Sport: Firpo vs. Spalla

Luis Angel Firpo, heavyweight boxing champ of South America, and Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champ of Europe, decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted ten.

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