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Show Rickard Confident -Firpo Will Give Jack Good Fight SARATOGA SPBtNOS. Aug. II TS Richard, wlio la s-routollnf tha itatm plonahip fcalila btiwrta Jack Dapit .ni Juula Plrpo. ia of tha opinion that Flrpo has aa ares chasca wits IXma-my. IXma-my. mr.it so eapraaae. bimavli' la tea hrarltas of Dampaey m hi arrival bar. In i ha courM nf a roitveraat Ion aa I ha rem ins arras, Kickard tv vast to litis aapf "itsn: "Wiir. I think that Flrpa la as avas momy i hanca with lumpwr, ha if a aiiung fellow, who ha learned a lot. Ha ha a fcati-r rtrord than Harry Wills. Ha ben coins alcf flshting regularly, whit inpa-r ha ba loallns. Why, titer la a chanea that h will maka Inipry blow up if Jack cas'l nail hiss Ulckl)." And then, as Dampaejr had strolled Into lha croup anyl wa listening ta tha remark vi tU ptomoter, Richard cuo- I tlnud : -1 "I betlev h will aland as snd a beat In for iftwn round and liU ha lb re with th k, nockiwi punch," Dmry, confident of hi ability ta hand I lti AnnilliM giant a handily aa he haa hi pat ehallansara, apparently appar-ently ban tn (-! hi skin Itch a llttl Mt and broke trio tha ronvraacIn with tha declaration that If Kfrpa tha bat tar man ha Umpy) waut him to ba cha mplon. "Iiok here, ri," ha said to Richard. "If thia suy I a better fifhtar (has I am. I want him to be champion. A Inn a Jack lmpey bold th tit la, I want him to b iha beat flabirr In tha game. That why I wnt to right Wllla." be added, reverting to in subject sub-ject of a rmpeywill match. "A lot of people think b can baat ma. If h can, let him do It." |