1960-08-19 — Page 9

One of the maddest battles of the rigg

THE NIGHT FIRPO

WENT BERSERK

the 'Bull' charges and Jack Dempsey, world champion, topples out of the ring

by

CHESS

LEONARD BARDEN

E-

路

Here is a position won by the great English master Black- burne, known to his contem-

poraries as the "Black Death"

Whit. to move and win.

Candan Express Service.

Four D. Jones

BY MADDOCKS

Dempsey back to

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1960.

climbed

triumph

Ninety thousand fight-crazed humans shrieked, howled, or just simply screamed as Jack Dempsey went sailing through

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Dempsey disappeared

head

the ropes, his feet flailing helplessly high above his head, prst out of the ring. There are In the ring stood Luis Angel Firpo, a berserk giant who had smashed Jack Dempsey, the world champion, out of the wild battleground of the ring.

Recently a gentle, philosophical, 65-year-old Firpo died peace

fully in his home city of Buenos Aires.

That one moment of hate charged action by Firpo became the talked-of moment of ferocity in a pitched battle that is ranked the most terrifying world heavyweight fight in bloodily-composed history of boxing.

most

20 American sports writers who today claim they pushed Demp-

sey back into the rig

Dempsey's absence from the

ring is recorded as from eight

to 15 seconds.

But the referee allowed this

the Olympic Games. There competitors and officials.

Swimming is Japan's strength. The svim stars will provide an even greater challenge than four years ago at Melbourne. Their strength has increased tremendously, and we also expect great deeds from our champions in gymnastics and wrestling.

OLYMPIC

BRIEFS

marhem to o on. Dempsey still desperately beat off this wild-

Rome, Aug. 18. the man Firpo. The fight became a

brawl that the police would The great Jesse Owens, who have broken up anywhere out-won four gold medals for the United States at the 1936 Grounds side this ring.

The bell rang but Dempsey Olympics in Berlin, can't get crazy, unhearing, as wild a man into the Rome Olympics-as as Fipo, thumped, punched, and reporter.

It was a warn night-September 14, 1923-and the Polo

on the fringe of New York's Harlem bulged with an audience of 82,000 who had almost fought to pay out 1,188,609 dollars --around £421,105 on 1960 values. It was conceded that another butted on until he was bouled 10,000 had avoided the necessity of paying.

The very names of the men breathed the fire of battle - Jack Dempsey the Manassa Mauler; Luis Firpo the Wild Bull of the Pampas. And this was what their brutal fists thrashed into history. The arena lights dulled until the ring remained in soli- tary illumination The bell sounded loudly in the almost unbear- able silence, Dempsey, sleek as a panther, leaped at Firpe.

The giant Argentinian with the mop-head disorder of hair remained unmoved by the blast- ing punches Dempser drilled into him,

knees vul get up immediately.

Terrible

en

Dempsey struck again. It was e killer punch. Again Firpo was There was rage in his eyes

Firpo was making a mess of Demasey's ribe with terrible chopping rights. Dempsey's steel- tough legs were rebelling.

But

even as he was

going And a

By:

DESMOND

HACKETT

away.

Butchery

As a one time Olympic star, however, he's getting a warm welcome. Owens application for accreditation & reporter for an American magazine (Ebony)

was turned down.

"Too late," said a spokesman for the US Olympic Committee, "and for no other reason. We accredited all American _corres- a first-come first-

During the rest, manager Doc Kearns berated Dempsey almost as furiously aş Firpo had attacked him.

It was Dempsey the cold executioner who moved out for the second round

Firpo crumpled to the floorpondents on and incredibly again lmped up.

served basis." This time Dempsey straightened up Fitpe with left and shot in a right that felled 'Frolike, well a slaughtered bull.

and 57 seconds of butchery had It was over. But one round made Lis Angel Firpo a ring

immortal.

The outstanding personality amign the wimmens

TSUYOSHI YAMANTA, 31. year-old senior from

Page

SHEJI SHASHI

Sports writer Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo

Our hopes are high in the 800 metres relay," where we rely on Pulioto Yamanaka Testuo

Chuo University), Makoto shi (Nihon University), Futid (Tawata), and Hiroshi They set a world record of

against Bmin 18.7sec.

the

United States last summer.

our

The filinapos team recent ly clipped this record with a time of 8min 17sec., but four are confident they san lower the record by three or four seconds in Bome.

ex-

Our athletes can hardly pect any Orsts, but in gymnas University, our big hope for thefies the Japanese teem

Was pond to the Melbourne

400 metres freestyle.

