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pe MODERN M ‘MEN OF BRAINS BEHIND THOSE WHO DO THE FIGHTING Ability of Extraordinary Kind Necessary in Successful Handling of Title Holders—Jack Kearns, an Example of Modern Meth- ods, as Developer of Jack Dempsey—Billy Gibson and His Discovery of Benny Leonard—Descamps. Whv Steered Car- pentier to Fame. Timmy Dunn Was concn AS WELL AS MANAGER For Jenny KILGANE “WE TAUGHT ME EVERYTHING I KNow | SAYS Jon. |the French style of kicking and box By Robert Edgren. ing combined, and the t 5 mbined, and the boy won sev “ SLL" become a} : ‘i Re ena a tne ie ae zs | eral championships. Then he taught rly good fig! his pupil the rudiments of boxing strong back and hard fists, Dut| Tu Qt this Carpentior soon went. f “dumbbell’” made a 8001) shead of the master, De amps ane Sheen rs successful manager MUSt| tored thaeboy in tournaments, and in ‘rains, ja few months was matching him The most successfu] manager tO-| against tho best featherweights in y is Jack Kearns, who handles) trance and England. psey'’s affairs, from match-mak- | Carpentier won Buropean cham to finance. Kearns was @ very pionships in every class from the lever featherweight, years ago, and| featherweight to the heavyweight pught through a long list of oppo- | He was « little over a middleweight ents before he suddenly decided that | himself when he knocked out Bom- ghting was a better business for the | bardier Wells, heavyweight champion anager than for the fighter. Atter| of England, with two punches in the ndling a “stable” of boxers in San| first round. In his first American neisco, Kearns went to Australia| appearance Carpentier knocked out ith two or three good men and hal} Bat Levinsky for the light-heavy is share of success in the boximy| weight championship. Levinsky was oom started hy McIntosh and con- | outclassed entirely. inued by Snowy Baker a ag Carpentier fought Demp- He just missed getting Les Darcy, | sey for the world’s heavyweight title. © wonderful Australian middle- | and was knocked out in four rounds, eight, cn his staff. Returning to| but only after aggressively forcing the erica and looking around for, fighting and staggering Jack with ampionship material he heard about| sharp right handers to the chin in big youngster who had tried fighting | the second. ind had quit the sport to go buck to! Judging by the financial standard steady job, He found Jack Dempsey | Deschamps ranks second only to anding on a corner otttside p cigar| Kearns as a successful manager. He store after work one evening and| demanded $200,000 for Carpentier's bade him a proposition. end in the Dempsey match—and got “Is no use, Mr. Kearns,” said| the money too. I know, for as stake mpsey. “I'm a bum as a fizhter—| holder, I paid it over by check after 0 good at all—and anyway I've got | the fight, and now have Carpentier’ od job now and I need the money , $200,000 check and Dempsey’s receipt foe eauee. to leave it.” | for $300,000 in cash neatly framed as A few months later circumstances |# Souvenir of the biggest money ever de Dempsey change his mind and| Pala over as a stake in the history of e let Kearns get him a mateh with | the world. Phat” Mecham’ Kearns tried Demp.|, A’ Manager for Charles Ledoux y out, found that he had a sood|>antam champion of Europe, Des- ight-hand punch but no lett and no|¢%MPs recently matched his man to defense. So he had Jack's right hand |POX Eugene Criqui in Paris for a led down to his side and made him | Purse of 300,000 francs—70 per cent ight hie sparring partners with the | the winner and 30 per cent. to the eft alone. Caer ‘That's how Dempsey developed the |, TB? Purse for the Johnson-Moran = abies eveloped the ‘heavyweight championship fight wa terrific left hooks that knocked out |onty 200,000 francs, and at that the 90 many big men, and having no