Word: firpo
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...Denying a report that he had struck Babe Ruth the night that Jack struck Firpo, Johnny Dempsey (brother) said: " Why, Babe and I are good friends! Then again, the Babe is a big fellow. Why, I'd be a sucker...
...Firpo. After receiving a note from Manhattan's police department protesting that his wild bull automobile was stampeding traffic, Firpo moved across the Canadian border and showed off in Montreal. Thence he journeyed to ponder the tossing waters of Niagara; thence to Cleveland about automobiles, his business side line; thence to New York again, to shut his desk and embark with friends for a pugilistic grand tour of South America, commencing at Lima, Peru...
...Walking into the county clerk's office in Manhattan, Senor Firpo through an interpreter made known that he wished to become an American citizen. His application carried the information that he is 28 years old, white, 6 ft. 2½ in. tall, 215 pounds in weight, hair and eyes brown. In answer to the question " Are you married? " he drew a line. It was reliably reported that he did not know that in order to become an American citizen he would have to renounce his Argentine citizenship. He will let his application lapse...
...many moons Wills has not fought a fight. Next week in Long Island City he will fall upon hulking Homer Smith, Kalamazoo heavyweight, " the man Firpo failed to anaesthetize." Whatever pressure Wills can bring to bear on Smith will apply in direct ratio to the Dempsey management. The public will see to that...
...Gate. For three minutes, 57 seconds of his time, Dempsey received $475,000. Firpo's three minutes, 47 seconds of consciousness netted him a flat $100,000. These generous sums were subscribed by about 80,000 paying guests among the 90,000 persons present. Promoter Rickard and the tax collectors enjoyed the remainder of his $1,082,593 gross receipts...