Show Fhi Firpo Remains Enigma of f Ring in Spite Ste of 32 Rises From Stevedore of Buenos Aires to the I Heavyweight Challenger in Five Years I I NEW YORK Sept 10 Luis Luis Angel Firpo who meets Harry Wills at Boyles Boyle's Thirty Acres Acres September September September Sep Sep- 11 remains the enigma of the prize ring although be e is 19 a veteran of two thirty-two battles during dur dun rig ing the five years of ot his career When the giant Argentine ent enters rs the ring to fight Wills wms for the right I to challenge Jack Dempsey for the heavyweight championship of ot the I world his course of w i JJ lJ be I hidden behind an inscrutable n mask ask i His chances of victory will rEstI rest I upon the use he Tie makes ol or a tremendous tremendous tre tre- tre I right hand and rind powerful bod body boly i Violating methods of 1 training Ignoring ring technique I and scorning scientific boxing FIrpo Firpo Fir FIr- i po once a a. stevedore on the docks I at Buenos Aires employed the elemental elemental elemental ele ele- ele- ele mental equipment of a fighting I heart a rugged body and a powerful powerful powerful power power- ful right hand to battle his way waves of criticism and knock the marvel of modern heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champions Dempsey out of ofa ofa ofa a ring a a. year a ago o. o A rugged body motivated by a track single mind a stubborn will willand willand and fearless courage earned for Firpo the name of Wid Bull of ot the Pampas during his rise to fame which constitutes one of ot the tha picturesque romances of the prize ring Born October 29 1895 in Argentina Argentina Argentina Argen Argen- tina of an Italian father md and a I Spanish mother Luis grew tip up as a II bootblack an odd job man and graduated to the manly occupation of stevedore Labor was Irksome Irksome- I observers claim t that at Luis still shirks heavy work during his training periods periods and and in 19 1917 j two months after he witnessed his first prize fight light Firpo ent entered red the ring and was knocked out in the first i round by Ang Angel l Rodriguez V now retired j The setback only angered the fu fuI future fu- fu I ture tune Wild Bull who bowled over a r score of amateurs before his firs t I proC professional fight In September I 1919 with an Amer American William Williim Daly Daiy won by knockout n in seven rounds and had eleven other knockout victims to his record lec- lec ord when he first came to this I country in 1922 I Firpo ya was met by no bands or public acclaim when he first arrived ar or- rived here Landing 1 r ly he trained In cellars I fought of off I hunger but never thought of abandoning aban aban- I the career which he had chosen When an opening came he knocked out Sailor Maxted l Italian Jack Herman and Joe McCann l be before before be- be fore returning to Argentina wh where re he won his first big purse In beatIng beatIng beat beat- ing Tim Tracy an Australian Since that time Firpo has been In the public eye ee He lie came to this country early in 1923 and knocked out Bill Brennan Jack Jacc 1 I and halted a comeback by Jess Willard Villard Before each fight his equipment was ridiculed and It was freely predicted that Dempsey I would easily conquer the crudo crude workman from rom Argentina But th the champion was knocked down twice and hurled out of ot the ring before I he beat the Wild Bull to the canvas can can- v v vas s for the seventh time co jo wm will by a knockout in two rounds in inthe inthe the most spectacular prize in history I Firpo grew in business sagacity as he advanced an ad ed in power He manages manages man man- man man-I ages his own affairs combs the country in b barnstorming flurries i and end his financial bouts with TOY rex I Rickard and other promoters h have v attracted almost as much attention as his fights in the ring In the midst of ot negotiations for fora a return match with D Dempsey the Wild Bull suddenly announced that he was through with eith prize fighting but when Rickard of of- of more mor attractive inducements he changed his decision In own country he has been regarded as a national hero because of the attention he attracted to the tha South American continent He is now Implicated with immigration authorities authorities au au- au- au here In a tI legal battle which has a woman In the back back- ground Firpo won twenty-four twenty of or his two thirty-two battles by knockouts and se seven sen n decisions His knockout by Dempsey was the only r reverse verse of his his' professional career The comI com com- n bout with Wills s is considered I by the Impatient Wild Bull Dull as a n amere amere mere preliminary to another championship cham ham I affair with Dempsey I |