The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 15, 1923, Page 12

PAGE 12 BY LEO H. LASSEN ACK DEMPSEY may not be the greatest heavyweight that ever wore the world’s championship crown, but his slugging match with Luis Angel Firpo last night in New York proved that he is a real cham- pion and worthy of the crown that he wears. For the first time in his career as cham- pion, Dempsey was knocked off of his feet, the press stories saying that he was lifted clear off of the floor and thru the ropes in that first rotnd. Dazed and groggy, he climbed back in the ring to weather a storm of right-hand punches rairled upon him with all the savagery of the Argentine, Champ of 3 Can’t Hit or Box, but | j Middle King Gets by on Windmill Style 3 BW YORK, Sept, 15.—When Johnny Wilson was mauled out from under the middleweight cham pionship by Harry Grob, expert opin. 4 fon was more or less vind! i. the only comment made about Wi! son as a champion was that he would lose the first time he met a good op. ponent. During the reign of Mike O'Dowd and Wilson the middleweight class fell into low estate and became al most poverty-stricken in class. It will hardty improve in the hands of Harry Greb | Greb, unfortunately, inherits a ti- tle that Dempsey, Fitzsimmons, Ketche! and others made synony- Mmous with sock, and he cannot live up to it any better than Wilson did. ‘The new champion {s a freak. He cannot hit and he cannot box, De spite this he has become one of the Most invincible fighters in the ring, because he is possessed of remark able endurance and a crazy style of fighting that no one has been able to solve. He is also about the foulest fighter in the business. He depends mor or less on trespassing to the rage edge of the rules if not in open trans gression. Because he has been al lowed to get away with it he makes capital of holding and hitting. gous ing, heeling, elbowing and butting. After winning the championsh!: Greb announced that he intended to} fight in the future in his own class and that he would not mingle with OH, UNCLE AMOS ~~ LISTEN “To How T CAN READ MY FIRST READER~ "SEE DJOUN WITH THe APP-LE'2= JOHN HAS WILL JouN EMT ALL OF “HE APP-LE ? No, Jou WiLL SHARE YT WIth HIS LYT-TLE z SIS-TER, DOLIN = WASN'T “THAT GOOD READING, And Dempsey stood the test. He proved that he can take ‘em, He came back in the next round and, according to the reports, he knocked Firpo dead It proved also that Dempsey hasn't lost his punch, but still has the dynamite that brought him the world’s championship. He's a great champion, and-has a long time to reign S for Firpo, he proved himself a worthy challenger, altho the greenness that was thought to be his great weakness must have been his undoing. He had Dempsey in a bad way in that THE SEATTLE STAR first round, but couldn't put over the finish neat haat that jumps into the spot- ing blow. light as an aftermath to the Dempsey- Firpo’s mighty right hand carries all the Firpo sensation is the question: Did Demp- kick that they said it did before the fight, sey carry Tom Gibbons in their Shelby and the big wild bull was a wild man in- fight? deed, With the year’s experience, that he They said that the champion had lost-his wanted before meeting Demps behind wallop, but he proved last night that he still him and with a smart trainer handling his has the old kick. At Shelby Dempsey. made ring instruction, Firpo might have been a no effort except in the 15th round, to fight different proposition, Gibbons, He contented himself with box- And don’t think that he won't get an- ing the challenger, while Gibbons held on other chance one of these fine days, because and ran away, his showing warrants it. Give Tex Rickard In the 15th round of that bout Dempsey another year in which to smoke the battle cut loose with both hands and Gibbons hung up and the boys will cfash the turnstiles for on like a leech. another million-dollar gate. Greb Freak (OUR BOARDING 1 BOARDING HOUSE eee | AHERN | ORATORG R \ TEN Wh Wi ORTE light heavyweights and heavy: | champions—‘I'm going