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...pointed out that this message was a few words longer than one which I wired to a Dinner Committee in Massachusetts that was engaged in promoting my son from Lieutenant Governor to Governor. In that message I said: 'Gentlemen: Can't come. Thank you.' " Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine Ape: "My father was released from the private insane asylum in which he has been held, being declared of sound mind. The release was ordered by Judge Llavallol following an appeal in which my father stated that he had been unjustifiably detained in the asylum at my instance." George...
...champion pugilist: "From Los Angeles, for the Hearst press, I wrote: 'The story sent out of this town to the effect that I am approaching the border line of physical wreckage is apple sauce-nothing but apple sauce, boys. . . . If any of the challenging kids-Harry Wills, Luis Firpo or Tom Gibbons-have an idea that I am not in shape to knock them dizzy, they are hereby invited to jump out to Los Angeles . . . I need sparring partners...
Questioned regarding the revival of boxing in South America, and the evident adulation accorded Firpo after his meteor-like rise in American boxing circles, Mr. Hopkins declared that much of Firpo's popularity has vanished after his humiliating defeat by the American champion...
...Says Firpo Gave Impetus to Boxing...
...foremost place in the boxing world has given to boxing a tremendous impetus in South America. I look to see several representatives from the southern hemisphere come to the United States in the near future, and while they may not occasion the world-wide interest which came to Firpo they will make apparent that in the future their countries must be considered as providing formidable antagonists which may, in time, even threaten the undoubted supremacy of the United Stated in this sport...