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PAGE 20 THE SEATTLE STAR FRIDAY, SE PTE, at R ue 1922, d ‘ -- Harry Wills in Line to Meet Winner of Title Battle BY HENRY L. FARRELL ness as long as he ts able to maintain his position as chance on losing him tn the future. would be willing to sign the champton to an ugreement The Angel would also be forced into hiring a man- , THEW YORK, Sept. 14—No bier bouquets need bo good card. Regardless of who wins, Harry Wills will get the Dempnoy 1s not afraid of Wills. Those who Intimate ager or be swamped ¥ mpletely with his business and prepared for the battler who ends on his back when Férpo, as the new champlon, of course, would have next chance at the championship, ‘To get Firpo, all he that he tw timid about fighting the bly colored stevedoro it might break his héart to think of whacking up @ i ttle money with such a non-working thing as a man- Jack Dempsey and Luls Firpo meet tonight at the Polo a million dollar more extended to him for the mere has to do is to sign a contract with Rickard, and the have reasons for saying #0 that have no connection ager. | Grounds. picking. With all his color, his unusual temperament fight will need nothing but the selection of a place and —with Dempsey, It is a part of @ bally-hoo. s Fs at.) nd the romance around his career, he perhaps wou r 6. c () ‘ould be the scene, as ars They are both primarily business men and thelr fu pa ae ec rapa ndta kites ray yo uli date, Perhaps Now York would be the scene, ua ¢ DEMPSEY 'S biggest chance tonight 18 to win some- f ture trade will not be spoiled by a tap on the chin of {t, and Dempsey made modern fighting worth tt perploxing color angle would not be #o tle xia ae it ha I" Firpo should win the title, he will waste no time in thing that he has never possessed—popularity with . teh bd the bee: a 4 match betwee colored fighter and «to : t public. Dempsey, a8 an ex-champion, can fight oftener in a big money that it is, aus making }/ eg: “et , ma fr rand hing to South America to show those who idolize he publi a white native of the United Sta him what a world's heavyweight champion looks like. If he should win in two or three rounds from the fl year and make more money than he did as the cham 1 ‘ § pion. He would be relieved of many of the responsibil IN or lone, Firpo in matched to fight Harry Wills in STACI here is no danger that Firpo will run home and put South American, he has a chance to make _ himesif any ponsibil- , . \" ( BSTACLES that have stood in the way of a Demp. the title in the vault. He likes the dough too well, and stand out as the worthy titleholder that many claim he ities, worries and revenue drains that attend the holding South America next April, If he loses, however, it woy- Will teh, mostly from politioal source \ : r lee ® match, m np will he knows what that title would be worth in the United is not. 4 of the tith Is posalble that Tex Rickard will not care to promote be removed next year after the national convention tater Of course, there will be those who will say that he Do, as the od challe) ‘ j o mateh, If he ne ° omnes t eer tp Naa eee lyre gehageglioary DEP: ae pe fc ae iy Pen an i tn ne tt en Wills In the Unit and there is no doubt that Dempsey will fight the col Firpo will learn also that everything 1s not peace and knocked over a set-up, that he dodged Wills to pick up , ive ca 5 ‘ants to remain in the United § ‘ cu ved challenger if he retains the title bliss for a heavywelght champion. He will find op a fortune out of a poor forelgner, but Dempsey will not States and pursue pugilism as a trade, In signing Firpo to a contract to fight Wills, Rickard Perhaps the two may meet before the end of the year ponents few and far between and he will hear the raze win tonight from a set-up. 4 “sag eq usted ae iy sepn as he ts beaten he is merely acted upon the foresight that has made him the Jim Coffroth wants to promote the fight at Tia Juana berry directed at him for refusing to close with the Firpo may look