The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 13, 1923, Page 15

+ eJACK DEMPSEY tone has . of rec: ‘hts Pet. 488 423 ed: mK at two rad ot- - Dempsey in orid's heavyweight champion. He knocked out Billy Miske ee ee THE 2 The Champion Dempsey Plans Attack Under Way By Henry EW YORK, Sept. 18,—Wh ip fight in Toledo on Jul feinted him five tir out his long left arm. hand punch under the heart, Willard went down Willard was tricked into a t ed. He thought Dempsey wo charge into him like a wildea was completely bewildered With Dempsey, ttack plan. He did not do it becau He changed hi of his side, and he opinion that the Demps and hook the left to the Dempsey knows what he will not be sure until the bre: course for him. Dempsey will land the first lands and how much there is | If the champion gets the c socks, Firpo, fighting his usual s dozen punches, He is ja few. jof his wild swings to the boc |the steam in his blows. How Dempsey and Firpo Stack Up for Big Bout five rounds of the fight with tain a terrific speed. Before his fight with Tom Fifth Bout | as Champ MEASUREMENTS FIRPO'S the first hard hitter who could sta wes Jack Dempsey climbs thru BEMPSEY’S ai: MEASUREMENTS - sey would beat him. the ropes in New York tomor-| . Seorpbi . ” piss ch row night it will be the fifth time ¥ enter has pee sinh that he has defended his title as 7 In In. In. In. In. In. In. In, 4 In, 4 In, three rounds, Bill Brennan in 12 sions, Georges Carpentier tn the fourth round and won the referee’s| Tom Gibbons tn 15} contrary. Firpo may go to the floor s decision over |Toledo, Dempsey will become When Gibbons stayed 15 rounds it} was the first time that any fighter} Wie arin eo ne e| SOCCER RULES ARE CHANGED | the K. 0. route. A change im soccer football rules |in effect in Great Britain this year, LEGION NINES and as the United States ts governed bi the. same bode: Becorien effe tive |#hort time ago, found his younger | WILL TANGLE |nvre too, reearding the pesialty kick. | brother, Arthur, a keen, rival In conjunction with the National] A player is now entitled to a 10-yard Pare American Legion convention, to be|run in taking the kick. | held in San Franclaco, October 15 to - % 19, the committee has decided to hold] The University of Mary! & baseball tournament between the|add lawn tennis to its sport ¥arious posts of the organization. dar for noxt year. |to lack, Firpo is a natural fi |far, a very effective style. WILL SPENCER : FOR OAKLAND | was asked of him and has done it in convincing style. It is a big assignment for him to go against the world’s champion and the greatest fighter of the day without more Will Spencer, national bicycle rid. ing champion, who won his title a| experience, but, now as he ever will be. STATE BENEFITS In Pennsylvania 5 per eent of the |i gross receipts of aii ooxing matches and exhibitions ts pald to the state.| pionship. METROP vA IRPO has a good chance t Willard quit cold Toledo, and his own density “ 7 lis bad against him. : ET SAO Sanat Ly ST | On what they have shown i /It’s almost sure that he will gi |title. SEA joutcome of the fight depends on where that first punch jbehind the punches, he may finish the fight in five or six not a snapp} punch knockout in his fists, and he of a flock of punches to get what Demp | Dempsey ought to beat Firpo to eve not avoid being hit, and if the South American Jands several Firpo Is Slow Starter IT‘IRPO is a very slow starter. get going against Bill Brennan and he looked bad for 'trast, Dempsey is a dynamic starter, and he is able to main- back to the Toledo fight, when Dempsey faded in the second and third rounds against Willard, expr But Dempsey went fifteen rounds against Gibbons as fast as any lightweight in the business. | Big and strong as he is, hard hitting as he is with his lright hand, Firpo is not going to be a sucker for Dempsey. jIt is permissible to bring in a qualification that he will not ba easy if he owns a real game heart and, nothing has been shown in his fights that would justify a belief to the |take a hard punch and a lot of steam to keep him there, and lif he comes up many times, as many times as Willard did in Regardless of what expertenced skill and boxing he is said ; has been pointed out, he is about as good Firpo Has Good Chance to Win best chance of any of the fighters seeking the cham- |to retain the championship w! jring to answer the gong for the second round, a | Firpo is just as big as Willard land no doubt he has a better hear p \ 'hack, and he fights best when he is hurt and when the going ent time, Dempsey looks like he ought to win in six