HE NEARLY BEAT JACK DEMPSEY
The 'Wild Bull of the Pampas' is dead
Buenos Aires, Aug. 7.
Luis Angel Firpo, famous Argentine heavyweight boxer of the 1920's, died this morning of a heart attack. He was 65. Firpo was called "The Wild Bull of the Pampas" in his fighting days and the most famous fight he ever fought was the one in 1923 when he very nearly took the world heavy- weight title away from American Jack Dempsey.
He belted Dempsey completely out of the ring at the Polo Grounds in New York, but Dempsey managed to chamber back in. He pounded Firpo to the canvas seven times in the first round and twice mone in the second, the round in which Firpo last.
Boxing history
Firpo lived in a fashionable section of Buenos Aires when he was not at his 15,000-acre ranch about 150 miles from here,
Firgo received $150,000 for fighting Dempsey on September 14. 1923 in the bout that has
made boxing history.
Firpo retired from the ring Ht In 1926, a wealthy man. tried a comeback in 1936, but was knocked out twice in
CHESS
Buenos Aires and he retired I base this on movies of the for good.
fight The beetlebrowed Firpo Fupo was never bitter about weighed 216 pounds when he losing the right. fought Dempsey, but his weight had increased to 230 pounds when he died. Firpo stood well over six feet,
Firpo became a national sports hero of Argentina' after his dramatic fight with Dempsey. Ever since that day he has been a respected figure in this coun- try. cheered roundly at his fre- at sports appearances quent events.
Firpo grew up on a farm in Jumin, 200 miles from Buenos Aires. Even as a boy he weigh- ed 200 pounds and decided to turn to boxing for a living.
Powerful right
Firpo was 27 when he arrived in the United States but he gave his fighting age as 24. He won nine bouts by knockouts in two years, including an eight-round knockout of former champion Jess Willard, then 42, before a crowd of 80,000 in Jersey City,
by LEONARD BARDEN New Jersey.
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Here is a problem by W. Paily (Running the Gauntlet. 1911), White to play and mate in two moves.
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An awkward fighter, Firpo had a powerful right hand. He captured the imagination of the fighting public in the golden era of sports with his matted black | chest and bushy hair.
"There were four. Limes when I should have been declared
"It was just one of those things," he said years later, "Bonding wes good to me and I enjoyed it even if I was never champion."—AP.
Tour of Europe automobile long distance race begins
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THE CHINA
MONDAY, AUGUST 8. 1960.
BRABHAM WINS
ON KENT'S
NEW CIRCUIT
World motor-racing champion Jack Brabham roared to a 92.86 mph victory in a factory-entered Cooper in the first Formula 1 race for the Silver Clly trophy--beld on the enlarged Brands Haich, Kent, circuit last week. There was scarcely a car's length between Brabham and Jimmy Clark In a Latus for 22 lape. When the Lotus stopped, smoke pouring from its rest, Graham Hill lá a BRM-chased Brabham who was 30 seconds ahead. By the end Hit had reduced the gap to 411⁄2 seconds.
Photo shows Brabham in the lesä being chased by Jimmy Clark in a Graham Hill in a BRM.—The Times photo,
CAPTAIN'S VIEWPOINT
cup
Cricket needs a knockout tournament
Those who took off from Cricket should go "Up for here included last year's win- Robert Nelleman and ners,
Nielsen of Denmark: Joergen in a Ford-Zephyr,
In all, 55 cars took off from seven different starting points for the German a spokesman
Firpo the 'champion,"
re-
told an Associated PreRS porter in an interview three Years 250.
three "Dempery fouled me times and should have been me disqualified, once he hit when I was getting up. And he hit me once while I was talking to the referee.
"After 1 knocked him out of the ring. I figured it took him et Least 16 seconds to get back.
Cup." I believe that a knock-out tournament would cure much of the turnstiles-sickness that afflicts the 'county game.
The public lap up the "sud- Adac Motor Sports Club said.
den death excitement of 口 From their starting points, knock-out.: Just look at Soccer.
cars will converge
Gates are usually sagging early from Nuernberg and
there, in the New Year. Then the lends to Vienna, Cup ties come along and gates the roule
Belgrade, Budapest;
Soda, are doublod, even trebled, often Ankara and Beirut
regardless of the strength of the opposition.
retum
From there,
the journey carries the drivers to Travemuende, the finish point, Istanbul and via Adana, Trieste.
The contest will wind up on Aug. 20,--UPI.
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1 would like to see this cup- tie fever spread to cricket.
Lotus and
COLIN INGLEBY-MACKENZIE captain of Hampshire, takes over the Monday morning spot to talk about cricket.
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once in recent years, but it But I think a cún competition has been shelved Just as could introduce so much new regularly.
zest to the game that the smags should be squarely faced.