like he was easy after the fight, but going to retire from the ring, but it is doubtful that he greatest of all promoters, He was first to see the pow and as he in a reputable promoter with a good place to nanager of every tinhorn heavyweight who sets out in If he is knocked out it will not be so much that he was will ever cut himself away from such a profitable bust- sibilities In Firpo and he does not want+to ta ny stage the bout, there ts little doubt that BY AHERN Jack Kearn juest of publicity and advertising. A set-up as it was that Dempsey 1s such a great fighter. Eldred Is cou BOARDING HOUSE Real Star =! ee AMOS ! ~~ WHAT Ox) EARTH With Club | iF seuecions ani e110 H bs SUCH WILD STORES ABOUT “THIS BULKY OLD LEATHER CHAIR? = WHY, “ME FIRGT “Hine I KNow, You WILL BE “TELLING, “THEM “THAT OUR POOR OLD OUT-OF-TUNE PIANO WAS \) Grid Ouiiook Gloomy for Prep Champs | DANDY DIL LON USED FOUL TACTICS 2 |Duncan MacDonald Fight iF ranklin Series to Start Saturday AW-HM = MARTHA H'DEAR ~ AH~ Ha L WAVE BEEN MISQUOTED ~ THIS NOUNGER GENERATION 16 GREATLY GWEN “To OVER EXAGGERATION f= I Do WOT RECALL “TELLNG THE BINNS ANTHING OUT OF THe ORDINARY ABOUT “THE CHAIR, EXCEPT AG “10 11S COMFORT! = KY WORD, H'DEARYoU FULL WELL Year After Year Seattle Hitting Ace Ranks) High Among Leaders Rive about your Paul Strands Bert Ellisons and the rest of | Waterman Pans Foul Material your slugsers In this old Coast “HE FIRST PiANo\UsED BY Kiiow L AM A BITTER Foe OF ° s Fa z fay G | but rick: Edirea, the pow ‘ans, young and should big kick out o - eon. Rene” pestle’ Tadtans PADEREWSK! IN LEARNING EXAGGERATION, AND THE STAUNCH Fi g h ti n 9g can MacDonald's ae ) salle] of the aus rp | Is reen i doesn't have to wm PLAN !. CHAMPION OF “TRUTH WW EVERY 5 | of the ring in the Northwest, when Butte, Montana, was || ; fi aby =: Sac nent RESPECT~ HOWEVER, ER~AR~ WE Says Dillon Should Have | the big fight town, |Coach Soukup Is Pessim- j thie. man's WILL LET , Been Disqualified for | The series, which will be called “The Good Old Days,” || istic Without Services i league when it Butting and Heeling is being told by MacDonald to Tom Olsen, of The Star of Great Brice Taylor H | comes to pound ing the pill. Year year aft Eldred's scratch hits be ae ing found umong | ‘ S t. | G tt 2 t . - } Dillon and other recent bouts in green as the latitudinal stripes on ean sr aha n od | tks Merion | por 8 re é ing 0 the football jerseys*which they’ wear. And Eldrea ts usually found | Someone evidently wired Dillon Coach Rudolph Soukup t!s blackly Be Popular in Russia among your leading men when you | at the runs batted tn. | take a slant He ranked ment last year. second in this depart A lot of fellows can name {s right up| BY JOE WATERMAN (Editor, Northwest Boxing Review) Ho’ far can @ boxer go in the ch foul ring with roy tac mind by the. Tod Morgan-Dandy up to the fact that Tod's eyes were owing to cuts Dillon tender in training pretty wus tained went sporting staff. There will b and a clever fellow with his starting Saturday, in these columns. MacDonald, one of the early fight promoters, referee, memories for the oldtimers and many stories that will be pe 10 stories, one each day, dukes, will bring back many BY JOHN GRANDENZ ISCOW (By Mail to the United M' ‘While millions take part in the sports I have named, very few play BY JACK HOHENBERG REEN and Black. ‘These are the colors of Frank- lin high school, for two years cham- pion of the Seattle High School half of the men out are as verdantly Pessimistic, His hopes for a team are nof very bright, and the Quaker mentor is flinging a smoke screen of gloom Sphethe. lead tice before he disqualified or | new to the younger generation. league, and, strangely enough, they 4 ils apa veal even warned? That ts» the ques Watch for it. In The Star Saturday. might be used to describe Franklin's } . ; ws Si MERA i ae chances for a third championship. fj bingles, very fow that has: been OroUs aay ‘The material on hand is meager, and ae ‘i ES aa é: seman A fig | around his proceedings which would hit when the pitchers aren't bear fter those eyes by violating every Pross.)