rounds. | But Firpo can’t be figured on what has happened before. \the champion has ever had, and he has a chance to win the T AR Prediction Figured on What Both Have Shown Craftily; Champion Fast} Starter, While Firpo Takes Long Time to Get L. Farrell | en the gong rang for the first round of the Willard-Dempsey heavyweight champion- | s 4, from his corner and circled around the huge Willard. with his left hand, until Willard stuck | Dempsey then crashed over a right | 1919, Dempsey walked slowly He | hooked a left to the jaw, and rap that he had never expect- uld rush from his corner and | t, and when he didn’t Willard 1 s a carefully preconceived se Willard was a bigger man usual tactics because he knew that Willard | was not in shape, that the intense heat of the day and the excitement of the moment had his heart almost popping out | hot his first punch at that very evident | weak spot—the heart Luis Firpo would like to know how Dempsey will come out of his corner Friday night when they meet at the Polo Grounds. He uld like to know what kind of an attack Dempsey wil! carry ainst him, where he will shoot at first and how he will work around to it, Thousands of fans would like to know the same thing. | Firpo is almost in perfect condition. He is a better man now than Jess Willard ever was. The medical examiner of the boxing commission, who looked him over, expressed the | South American has a better heart than | Perhaps Dempsey will shoot his right hand at the heart | jaw. Perhaps he won't. Only do, and perhaps Dempsey will of the first round decide his punch and perhaps the entire behind him, openings and has his old kick tyle, may require five or six hitter, there is no one- relies upon the effects y gets out of just punch, but he can- dy, Dempsey will lose a lot of It took him eight rounds to Jess Willard. In marked con- Gibbons, some experts, going ssed the opinion that rounds with Demp- everal times, but it is going to a very tired young man. ghter with a peculiar and, so He has done everything that o beat Dempsey. He has the when he fought Dempsey in caused him to miss a chance hen Dempsey was not in the just as good as Willard, He, at least, will fight n their fights up to the pres- ve Dempsey the hardest fight ENGLE AGAIN MANAGER OF HARRY GREB CORDING to reliable reports, jeorge Engle is again to man- age ¥ Greb, the Pittsburg fight- er who won the middleweight cham- | pionship of the world from Johnny | Wilson. | angie managed Greb for several years and finally gulded him to the light-heavywelght champlonaship of | America. Then the two had a break, ld by Greb to be because Engle noglected hls managerial duties. |rhey parted Inst winter and the tn eldent caused a great deal of com- | ment, most of it unfavorable to Greb. It in understood that Just before he entered the ring with Wilson at @ | the Polo Grounds Greb concluded ne- STARTING SUNDAY MATI SEAT SALE TODAY—ALL James L. Lasky Presents THE GLORIOUS DRAMA OF CIVILIZATION C ° ERE | gotiations with Engle in which the W, Iatter resumed his post aa n E, SEPT. 16, AT 2:30 ATS RESERVED A PARAMOUNT PICTURE— Directed by JAMES CRUZE ‘YANKS ARE | CINCH TO WIN FLAG -—Founded Upon Emerson Hough's Splendid Story of Love on the Oregon Trail— YORK, Sept, 19.—-With a HEAR PRICES NOTICE | ther coy and bashful smite, | THE COVERED WAGON NIGHTS 0c, $1.00, $1.50 This pleture will only be the owners of the New York Yaniin ORCHESTRA PLAY THE MATINEE: .50e, $1,00 shown at the Metropolitan admitted today that they wer will BEAUTIFUL SCORE in Seatile season 1923-24, ing to be ce the bosses of the LUIS FIRPO TOO ROUGH A PLAYER L iL FIRPO 1s the ‘rough guy” of the Argentine, Before he became a pugilixt he was barred from two of the repub. Ho's most popular games, soccer and rosette, A member of one of Buenos Aires’ leading soccer teams, he so frequently incapacitated opposing players in apparently accidental col- lision that nobody would play against him, Being an expert horseman, he de. cided on rosette, In this game a roxe Is pinned upon. the sloeve of a horseman, Who sends his steed gal- loping across the field. When he crosses a certain line another rider | starts in pursuit, The pursuer must pluck the rose from the sleeve of the pursued before the latter reaches the end of the field in order to score a point Firpo developed a habit of pluck ing the rider along with the rose, and then he took up boxing. Oakland will have a new athletic club before next year, It will he a half-milllon-dollar enterprise, and wilt as be known the Jub, Athens Athletic play and the Indians can wjn tho pennant if they win the 