The hairy, blood-stained form of Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight boxer, pounded its blundering way to a knockout over Bill Brennan in the twelfth round of a scheduled fifteen round fight at Madison Square Garden. Showing nothing but courage and a vicious right, Firpo battered through the superior defense of the veteran to win by assault rather than strategy.
When the fighters appeared, Firpo's shrieking check bathrobe, done in gold, black and purple, seemed to intrigue the audience rather more than the fighter within it. Brennan jumped through the ropes in a ragged...
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