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Show Luis Angel Airs Peeve At rioted Sport AYriters (Cnprrlrht, tn T7. B. and Can ada, by North American Newspaper News-paper Alliance. Copyright, Bouth America by tat Naclon. All rl(hu reserved). 1 By LaU Angtt Firpo ATLANTIC CITT. Sept. 1. It Is rime In ths t'nlted States that a Srlse flrhter ahould be a man of onor and keep his word. Home-times Home-times enhsn they rssd me the thtntre that people write about me 1 think that maybe they would like me bet. ter If t were a Her and a erook. Juat a few deys aso a famous boxtns; writer aald about me thet 1 was a fool to so on a trip boxlna In Mexico and Havana and enter tha flsht with wtliard at Jersey city when I ehould have he en la training for Dempaep. Afaybe the boklna writer who wrote that did riven rep word to promoters there before the fl(ht that 1 could corns before I knew that l waa to flsht Dempeey so soon. Some of the box ins wrltere aav that I went to Mex-. Ics aad Havana Juet to make some money. Perhapa ther do hot know that after I beat WUIard I had otters from promoters In America that would have mode me more money than I made m Mexico and Havana. They offersd me 1 1. villi Juet to flsht Martin Burke, In New Or-leans. Or-leans. I did not make mat muck on my whole trip t Cuba aad Mexico Mex-ico After I had whipped Wlllard I knew that I could make more money staying la the TJnltsd Statej than bp solns South, But I had already Wsn ray word aad In thla eaae my word was slven to brothsr Letln-Amerlaaas aad I would not not know the truth, I do not know. The truth ts that 1 did not expect ex-pect to flsht Compeer before next Sear. Mr. Rlckard Tied aent to uenos Aires for me to flrht Bill Brennan and then Dempeey within elpht monthe If I should whip Brennan. Bren-nan. Whan I came to the United States Mr. Hlckard made It a pear Instead In-stead ef elsht months Then pear would be up next March. Then, after I whipped Wlllard. Mr. Kirk ard asked me to flsnt Dempeey thla falL He aald that If I did do this It would Boon be winter and we could not flsht outdoor where a bis crowd eould pother. , Then, before be-fore It of warm again, so no could hold the flrht outdoors, hla acree-ment acree-ment with me would be ended. 1 had promleed to fight Dempeey for him when ha aeked me, ao I told him I would do what X had told him I would do. 1 told him I would rather wait another rear, for thea I would ba more sore of victory, but that I would keep ray word, ne matter what happened. Becauae I believe that T annul 1 keep my word when X Siva It. 1 went to Mexico and Havana. I had North America, nor to mane more sure that X would win tn enam-nlonihlp enam-nlonihlp of the world. If I must be liar and word-breaker to ba the kind of a prise flsht-er flsht-er that would aatlafy aome of the men who write about ma. thea I am afraid that thoae men w! 1 always think bad of me. I would like to speak about sn other thing that aome of tko box-Ins box-Ins writers aay about me. They aay that I am what they call wide open at all times, that I hav no defense, that anybody can nit ma Perhaps that la trus. Tha only thing 1 would Ilka to aay to them la that I have been a prise fighter loos enough to be fighting for the championship of the world and 1 have no mark on my face. 1 do not kave a cauliflower ear. I have never been put down for the count-Joe count-Joe McCann, who la now my sparring partnsr, hit' ma eo hard that I dropped to one knee and my hande for Veea thea a second. ft in up before the referee could begin be-gin to count, ' If I wag ne easy to hit aa they sap I am. does It not eeem that I weuld be scarred or that some one would have hit me hard eaough to knock me down, rrhepa Then they will ear that have never fought aay man that was sood. Thin I salt them who la there la Sood. They eald Bill Brennan would lick ma and when ha did not. then they aald Brennan waa no good. They eald McAullffe would lick me. and when he did not then they aald McAullffe never could fight. Then I licked WlUerd, ana they said that he Is aa old maa and waa never muck good even when be waa young. Somettmee 1 think that If I ahoutd be ao for-tuaata for-tuaata that I should beat Dempeey Demp-eey and become the champion of the world, then they will say that Dempeey waa alck wltk dlptherla the night ot the tight or perhape they w" aay then that Dempssy waa just an actor and all these years since ha beat Wlllard at Toledo To-ledo he waa only pretending to be a champion. |