to be a fight. | ing champion. I'l) meet ‘em as they | come.” | If Greb does intend to fight in the middleweight class he will do very) Uittle fighting. as it was obvious in the Wilson fight that he is not good | at 360 pounds. He has not lived a0} tain his form, or what form he has. THE OLD ARGUMENT |terday’s game. modern brand of champion ts as good | “&s the champion of the past decade. Sea AB. Ff |Lane, of 2 Johnston, promoted at the Yankee | stadium, caused the oid-timers to|c “feel deeply insulted when he ex- pressed the opinion that Benny Leon- tone ard and Johnny Dundee were the | rr, “greatest of all champions at their weights. Johnston had the Leonard-Dundee fight in the making at the time and he might have had a mercenary mo- tive in mind when he said that Leon- ard was better than Joe Gans ever ‘was and that Dundee had more class than Terry McGovern 2 ‘These arguments can never be set- fled. Even some good judges who aw Gans and MeGovern in their prime and who have been watching “Leonard and Dundee are divided inj ycarrott - their opinion. Robertson, p . No arguments, however, will be > SSH ELL icles] eee Totals ....-+. a1 but now the middleweights are per- ers. son 1. Struck out—Grege 9 Bases on ‘DEMPS! balls—Jones 1, Hanna 2. Stolen bai EX ON Baldwin, Home run—Rohwer. Two-bare THE STAND hits—Yaryan 2, E. Baldwin 2. Sacrifice ne, Double play—Trombiey Jack Dempsey has been held up as| the best of all the present champions apd one more in keeping with the prestige of the past, but old-timers cannot be convinced that he is as good as “John L.” was in his day, |S" Franclaco . hits—Orr, to Griggs. Time—1:25. and Reardon. eccoerccccccoFal He emumoce The Seattle | aN "One very good source of argument| slugger got a pair in the | ‘with old-timers is to suggest that the | double-header the day before. | The two teams meet twice) Violent words were hurled back| today and twice Sunday. | ‘@nd forth recenyYy when Jimmy} THE ee q eoncoucccocer =| umenuncer 1 advanced by this generation that) «patted for Hanna In ‘dani, | Matte. cit is made Harry Greb is a champion worthy| tRan for Smith in eighth. bee e ; ~ to follow in the footsteps of the old |, Score by innings: et ead ieee ian tke P Seattle ..rccssvees 04012000 1-5) De" has been doing lately, | middleweight champions. Up to re.|““Hivs ° losorzoos-—nl C ey ' cent years the middleweight division | Los Ang: ~0000010 : = 4 | eieider, mm Nt “fl “ reaeees on! : “i je 0020 — le a: ne lor o has always produced great fighters, a Sidi sedes b Hanna 4. | &#tAte business. Twombly is sald to have |. Charge defeat to Jones. Rune responsible * 7 Taps the worstof all the poor fight*|for—Jones 6, Grege 1, Hanna 2, Robert-| {hint he can't afford to give his time to Um PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE 104 Mi "BN OVE ALN 1 EXCELLENT! HAW, MLA “e WHEN I ATTENDED SCHOOL, I HE SIMPLE PRIMER BOOK, AND CHOSE "PLUTARCH'S LIVES FOR MY FIRST READER « \MAGINE ME, & LAD NOUR GIZE AND NEARS, READING “To WE AMAZED CLASSROOM, PASSAGES SUC AND IW DUE “TIME “THE ATHENIAN D-To ALEXANDER MBER, ~ IDOMENUS, DURIS, DEMON) DEMOSTHENES, POLNEUCTUS, EPHIALTES, INCURGUS, MOEROCLES, CALLIGTHEN) AND CHARIDEMUS “= MIND ALVIN, 1 WAS ONLY A LAD OF NOUR AGE! SCORNED HAS THIS ~~~ “his rounds very muen ye voe ott V CQL Baa) Tiwirls ‘Tribe to Win Over Angels; No. 31 for Rohwer OS ANGELES, Sept. 15—Vean Gregg, the veteran southpaw, twirled the Seattle In-| pion the ninth and put him tn the dians to an impressive 8 to 1 victory over Los Angeles here yesterday. Gregg let tie Pee ines ee hed tire Johe- Angels down with four bingles. | " The Indians garnered four tallies in the second inning. The visitors counted one in the) that he can take off weight and re | fourth, two in the fifth and one in the eighth. Los Angeles’ lone tally came in the sixth.