right | men haven't yet seen the money. to block with he acquired a habit of like ° ‘ Charles Ledoux, like Carpentier, swaying and bobbing his head under|yas a fine war record. He was in punches. That swaying, shifting #*- ‘the heaviest fighting, was gassed, tack of Dempsey’s made him world’s juried by: hell that exploded on a champion. It was new. No opponent DUTed by a ® eS he Mreteit ue dugout over his head and wounded by en BOL ithe lucky in having great {fle fire—three times in the hospital earns was lucky in having great and supposedly permanently disabled, material to work with, of course, but \¢ Ne ae 3 5 a 5 villa without Kearne Derimes never woutd et wetting back to the front and in| Gene Tunney of Greenwich Vill pacyaueye it to the finish. Ledoux mournfully the new light-heavyweight champion o! ve had a chance to knock out Mor- “4 says that the war took something out America, will defend his title in a nis, Fulton, and then Willard. It was of him and he hardly hopes to get Kearns, too, who went to Rickard and Dives and back to the form he had w proposed to have Dempsey and Car- rougnt the great Kid Williams a des pentier matched for a $500,000 purse. Herate shigging battle for the world’s "This looked like financial madness at oe SAILING “BILEY" GiBsen , Who MADE BENNY LEONARD Word's CHAMPION AND 4 Rick man at 25+ and Gossip By John Pollock urday evening, Feb, 11, Frank F cepted the bout for Gene the time, but the gate of over $1,600,- nue ay glage: But Descamps — 000 showed that jf was financial gen- ‘ Pectegar sane aisle estes Lol niplon Benny Leonard in x fiften-round by Bus V.atead. GREAT DIFFERENCE IN MAN: ee Garden on Feb 10, will arrive in New York | MUUMIIE HOW LEONARD STARTED. AGERS. Jon Monday ond start training for the contest. Hi Mt ahhe Tea ition at Freddie Welch's farm a Another great maager is Billy, ‘There sre a few other managers ail a prese WUaea taaT ve had a bit to do with Sibson, handler of Benny Leonard's #/ound who ha istic career, (Gibson for many years |Champions but they are hardly in a oa ae a ih “akian SE sinew noe ane rankio Engle, the fast Little fiehter of Detroit here he developed many great fight- | Jimmy Johnston managed Kid |wgnoctay nignt by defeating Pall Tumnano at One night a skinny youngstor |I-ew!s and may be remembered as the Ting be seen in one of th eat his way in and asked for a |colner of the phrase, “dashing, crash- 4 bo to be held « Fhance to box. Gibson put him on in |i", Smashing Kid,” which was de- preliminary and he knocked out |Scriteve of Lewis's fighting st Minne weight of Si Paul, mio. re fckey Finnegan in three rounds.| Thea there was Tom Jones is was Benny Leonard's start. He|Kewanee barber,” who had | i Avon a lot of fights with auick knock- ;Champions but is not exactly to be | Newark. meets tack Rena puts at the Fairmont, und Gibson took |Cl@ssed among the “moderns,” as his Mia areas nk personal interest in him and made jlust champ was Jess Willard When'|fanecn in the semifinal ef ten rounds » bad beating in a twelve-round Ko ina Mitt ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, SA SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, Kiddie Klub Korner ha twelve-round bout with Jack Cilffora at “WwW dl d We d l ives of rehearsal and Mr. Schipa'’s ne BS | he Cae Boa Ge eewLea Bal oodian onder Tales): & ret aa me sins RHEUMATIC WINGE 1922. Ls 7 THE MAKERS OF CHAMPIONS. (Copyrigh ‘GIANTS’ MANAGER | LEAVES FOR REST IN CUBA TO-DAY gmetad John J. MeGraw, manager of Giants, will leave here to-day for Cuba, He will return in time to ntten: the schedule meeting of the Nationa\ League which will be held in this cits next month, | Wiltred (BIN) Ryan and Pat She two of MeGraw’s young pitchers, signe their, contr: for 1922 with the Giant yesterday did J. L, Benton, 2 cruit pitcher from the Portsmouth Clu! of the Virginia