NEGOTIATIONS WITH LUIS FIRPO.
(CNITID PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPTSIBBT.)
(AUSTBAUAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 23rd January, 9.30 a.m.)
BUENOS AIRES, 22nd Jan. Luis Firpo has been offered by Tex Rickard a sum totalling '200,000 dollars for a fight with Wills in July. The proposal that Firpo should fight Dempsey again in September has not yet been decided, and nothing will be done until his manager arrives from New York. _ The South American Boxing Commission has decided that Firpo must accept within sixty days from Bth December a challenge for the South American championship from a former. Chilean heavyweight, Quinton Romero Rojas, who is new living in France. The match must take place within ninety days of the same date, or Firpo will be deprived of his title.
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7
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126NEGOTIATIONS WITH LUIS FIRPO. Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 19, 23 January 1924, Page 7
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