| The first set: ELDRED, Beat Ray Rohwer, Seattle third sacker, cracked out his 31st home run of the season in yes-| NG struck It rich fn L. A. land deals and baseball. Summa, Diamond Dust Picked U p From Many Ball Leagues as who can hit is always in one of third atralght Texas league Mag. has been the pitching ace of the | Panthers all season. one-hit game xgainst the now with Cl by and kreat pltehing feat came against on Geiphia ‘end then following It ue’ wink'a| Tilden increased his lead ,to 4-2 in | Griggs, Loe Angeles « New York xreatest hurling stunte In the history of He went 18 innings with only PO. A. E. 2 0 @ 2 2 0 7! 9286 2 6 6| Miller Huggins, one of the most abused) Dudley Lee, the best prospect im the! 2 0 0 tn daneball ring the | We 2 a0 D Tork | #0 @ 2 6| Yankees, is coming into his own and if| stop Is aid to be w wonderful fiald 9 @ O|he should win the world’s series this|® pretty fair atte @ 0 @|year the tin-pan boys in Gotham would | of ci — — —J|have to admit that ke hae the stuff. — | mand 76 0 PO. A. E.| Seattle jumps to Oakland next week| Phil Stoner, the young pitcher, found 1 @ GJafter completing the series with Low| wanting by Detrolt this spring, 1 6 O|Ankeles Sunday. Then the Redakina| the ble reasona why Fort Worth te wl 5 1 6] come home to close the season, Vernon, | ning 4 @ 6 Onktand and Portland coming In turn, | He 0 0 6 4 6 0 The Seattle lab Jeft Willard Lasley, | 1 6 9) young pitching recruit, behind when they| Toward Ehmki © 1 1} took thelr last road trip of the season.|of hurling a hith 1 1 6 |The kid showed pretty fair stuff tn th 0 6 Ol few things he worked. Me will un 6 6 | doudtedly, be given another chance when | Yanks le a diamond record, and the Row- 0 6 6\the team gets home again ten hurler i# credited with one of the oo 0 “eagle Jack Doyle, veteran scout of the Chi- | baseball. 3% ijecato Cubs, may make ® deal for Walter|ono hit charked against him and that t Doyle has| was m scrateh by Lawton Witt tn the d with the| first inning of the kame with the Yanks, atting over hits of setting In & peason, Howard «zat; Quer-Confidence Is a eramento ma Dempsey’s record does not compare | portiand .- 7k with some of his predecessors, as he | Seattio a5 failed to deliver the only time he met | Los Angel ss aoe! Asclia (ram ya ‘Oakland 4 quarterback, may be a real blessing not want to stop Tommy Gib-| Vernon 9 prey rb Ca bons and that he had business rea- a: SE chetaatopay heen gons for holding him up thru 15] geattie s, Los Angele rounds will neither be entered on the| galt Lake 11, Oakland 9. accumulated over-optimism out of pe record books nor passtd on to pos-| Sacramento 11 Vernon ¢. the 60 odd gridiron prospects. It in| "°° d . improb t cGuern will par. Dempsey has very littlé chance to NATIONAL LEAGUE probable that M pi get himself on the books, even as the pest fighter of his day, Had he lial fought Harry Wills two years ago! Gincinnet and stopped him in a short fight he | Chicago would have had an almost perfect | #t- Loul claim to absolute superiority of his | jroeklyn class, but if he does meet and knock | phitade! ‘Wills out it will always be said that past his prime. Brow yn-Pltteburg In ) nhaserme past and present-day |°l4 ‘eather: have changed, Commercial atishs reese motives now actuate all the fighters, |Tv hin 000 once there was some glory in| petrott . The nue of u champion to inspire ajst, Louls .. tighter. Washington ‘Whe main idea now iy to get tho} Oniekiiphia , a money. Plenty of cash and a life of ;Boston ..... _ ¢ane after they have finished in the ring perhaps is more to be desired ‘than a lot of talk about their glori- Boston 4, Cleveland Bostoy 4/(Cincinnat! 0 (second gs Chicigo 7, New York rn RESULTS Chicago 1, New York 4 ous deeds after they have passed out.