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...Louis Firpo. Though he "had just about enough English to get upstairs in an elevator, . . .he wrote thousands of words for the American press upon the manly...
...volatile Latins lined the Avenida de Mayo reading round by round results flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull of the Pampas," who has boasted he could whip Campolo with one hand. In Campolo's little hometown, Quilmes, the populace surrounded his home, wildly cheered his aged parents...
...most interested spectator of the Schmeling-Uzcudun duel will be one Victorio Maria Campolo who last week arrived with friends in the U. S. from the Argentine. He stands 6 ft., 6½ in.; weighs 225 Ib.; scorns everybody's boxing ability but his own. Of his countryman Luis Firpo he said last week: "He is fat, he is disgusting, he weighs 275 pounds and looks like a wine barrel. But he intended coming to New York last spring anyway. He will not now because I am here...
There is a series of War pictures, a prizefight series (including the Stag at Sharkey's, Dempsey & Firpo) a series of illustrations, many portraits...
Luis Angel Firpo-William Slavens McNutt, onetime sporting writer...