—"We certainly w@B14| iawn tennis or ericket. Hiae's battleship. Tat pore Jocattraa ing down, but when men are on rule of clean boxing, butting time|be greatly pleased if an American| _,, ; j the runways and the pitchers are tt Gestiva teamal weld: come!te ensue! ‘Of course, the Russian sports|the cognomen, Gloomy Rudy, wou! : fter time, using hls elbows, etc.| boxing tea ss lacs shit be hung on thp genial Fran strutting seerheseeh the boys who t not was he warned for|to demonstrate what real boxing |“* mpl tA Chie, Haye ea inastor wiktiont eens hit are the real hitters, ee these violations. ‘This belng al-| is Konstantine Mechanoshin, |th¢ revolution, only small groupe)” | |e 1 peso | Scale rasan tothe’ aad wed, the decision of a draw was|in charge of military training off rich Russians or foreigners in-|) 00) °COre AeA the cece a4 's baserunnin is play in} 2, tho} | yr :r the outfield, either. His throwin not #0 be worse, tho) the youth of Russia, in an interview |dulged in sports, The government) test, around Columbia playfield. ¥ is weak, as everybody knows, Dut it | oorgan's nd rally clearly) with the United Prees | did not encourage the workmen to| Voorhees, linesman, who was count. B earned him the shade. 2 Must be remembered that !f Eldred “The sport of boxing is becoming follow their example. Those of the ed on to come thru in fine style this could throw he wouldn't be in this at wi Dillon ts @ great little boxer, who|more and more popular in Russia,” | ¢ormer sportsmen who are still in| ®t, has passed over the age limit. company. | doea not have to resort to foul) continued Mechanoshin. “There are Frank Woods, another letterman, } ‘And Eldred will win more famee HE MAIOR |S THe STANDARD BEARER FoR “TRUTH = aera taction to win fights, but when @itwo opinions in Russia regarding | Russia now serve ag teachers. has not signified his intentions of by his hitting than he ever will lose by his week throwing. Eldted has a passion for base hits, and he can tell you just what Rohwer Gets Two H omers, but His xer to carry on is a certainty be taken referee permits a b with such tactica it that advantage will such leniency, Had I been referee. of| boxing, or box fighting, as we call | it here, One faction says ft Is not} health giving because it results in} lost teeth, busted noses and swollen “Before the revolution the Olym- | plc committee was at the head of |all sporting organizations in Rus- sia. Today the council of physical coming back to Franklin. Besides these two, others have dropped out, cutting the chances of the Green and Black exactly in half. ee development been formed by he’s hitting every day, Give Brick ing in the Morgan-Dilion scrap, 1, fac s. The other, and stronger fac: | dev Wome ca eoaine Tommt..| And who is there to bear the bur- j & bad break in scoring the close T would have unhesitatingly disqualt.| Gon, fully, In Laced ae Ln teo and is a part of the latter,| den for the Quakers this year? There a ones, and he’s almost motally t A qT fied Dillon had he continued but- | cause it means ape yp yeical an | . is Cal Harold Woods, 1 $i | eam Loses I air 4) Los hgetes ting and, elbowing. after belng| mental development. Unfortunately, |I0 other states similar central or poe ee pie oa wroun 1 we are lacking in Instructors. ‘The | €anizations have been forme in He's a great hitter, is Brick, and matontarng 1 “These central organizations de- here's hoping he sticks in a Seattle Angeles here yesterday, iL°s ANGELES, Sept. 14.