Word: firpo
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Nevertheless Promotor Rickard said: " Firpo, in my mind, is the outstanding challenger for Dempsey's title right now. He impresses me as another Jim Jeffries?a better man than Jeffries was at a corresponding period in his ring career, for Firpo is stronger than Jeff and hits harder...
Jimmy de Forrest, Firpo's trainer, holds no such illusion. Said be: "Dempsey is entirely too fast for Firpo. I judge that he (Firpo) needs about four months' intensive training before he should even contemplate meeting Jack. Otherwise he will be entering a slaughter house!" (De Forrest trained Dempsey for the Willard fight in Toledo, July 4, 1919. Sporting writers invariably speak respectfully of Jimmy de Forrest...
Promoter Rickard also said: " I'm ready to match either Dempsey or Wills with Firpo now. It doesn't matter to me which one it is. I want to stage the next fight about Labor Day. I'd like to match Wills with Firpo if Wills will fight him. I tried to arrange that match before, though, and Wills wouldn't fight...
Some of the people who attended the Firpo-Willard fight: two Governors, Silzer (N. J.) and Smith (Vt.); three former Governors, Cox (Ohio), Davis (Ohio), Edwards (N. J.); A. H. Smith (President N. Y. Central Railroad), Charles H. Sabin (President Guaranty Trust Co., Manhattan), John Ringling (circus man), Mr. and Mrs. Flo Ziegfeld, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, Barney Oldfield, Ralph De Palma, Jim Corbett, George M. Cohan, Benny Leonard, Lew Tendler, Senator Walter E. Edge (N. J.), Princess Bibesco, Mike de Pike...
...Argentina the news of Firpo's victory was received with frenzied jubilation. After the result was announced on the sidewalks of Buenos Aires (one minute after the knockout), great crowds marched through the streets " shouting and singing loudly and making impromptu torches of twisted newspapers...