| Detroit 6, Washington 3, ‘As long os Dempsey, Leonard and the other big financiers of the game DUDLEY WINS of the way on the offense, In the|can be done, do not have to work for a living and as long as they cau live like dukes, ley, San Francisco parison to thelr predecessors, 0 pet. {ticipate in the Franklin game two Coach Leon Brigham of the East- 489|siders, has shifted Ralph Hopper! yyo94, ‘gai | from halfback to quarter back, plac-| handling the guard jobs with plenty ing Jud Smith, a 1921 man, in Hop-|of competition from second squad od defeated the big negro when he}, Cinclunall % Boston 1 (first game): | pers place, Altho a high grade slg: |'members, nal barker and a heady general, | ter, oe | got the work out of the men that) them, fighters it must be remembered that AMERICAN LEAGUE MeGuern did, the ee Bugbear tor Garfield BY JACK HOHENBERG , Qvarrie changing oft with them. Art HE temporary loss of Captain|Dufty, one of Jast season's wing. Joe McGuern, doughty Uttle men, is not eligible at present, but Brigham expects him to be ready for the game with the Quakers. field high in that it will shake atl] fank Cohen and How Esary are two tackles who will mean trouble backfieldmen of other prep school squads, both welghing in the neighborhood of 175. Esary has taken off considerable weight during oe weeks hence as ho had a throat op-|the summer, having lost 17 pounds ‘Sis eration’ vaxtorcied yeathniay, in three months, Ray Ritchie, Hol- ster and Moody are still very much in the fight for the tackle posts, Burns and Ralkowsk! are Wark still reigns at cen. 5 d The backfield presents a prob- MES HAVE St. \ouln', Philadelphia 2. Garfield adherents do ‘not expect|ivm ns there are two wots of backs ¢ postponed; |that the new pilot will be able to|with very little to choose between Hopper will probably pilot first team, with Carroll and Won Lost Pet. The Bulldogs engaged in their|Smith at the halfback posts, sil. first big scrimmage yesterday, with |verstone and Bill Shelley, however, 61 ‘623 | Dlg Chuck Carroll at halfback and|are always dangerous contenders, 6a .bo8 |ex-Captain Tif Wark at center do-| Harold Duffy i# playing fullback at 69 477 ing good work, Carroll is expected | present. 71 /4ag | to do the punting, passing and part) The Bulldogs may and may not 1" 400}of the ground gaining for the Gar-| win field aggregation, His 1§0 pounds | critics declare them to be the favor. backfield, | ites. ‘Wark, always a good dofenslve}which has held sway at center, seems to have acquired the | field camp since school started must should go well in the the champlonship, even tho The apirit, of overconfidence the Gar 9 knack of getting an opponent out|be overcome before any ral work This ty the only real OLYMPIA, Sept. 15.—Young Dud-|event of any Injury to the flaxen-|obwtacle that stands In the path of lored boxer, | haired one, Gordon McKinstry wil!|Coaeh Leon Brigham, and if he ia do not care to get peeved when| won @ referee's decision over Jimmy| be ready to take his place, successful in defeating this unseen are called ham champions in| Sacco, the Boston Wop, in an eight: Ellis and Howard Johnson are fill-| enemy, then great things may be round bout here last night, ing the ond positions with Al Me-| predicted for Garfield, It certainly begins to look like Gibbons )Game Argentinan Loses to Dempsey SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER Jack Dempsey Proves He Is Great Heavyweight Champion was carried, and if they fight again he ought to stop Gibbons ARRY WILLS is next in line for the championship. The big black will probably need several fights to tune him up for a chance with Dempsey, while the champion may take on Gibbons again be fore meeting Wills. But the Wills bout is bound to come, and it will be the climax, with Firpo being worked into another card. Dempsey is a young champion and he still has many good years ahead of him. The man who finally beats him will be a real champion. BIL L TILDEN RETAINS HIS TENNIS TITL Champion Wins Over ~__ Fight by Rounds Champ Is ROUND ONE wobbly and almost out on their TJORNStON _ vemer''r hed out of his foot Winner by cornpr and missed a left, | Fans shouted to both fighters | Knockout - * dack floored Firpo for a when they Tilden Wins Net Crown) count of four with » left to the | sorners for for Fourth Straight) J. Firpo sot up and landed a came out of the the second round, | A sR ‘The same furious battle was re |Ferocious Fight Goes to “Rear . short right to the body, sumed, with both landing al | Y ion Aft- Time in Straight Sets Desigaey tiseceh Wicko /kicht most every lead. Firpo shook World’s Champ | with n right to the Jew. mang | Dempsey all over with another er Many Knockdowns \ERMANTOWN CRICKET CLUB,| when the Bouth American arose | ‘errible right swini gy eal SD cegeagt ts a T philadelphia, Sept. 15.