A century ago, Yankee Stadium opened, beginning a Golden Age that would last a half-century. In 1923, there were two professional sports that mattered, baseball and prizefighting. While the New York ...

It lasted only 237 seconds. There were 12 knockdowns. The two fighters were forever immortalized. One hundred years later, the Jack Dempsey-Luis Angel Firpo fight remains a classic. On Sept. 14, 1923, ...

Dempsey, 28, is slightly more than four months Firpo’s senior. Jack was born June 28, 1895; Luis, Oct. 29, 1895. Jack Reams (Dempsey manager): “There is a lot of people I’d rather be than Firpo when ...

WOMEN now sit beside men in the jury box, in the barbershop, and in the stands of the prize-fight arena. Equality is theirs to make the most of. But they’ll never have to build bigger stadiums to ...

L. A. Firpo (“Argentine Ape”) knocked out Jess Willard (” Huge Anachronism of the Ring”) in eight rounds in Jersey City. Firpo received $110,000 as his share of the “gate”; Willard received $185,000.