League, In additior |Jamea A. Tierney, Secretary of the club, announced that the world’s cham pions had purchased George Maclar land, another pitcher, from the Spring field Club of the Eastern Least bY itobert Kdgren _— EARNS “TauGuT DEMPSEY How Te FiauT BY STRAPPING MIS RIGHT MAND Te sis LEG IN TRAINING BouTs —— Jagr Kearns, Darree SmoorH Faced BUT ALWAYS AGERESSINE W Zepre. ~ a SQUARE SHooTen” Practically avery Influenza death might have been prevented by the timely use of Creofos. Beg will positively destroy fn the nystem that cquae « chitis, Influenza and pneumon!y oan dome aeeapuamene eaheeebenpaaain i Waate no time dosing syn! T ake | Keep bottle on hand [) ig for adults, children ~ 3, * ve iT h iy Edith Mason Sings “Madame| of s more rebust type than we are, eo; Beat sNeeavent ihtectious deca . customed to hear from Pinkertons. Butterfly” at the Man- The opera bills for next week are; hattan. Metropolitan—Twelfth week—Mon- een day, “Lohengrin,” Jeritza, Matzen- | . auer, Sembach and Whitehill; Wed | By Frank H. Warren. nesday, “Aida,” Muzio, Martinelli; I seems a fitting time to direct| Thursday afternoon, benefit, “Pagli- attention to the general artistic ex-|Accl’’ and = “‘Cavaleria Rusticana,” cellence of the performances that are|S0r!, Kingston, Ruffo, Jeritza and . Crimi; night, “Traylata,"” Galll-Curci being given by the Chicago Opera jand (Gigli; Friday, Massenet's ‘Ma. | Company now completing the first of | non," Farrar and Chamlee; Saturday. Cow To Wit HARD Btovis. =) its flve weeks' stay at the Manhattan | matinee, “Snow Maiden," Bor!, Har an Opera House, The Chicago season's | rls waht “'Mefistofele."* Alda, Gigli > deficit, according to authentic reports, | i Chicago Op Company—Monday, | . | is huge, and Manager Mary Garden i N rs rs “Nouns Vanna," Garden and Mura- | has spent money with a lavish hand | tore; Tuesday, "Tristan und Isolde” but she has preduced results, She | in German MANAGER DAN MORGAN'S EXES - “THAT NBVER. OVERLOOK A TRICK . Beatrice Kottlar (debut). pA sae the ecough, WHEN BENNY WAS KNOWN AS "THE FEATHER DUSTER. Boxe! GIBBON HAD HIM LAY } OFF AND SPEND MONTHS LEARNING [has a well balanced staff of artists, | Richard Schubert (debut), Etcanor | lets you sleep a high grade conductor in Mr. Polacco, | Reynolds (debut); Wednesday, “La THING: —* fan improved orchestra, a competent | Boheme,” Faith Mason, ‘Tino Patti- Now Sie soca aa y, ings stage director, « chorus that can sing |era (debut), followed by world pre-| than to go to bed at night Isom and, when essential, show some in-|Miere of the ballet pantomime, “La cough and cough and cough: It terest in the proceedings on the stage. | Fete a Robinson, oranuetes ae the takes all the pep out of a man~doean't It? In spite of prima donna spats and | Composer, briel Groviez (debut); Dr. Bell's Pine-Tar-Honey will atop this? temperamental upsets, the artiste ap-| Thursday, ‘‘Pagiiaccl,"” Claire Dux; fer balsamic end healing satueptics bring - The Evening World’s | pear to lal) in harmony, and a spirit, | (debut), Muratore, followed by ballet | geosty vou relief. Good also for colds and werr 0c. fresh and invigorating, seems to hover | Pantomime, “Birthday of the Infan- over their performance Except for Frida, Jewels of the Madon- the scenery and a more lavish cos-|n@,'’ Raisa, Lamont; Saturday, matl- tume investure for the chorus and| hee, ‘Tales of Hoffmann,’ Ivogun, Copyright, 192°. (New York Evening World) by Press Publishing Co. ballet, nobody could ask for a better | Mason, nara, Johnson; night, ben- performance of “Samson et Delija’’| eft for devastated France, Salome," than the Chicagos gave Monday night. c avinta’’ was a let down due to Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Melisande"’ was exquisitely done by singers and orchestra and Puccini's | ‘Girl of the Golden West’ we never | By