Show Dempsey Would Shift Firpo's Name Around Argentina Boxer Same Type of Man as Jeffries Relies on Wild Right to Floor Opponents S 7 By Robert Edgren The truth about Luis Firpo was waa concisely expressed by Billy Gibson Just after Firpo knocked out Bill Brennan In Madison Square Garden If Firpo rp fights Dempsay with i inow I no more o experience e than he has now slow they'll shift his names around Instead of or Luis Angel Firpo they'll call him Luis Firpo Angel said Bill Bm That's what hed he'd be after leaving leav leav- ing lag Jack one of ot those yard ard wide openings s. S JI Jim Firpo Firno lr Jeffries tf is es spoken He of is as the another nearest i thing to Jeffries In physique seen sen In any ring since Jim Situ was in his prime He lIe is a II tremendous powerful power power- ful man LATE START IS HANDICAP It If they'd caught him young enough he might have been another Jeffries He ire is Js handicapped ed by makov mak mak- maks lug ing ov a ab rather late lato start t In the tho game now 26 years r of age He has had had only five fights of ot any y consequence On his first trip r to A America he knocked k Js out J th three thle 1 second rate heavyweights Sailor I r Maxted a lid in ds seven rI rounds nJ Joe McCann 1 nn in six and Jack Herman in five I Returning to the Argentine he wanted to show his wares vares at home and had no opponents So Jim Trac Tracy an Australian heavyweight who had appeared in New York and went down dowa to fight him and was knocked out in four tour rounds Since then Firpo's only fight was waa with Bill Bm Brennan Its It's no secret that Brennan was far past his best days as a fighter and that his two fights with Jack Dempsey had softened him as we say In In ring circles S HAS lIAS GREAT PROSPECTS I carre Firpo has a great prospects s If h ho ca can learn r how o to box He has is ish a I good active brain courage aggressiveness aggressiveness I and remarkable strength an and anu punch absorbing u a. a qualities a The h only question 1 Is whether her or I not he can realize that he must learn how to combine science with I his strength and start all over again I like a a a. novice to study scientific de do- do I de-I S te tense a and attack a Bob Martin r the e army champion might have become a worlds world's champion champion champion cham cham- pion It if he had not won each of his early fights S with I a a. wild right hand band punch He never r aa advanced i beyond e the point of depending on a o. right S hand to win LEVI HAND DOES DOCS WORK There never was a champion who couldn't use his left hand better than the tho right The Tho left hand does dod at least 80 30 per cent of the work In a fight defensive and offensive In normal boxing position It is two feet teet I in advance n of the r right hand which wi hl coIf is held back for o blocking f an art occasional shot when clean a a. openIng openIng opening open- open Ing shows Leading w with h the right hand from its drawn back position is a fatal drive when boxing a man mart who can take advantage of an openIng opening open open- ing and drive in a counter hit This Is where FIrpo much like Jeffries In physique is Js not another Jeffries Old timers will remember that Jeffries even as a novice was wat I a a. left-handed left fighter He lie IS S is left-handed left in everything writes write left handed shoots left-handed left an and i boxed with his right hand always C In position to cover his chin Hi His His' I left arm was larger than his right When Jeffries fought Bob FitzsImmons Fitzsimmons Fitz- Fitz sImmons he lie crouched to protect hi his I body from Fitz's Fitzs famous solar plexus plex plex- us punch and kept his right glove S and forearm anchored in fn a defensive defensive sive position covering his chin 90 SO that Bobs Bob's best punches could reach reath I him only on the tho upper part of the head JIM JUI WINS ROUT S WITH lUG RIGHT liT 5 Bob Dob tried every trick to draw tv Jeffries out of or th that t position and 1 failed Jim kept his left arm ex x cx- I tended and met Bobs Bob's rushes with ha hard In straight the second left tr round hand he punches n hit Fits on the Jaw with a left lett that lifted lilted Fitz into the air all and dropped him hint flat on his shoulder blades blades really really the deciding blow of the fight for Fits never recovered from that knockdown and fought wildly until the finish of the eleventh round The knockout came when Jeffries had knocked Iltz Fitz nearly out on his feet with a a. Jarring straight left on the the chin As Bobs Bob's hands dropped Jeff for the first time unlimbered that waiting right and sent over a terrific straight right hand punch that would have dropped an ox lIe He knocked Corbett out the same way caught him with the left hand and shed Entirely t over ry t the unlike waiting waiting- Jeffries right who was coached to fight scientifically under the direction of ot such old masters as Billy Delaney anti and Tommy Ryan Kyan Firpo depends entirely upon his swinging right FIRPO DEPENDS UPON RIGHT He leads with I the right Not only se f do does h he forget all about that i ol left hand but he draws his right back a au foot t or W ha two fh telegraphing the F punch u so that a fighter like Jack Dempsey would have of or time to step in and drive a sh short rt punch straight to Firpo's chin before