—The Seattle Indians twice tasted defeat at the hands of Los) The first game, which went 11 innings, ended with a 4 to I ‘There seema to be only one referes C., who recently disqualified Chartle tussian workmen and peasants in- dulge in some sort of rough fist cide which sports are the most spread all over Russia, a safe falling off the Smith building walform fi for a long time. ‘ * ¥ % jin the Northwest who has the healthful and best fitted for the|Year’s championship aggregation; eeu ati 13 io be pd repr pe = pane Ors eg S 4. held out untii| "7" {2 fore boxers. to comply | Fighting, but eee: Are! ogo calls, Healintsl und eet fitted. eo iieca are Biellac ane are eatin 4 ; eiser 8 ie mound work for Seattle in the first game and held out until) with the rules of boxing; he !s| under more refined methods, with|only @ few hundred organizations;| tackle of repute; and there is Oliver : the 11th, and then lost the game on his own fielding errors. Charlle Brown of Vancouver, B.| sot rules today there are several thousands|NoJi, Japanese center, who hits like | | eal Won Lost New York | the duties and remained until the seventh. Dennison went the third inning, when he retired under a he avy barrage of hits. Elmer Jacobs started on the hill for Seattle in thé second contest, but lasted only until “Lefty” Burger took up YOUNG CARMEN DEFEATS Moy after he had warned Moy twice for hitting low. Morgan's Jast-round finish wha | | FOOTBALL, 18 | Most POPULAR “Just now football is the most |popular sport tn Russia. However, lone of the greatest displays of sheer/the board for physiciil culture is of FOUR CENTRAL INSTITUTIONS “Russia has four large central institutions; The Moscow Central Institution for Physical Culture, on an eggshell. Harlow, Funai and Setz are being tried out at the quarterback's tion, with Harlow seemingly ms ) the edge, because of experien: to gain. mer terror, winning on points, ae |fighting grit that I have witnested/the opinion that preliminary phy- in and finished the game. DODE BERCOT IN TACOMA | in years. Blinded in both eyes by|«loal training should precede foot-|the Physical Institution in Petro-| gained on the second team last year, ¥ Ray Rohwer, Seattle's Bate Ruth, the blood streaming from opened) ball play, and consequently rules| grad, the institution at Tomsk and/A running mate for the intrepid Mc- ‘a poled out a home run In each game. ODE BERCOT, tho Monroe log- tag managed to atick the lmit, but | Cuts he dropped his great boxing |that no boy under 17 should play|the physical school of the army,/ Donald will hate to be found at half | A big clreus is showing across the ger, lost. the second start of| Was nothing to brag about Val | oxi = heist ape ~ real | football srhare.-\0 tres © ierowing | Sore pate reget esa Val- bee ie aoe the Quakers can {| A street from Washington park, and|his carcer at Tacoma last night,|ousht to stick to the butcher shop. |fahter by outalugging Dillon during | tendency to replace football by| ent ‘ sae ye } {ts presence sadly effects the at-|when Young Carmen, the San Joso| Johnny Fugate, another Portland: jthe entire threes minutes. What a| handball, which is considered more Sip Be nut crec teats Frankie Wilson, baskethali star, is c Paces a: (ie iablawe) he park |lehtwolght, won Referee Schock’s|¢F beat Roy Small, Camp Lewis| reat firht Dillon and Bud Ridley | healthful and not exposing players be tata, ene pe putting in some hard licks at end, { : Pitsburg « ttirst wamey; | endance. Many fans left the park) vein after six rounds of fight.| lightweight, all the way, but nobody | Would be! And Dandy can be just|to so much danger of injury. ute = , rdgrad “ious |22¢_™y appear in that position : Pittsburg 6, Brooklyn 3 (second game) after getting a giimpse of the | ing. red much, as it was an agony con-|4* rough with Bud as he wants to| “Next to football, basketball is les the army, al e various) when the opening whistle blows. He | é ‘Only games scheduled. |xecond game, and took in a clrous! ye was a. halting. decieton, the | ‘et Ridley will give aa good as he re-|the most popular sport. Of course, | clubs have he sporting beset fs fast and gets away with a snap ia n ft est | put on by professional entertainers. | .