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Show Love of Food Is Ending Fighting Days of Firpo Luis Firpo, meteoric boxing glove sllnger frorn South America, is through as a pugilist capable of drawing draw-ing huge crowds to see him perform agulnst champions and near-cliam-plons. The powerful "Bull of the Pampas" Pam-pas" is ending his fighting days In Europe with a knife, a fork, and a spoon. His love for food has become greater and greater and his indulgence indul-gence has kept apace with it. Heavy eating, plenty of sleep, Idleness, Idle-ness, and almost complete Inactivity in so far as training is concerned has sounded the death knell for Luis Firpo. The ring wajrrtor who once was built like a swarthy Apollo, sleek of arms, sleek of legs, and with a torso that rippled with beautiful muscle power, now is reported to weigh In the neighborhood of 280 at least 05 pounds over his fighting weight of other days. Fat eddies oround his neck, around his shoulders, on his arms and legs end maswes of it now obscure a once splendidly defined waist line. And so Luis Firpo is through n relic of other days and the tragedy for hira lies in the fact that he has killed off chances to earn at least 250,OO0 more because he couldn't control his appetite. |