Now zest
We will never know if we can overcome them unless we are The big problem is the drawn prepared to give the cup com-
petition a trial run. game. Agreed in the limited I don't think it would fail. It time available to play a cup would be a winner. A drawni competition alongside the cham- match, for instance, could be pionship proper draws would be awarded to the side scoring at The idea of a cup compella deterrent. Our climate raised the faster rate. This would not tion is not revolutionary. It another rar, even when wickets always reward the better side. his been discussed more than are covered.
but would be an inducement to hurry on with the game.
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The entry
I would not limit the cup to the 17 first-class courties. I would increase the entry to 21 or even more by bringing in the Universities, the Services, lead- ing Minor County sides, Scotland (yes, they play up there, and ane jolly keen, too),
and Ireland,
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Dexter is England's best bat since Hammond says Hobbs
By ARCHIE QUICK
Jack Hobbs, “Gubby" Allen and Nigel Haig, three great cricketers of yesteryear, watched Ted Dexter scientifically take the Middlesex bowlers to pieces at Hove and unanimously agreed that at the moment the Sussex skipper
the finest batsman in the world. *
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This was a match of the in a recent match. He played utmost Championship impor- for the county as a professional tance, for Middlesex and Sussex for 25 years, reverted to amatur were lying third and fourth in slátus as a player when he was the table and offering the coach at Winchester, "and now, greatest Southers threat to the after a lapse of three years, has Red and White Roses who were reappeared as a professional be- battling at Old Trafford. cause he is on the payroll of the
Sussex" club,
Sussex were diruggling at 42 for four when the midlestic Dexter and that honest, plod, der Don Smith took charge fifth and put on 181 for the wicket and sltered the entire aspect of the match,,
Hit 157
Baseball results
New York, Aug. 7. Following are the results of today's baseball matches:
The pre-lunch duel between Dexter and the Middlesex at- tack of John Warr. Alan Moss, Don Bennett, Bob Gale, Ron Hooker, Fred Titmus and George Dryborough was ab- sorbing, and it revealed Dexter in a new light. He had to see to it that Sussex established respectable score and the dog- gedness 'which the situation' de- manded was entirely foreign to Los Angeles his free-hitting rature.
NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st game) UN BATUR H E 8 14 1
Los Angeles Philadelphia
Philadelphia
It took him one and three {****!! (1st game) quarter hours to reach 30, but Cincinnat In the end he won the fight for he stayed five hours, hit 157, including nineteen tours, Cincinnati and so collected his best score St Louis for the county and only 18
short of his career best.
Sir Jack Hobbs told me: Pittsburgh "Even including May and Cow- drey, he is the best English San Francisco batsman I have seen sinice | Pittsburgh Hammond. He has all the
Chiraga shots and the right tempera-
Milwaukee ment.
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"I doubt whether Cowdrey can make the straight drive off fast bowling better than he does. I should think he will be Detroit In Tests for many years to
Boston come."
Detroit
Baltimore Cleveland
Baltimore Cleveland
Washington Chicago
Washington Chicago
Bir Jack mentioned se 2.1 aside that he thought Trevor play Balley would certainly
next against the Australians summer as a middle of the Innings prop and first change
bowler.
Worried
I also learned much to my surprise. that during, their long Daders as oponing bowlers for Sussex "Maurice Tate and Jim
(lat rame) Cornford who modelled his style on the Master's were New York ... Kansas City ... never once 'no-balled!
Now that he has reached Eng-- (2nd game) :
New York. land's Test team on the strength of being, a batsman-wicket- Kansas City....... keeper, Jim Parks is worried
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Pet GB
| mout his baiting. He registered
another "duck in the Mid- New York
Chicago
dlesex match:
"I always said thai my
bat-
Baltimore Cleveland
This would encourage the "giant-killing element, Justing would suffer if I was con- Waringtors
verted from a cover point to a Detroit imagine, Scotland having a
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bit of luck and knocking out wicketkeeper," he said, but it is Boston
suffering worse than I thought one of the fancied counties!
it would. I am glad I have gol And think of e cup Anal into the England side, but the Pittsburgh between Yorkshire and Surrey, watchfulness needed behind the St. Louis or Lancashire and Middlesex as a
stumps has had its effect on my Los Angeles grand finale to the season!
batting concentration,"
Ban Fancisco Cincinnati Sussex coach George Cox set
Philadelphia up something of a record when I chicago"
he turned out again for Sussex
In these competitive times. cricket needs the odd touch of showmanship and promotion that a cup knock-out could Introduce, and I'm convinced mest captains and teams would react enthusiastically.
FIRST WOMAN TO SWIM THE LOCH LOMOND
London, Aug. 7. Susan Baddley 18, today be- came the first woman to evim the thirty-eight and a half kilometre (24 miles) length of Loch Lomond, a lake north- west of Glasgow, Scotland.
Susan's time was officially recorded
10. as 26 hours minutes.
Susan's father, an Uxbridge *(Middlesex); doctor, accom- panied her in a boat, several tines going the water blm- self." The lengthwise "crossing of Loch Lomond is known as the longest and most difficult awim' in Britain: AFP.
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