-ow4 thinking that Bercot pe Henry Geysel, Seattle feather, | celves, 1 promise that Russia has well defined ice sports, | factory clu 5, peasant clubs,/that would do credit to a mich * “A Se. woe ak Pelt FIRST GAME |have had a ihe But it a decision | (2% one Ofthe chin trom Cyclone 5 i HR 1 8nd toe noe Bah ne vin hears Snes ie CHS | eahee a. k i on Los et. | ron Pol 4 |sinn teams have beaten the Finns /| tions. j . Kaw York Hs, 45 i] seattle Ap. R HO. 4: E lhad’ to be given, Carmen deserved| "Sass Qicate took’ too roan ott | r fe livedes “The health commissariate as taawlins aateeee Megat ; d Cleveland “ 3 "i . re 5 x | rear, | oe petrol . 6 1 120} : Se a 6] teak cause he had Bercot at 808! nonds on the nose and lost an inter. | Major Talk | "Ww are busy studying the litera. | well as the commissariate of edu-/Hut his greenness may count aacleat f ‘St. s 6% 62 ‘608 | Johnston, 1b. Pte Heid > + poet in the clinches and made Dode miss) ,.4, “ Nain | | ture of baseball and it won't be long | cation have thelr special sporting) j,;, Lowi: egter asitnigred, If gl hep ifeaate tedly. ‘The ¥ eating opener to Al Calvert, Tacoma | ture “4 him. He ts trying for a guard. coegiatal teas | Ronwer, If ett STN [nce dh . barn ae boy fousht | bantam. ‘The Seattle boy was on| jiabe Ruth hit his a4th home run, anq|Defore we introduce this American |departments. There's a sporting) The loss of Brice Taylor, tor three ae Be: 13 1430} 2 DAS LS slat] coo gittn onan: ii Macatee the floor a couple of times, helped the Yanks beat the White Sox,| Sport into Russia. sector attached to every school" years the power-house of Franklin BS 7h 4395 Ao’ ie Naha ghte | thie thdas aabelon Curentee bad orp The show didn’t knock anybody |? ' & track and football teams, has by no t a a va dead for excitement. Quite a crowd 7 Pog ' means put the South « 4 ¥. RESULTS # 9 © 1 © 1/edge in the third, fourth and fifth, beige Dasty Vance won his 18th game DLEY WILL SOLONS WIN x Aatethage Aste eh eae ax hes de ed ; 7 -- =—-- 2 Mot 8 ° Peres oneness 3 cas 14 _1{ith the first two falrly even. "| Program including Clarence Blenets| mer firt, aemey ‘bot. the ‘Rtas py MEET SACCO| OVER VERNON |etiniet. ‘when thee Sear ty Philadelphia 3, St. Louls 2 (11 innings) AB. R. H. PO. A. B.| Frankie Murpny, Portland light-| Den Salt, Tom Olwen, Frank Fuqua,| “'°??04 the secon Sacra- |°Simst the Garfield Bulldogs in the : Boston 9, Cleveland 5. 5 2 2 fg] weisht, made a punching bag out of| Nate Druximan, Matt Matthews and| iarper tied the score in the ninth with] Young Dudley and Jimmy Sacco,) SACRAMENTO, Hept, 44 “Sacre- |onening tilt of the season, two “ad PACIFIO consT UEAGvE 7 $f fT fF Of] Mal Sontag, Seattto butcher. Son-| Elmo Jones. s homer, and drove in the run in the| two clever boxers who have appeared franneverion hers Bet ines ‘9 to 2, |Weeks hence, they should give @ ji ‘ ‘on. Lost ° h that gave the Rede m §-to-3 victo A ; fi Sen Francisco ae ts eae at JOHN T N IS lover the Cubs. try |) those parts before, meet in the Tie score: g00d account of themselves, 4 Secramento 1 ae Pie ae tear) S (@) r — ; eight round event of the smoker at! Vernon ,...ecess wae. : "1 1” ° ° Miller's single in the 11th inning gave | C8 3 Bortian Hs oa ey Se a FIN T Triple Play Is the Athletica a S1to-2. victory over" the | Olympia tonight. The show will be aj Sacramento PORTLAND IS Tos Angeles o 6 130 ALIS IN piston feature of the state convention of the AGAIN Balt Lake - » OO 0540.8 b oon gust Dh 3 Prough and Schang. LOSER Ww = : i 824) NET TOURNEY| Made by Burns|| roses coc cs, [teeiae eaten cay FRANCISCO, seme nemten fl fernon —----- BOSTON, Mass, Sopt. 14 beat th = is * Francisco agal i ee ery orice aire , Mass, Sept. 14— ihe Tigers, 740 3. OAKLAND WINS eco again scored a victory over SULTS cat game, 11| Two out when winning run scored. ERMANTOWN CRICKET|| [*0fse Burns, Red Sox first|| 1 ettane Ridavi SEALS RESPECT Portland. The seals won yesterday's ; < Los Angeles 4, Seattia 3 (first game, 11] 9200 al hr gtigen ih clghth CLUB, Philsdetphia, Pa, Sept.