Show DEMPSEY FIGURES FIRPO A A. A ciNCH CINCH TO TO LOSE LOSE IF IF F THEY THEY EVER VER- VER FIGHT AGAJ AGAD i Chami a Wll May ay Meet Next labor Day ay J Demps Should Not Get Touched Touch d in Return Dempsey y Match h With Fi Firpo o Edgren Says f 1 By Robert Edgren Gaels Gaels' Ja Tack l Dempsey says that he knows plans about Billy BUly McCarthy's McCarthys Dempsey FIrpo and another tor or York day daYI In New Sight fight next Labor Labar Shut hut that ho he will be bo ready for anything h hat Labor comes day along Is a a. ion long time ahead and and anything can happen before that tha that Dempsey jempsey said But If It Firpo shows that he Is in shape for fOi a return match and the tho public and the promoters pro- pro to shall shan be easy I want It It I talk to Firpo Is entitled t tp a return re- re a turn match he sure gave me nie fight while It lasted t first sock he 1 r l I wont won't forget that th me when I missed my first 1 Punch Wouldn't it have been a Joke had dropped me and it that punch knocked me tout out with one J had blow Can you ou imagine how many i people would have said I was waa a cheese champion only Y waiting for the the first knock me off I good man I I met to for carr carrying car car- legs good J I can thank my minte min mm- r Ing me me right along there for a Ineer 1 for r i head gone tite te when my hea was never neer did remember much about that first round I r dont don't think Firpo would have under punch like 1 that alt al- al tood up a them t tough though ough he did take a bunch of I Ii and nd kept on getting up Guess didn't get him Just right or he would have haver lava lava- stayed down own sooner but I 1 was not In any condition to time and place them the way vay ay I wanted to Hei He HeIS 14 i IS a a big tough strong fellow fellow and end endgame him tame game I shall enjoy fighting again I aln Just to see s e what r F can do now that thai I 1 W a little more about it H if I fight Firpo again Labor day I shall think I 6 other time I c any Ift I last time In about as Quickly as with the i J wont won't try to get that bird ft stand still punch again and then Tand and sock with him like a longshore longshore- man That is throwing away science and trusting too much to luck lucI Next time I shall fight him in an entire entirely but it may not look different way different from the ringside On One I am not going g to push my chin in itt the way o of his right hand han the the way I did last trip I wont won't gly give chance chanco to land that tha him any more right than I have to Firpo Firpo- may no noba not confident and aggressive nex next ba be so eo time lime After all I 1 knocked him out A A- SULLIVAN TOUR FOR FIRPO Billy McCarney and Hu fluh h Gartland trip f ho handled Firpo's barnstorming fore Firpo fought Dempsey expect John lohn Firpo through a regular to put tR he returns from J. J Sullivan tour when South America in April But Instead ef r Coiner Mn In around the country meeting i I kill all 1 comers i ri- ri the way ie-way way vay John I. I L.- L. did when The f he was at the top of his form FIrpo about a dozen bouts with j t will take on I heavyweights In different parts of th the country o n It not be to find a a fd d zen good goodmen men who will be ba willing t to tb take tak a chance with the walloping t 1 I Argentine Ar entine and find perhaps perhaps- some of ot them their will give him a battle Soldier Jones I pi t Canada who Knocked out Jack Renault a couple o of times and has a habit of or knocking C Harry flarry Greb down whenever they meet ift iff ih the ring might produce some act ac- ac t t tn n although he weighs o only ly about t 1 ISO Q Jack Renault would give him a 0 light for Renault Rena lt has speed and J science clence as well as a pretty fair punch confidence through and and has has- gained knocking out Godfrey Herman Fullon Fulton Fulton Ful Ful- ton on Floyd Johnson and a few others Bothers era unless he Is discouraged Floyd would o ld give Firpo a fight Tiny Herman Her Her- man nan with his wild wallop and a lot of Midwestern heavies could fill up the String and such a list of bouts scattered scattered scat scat- it red around the co country probably make malte more money for Firpo than a return match with Dempsey J CINCH CINCH I fj N NEXT FIGHT But u Jack Kearns Dempsey's manager man- man ager not think Firpo's handlers handler are going to take any risks Firpo will not be any better than i when then he fought Jack before because 1 ii Ife is is- not hot going t to learn anything betWeen be- be tWeen now and Labor day if there theres there's therean W s an offer worth considering for a Firpo Dempsey fight on that date paid eid ld Jack Kearns when I called him mi bli the phone Po Going aroun the country getting setups setup never never did did any fighter any good That is what they are planning for Firpo He He will win be dragged around meeting easy Casy as long as they i. i js can n take any money at t the gate He Hevont fight Tight Renault or anybody else ont v him trouble There are 1110 might give I r wo wo or thre three heavyweights around who might take Firpo All An it needs is is' is isa a flinch on the right spot pot He is not I 1 hard t to tb knock down Jack proved that 1 lie He will wm be easier next next- time because toe will wm not have so much confidence II They are not going going- to take any chance of spoiling Firpo for the show business and another big title fight I that means mean that they will wIlt give film mm a bunch of saps to fight He will Tho learn anything from knocking oer o. o er A few Cew saps it may even make him careless and start him to pull pull- 1 Trip tf his punches J What What would woud I I rdo do with Firpo if I Tid him W Well ll Id I'd never want Firpo Jack Dempsey is alive aUve and has hns hand to hit with and a leg to stand standon standon standon on But if I were Firpo's manager 1 I would woOld handle him the way I handle handled han han- dle Dempsey I would out the biggest and pId toughest of or them and send I him thIm In to knock them out or to be knocked out He would learn something something some some- I thing in every fight and if it ho he had the stuff In him he would fight his way y J a ay up If It he didn't have the stuff well well the sooner some sucker socked the better Metter If they handle Firpo that way he may be bo dangerous yet ut if they Just go out to pet get tho the easy easy money taking no risks and ig the tough ones he is going to be beso sort so t picking for someone Jf If he is handled that way they will not no have to ring xing the bell again at the of endl ot the first round With pith Jack it I wont won't last that long Iong FIRPO MUST USE HIS LEFT There are several things Firpo will peed need to learn through hard experience In the ring ring He must watch the man he Is fighting not turn to look took at atthe atthe atthe the referee He must get up quickly after taking part of th the count If ho hoIs hoIs hoIs Is knocked down not get up so slowly that his opponent has as time to cross half halt the ring after FIrpo's hands and knees have left the floor and patch satch him unguarded And find he will have havo to learn to use his left hand as freely and naturally as his right There never was a champion yet who yet who could not use his left hand in a fight Sullivans Sullivan's right was his best but buthis buthis buthis his left was nearly neaTly as good Corbett was a left hand Jabber and little else FItzsImmons hit hardest with his left Jim Jeffries was naturally left handed and his left was his best punching hand Jack Johnson used either hand equally well His Ills left uppercut was wasa a pippin Jess Seas Willard boxed well with hl hI hiS hiS- left seldom using the right except when he was trying for a knockout I II Dempsey naturally had a a. a good left I and he has developed it until his left lefthand lefthand lefthand hand punches ar are most dangerous He lIe says that is because it is easier to get et a punch through with the left lefthand lefthand lefthand hand the target being In a less protected protected pro pro- position for a left handed at attack at- at tack A fellow with only one hand In a fight is like a quail hunter In a fly flyIng flyIng ly lyIng Ing covey with a single shotgun Copyright 1923 by the tho Bell Syndicate Syndi Syndi- cate Inc |