Word: firpo
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...girls near White Sulphur Springs on Saratoga Lake, N. Y., stood open-mouthed along the country roads when a hairy giant, scowling thunderously, went rushing by with great strides, followed by three other giants-two of them coal black, shining with perspiration, grinning broadly. It was Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine Bull Man, continuing his training for a fight on Sept. 11 with Harry Wills, black heavyweight, to determine Champion Dempsey's next antagonist...
During the week both Bull Man Firpo and Harry Wills found time to "dictate" statements to New York World reporters. Said Firpo...
...employed by the Bull Man was clever, colossal, crooning Black Bill Tate, his sparring-partner-in-chief. Tate has been teaching his enormous pupil what clinches mean, how to follow a right with a left. Tate predicted that Wills, famed for infighting, would have to change his tactics against Firpo to avoid being knocked "very loose...
...first time on record, the Bull Man boasted he would win. More important-for he is notoriously pinch-pocketed-Firpo offered to bet he would win in 10 rounds...
...lithe and dangerous. He had been training by running six miles a day up and down the ocean sands; by flailing and stabbing at two sparring partners whose weights aggregated 430 pounds; by keeping quiet, eating much, saying little. In Wall Street, Manhattan, moneyed men laid their wagers upon Firpo or Wills in the ratio...