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Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight of New Orleans, and Luis Angel Firpo, Pampas Bull of the Argentine, tentatively agreed to fight for a consideration of $250,000, 25% of the cinema rights to each...
...will be built in Connecticut, "not more than one hour from Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan." That indicates the Stamford neighborhood. Connecticut is the most desirable state because it puts no limit on ticket prices. In New York and New Jersey, $15 would be the limit for a Wills -Firpo (non - championship) match. July 19 is mentioned for a date...
...field of portraiture that Bellows' greatest talent is found. His oil painting, Introducing John L. Sullivan, clearly shows that he is at his best when treating his favorite subject-the boxing ring. This same subject is even more strikingly handled in his lithographs; the picture Firpo Knocks Out Dempsey is most vivid, both in the drawing of the naked, perspiring bodies of the fighters and in the faces and poses of the spectators and ring officials caught in a moment of suspense...
Luis Angel Firpo, "Pampas bull": "The Municipal Council of Guaymallein, town in Argentina, voted on the name for a new street. Five of the City Fathers thought the thoroughfare should be called Vicente Lopez, in honor of the author of the Argentine national anthem. Five others voted for Luis Angel Firpo. The tie necessitated the casting of the decisive ballot by the President of the Council, with the result that the street will henceforth be known as Calle Luis Angel Firpo. When some of the Councillors later took the President to task for voting for me instead of the patriot...
William Harrison (Jack) Dempsey, champion pugilist: "Under my signature in the Hearst press, I said: 'Of the "Big Three"-Firpo, Gibbons and Wills-I regard Wills as the least difficult to master...