Cousin Eleanor N IN THE FA FOREST. HAPPENINGS 18 IRFORES actually had seen acted until Mme. MLLO, kiddies, here is Billy Bright- 7 ah Raisa and her associates attacked it Sk 0 : Nise ‘eH Nel MD sex back in the Kiddie Klub Korner with such gusto. Next week's bill U EK Sloan's freely for rheumatism, 4 J sciatica, Iumbago, over-worked ignin. Are you glad to see him? is interestingly varied with a number F Kec Anke k DEB muscles, neuralgia, backaches, lly Brighteyes has of debuts as additional mag me. stiff joints, and for sprains and strains. Kottlar and Richard Schubert, who IL penetrates without rubbing. un -und Isolde" |" tpg first } st i eaiaite Bave very first time you use Slos en so busy ‘aking merry In the White Forest] ave to interpret Tri that he has not had time to visit you.| on Tuesday, are alre: I & i i re e Kiddie Klub Christmas party that] ©: Marla Ivogun, coloratura 80-| virmth and quick relief from pain will thought you had not missed him| Rn Who sang in “The Barber of | delightfully sueprieg you: and Throat he o f 6 i Seville a 001 as envi- | OCU J ji , | poum about Blily Hrlenteves {able European reputation. Mer fa-| For forty years Sloan's. the world’s) Troubles, A hat’s me,” said, *T am Rilty| Yorite character Gilda, Mimi, Ro- | Pain and ache liniment, has heen making . ° and keeping thousands of friends. Ask chteyes,” and uw prouder squirred|‘"@ and Norina scurrinishher. ds of friends. ASk| pure food i never saw, Pe eat ee weniiy mianed Keep Sloan's handy, and at the first} medicine. Chief credit for the beautiful polys| chromatic stage pictures that delight- | sign of an ache or pain, use it ‘ ichep. ;Willard beat Johnson in 1915 and| : armg tales of my adventures?” he] | Viatanded ihe nranilare bis 70 | i OO eeied a enfe and was a/since then he may have gone back to}. Patt abratoe, the Ca ei a isked, And when T said that indeed ce fil teas wis atten del the pi mlare | At all druggists—S5e, 70, #140. | 65 years in ayer” at the tracks, but,after awhtie |barbering, so far as any one knows, | iit, ‘bioicy of Loulnitle. Ky.. in ex rounds, will | oo ’ ey really had, he (old me a lot of) on ast Monday at the Metropolitan 9 use. eonard’s affairs became bis chief | Jones had Hilly Papke when Papke [gy azine Joanny Donne!s of Paltadeiphia at tne | S°881D about his assoc eno Meee al cunderetind;, ton Bere | ‘iainess, After the first year Leon- ; beat Ketchel and when i<etchel licked |Nauonai AU. of Th Saly | his morning Vill bent i pepe h aa ial a stuffing him-| snisfeld, the Russian artist who de | No dangerous drugs ta lost his punch and became “cley-|Papke and took the title back. He Jone of the vrs Im ned ne a] self with the bark wiss | Eveiy tine there isp bit of a warm | signed and painted the scenery. ‘Thi rt of fame |had Ad Wolgast through that great |! spell Prickly Poreupir nandizes play of the varied colored lights, also | He achieved some Bane feather duster boxer,” because [little figiter's earcer as lightweight 1 Des been booked un for] azainst te next cold Me 15% Jittie hut from side to side. ‘Then,| tho product of Mr, Anisfeld's ferti IF COUGHS AND COLDS | @ was fast and clever, but couldn't |champion, And he had Jess Willard. jiwy mo: + by his inanaeer, Sammy G: id eat—awon’t « “(just as suddenty as it had begun it|!magination, together with the fanci- INTERFERE WITH | hare |. Jones once sold his interest in Will. a ik Th Drone: of Lanoute, Pa f he's hungry. ; ee j {© ful costumes and settings, made com- | Gibson told Leonard that his only |ard to Harry Frazee for $5,000, but | 2 vii adi wttaniociea a nat: yd ! Jan emermit and bis wit?) posite pictures that fairly dazzled, Tt BUSINESS nance to become a champion was to hearing that Frozee had Willard actu. |" |) nad cn the might of Pye. 2F, | yee nen Rees ere Spare’, | Was reward well deserved, for the|¢ ance to Knockout