Fir Fir- I t pos po's os o's wild right had covered half l its Journey journe 5 This is 15 the hardest punch In in boxIng boxIng box- box Ing lag for the receiver 0 of ol It Is throw throw- i ing ng his head bead and body forward with ht h his is own right hand blow doubling g t the he effect elect of or the counter To fight right Dempsey in the style Firpo Fir Fir- P po 0 used against Brennan would only I Invite t a pick tok knockout o ls Brennan gi w was as too o slow to take his o opportunities it lUes ies or there might have been a a. d different result J DEMPSEY WOULD OUID TAKE lAI T AKE Either that or Bill was buffaloed buffa buff b loed ed by the tho threat of or Firpo's tremendous tremendous tre tre- m right and didn't dare take tak e a a chance But Dempsey would take tak e i it t the first time the opening showed Firpo's right swing is a a. devastatIng ing m w punch if It lands but he be is i s wild w ild with It He uses the right t m more ore like a club than a battering g r ram am Dempsey's right goes straight t across cross a Firpo's travels in an arc arca arc arc- a slower and less accurate way o of ot f h hitting l i Less Ja Jarring too because a s straight driven t blow f with rh the tho fore forearm e arm a rm lined behind It Jt carries more mor e momentum at the point of Impact A Ar r s straight r k blow l I is also much u hardeo harder harde r t to o block fo than ri a curving I blow o Dempsey Is fully as hard bard to Jar Jaras jaras ja jas r a as s Firpo He Ho was WIlS only Jarred bacy back bac k rk b by y r hl hardest r r right o on th the e p point of the chin and i when he fresh fres r h Carpentier could hit Brennan socked socked sock sock- e ed d Dempsey often on the Jaw wit with h no visible effect Firpo staggered d under some of ot Brennan's blows earl early y i in n the tho fight FIRPO HAS liAS WEIGHT I HEIGHT AND REACH Firpo's r fighting gh advantages es ar aro e hl his height weight t reach and an d strength He Is halt half an nn inch over ove r six feet two wo His reach Is enal enal 79 79 inches His shoulders aro are broad and his chest is 44 I inches normal with an expansion of nearly six inches shows show the sources of ot his endurance He has a a. large h head ad high cheek hones bones and strong Jaw set set set-on On a short 17 inch neck In this he Is almost a picture of Jeffries He lie also has the grim de do- do termination that made Jeffries a fighter n when he was apparently badly dazed and d cut by Brennan's r punches edtl and the r referee r seemed likely rh to g stop the fight to save him he fr ato brushed the official as aside ean and went e after atter Brennan with a headlong rush JEFFRIES WINS INS TITIE WHEN 24 YEARS OLD Jeffries was only 24 when he won the championship and was ImprovIng v ing his boxing In every fight He lie started when he was 19 Firpo began began be be- gan boxing at 24 when his habits of ot mind and movement were already formed and hard to change Although l Firpo may not be another another an an- other Jeffries In everything he Is 13 by likely e sheer te teor to or orbi bi beat fury y a a. al and lot of persistence heavyweights tl and strength Tex Rickard is probably a good Judge When rl the of e fighters first iet ballyhoo ny He go goo gov o ought over v t n match to t be S tag ing Firpo with Dempsey went up ur C after the tho Brennan n fight a I said little Later he said 1 Firpo was wai I one of or the greatest heavyweights I prospects he ever saw but in ned need I of or seasoning His Ills Judgment was shown when he be I spoke of or matching Firpo against Billy rt oL s H Bob I Roper oper Jack Key Hey or Al Reich ch This would be bEl the Way to do develop t the Argentine giant k is S clever f rt but has little left of his old I punch ct as shown in his matches with Tom Ton I Gibbons who beat him easily Hoper is Just a f fair heavyweight heavyweight- Fulton 1 ft Jl Greb and Jeff Smith bent beat him last las i L I year ous since Jack c cR he e R Renault knocked g- g logt looks out tS Godfrey danger Jack Johnsons Johnson's big black find a few days ago but isn't yet a cham contender Al Reich neve amounted to anything after Cat Car Morris knocked him out ten year ago Any Anyone one of ot these would be a sa opponent for tor Firpo in a semi fin the da day Johnson and Willard Villard bo After that hat Firpo would be a a. goo card with the winner of or the John Joh son Willard fight S JOHNSON WOULD BE DE TOO CLEVER CLEVEn At present Johnson would pro ably be too clever for him and no body will know a anything hl abe abou Willard until n rOhe he has shown w li hi wares against lloyd Fiod The Tho way the cards lay it seen seem likely Firpo will meet the winne winn of the Johnson Johnson- Johnson Willard Villard hout bout abot abo July lr 4 a and the winner of the ever will be e matched t dv with Dempsey o Labor day Firpo Is willing and has a fight figh Ing heart He Is a a. giant in I and 3 If fOl he eb can develop I a left ba baand nan and hold back that bruising it p pun In his right for emergency use h hmay may upset all N the dope dol a and d cOot com co through u with colors m hying ing- ing n na One thins sure it would add lot of ot excitement ment to the boxing boxing- sit si situation situation to have a worlds world's champion from the Argentine Copyright 1923 i by the Bell Sy Syr e Inc |