SPORTING THE DAILY BRITISH wHIG GENERAL REVIEWS i) NEW TIMELY : COMMENTS Big South American "No Fool" and, Therefore, Disliked by Parasites. Luis Angel Firpo is disliked and hated more by a certain group with. in the shadow of the prize ring than any gladiator in knuckle bouncing history. All of which worries Luis just about as much as would a scheduled bout with Pancho Villa. The South American came to these ghores lesa than two years ago un- known, unheralded, scoffed at, when he 'asked for matches, jeered at by the "smart managers." No. fighter ever made his debut under condi- tions more discouraging than this ""Wild Bul" from the Argentine. History records the fact that Fir- po, firm in the faith in himself, un- daunted by rebuffs, continued striv- ing for the chance to make true his long dreamed dreams of greatness in the boxing world. And, in the end, he was Pered a fight at $100--and took ft. He won, but failed to convince that ha was really great. He was given another chance, and again was tri- umphant. He made his third bid for glory in another bout of his own making, and once more was his a triumph spectacular. And then, well, this is where be- gins the story of hate. Firpo's name sparkled from news- papers, his grim visage frowned out upon the sportive world. He became the enigma of the prize ring. Was he a 'potential champion--or just a false alarm? No one knew. But WE ARE NOW BOOKING ORDERS FOR WINTER Automobile Painting SELECT FINISHING FROST'S | AUTOMOBILE PAINTING 200-205 QUEEN STREET. , certain of at least 25 per cent. of all FRISH aul A the New York Giants éxt season, with a substantial iIn- crease in salary. sport promoters around the country were quite willing to find out--and pay Firpo for his displays. Of a sudden Firpo found himsell beseiged by mem who called them- selves "fight managers"---and are called "parasites" and much else, who know much of what is to know about affairs in the fisticuffing world. Each and every one wanted to man- age him. But Firpo, in that grave yet gal lant way of his, waved them aside. But they would not take "no." Here wag the riche® prize in the boxing world; here was somebody who could make a fortune for the manager who tricked him into a contraet. They - coaxed, they pleaded, they éntreated. They : put - into their speech "all the eloquence that was possible. And why not? For here was one 'of those "million dollar beauties" and any parasite lucky enough to woo him successfully was For Auto Repairs For. aii kinds of Automobile repair work, and where a real mechanic is needed, see us and have it done right. R. GREENLEES Angrove's Auto Hales, 146 Sydenham Street 1882. Sectional Book Cases reduc- 'tions, all the lead- ing makes--Qak, Walnut and Ma- the money Firpo earned, either in the ring, in the moving pictures or in vaudeville. But Firpo would not be lured by 'any siren voice. He had said "no" -- and that's exactly what he meant. In the end he made himself a bit more explicit. "When I came to America first I thought I might be helped by an American manager. But none want- ed to bother with me. I was just a big South American bum. And they had no time for me. "So I was foréed to handle my own affairs. I mada all my early fights myself. I thought it would be diffi- cult, but it was not so after I once got started. "Now, after I have proved to the Americans that I can fight a little, you men come to me and wish to manage me. I do not need you now. I have enough offers for fights, so that if I accepted them all I would be busy for a year--maybe two yeas. "A manager's main job is to get work for his fighter. I can get all the work I need without a manager. Why, then, should I have a mana- ger?" And then it was that the jilted parasites began to slur Luis Firpo. They called him "money-mad," they fidiculed him and condemned him for his saving habits; they called him, because of the hate within them, everything they could utter~-- and then thought the things that arg not printable. Luis Firpo merely ignored the things that were said and 'went along on his blisstul, carefree, gold lined" way, picking up $15,000 here, $25,000 there, $79,000 in Jersey City, $125,000 in New York. As he did so he stored it awhy, while the men who yearned to manage him-- and thus bilk him for at least one- fourth of his already acquired $400,- 1 000 fortune--generated a hatred | that intensifies with every mew dol- i lar that Firpo earns. | And the only effect it has upon Luis Angel Firpo, of the Argentine, ! 8 to bring to his eyes and to his lips, occasionally, the flicker of a smile, JOHNSON'S CIRCUIT HAS EDGE ON RiVAL Cholce Recruits Baseball League Last Season. | © American League managers put it all over their National League rivals fn picking recruits for the season of 1928, it is disclosed by an analysis of the batting average of the two ults in American leagues. They show that the National Lea. | gue did not have first year players who could begin to compare with Manush, who was headed for To- ronto, but for the draft trouble, and Summa, of the American circuit, as batsmen. And indeed the Nationals had practieally no first year men who " gave much evidence of even me- diocre batting unless you accept Bentley, and he can scarcely be class- ed as a first year man because of his experience at Baltimore