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Despite his age and extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...
...hairy, blood-stained form of Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight boxer, pounded its blundering way to a knockout over Bill Brennan in the twelfth round of a scheduled fifteen round fight at Madison Square Garden. Showing nothing but courage and a vicious right, Firpo battered through the superior defense of the veteran to win by assault rather than strategy...
When the fighters appeared, Firpo's shrieking check bathrobe, done in gold, black and purple, seemed to intrigue the audience rather more than the fighter within it. Brennan jumped through the ropes in a ragged old red sweater. Firpo weighed 220; Brennan...
...fight began, it was apparent that the Argentine artillery would bother Brennan. Wherever Firpo's right landed the surrounding territory shuddered. In the fifth round the American launched a counter attack which opened a deep gash over Firpo's right eye. And for the rest of the fight the South American was streaked in heavy crimson. A blow to the base of the skull in the twelfth finally sent Brennan to rest at Firpo's feet...
...hundred and thirty-five pounds of Luis Angel Firpo, pretender to the throne of Jack Dempsey, arrived in New York from his native Argentina. The immediate objective of Firpo's wanderings is a bout with the aged British heavyweight, Bill Brennan, at Madison Square Garden on March 14 under the aegis of Tex Rickard. If Brennan allows himself to be dispatched with the deftness and dociliity that has characterized his appearances before other young heavyweights, Firpo will be matched with Willard, Floyd Johnson, and-if fate favors him-with Dempsey...