punch. He ot| ally matched with Johnson for the |i” 1) tu Ssh Mineo) ils Mh oY OF Tay, When the st t they heard a cri they tan lyrtist had” tolled industriously for | negers for Benny's sparring part-|chempionstitp, went to Frazes’s office! om on tee wo more feat vr One ie) the. Ges Bra lie B00Ks many weeks, ‘Those bizarre costumes, | 4 for ‘months made Benny | and wept himself back into a 10 per | Se Rey Slane eh oie Rr, toe | Vie ily, Billy etest ttl y in 'he thy the way, are made of heavy Irish Prep ef mady the delivering of hard blows. |cent. interest in Willard's contract, | pat the Afena A. C, of Bowen on Feb. | ° 1 Ollykin's house On jts blanket was 4 Note linen and all tho designs, marks and | stop them x Fenny astonished every one by knock-| Jones must have had a sort of ts. ani nis » Wiles for tea| , OpHY and Bolsbit Dhe North Sy lvaihen "| characters upon them are hand paint ish te t Joe Mandot, and after that | senlus for managing. Otherwise why } rounds at Toronto, Can. on Fed. & ttle Bobtail rabbit A ee oe a r ed, and Mr, Anisfeld, with some a | are Kable knockout record, | the three world's champions. ‘Tom Gibbons wil meet Pat McCarthy of Rox- | © SNOW louse : pa By TOAST ROUNIEMH, amet sistance, painted them all himself. Do ee ao a eacan natch with { _ Killilea is manager of Johnny Wi: | guy” stam i cho Denil & Boron, ten | 2t¢ Keeping very ha \ cosy and | Bronx, N.Y you wonder he shared curtain callin Gibson wen : son—and successful in getting @ World | points io a decision, Feb. warm. with te reddy ela lishiveerlet wicca title with such poor material. Since |" ; - lim, Robber ited, w in ou QUESTIONS ANSWERED with the'slogers RED. SPRUCE GUM wice Leonar a ‘| becoming champion Wilson's career | Si Mrsers matchmaker of (he Gtr | of town for not snev hand aut the he as: theoarihn , hh oper Roi d muceeet Gibson persuades has been full of unaccepted chatlenges |4. ' % Toy. is a town and clowd ® mater} Kerchief, “1 person bs reer e REST ADIAAE CM BR pana cherhs Rin licttit AVeigetable Preparation that ‘ ponard knocked Welsh out, Since|so.med in fora beating. But whether Be ren ead antes mm bey Me) daddy Gray. sa menace tot ation, Selene, nm the ENS-| that first appeared in it, ‘There is drudging'the systeni® en Leonard's matches, “made by it is Killiiea caution or Wilnon cold | "1" Sm kl Sas va| A880ciates and not, ft fo remain In a) anguage, Ww team en-|much to enjoy. in thls spectacular arugging yste' Gibson, have carned him | feet no outsider knows Tro feature bouts of twive rounds wil be! squirrel co y the went ane x fs ‘ ‘i 4 Pen Dunn of Cleveland ix an- | {Cet RO OMtdey eno w of the best of {etfee! ihe fans at the ferular weekly boasing shore ile el samamalt i So out he went gines, geography, the Wurld V work, although the public hts not ap: / Iregl, O WATSON EAD. Nene POH pther skilful manager. Dunn used | the semimodern managers of cham. (0 '™’ , lgmood Orme Booming Cub to nla | Cranddaddy o way ready | “end your questions to Cousin ¥ Penta Vitae ec the Onan band: the W; h With Caticura Soa y clever lightweight, and | tions, He put Frank Klaus through |" """U, Thon risa al Role, aed Frau | tO behave more 7 ereafter./Nor and look for the answers In the) toe a ee oe eid upon il. Mfr as P , decided that managing | some great fighting as middleweight | jose bares Wille Thompson So perhaps he will : back with) Kiddie Klub Korner for Thursday, | (150 Reais’ ihe: Warkice Miylla We and Ha kin ag better than fighting. He always! champion in this country and abroad. | sea aie his fellows again. Fet eae per ray ni ne ea iscta ane ve a Clear S | ise a'iarge stable of fighters, but his | Scnget had Klaus when he beat Car. |. T2nt Dob Piustmmons the ight bearrweist of | UF, ORT OEM, 5 ate HH though he had been told Ht Is an: isp a | Nef success has been with Jobnny | pontier and Papke