26—if the PAGE 17 SHOULD WIN BIG BATTLE INSIDE OF SIX ROUNDS | | Big Demand | EW YORK, Sept. 13—More than a million and a half dol- lars worth of customers will see Jack Dempsey and Luis Angel Fir- po do their demonstration of fight against might at the Polo Grounds tomorrow night, Latest estimates from the office of Tex Rickard set the prospective receipts at about $1,500,000, and the attendance at 90,000. Such tremendoun interest has developed in the contest between the “fighty’ Dempsey and the “mighty” Firpo that the attend- ance will be limited only by the restricted accommodations at the ball park and the unofficial re- celpts will be bounded only by what the fans will stand for in the way of extortion from the ticket scalpers. Estimates today after a canvass of the ticket broker offices and the stairways from which the {I legal scalpers work set the sum which New York and outside points will pay for the fight at close to $2,000,000. Firpo was installed under an @ffective guard of countrymen at a Riverside drive apartment to- day. He arrived last night from Atlantic City and was hustled out of a crowd of Latins that had gathered to greet him, ‘The South American to estab. lsh @ new precedent for “day before the battle” ceremonies by attending a banquet and love feast to be given in his honor today by the Spanish society of New York. The program called for the donation to him, in ad. dition to large quantities of native food, of many feet of rabbits, shoes’ of horses, pieces of clover and other good luck things by which it js hoped he can topple over Dempsey, Firpo's plans were not announced for the day, but it was learned that he might do a little work on the bridle path in Central park and loosen up at the gymnasium jn Madi. son Square Garden, The champion was not due here until tomorrow morning. He decided upon a boat trip down the Hudson from Albany, and will not get in until early to. morrow morning. Dempsey is not going to any ban- quet In his honor. Odds. lengthened today to 3 to 1 that Dempsey would retain his title. The largest offered was $30,000 to $10,000 oh the champion, and ft was being gobbled up in smail bits, In the opinion of. most of the ex- perts who have followed Dempsey and ¥Firpo in thelr trainting, the champion is almost a cinch victory, and they are predicting that the duration of the fight will depend on how much punishment the South American is able to take. Predictions of a Dempsey victory in three or four rounds predominate, but enthusiasm for the champion may be overcoming better Judgment on the part of his friends, Reing unskilled and rather inex- perionced, Firpo is rightly on the short end of the betting. His chances of winning the title depend almost entirely of his ability to stand up in front of a punching. There hay hewn no indication of a weak heart in hix previous fights, and it is hard to figure why such a big, strong, heavy-hitting fighter should be looked aipon as a short: nd loser, The Challenger for Tickets to Demnseg-Firpo Fight Firpo can take, and as far as that goes, it has never been established how much Dempsey can take, On form Dempsey should win In seven or eight rounds, Whether he will, remains to be seen. As long as he {s in the ring Firpo has a chance, and the longer he re- mains on his feet the better his chances will become. Seattle Real Estate values will be soon increasing. Property can be purchased’) NOW at exceptional values. Turn to the Want Ads. Steam {s coming into general use jon the large farms of the country. 2 jy”. Clothes. here ave too many “ifs” to over: 1023 American league champlons, Cheveland has 36 more games to Yanks win only 10 of thelr memati. ing 21 games, je too little known Ubout how much come in doping this fight, and there Firpo Has . Record of Knockouts — Homer SMITH and Joe Downey are the only fighters who man- aged to stick the limit with Luis Angel Firpo in his fights in this country, 19 others taking the count from the Argentine. Smith hit the floor 17 times in 10 rounds, while Downey ended up in the hospital after six sessions with 16-ounce gloves. Firpo's most noteworthy victory was his eight-round K. 0. over Jess — Satisfaction! in Your FALL SUIT «ff OVERCOAT] ATISFACTION is the watchword of our Fall You'll like them, we know, not for just a short while, but through their wearing life, Their high quality, modish stylishness, superior | tailoying and moderate pricings go to that end. “Low Rent, Small Overhead, Greater Values” SHANER & WOLFF 916 Second Avenue i “Good Clothes” b Willard. Most of his other knockouts have been against second-raters, $ 50° :