|| DMNA today staged the crat ||,,UNes,wilénen eaabled the Rex Sox JACK MILLER| _ AT SALT LAKE |eans, 6 to 0. ue news). ed Score by innings: Pre “ a unassisted big league triple play paate ene teem | SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 14—|_ The scores REE & Oukiand 18, Salt Lake 11. ee ee eee eee iam Johnaton . earned: his} | since Wambganas of the Cleve. FIR ’ Members of tho San Francisco/oayiand won from Salt Lake, 16 to| Portland .....o0. ° 6 3 i Sacramento 9, a. Te a 6000002010 1-4| ay Into the finals of the national|| /and Indians made ono at the ex. PO DOESN T baseball club are wearing black} 1) jn @ wild affair here yesterday. San Francisco 6 il t ie _ Beem dtebm Hilts 1009092029 1-—§/singiog tennis championship tout-|| Pe"S* of Brooklyn Dodgers in tho IMPRESS WEBB 2727. one nn aetna tow | othe eer Rid Bi lewanraasi ce | ~ Innings pitched — Wallace Credit | sament. in aie hen he|| “crd’s series of 1920. respect of the memory of their for-| Oakland MoWeeney and Yelle, i f. 2 ROUNDS victory to Thomas. Runa responsible for Progress here when he Burns made his triple play in Spike Webb, the boxing coach at} mer manager, Jask (“Dots”) Miller, | gait Lake . 3. ; lace 8, past Hato or Dell 4 defeated Francia Hunter here to. the second inning of today's ||the United States Naval academy, | who died last week. Batterie: : : JACK IN N. ¥i i TO PRECEDE Home runs—Rohwer, Grin day in straight seta by scores ot|| 8@me with the Indians, when ||doesn't think much of Luls Angel eon - Duchalaky, MGonele. Eng end ae & ! e " iaerian ea ae Stophenson singled and’ Lutzke || Firpo as a boxer, Spike watched| INSURED JACK MILLER | Peters. FOR BIG BOUT " uble mor walked. It was a hit and run ||Firpo work ont at Atlantic Cityand| “Roy Corhan, former shortstop for os 5 s @ Time—1:45, Umpires—Finney| Hunter played brililant tennis but! | pl, " NEW YORK, Sept. 14,—Jack peg | 2 Play and ‘Burne tagged Lutzke, || Wasn't at all impressed by the big/the San Francisco Seals, and now OAKS AFTER COLLEGIAN Dempsey arrived in New Y ‘we } W YORK, Sept. 14—There will SECOND GAME was completely outclassed by the|| then ran to second before Ste. || Argentinan, 4 life insurance salesman, had just! James Begley, St. Ignatius college | terday afternoon foi hl atthe ee’ be 24 rounds of preliminaries AB. Te HPO. AE leupertennis of the ittle Califor.||Phenson could get back to that —_——_— written a $6,000 insurance policy for |etar, is being sought by the Oakland {night with the ite AS } S Hefore the fight between Dempsey ator eo 8 oN bee cha English girla aro tattoolng thelr | his formmer manager, Jack (“Dots") Coast league club as an infielder for heavyweight crown, Luls An et Fin : and Firpo tonight, it was an. 5 bine Kaw bcs cul names on their wrists. Miller, who died last week. the Acorns, of South Am pcre ta me Gdncel. Tn addition, there will be goes m™ hee i an eight-round bout after the main | Orr, as | Bi, 8-0 8 50 F ly fight is over. Baldwin, 3b aaa 1g y t a ick pid: a oO Limit Unless Jacks Wallop Is Same as o —Vorman ; tralia, and Dan Bright, of England, 61000 i: “will meet for six rounds; Al Roberts o 60 0 60 o BY BOB DORMAN It a (thi of Wow Lert: PALI he play ad Will help In weakening the champion, | thod: 4 . a “haa ities nb ae rear Prana EW YORK, Sept. 14.—Who will|but not much, P! ecules Govier Revie ip Hoe therblti oe Lipps Hi ae The courage of both men ts un-| Tirpo, on the other hand, possesses 1 and Lee Gates, both of New York, Sant Dempeey of Firpot | to reach tho challenger has it on| there ts in the ring. today. When | his man come to him, ‘He reminds |OU"es Both men have taken blows |territic power in his right. ues! Me pen Sight 12. ae gD ice A AAC tag minds of toe PPIs tao oF AK Intigilar Gad tte eece Dempsey firat came into tho lime-|one of a hugo bear, and bearlike, he| (at hurt, enly to come back and) In his fight with Downey at In- [ is sted aghere naga ee 5 2 1 4 96 0/Sportdom since the announcement of] sess enough. knowledge of boxice ts bey Saba Ose bites, & sient abe possesses the same awkward quick: |Win. dianapolis, Firpo, ing '1¢ounce q oh Lod patch sith Bm aed; OR Go: eta at ‘ 1 i ’ H q the match. keep the champion away from him, ently ine Pe a Sen rhe