Show IS B MT B 8 Br t i W B i iss ss B F B B M B ANGEL FIRPO DEFIES E RING N G OFFICIALS CI ALS fi BI Bu M B i m B B B a B Ha 3 w a aS S sy B or i B a B B a Br wl A m 00 Sidetracks Romero Rojas Rofas I 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lodge Match Termed Joke South American Expected to Win Over Farmer Fanner and Ignores Boxing Commission By fly SPARROW NN MG S srM Special tC 11 r I Copyright 1924 1934 by the Consoli Consolidated dated Pro Pes Association EW YORK F Feb b Just 9 9 Just why hy NEW N Luis Lula Firpo defied the South n boxing In Sn the matter r ot of mooting meeting Rom Romero ro Rojas the Chilean ChlIan an heavyweight Is made mado madel clear clor In n a ft letter Just received by bythe bythe the writer from one ot Firpo s I closest friends In h Buenos Duenos AIred Alron What do I care about South American championship Luls Lulo Lul Is II quoted In the letter as remarking When I came camo to the United States as champion ot of South America I I I got tor for my first fight So Soi I that s 8 what It means to be cham cham- champton champion pion ot of o South Amoric I laugh Being champion ot of South America I Cham-I I in i nothing to me mo at It t all 1111 Any Any- Anyone Anyone one who ho wants It can have hoe It Iti I It If this costle colIc remark becomes Land Landone ono one must suspect that Luis Luls will o ha hase 0 to do more than talk 0 oer er erthe the radio to ISM with IllS his patriotic fellow countrymen NOW ow EN This Romero by the tho ay ay ayno no Is to Chile from Iranee where ho he certainly tore things wide open In South Amer Amer- AmerIca AmerIca America I ica this big Chilean who ho ho has haa a goodly mixture ot of Indian blood was vaa knocked out by everyone he ho met Dut ut Q a a year and a 0 halt half ago aso he ent cs ant antto I to Flan Fiance o and began to hand out ep wallops with great His best beat victory was over Marcel Nilles who vho would rank as q a poor second rater In this coun coon countr country I tr ir try I I Haling Hn Ing beaten Nille he chat chat- chal challenged longed Carpentier and then beat It for tor Bordeaux and nailed tor for Chile before Carpentier could snap the I bait Probably It If he thought I Firpo were really really- going to wait alt tor for torI his arrival he would jump lump ol ot the tho I boat Certainly It would bo ho mur mur- murder mur- mur murder murder der It if the tho two met While on the I subject of ot South America It II might I be observed that American mana mana- managers gore gers and ant promoters have hAvo things thing to lers I learn leun about the art t of ot bally bally bally- ballyhoo hoo boo This statement nt Is 13 made on I the tho hauls basis ot of tn findings In a sheet shee of oC a Rio Hlo Do Jan Janeiro iro pap paper r which might just hae have tome come Into this country The Tho Pan Am American bearing Hi Gartland to much gold and Farmer Lodge to hi his doom touched at Rio Klo In the middle ot of January Y and the two men were Immediately seize 1 upon bv by a band bant ot of sport port writers and dr dt It If the Argentine tan fan don t come around to meet tb the Farmer Fanner It II will not net b bo be because they hae ha no Interest In him but he bp coe they are afraid AnG T rIFflE One Ono ardent nt scribe PD aaa that Lo Is moro more formidable than In fact act he states Lodge so o greatly r resembles a the tho world orld s orid s champion heavyweight that Ula It if Dempsey and Lodge were walking do n street side aide b bv b side eide ou mIght pick Dempsey for tor or Lodge I sod vice versa This Thia statement gives gl gle e a 0 general line on the tho impression the e big set U up gave gau Interviewed concerning hi his opinion opinIon Ion aa as to the outcome of ot his battle with Lodge emitted sound Eco 90 ferocious and horrible as to re- re require re require quire points tor for almost eory when hen they were sere put Into t tipe pe It Is pointed d out by the RIo sport authorities that Lodge really ranks next neat to Dempsey In point ot of o a ability and t that at tome come peo- peo people peo people pIe even n think ho would prove tho the champion mat master ma r could coul 1 be Induced to en cn enter tor ter th the ring lIh Lodge Gartland himself was vas a bit mesa cautions lIe He says he thinks Firpo will beat bed Lodge Lodle and he- he cau be-cau cause e he regards Luis Luls a ai the equal ot of Dempsey Dempsy y also con con- coo con confirms firms Firpo's oa statement that the th Pampas puncher will UI not remain In South America to carry out the theordor orders ot of the South Am American box box- box boxing log ing In authorities that he accept RoJas RoJas s challenge for tor th the South American championship H He sas Hughey will accompany blot blotto to America late this month or early In March lie He stated that h had thirty good otters offers from America fighters tor for battles c with ith the tho p lid bull |