Judge — October 13, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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LUIS FIRPO, MARTYR TO THE CAUSE by Edward Anthony of The Morning Glory, “for the simple reason that he ate too much. Whoever heard fighter in training for a c! pionship bout eating as Firpo did? Two pounds of steak for a meal! And two and_ three dishes of ice cream at a sitting! It’s ri No wonder Dempsey played so hard for his stomach. That's the one sure way of weakening a man been gorging himself. Perhaps Firpo will learn his lesson. He made a fine show- ing for a man who stuffed him- self, all through his_ training period, like a starved servant girl at a German picnic; and if he gets a return match and doesn’t go out after any eating records, he ought to come close—even closer than he came this time—to knock- ing Dempsey’s crown clean off his head.” “Tnexperience—there you have, in one word, the story of Firpo’s defeat,” writes Bill Blarney of the sport staff of The Afternoon Nap. “There have been many explanations of Firpo’s quick defeat, but there you have the one and onl, The V Bull of the Pampas is green. He—" But, gosh, aps we'd better change that. Whoever heard of ¢ bull? As Gelett Burgess almost said: I've never seen ah T never hope to But [can tell you this, old bean: I'd rather sight than fight one. tlous. Well, at any rate, Bill Blarney goes on to say that Firpo should have had “some more fights under his belt” before he led as g a fighter as Dempsey perience is a great teacher,” observes is astute critic of the manly art, “and experience is what the Argentine wild- And improvising Chinese poetry OF CULTURE Sketches by Oscar Howard man lacks. Only after a long series of fights will he learn the absolute necessity of doing something with his left. A one-handed fighter never got very far. It’s the fellows that can sock with both hands who cop titles. ‘Two hands with a kick are better than one. Any student of the ring pastime will tell you that. Firpo will have to learn to use that left of his or he'll never be a first-rater. For all the use he put it to against Dempsey he might have entered the ring with the darned thing off. Here's hoping ‘One-Arm Luis’ gets wise to himse! He'll be a great scrapper if he does. his handlers ha sense at all they'll keep him busy fighting all year. That's the only way he'll learn. See if ’'m not right!” And quantities more of the same. If. If Toor Tevtem, sporting editor of The Morning After, views the situation differently. “You can’t get away from it —Firpo made a big mis- take when he let Jimmy de Forrest go and hired an Argentine iner. I'm d have won with an American trainer but he'd have had adarned TheArgentine aristocracy wants attention called to the cultured side better chance. Firpo was not the trained athlete Dempsey was. Anyone could see at a glance that the champion was in better condition. No good American trainer—especially Jimmy de Forrest would have permitted Firpo to enter the ring weighing 216 pounds. The man was at least twelve pounds overweight. Minus the surplus tonnage the South American cave-man would have made a much better showing. As it was, he came darned near knocking Dempsey into an ash-can. The next time Luis fights Dempsey—if there is a next time—he'll probably see the wisdom of doing some real training and removing the unnecessary beef around his. mid- (Continued on page 30) comicbooks.com