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Dempsey, 28, is slightly more than four months Firpo's senior. Jack was born June 28, 1895; Luis...
Jack Reams (Dempsey manager): "There is a lot of people I'd rather be than Firpo when Dempsey is turned loose. My advice to all ticket purchasers is to be in your seat early. There is liable to be a repetition of the Fulton and Willard fights...
...will fear the Argentine to pieces in the early rounds. The result will lie in Firpo's ability to pick up the pieces. He must allow himself to be pounded to a pulp dispassionately. He must retain enough vitality to explode the dynamite of his right hand in the hole which the champion must leave in his defense before the fight is done. Expert opinion judges him unskilled to do these things...
...fight takes place at the Polo Grounds (New York National League baseball park), Manhattan, September 14. It will go 15 rounds to a decision. Tex Rickard is the promoter. Dempsey will enter $300,000 in his profit column when the fight is finished; Firpo will receive 12 1/2 % of the receipts with a guaranteed minimum of $100,000. The winner will hold the most valuable asset in professional sport ? the heavyweight boxing championship of the world. Wrote Firpo in a New York newspaper : " I am not such a big fool that I do not have respect for the champion...
...quite out of character. He was quietly dressed even to his suspenders. He talked little and very modestly. He smiled steadily. He said that he came to America seeking fights with Mike McTigue (who defeated him for the world's light-heavyweight championship in Dublin), Luis Firpo, Jack Dempsey. He was accompanied by his manager and two other French fighters (all white). His pet lion was not in the party...