Yamanaka Bids the world record of min. 18.6sec.

Yamanaka recently did 17min 255ec, for the 1,300 metres and at the same meeting in Osake covered the 400 metres în küla, 20.8.

He has great respect for the top Australians, Jon Konrads and Murray Rose, and United

States' star Alan Somers,

But if he owers the first half of the 400 metres as well as he did at Osaka yhen be produced a world record time of 2 min. 1.5sec we will be well satisfied

Yamanaka, I am certain, will at least equal his Melbourne re cord, when he won two silver medals.

Olaki hope

Russians in

1.85

Russia won by only points, and this time several of their leading competitors have retired.

Our team is better balanced and might edge the Russians out, TAKASHI ONO, secondi in the individual combined event at Melbourne, is expected

in the horizontal bar and the individual combined title.

to

25

Japan won two gold medals in tree-style wrestling at Mel- bourne. TADASHI ASAL, year-old graduate of Chuo Uni- versity, should repeat the 1956 victory of Shozo Basaltara in the featherweight division

YUTAKA KANEKO has a good chance of retaining for Japan the welter-weight crown won at Melbourne by Mitsuo hope is Ikeda, Kaneko was third in the. also from world championships' arid bas twice won the Aidan Games title.-London Express Service,

Another medal YOSHINKO DIAKI, Waseda University." Hottest competition at the

This is his first Olymple trip, 1968 Olympic Games so far lias but Ojaki has come on wonder been for Olympic badges.

fully this season. His best time Nearly

country of 2min. 38.c. for the 200 every

breast stroke is only competing at the Rome Games metres has issued a small metal badge, four-tenths of a second outside world re- national Terry Gathercole's usually entameted, in

cord. cokarrs.

can

- Anyone, Olympic winner

an

Demosey, his teeth exposed in down, Dempsey reared.

panlysing left to the body and man. Instead, Dempsey survived a mean merl, anushed a

on the law sent and Firpo was again on the seat hook to Firpo's jaw. The bronz- a cruel right

huge Firpo sprawling of his dust-whitened shorts. sagged to his the ed strong man

untidily.

Firpo went berserk. Dempsey Dempsey does not like to Firpo rolled around in pain, could do nothing to halt his dwell upon this fight. He ad-

up. 'Hey. Dempsey was down and mits that after. He just managed to stand

he had been panting and dull-cred at the up in the same second. This was knocked out at the ring he had count of nine. The massacre Jungle savagery.

no idea of what took place.

become was a mere & seconds old.

I last saw

Firpo in Buenos

by collecting Aines in 1957. He was the mild-more badges than anyone else. wrestling men Four times Fiapo was knocked mennered gentle giant he had clinched. The referee called

down but he ceaselessly smashed always been outside the fight "Break." Firpo did not under towards his tormentor.

ring. He was comfortably off stand the

with a garage and car business. order. He looked

Then Firpo punched himself. But for 237 searing seconds on towards the referee. Dempsey ruthlessly sneaked an advantage, into immortality. Fight blud- a mad night in September 1923 geoning blows forced Dempsey he was Lius Angel Firpo, the He knocked Firpo down.

Firpo was a fighting medman, up against the ropes. Fispo fearsome unforgettable Wild What he did to Dempsey would loosed a right that went like a Bull of the Pampas. have destroyed any other living pisten into Demsey's face..

up.

as he charged at Dempsey. Now it was Dempsey on the anvil as the hammer blows pounded down.

Demoscy briefly genuflected on his knees. He was hissing enger Firpo down he thrashed

But Firmo was almost amin.

defiant, and immediately erect, duterous.

JONES PUMPS WATER, WHILE VINCENT

SQUIRTS AT THE MANY IKABODS"

WHAT'S HE

WANT WITH

WATER?

FASTER

MAN, FASTER

100°

WE WILL

SOON KNOW WHOI

THE REAL

IKABOD IS

Dempsey moved in recklessly. The savagely

Mayhem

THE FIVE IKABODS ARE DRENCHED WITH WATER

AND FOUR VANISH AS IP WASHED AWAY...

THANK YOU

VINCENT THANK YOU

.

-(London Expren Service).

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Organisers of the Games an- nounced tonight the consolation field hockey matches will be played at Ostia, the ancient part of Rome, 16 miles from the Italian capital.

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Real Madrid beatPowerful Hungary today open-

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