—William | Dempsey knocked him down Rel age sag coat sie BY HENRY L. FARRELL Tilden retained his title as Amer! twice again, back a little, Dempsey sma New W YORK, Sept. 15.—Beaten to fean tennis champion when he defeated William ch on, his ancient rival from| — Firpo knocked Dempsey out California. Tilden won the first set,| of the ring with » right to the 64; the se 4, 61, and the third, Jaw. and many a short right to the heart and re this aft. Dempsey landed two more | Firpo dropped on his face. and floored Firpo. Ringsiders had seen the blow thought Firpo had gone for the count, The South |?) “ American rose again to hts feet. 64, in the finals of the national Dempsey climbed back and He was Wocling othe the floor nine times, after he had twice downed the world’s cham pion and once knocked him entirely out of the ring, Luis Angel Firpo, wild bull of Argentina, was counted out in the second round of the most sensational and most say- plonshty | was battered all over the ring and mouth; his knees sagged ies Tilden won the title for the fourth by “a flock of terrific rights to and there was a wild, groggy Print lay isco fe paris straight Ume by taking the match| the Jaw, I ta’ ele piers)’ Diatohey’ P es nt sete It was sensational fight. The Polo grounds last night. in stead | him, and then shot With superior strokes, greater! gong rang and Dempsey hit Fir: pater = and a right that Between 85,000 and 100,000 speo swer and more stamina, Tilden out-| po with a short right after the landed almost at the same time |‘#tors saw the heavyweight crown Leeds throcet.the entire |’ bell cn tal sar topple three times from the scowl ateh, and the Californian could do ROUND TWo Firpo fell on his back and re | ‘2 brow of Jack Dempsey and they nothing more than offer spasmodic Dempsey tried a left to the mained there motionless while |". eg lioges pone sy Ps ratilen to tem the rush of the great| body and Firpo crossed with | the ccunt of 10 was tolled over [Pace three times because a cham vroaackia HGht toes, fe. pion with a champion’s brain didn’t Tilden, serving when play started,| — Dempsey hooked « short left The official time of the knock- |,26,,‘e fightiti Instinct when his Jost the first game. Johnston drop-| to the Jaw, conds of the seo | ben ne ped a love gamo when he'first serv Firpe was fieered six or seven pico! tbat 4 bse Perhaps no one will ever be abj ed. Tilden won the third game after) times for short counts by snap- Tremendous excitement pre- pee eae poarcor ier a peconp Johnaton ran it into dence, but the| ping lefts and right hooks that | yailed when the fight ended and vie tht ecco Han nore wan tied at two all when| shot over from the champlon at Firpo was dragged tohis corner, |ivas patterned after that far Johnston made his successful love| @ range of only a few inches, As he did in his fight with fire round at ‘Toledo when youn game. hy |p The fight then turned into'a | Carpentier, Dempsey picked up |Dempmy floored the plant” Jess The champion took the lead bY) free slugging battle, In which his vanquished opponent and | wierd seven times. winning the fifth Jopnstes won the | they battered each other around held him until his seconds made | Willard did not fight back, but sixth game and evened no score! =the ‘ . . sixth arse and evened. the. sete the ring until they were both a delayed.entrance to the ring. | rirpo got up seven times and went tiden's service and 4 by winning the smashed j went into a 4 3 le and made the score four all. Bad net back to the battle like the wild bull Uhat he has been called. ma BATTING AVERAGES | :22 22 eve defense, but Firpo lashed out in a ‘de: eighth game Tilden settied In the elg a frenzy of anger and desperation and —— er jerrora by Johnston and a nice soft | | placment by Tilden gaye the cham-/ PACHTIC COAST LEAGUE Mtrand, alt Lake Jenking Sait Lake o96 185 285 84 ” ston’a service for the 10th game and |2* 216 , Ban Francisco . ‘ons won the first pet at 6-4. oc gaa Sora coe us 2 iden .. 