LOOKING FOR HIM

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 8

LOOKING FOR HIM

George Gook Is On Trail of Luis Firpo

HIS WIFE AND PUBLICITY

Fancy being able to hold seven championships and yet not m the glare of the pugilistic spotlight! » ,

THAT is the unfortunate position ' In which. George Cook found himself the other day— or at least that is the position his wife-manager put him m. , As a rolling; stone George has it heavy on Harry Stone. Geoijge has covered the whole * earth. He started off m his native Australia. Then New Zealand ■was favored with a visit- — at the , time there was big money offering. In due course he appeared m London, Paris,. Berlin, Stockholm, the States', back to Sydney again and then to South Africa. Europe saw him once again and then he crossed the pond to the States. And now he bobs up ..in the good olcl Argentine.. • . ' He is on the trail- of the Wild Bull of the Pampas, Luis Firpo. According to Manageress Cook, George has only one : ambition' — to meet and whip the socks off Luis. Rather gullible they are m Buenos Aires, and Mrs. Cook gave it to them heavy. "If Firpo would not flglit George," said she, "he would try to get a match with Campolo, but Firpo was the man he was after." "^ Credentials of George's prowess were forthcoming, and Mrs.. Cook said that her husband held sevt?n championships. "He won the European when he beat Uzcudum; the French when, he beat Bougillion; the Dutch when he defeated van der Veer; , the Irish when he accounted for*, Jack Phoenix; the Australian when lie beat "Tiger" Payne; the New Zealand when he accounted ' for Tom Heeney and the

Canadian wtten he beat Soldier Jones." It must have been modesty that stayed Mrs. Cook from adding- the Stewart Island title captured when George beat An Oyster! . : '■ InYeply to a question the better half stated that George had been knocked only onee — by Carpen tierbut, sho qualified this by stating that it was recorded m piftures that the Lens mine boy had hit George when he was down. Of course, it is not likely that complete records of Cook are available m Buenos Aires. : Had his visit been expected no doubt a consignment of publications contain-, ing his record would have been' ordered. ' • ■ , But if they had, it would have made matters awkward /for George — after his wife's interview with the Buenos Aires "Herald." For the record book shows that Georges Carpentier is not the only body to hold a k.o. over Cook. , l In 1917 Albert Lloyd had the honor, Marcel Nilles m 1922 and. Frank Moody m 1923 also won by that manner. . ■ That the advent of Cook has not frightened Firpo is evidenced by a paragraph m a Buenos Aires paper, stating: "Luis Firpo trains daily m the Belwarp club. His sparring partners are Izurquizu (Basque) and Blackie Miller (Australian)." All the ballyhoo of Mrs. Cook apparently went for nothing, for it was at the , end of October that she let loose to the Argentine world. Now, Wo months later, we have yet to. hear. of George pithing the Wild Bull of the Pampas.