rene ar In strength—there would seem to! gloves, regular pillows, put his op- Pie % Walters, tb ak ee gst What has eauh man’ to offer tn fis longer reach will be of no benefit |credit for hia undoubted sil in the | AMBITIOUS He easyer: as 20;tte. Wine ponent tn the hospital. With the ; Crandall,” p i ; { H 4 Wace: See eae eee Banteay {9 far superior in knowl- i hi DenRA Ge OL Arey Dts Beating hi 4 thi f ty THe TELL cl ee Lesepuastss bie —_——_——— = = irpo has a wi if tight As 6 steal 4 c ARDS NEED rola... ET TOW HG], Thee ago. in nearly the aame;|edge of ight wenersiship end rine [tar Pens & MAY of fie ing that AnJon tho renult, = m_in_his_punches, the| pact of his right will be terrific. f eG Wee Dempsey is 29 and Firpo 27. Hardly|craft. A Veteran of man 4 ly accept empsey possesses the confidence| steam that flattened the gigantic Wil-| Let one of those Iand in the ri bi v ; y toning Y battles,| method. But it {8 a mothod that tw |b . a fF Soatt! 120010 enough to make a difference, except |and with tho experte Is no} spot, and Mr, Dem mx # nough ¢ i” att 4 wi perience of meeting| natural to him, and ttf 4 - orn of the knowledge that he {ts the/lard in a round, then there {: it, and Mi sey can bid fare i bh eae ae seal ortho ‘atha’| at 321028 that Dempsey for four years has|the best men in his division over &lawkward as it acems, 18 not Imetian | cnn. Firpo has pecullar men-| question as to the winner. Dempsey, | well to his title, -, Shay ‘va at Ap - Bs Bee Aneeiee 0 5 ¢ 4 ® ‘ reigned ax chantpion, with all the at-| period of years, he far excels mich, tive seems, ta not ineffec-|tality, He Is possessed with the fdea/with his greater ring Reneralship,| Summing up, tt would appear 7 . pa b 3 tendant pleasures and temptation. who has had but 20 fights in his! Wirpo : that hoe is destined to be the world’s|and with the edge in boxing and| Dempsey has a great advantage jn’ a aa Dempey will weigh bout 190|career (10 of thom in this country),|boxer but that In ime ee ecetul | heavyweight champion. spesd, will drop Senor Firpo inside |ring-craft, an edge in speed and box. ; C¢ RICHARDS NOW pounds when he enters the ring,|and those fights against men who. ‘ies yA Minas He Meus Ee To| To him, there is no possibility that]of four rounds. ing ability, with the advantage of i y Kirpo about 210, at the best, were no better than seo-| with his full stren: ih lath landing |he can lose. Fate has appointed him| But in his training, both at Great | weight and reach with Firpo. Con- 5 A PREP COACH 4 In past battles Dempsey has given |ond-ratern, And this Firpo Wen poe 6 Pa to a high pines, and Dempsey fs just) Falls for Gibbons, and in his present | fidence and courage are equal > ounichonwer .|eway weight without affecting the| In boxing ability Dem t Kos (0 do. /one more obstacle to be hammered | daily workouts at Saratoga, Dempsey | Strength is problematical : 1 Alma Richards, former Olymplc| bane nie—rane, "Welch, Orr result, and this difference of 20/agnin be given the preference, tho Raster Ln aorta hale BR Would seem to have shown that the| inclined to. believe Pegg games star, 1s now coaching the Hood lawn, Raeeitiog” Bite widred, pounds will not favor Firpo to any|nat to such an extent am mom pie: he ners : Aika pl thar real, Ambition also plays its part, Firpo/old punch is weakening. His fight|has a tremendous advantage. « E at the Lincol 1" “ad extent. Should Firpo, in clinches, | ple 6 han all to gain, nothing to lose.|with Gibbons indicate tee eras ie ios Lincoln hight | o¢ gamo—1:59, Umpires—Heardon and ' i r inches, | ple imagine, by the iru. ied ie necaltine cane: is 3 Wa an ine "i } ‘ eated, too, that his! Such being the case, the fight will et school, in ( Finney. an ig ‘ empsey has all to lose, and not , ‘ eles, e lean on Demprey, his greater weight | Neither Dempsey nor Firpo are or-Isey in of tho rushing, crouching, [te coun thing | punches hed lost ouch of thelr for-| probably go the limit, with Dempeay

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