in France, [picts Nas whe ids pet RE WHR OAT tava eae eiiid soe ts jother “Lohengrin'* part, ‘There ls] | Mathe whh the Beep and het we. | | S Whang, featherweight champion. |" ‘The managers mentioned above dif: |trssics s reat batt there, hae been matched 1o| Studying thelr lessons asa HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB. him. Misa Fonsslle makes an Or Tony ol cep: any siete ae pice Lt nn developed Kilbane and taught) gor in many ways. Kearns is dapper, | mort Martiti Burke, ths New Orleans fighter, im a| though the snow Is ¢ for them CUT OUT THIS COUPON. ean Reng I one \ takes an ; Lt Y ccaen os rou, ‘in in Loved | to box. Kilbane tells me Dunn! aimost dudish in dress, smoth faced, |fieo-round G0 at a show to be staged there oa|to venture out of iler nest. If Bagioaing wit ary vom. Voie and gloomy ‘ Ent sroear swith the Ointment and i ht him “everything he knows."| boyish in appearance, but aggressive |i nad of Feb. 18 Brighteyes, their f rs a ber, “cot, cut ois af thee | Cour and gloomy, at it parain Ave culate haloes n Johnny was going along pretty | and as full of strategy as a general mony “Palencia ‘ease Ric covtaat. paalpests, tw | tekohen them the Sart) bathing, Always include the Cuticura Dunn took him to California.| Gibson is also smooth faced, with jc\o ic ce Genres Ward assure tutti, me} It ly their ambit pwith te Cue A Syel “diademe Bailey 6 Talcum in your toilet preparations jere he knocked out Joe Rivers and | wide eyes, an innocent expression, a New England welterweight chamnioo holds a tt-| Pollykin, Polly kin t uirt Ro! Gt bare tered onto the Manhattan Opera stage, | oo aa aes, a Pe UR the match with Attell that made/ perpetual smile, a pleasant ine of jcen-roind od per Ward. Sich Kine ts| grade. ‘They'll. hia rd aye pee a Math at tt Sree. iY tn tM elton n. T world’s champion. Kilbane has] conversation always on tap, full of ready to siaao 1 in Newark. Palazolo also! won't they? B berformance of Tru eval sy poly ene hres on CREDIT made a fortune under Dunn’s/ funny stories about fighters, careless save bis other crack welterweight, Jimmy Amato, ful work, She was Mdith Mason, wife id wh ene: 6 AND FINS JEWELRY management | bout hin om money and carafl Yo,» mw tly nar ai a i | ROVAL Biamote Maras eX DESCAMPS 18 CLEVER. | "make good!” with he men." |” wan a sig by ave Broth fs peat! “ eer ice Miss Mason anne the first act oxen Raduays slic ead en Morgan fe vad, watens) ore mene oO long ago, ¥ Miss Mas P — : pee of the most successful mana- | tul, bombastic, a great preas agent for Sua, ssanmaner Eddie AeMahon hea compre | YOUNES, there lived f COUPON 894, tionally well as thor ‘eueme) EE se itn OLAS ps of fighters is Francols Descamps, | his fighters, recklessly daring in hi yas ard at ine twelve round bouts for the aie tela? eins ; conversant with the role an KinnoponitAas. af Ww 4 ps was a teacher of gymnas-|cusionally tried to hold him up, twelise Jimmy Coonry and Joknay Ielsier wilt) business." He vkeup wa HELP WANTED—MALE and acrobatics when he found | shrewdly diplomatic in match-making, clam sad Danny Lee and Joey Leon They V | GROVIDONGE, RoI Jan: 26 stisfactory ty create t IN A TUBE =: ntier, a schoolboy in France. yec so full ‘of confidence in his men they might] rk iusion of y ad she * made Carpentier an acrobat, and|that he never dodges a match t! t rey 1 command the gir! “i, A FREE TRIAL : gave tumbling exhibitions to-| looks dangerous, He backs his stable 1 i 1 essential for 1 | : ¥ in the streets of various every time. He even bet on Levinsky . 4 f 7 gon, an Amertean, # ! ; hearers) A 8, passing the hat to beat Carpenti One night ast iat ® laters and D ton, looked as he had just wae itGads “Weuet without are ag” a ee taught Carpentie: la savate (Onerrightl 18% tw Rebel edson n arose, 1 wt n stepped off his ship His singing vu of F ee ae eee