34607 3144 oe =| zron pagesie i cory os |Johnaton § 0 445 5 422 1-324) ™% Ban as ‘a |" Tiiden's greater power and super. | tener, Vernon at a lor stamina axserted iteelf in the sec. | Diane ‘Ratramente ase Pt ond set, when the champion proceed- : widgets ae : ed to run away from the Californian, | Pillson. Res Francisco us es In the firat five games Johnston was | X°ehler, Sacramento ai 4 able to win only the mecond when his | © salt ths ait of | service was helped by the champion‘s | Pick. Hacramento 128 5 errota. Tilden romped over Johnston | V*lls, Ban Francisco pr ‘. lin the sixth and seventh games and) alt Lake ae i won the second set at 6-1. os vias ese ae 2 ore second set: aleh, et pe " ar i 416444 4—26—-6 Barts Los Angeles. at 3 Johnston . 243221 0—14—1| Xildutt, San Francisco fe Johraton offered a game but rath. | Hannah, Vernon ... Ineffective resistance to the | Hendricks, San Francisco Bacramento .. ai } xopp, champion in the third set. After | Kopp. Tilden had won the first two games, foie Hg pony | the Californian rallied and made the | jrigh, Vernon core two-all by taking the third and | Twombley, Los An 4 ston blew up in| Vitt. Salt Lake | fourth games, se ae pty | es keesyrveraany ci the fifth game and Jot Cather, Oakland .. on errors. Fredericks, Salt Lak JOUNSTON, Seattle < | games when he won the sixth and /COMNETOR: Beste eco his own service at 8-6 Poole, Portland . Johnston rallied desperately and | Brasil, Portiand ; ew, 8 leco won the seventh gamo on his own | AFne. Ban Franclaco service, but Tilden came back and | Cooper, Oakland . won the eighth. Still fighting, John- on c prey . von | Atiett, Oakland . Sanyh ston mado his service good and won | Hot Oanleed jos the tenth game. Tilden then took | Sujtigan, San Francisco... the tenth game and won tho final! Read, Oakland ..... | Kigiin, Sacramento wet at 6-4. ROHWER, Seattle . The score—Third set: Coumbe, Balt Lake . Tilden 441248242 4—35—6 | MeNeote, Sacramento . Johnston 214426424 2—31—4 | Alten, Vernon ..... |cox, Portland . A crowd of 15,000 people saw the | Sox) Porianll match and the weather was clear | Crumpler, Portland . thruout the play, Bode, Vernon . Johnston entered the finals by de- | WELSH, Beatile feating Francis Hunter, Friday, 6- x Seattle 6-2, 746 and Tilden won over B, I. Rohwer, Sacramento. Norton, 6-3, 7-5, LEADERS LOSE TO PORTLAND Cochran, Sacramento . Angeles Oakland . riland . SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 15.—Port- land defeated the league-leading San Francisco club hero yesterday, 13 to 6. The score: R. H. EB, Portland . ... spielen aes San Francisco 6 12 4 LR en 1 Batteries — Eckert and Onslow;| yotie, Ban Francisco Scott, Buckley, Stanton y and Ritehle, rt pssst lee Gronrott, VERNON BEATEN Oni, Beatle YARYAN, Senitie . BY SALT LAKE | ohio, omaana « Stumpf, Portland aye SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 15.—| McCabe, Los Angeles ... Salt Lake won from Vernon here | Rader, Vernon Baldwin, Loe A yes pean ahaa Geary, San Fra : The score: R. HE. |WrentaMn, Seattle... Sou 6° PUYPANG | Soott, San Francisco « Balt Lake 11 13 2 |tatayette, Oakland Batterios—Murchio, Wellbanks and | Gould, Salt Take «0, 00. Read; Kinney, Gould, Coumbe and | Mitchell, fan rancieco Peters. Sutheriand, Portland . Brown, Sacramento . aktand . SACRAMENTO _| iit: °%attnio 2 SACRAMENTO, Sept. 15.