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...contributions along with old favorites. Goya was a bullring aficionado. Winslow Homer, while covering the Civil War, took time out to paint Zouaves pitching quoits in camp. Philadelphia's Thomas Eakins painted scullers and wrestlers; George Bellows not only haunted the fight ring painting boxing classics (Dempsey and Firpo), but also painted tennis at Newport and polo at Lakewood. In Ground Swell, Edward Hopper caught every yachtsman's thrill at passing the last buoy and heading seaward in a light breeze...
...told 600 Hoosier Republican leaders that he had noticed a letdown in G.O.P. spirits since the 1952 landslide. He was reminded of Luis Angel Firpo, the South American heavyweight, and Firpo's bout with Jack Dempsey in 1923. Said Ike: "In the first round he knocked Dempsey so far out into the audience that he broke two or three typewriters for the newspapermen. But Dempsey crawled back in the ring and whipped the tar out of him. Now, I don't think the Republican Party has any idea of being a Firpo...
...first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through the ropes. Gracious Guest Dempsey made the Peronistas exuberant by agreeing. Said...
...figure in the sports world has been on the cover of TIME. The first athlete to appear was a hard-jawed, 28-year-old mauler by the name of Jack Dempsey. That was in September 1923. Two weeks later, he fought his famous match with Luis Angel ("Bull") Firpo, at which boxing fans paid a total of $1,888,822 to see Dempsey retain his world heavyweight championship in 3 minutes, 57 seconds of furious fighting...
Bellows' bittersweet quality comes clear in the two pictures (opposite) that are favorites with gallerygoers in Manhattan and Bellows' home town of Columbus, Ohio. The Whitney Museum's Dempsey and Firpo shows Bellows at his toughest- hard, sweaty, and as direct as a left jab. He was at ringside with a commission from the New York Journal to draw the fight. He chose the instant when Firpo nailed the overconfident champion, sent him through the ropes and into the ringside seats. Children on the Porch, at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, shows Bellows on the opposite...