Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hundreds of shops displayed in their windows pictures of Firpo and of Dempsey...
...Music stores sold "Firpo tangos...
...tobacconist brought out a "Firpo cigar...
...life-sized Firpo manikin, arrayed in a checkered bathrobe and placed in the window of a sporting goods store, attracted such crowds that policemen were called...
According to vows taken by Jack Dempsey at his Saratoga camp, Harry Wills has eliminated himself as a championship possibility. Wills, through his manager, Paddy Mullins, attempted to stop the Firpo-Dempsey fight with injunction proceedings on the grounds that he had a prior right to meet the champion. Dempsey had asserted his intention of meeting Wills shortly. Now he will never meet him. Not until some promoter waves $400,000 or more in his vicinity...