and, more- over, he was in less than a third of the season's games. That gave him a decided advantage because the more games a good batter plays the more formidable his percemtage. Eliminate Bentley and the Nation | al drops ontyof further consideration so far as batters are concerned. Averages of players who take part in Bo mgpre than a score or so of games ' [TRON THE EE NJ Harold Cotton, Lionel Conacher, "Duke" McCurry, Alex. McKinnon, | "Rex" White, Roy Worters and Dick Oarroll, the Pittsburg hockey players | and coach, arrived in Toronto Sunday to be home for Christmas. Coming on | top of the announcement of the president of the U.S.H.A. that Canadian | players were not being taken by that body, this Mutle news item is rather | funny. Even the coach seems to return to Canada for Christmas. It is all | the more amusing because this team is picked to win the 1924 series, There only remain six days now in which to have a whale of a time before making those annual Jesolutious, Present indications seem to tell us that their will be ice all in readi- | ness for the opening of the hockey season, with ordinary luck thers should | be skating on New Year's Day. : Hockey is certainly finding favor with the ladies. Notre Dame Com- |; vent has started an dice surface within its walls on which the young ladies attending may learn $0 skate and stick-bandie. Queen's have only a few days dn which 10 practise up for their United States tour end Coach Lowrey will cemtainly be a busy man for the next few days. Bt now develops that the Sault Ste. Marie senior N.O.H.A. Play out its schedule of games with United States teams without difficulty. The O.H.A. ruling alfows any games already contracted for to be carried through--which is a very fortunate thing for the Greyhounds. And, just mentioning the N.O.H.A., reminds that the great hockey body of the nonth country has been just about absorbed by the N.H.L. The Green brothers, of Sudbury, are with Hamilton; the same team, may join the same team, and St. Phillips, of the Soo. This paper's mail looks lke the communications received by the Greetings have been received from Aus- tralia, Californds, England, Buffalo, Columbia, Timmins, North Bay, Sud- bury, Detroit, Winnipeg, New York, and a host of cities and towns within a Olympic Committee at Paris. five-hundred-mite radius besides. The City League meets Friday evening, the County afternoon, and the following week will see hockey started pway locally. Both leagues look to better seasons than ever before, ---- are not worth taking into account. Summa and Manush went through the greater part of the season, al- though they usually were taken out against left-handed pitchers. There is one odd fact about the National figures. Young pitchers qut- shine the regulars with the willow. The marks were made in only a few times at bat, but the result is un- usual. Steineder, of Pittsburg, has a top heavy average of more than .400, Cooney, of Boston, is around .8326, although he is not exactly a one-year chicken. Maranville is 'another player to whom the averages are unkind, The ball is bending too quickly for him, apparently, dnd he is sagging. No young player in the National League has come forward more as- suredly than Bottomley, of St. Louis. More than one manager has his eye on Bottomley. He sdys so himself. He must have felt his left ear burn- ing. It Hornsby is to have a real rival for batting honors, Bottomley should be one of the contenders and Frank Frisch another. Grimm, of Pittsburg, finished about 12th in 1923. How's that for a Jomp--from .290 to .340 in ome season? A constructive aftermath of the recent controversy between William T. Tilden and Harold H. Hackett of the United States Lawn Tennis As- soclation's Davis Cup Committee, over Tilden's tactics in the famous doubles match this year between the United States and Australia, was seen recently by tennis followers in & questionnaire distributed by the United States Lawn Tennis Asso- ciation. The questions propounded are: (1) Is doubles play among Unit- 2d States players as good, better, or worse than any other country? (2) Do the Australians appear to know and play doubles better than we do? (3) It go, why is it? \ (4) Is it because of a more ag- gressive attack? (5) Is this aggressive attack the t of one man at the net when s side is receiving service? (6) Should players be encourag- ed to team up together and play in' many tournaments? | team may "Joe' Ironstone, of Pats are hard after Saturday A A AAA tt tl impression that it was given by an individual. The famous old trophy was donated" by the Royal Yacht Squadron of England for a race around the Isle of Wight, and was originally called the Queen's Cup in homor of the late Queen Victoria. The race was won by the United States schooner America, and the trophy named after that craft. It is still in the possession of the New York! Yacht Club despite many attempts to take it back to England. Sir Thomas Lipton proposes to make his fifth effort to regain the trophy for the Royal Yacht Squadron, and a challenge J§ expected in 1924 or 1926.--~Globe. A ------------ Dempsey Soon. "Tommy Gibbons plans on forcing Champion Jack Dempsey into a re- turn engagement for the heavy- i, ee i i WE CAN SUPPLY THE FINEST. 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