast year a fed another jest white fighter of }Oregon. Not such a record | could duck, alilestep, for a coach's second y Another | thing.” | Bagshaw has switched form te that Griffo sald “» | high school coaching and it in quite|fighter.” Griffo, like many old fforent fem the college brand. | % thinks that the: great It is sily fair to give him 4) fighter, or black, was Pot real chance at proving and im-| Jackson, proving his system. eA Sie TR SES | bgih school coaching andemfwao Washington will find it expenntve| from the standpoint of developing a} the P. G. A, qualifying scores. LUIS FIRPO | AND SMART | VIS FIRPO talks lke a ble young fellow. ‘Too bad that, FACIVIC COAST BASEBALL LEAGUE jhe cannot have his wish to wait mes. plared Sanday, }® Year before he tackles Dempsey. | Last | Philade Jack O'Brien visited 3D. 10. (ER SIE. SB. Pet. Week him recently and advised him not " 3 $3 ti{to eat read meat. ay 1 T 300| “Eat fruits and vegeta naid he on ub Hd 207 /O'BHen; “that will make you strong aon 4 $ 262 .ats\4nd give you a better chance os oO ‘ ae a to whip Dempsey.” soe 101 Malet |_“I've been eating red meat all fas 4 i608] my It replied Firpo; "I don't in ) 30. ae 4n| think two weeks will make any ¢ DRED, Seattle BRA 101 aereeee.. tenet tend if. arine ee estier tueteckomts ‘ sme 244 | ference. change diet {t may Hendricks, fan Francisco - ” 9 448) nurt_ me.” a, San Francieco m1 4H Hi]. O'Brien ts tho first fighter I ever Gait Lake. 118 12 441 a6i| heard say that meat makes one | Hood, Los Angeles 1 oo int | weak. | | Kepp, Sacramento 18 3 ‘342| Dompney ents meat, lots of it,| ¥ ” 334/and so aid John L, Sullivan, Cor Lake 143 rr 440) | San Francisco 7 34 tt mith, Los Angeles ” 13} {40m STON, Seattio oe flan Francisco | Agnew, San MEARKLE, Francisco sees. 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DRI ES eT Oy A Solomon Sold for $75, 000 YORK, 8 the giant fi Kar leagu purchuned the Giants for a sum re in neighborhood mon is a tremen collecting 43 homers th and @ batting average of 14a NEW Solomon. the Hu hinsor by us hitter s reason TennisClub | Will Stage pad Day fre PORTS DAY will be obs placed the ¢ held in former yea ot the features of the will be the finals in the junior giris Charlotte Greer and a Ponte furnishing the op pon Miss Greer defeated Dor othy Du in the semi-finals, while Catherine Conklin fell befc |Mins da Ponte in the ot match, In addition several exhibitions are planned. A number of swimmi events will also be on the prog’ Mrs, Bragdon !s in charge of the program, which is to st at o'clock. ‘DEMPSEY IS_ GLAD FIRPO IS LARGER ACK Firpo, DEMPS says: , training for J the ring with Firpo I will feel more like fighting than I've over felt since I whipped Jess Willard "When I'm going to fight small wa, the Miskes, Carpentiers and bonwes, I worry. "If 1 hit him, and he | Atop, they'Jl_ know, and I'll know, hat the old chanipion has ‘s farted to go be 4 If Bobby Were a Native Son Bobby Harper, the Seattle weight, Is accused of having cold feet by Ban Francisco scribes be. cause he refused to box Oakland Jimmy Duffy, the Coast welter. weight champion, on Labor Day Harper demanded that Duffy make 142 pounds for him. The Oakland boy refused and Harper is given tho raz. If he was a native son, {t would haye been a nt a dooun't | Firpo in ‘ChampWill Blow Up in TwoRounds Great Boxer Has Differ- ent Opinion of Dempsey Than Other Scribes BY JAC K Mw’ AU LIFFE (Retired Undefeated Lightwelght Champion) iN pal YORK, Sept. 7.—Jack Demp- Ne gave mo the | jon in his training camp at a that ned out and too fine. He's o gym unless h way and starts to ngth, he is not go o down if he does get floor Dompsey is dried up. He lacks thin and his hips are shrunk He ught to stop boxing and work the rest of the time for his wind, He looks to me as if he were gone he es himself I will blow “up in @ couple You hear all the experts saying that his great left hand will be bet- ter thi irpo's righ hand, which everyone admits is most deadly, But Dempsey will not win with his left hand alone, He'll have to counter to win and he has got himslf all thrown off with his right han. His left hand isn't what it was in Toledo and neither is his right. He fell in love with Carpentier’s straight | right nad his right cross counter, He has tried to imitate the Frenchman a a the result is that he has lost his al style which was very good. He is playing now for a faulty right and he has taken the kick out of his left hand, He 1s also doing a lot of crazy | things, like leading with his right When I crawl into | and when he tries a right counter he logpa it over e'll miss that way more times t! Ime he misses it will take the heart out of him and sap his strength. He has no strength to lose. He ill have, to be strong because Firpo lis em ‘l keep wondering whether I'm ‘ to catch them. If 1 don’t |the clinches sree look like a | Welght with him. them it makes me look Ike a) TT sew tn to win the com el nd retain his title he will hi Irpo'a a big man. He'll be there jt, put boxing aside and tear in > hit, I know that he isn't going) oo ci to run | ds “Tt can hit any man who doesn't run from mo. And if I can hit a| GARDEN CITY, N. Y., }man I ean drop h Juck Dempsey, the world’s “That is the answer to those | weight champion, has purch |¢riends who have asked me what I | $65,000 re nce and plans to think of Firpo, {move in after his fight with Luis} w York on Sept. 14. A COOL SMOKE ‘The manner in which the City de Luxe pipe is made insures a cool smoke. 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