—Sacra- Ryan, ‘Gacramento a mento easily defeated Vernon hero] pennor, Sacramento . yesterday, 11 to 0, Hughes twirled | Onslow, Portland .... Rreat ball. Crandall, Los Angeles . ‘The score: RW. B. om, wenttle Vernon . ...5 beeeeeee O 7 Sacramento . ... AL 11 Ratterles——May, ‘Cruze, “Rippey and Hannah; Hughey and Koehlor, M. MoGinnin, Sac TOBIN, Beate on MeAuloy, La Rott, Verno Tho New York Giants have drawn | Middleton, Pe 200,000 lons fans than they did up to | Myers. Salt Lake \... thin time a year ago on thelr home Mee onan eld, . Murehlo, Oakland Mateman and Team— G. aD RK BH, 28, 29. HN SH. 8B. 1 6 2 o 2 5 s ° 2 2 4 1 9 7 F ° ° ‘4 8 ° 0 ee eee ee ee ee re rr er three times he did what no other fighter has been able to do since Jack Dempsey became champion. He felled the champion three times. a7 35 17 Three times Firpo was within one sei 8 punch of the title and its million i Se | dollars in assets. Three times he si 6 had the champion punch drunk, 7 wow weaving around on the ropes, mu 14 6 groggy and almost defenseless. e t53 Thfee times with the crown right 2 4 22 351.250) in his hands, Firpo lacked the tech- 1 3 © .361 ...|/mique to finish it. He lashed out 19 16 11 246 349) wildly and missed. These misses $13 9 .346 .346} cost him the championship. 13 16 8 .844 .35¢] Dempsey was never nearer to be- 1 4 §& .346 350) ing knocked out in his life. He nevi © 23 30 443 can come closer than he did and 6 6 6 uaa cape. 19 1s 6 os The very first ‘punch of the figh a staggering right hand that seemed to come up from the floor, caught Dempsey on the jaw after he had Piel wee eet missed a left hook and the champion 5 31 10.336 went to one knee, 5 15 62 1235 Dempsey came up dizzy and he ae ga fought the rest of the round as tho 27 9 13.333 he were out of his head. He threw retreat caution to the wind, he abandoned all Pi tee Heat ideas of defense and tore wildly into 9 26 18 .330 the South American. The round de- is Hi oh ae veloped into the most savage exhibi- ete tae tion of free handed hitting that ever 3 T8 18 325 has been seen. 5 7.326 Showing great stamina and a ies 4 heart stouter than he had even been 1208 «3 322 thought to posses, Dempsey tore in 128 6 1314 and turned the tide of the battle 4 si ie i when 85,000 wild yelling fans jumped 0.6 eat to their feet and prepared to acclaim 0% «4 Js a new champion. 4 a 2. Under short left and right hooks sus a S to the jew and rights that threat te a ened to tear his heart out of his 2 7 0 side, Firpo went down seven times 4 4 ey in that first round. He came up 1 88 each time, not covered in defense, eae a6 but lashing like a wild beast in a Pa jungle fury. wares Another tremendous right hand 1 swing caught Dempsey on the jaw vo and hurled him bodily clear out of % the ring. Dempsey landed on the 23 shoulders of Kid McPartland, one 16 |of the judges, down in the press 7 pit. The count went to nine before ae oy the champion was able to pull him- He self up and back into the ring. 2 0 Dempsey flung out a crashing wa jhook, and Firpo went to the fl bpd The South American rose, flung as ce himself agai into battle and drop- 9 6 ped Dempsey to one knee with an- 1 4 9 other right that was flying around ane like the flanges on & giant fan, 23 46 Dempsey was weak-kneed and 9 groggy. His corner was panio- be stricken, and from the other side of 3 8 the ring frenzied instructions were ri being hurled at Firpo in Spanish. 2 But if Firpo heard, he failed to re- fa 280 | spond. 2 ‘ave !as7 | Jimmy De Forest, who trained 3 late ‘bez | Dempsey into the title and started 276 .286/ Firpo, sald that the South American. could have won with one short {Punch while Dempsey was on the 2279 | ropes, but Firpo, as experts had pro- .279/ dicted, lost his head in the heat of 278) battle and did not know how to get over the one punch, Dempsey was so obviously fight- ing out of his head that he hit Fir- 2/ po twice on the jaw with short night y{hooks after the bell rang. He Seemed ‘to know that the round had ended only when the referee grab- bed him and pushed him headlong ee ee ee ee er ee rr ee ee ee ee a ee ee ee re en re ees 260 .25a |fcross tho ring into his corner, #| The champion has always sho’ iS great powers of recuperation and “one |Tevived under the treatment of his i245 | Seconds. He came out cool headed .286/ and savage In the second round and Ht In 87 second of fighting he battered ‘eat Firpo twice to the floor with a left i208] hook ‘and a right to the jaw-that +++ [landed almost simultancously.