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=A 7 1] ¥ x ; i. Bras Behind the Boxer Were eae ” Only $1,500 for a Big Bout. 8 money getters old time manag r more or less of a side issue, ‘Or ringside seats. advertised heavyweight champ! ky fight fans pay as much or more { for the minor titles. 00,000 to $1,623,000. or the Jeffries-Sharkey fight broke M records. The gate was 466, nd ‘the fighters’ share was $36, plit’ 75-2 Champions didn't demand all the oney in those days. They were sat- isfied to fight winner take all, or for winner's and loser’s percentage, ally 75-25 or 65-85. Imagine a modern champion, even nong the lightweights, being im- hensely pleased with himself because he won 76 per cent. of a $36,465 purse $27,349. That was what Jeffries, the great- champion of twenty years ago, MBeived for beating Tom Sharkey in enty-five rounds of the hardest iwhting of his whole career I remember meeting Jeffries a few wafter that fight, and in smiling ide over ‘his prosperity Jim pulled bank dook out of his pocket and howed me the deposit made just ef the fight, and his balance t $27,349 as chicken feed There were some smooth birds in fhe. game in the old days. ourke, now a Boxing Commi loner in New York, not only man- lged George Dixon and Joe Walcott wo black champions whose fighting Bility may have been equalled but r has been surpassed, but in ad- ftion ran a big boxing club and had Vi the other champs fighting for him urke managed Tom Sharkey too HE DEVELOPED JEFFRIES. Billy Delaney was one of the great- Ist old-time managers. He went to Sew Orleans with Jim Corbett, and it ras under his coaching that Corbett yhipped Sullivan. ‘Afterward Delaney had Corbett in e fight with Fitzsimmons at Carson. laney had brought young Jim feffries, a novice, but a giant in hysique, up to Carson to be one of orbett’s sparring partners. The night Corbett lost the championship ney proposed to Jeffries that un- er Delaney’s coaching he might be Ine one to wrest the honors from Fitz. Delaney matched Jeffries with Van ushkirk, with Gus Ruhlin and with ‘om’ Sharkey, and Jeffries won his nts. Then he took big Jim to New ‘ork, where Jeffries broke his hand h defeating big Bob Armstrong and ppped out of sight by returning to Pplifornia. ut a year or so later Delaney had back again, Billy Brady hav- Wg engineered a fight with Fitzsim- rons, and this time Jeff made g6od ‘ad won the world's championship. Delaney handled Jeff in all his hia until Jim retired. Years later two quarrelled because Jeffries sed to return to the ring to fight 1 Squires. When Jeffries was o out of retirement after six rs, by the public's demand that he home back and fight Jack Johnson, Delaney allowed hts bitterness to turn him against Jeff. He joined John- on's camp as coach, and no doubt his Jose Knowledge of Jefiries's boxing hods helped Johnson to win. De- ney dropped out of the game after nis fight. Personally, he was a very Juliet man, with a keen sense of umor. ‘Another great old timer was Billy len, once Manager of John L, f-<Mivan, later of Charlie Mitchell and n Gus Ruhlin. Billy Madden was n old time bare knuckle fighter him- elf. He knew the game as it was blayed under London Prize Ring rules. Breaking with,Sullivan he went to and and England to hunt up a man lo whip John L., and brought back We Mitchell, a middleweight. Ntchell was a wonder for his size. He ought Sullivan a thirty-nine-round raw at Chantilly, France, in 1888, 6 fight ending when both men were weary to lift their hands. Ladden nearly made Gus Ruhlin, Akron Giant, a champion, Gus pocked out Tom Sharkey and many ners, But was knocked out by Fitz- firamons and beaten by Jeffries. Sam Harris was a great manager. was driving a laundry wagon in rooklyn when he became acquainted h Terry McGovern, a kid working na lumber yard and boxing with the her boys after working hours. Sam, ardly more than a boy himself, un- hertook to make Terry a real fighter. Je put Terry tnto some amateur bouts nd Terry knocked out the amateur on jn a hurry, Then Sam made professional matches for Terry, who nocked out a lot of great fighters in hurry. After a couple of years, McGovern near the champions—and the Kountry was full of great little men % INDLERS OF OLI-TIMERS “FAKED AS MONEY-GETTERS same class with the modern bunch, In te old times the gate receipts? )Modern managers would look on| Tom Not Very Clever Arranging Big furses in the Days of Jeffries, When Bat Nelsqn Received 4 By Robert Edgren. ers of champions were hardly in the But tn the old days money was And in the old days boxing matches idn’t draw such immense crowds and people didn’t dream of paying $50 ‘The highest price I remember was at the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, seats in the ringside boxes were sold at $40. This was for the jonship match in many years. To- ‘or box seats, even when little fellows Modern gate receipts for any championship fight rum anywhere from Harris got the match with Palmer, who was English champion and re- garded aS a marvel, by outwitting the Englishman's manager, who wanted a soft match before taking on featherweight champion George Dixon for his man. McGovern fin- ished Palmer in less than a round. That got him the fight with Dixon in which he knocked out “Little Chocolate” in elght rounds and won the world's championship. Harris made a raft of money with MeGovern, and looked out for Terry’s Interests long as Terry lived. Un- der Sam's direction, Terry made more money in the ring than any little fighter of his time. Harris branched into the theatrical business and be- came one of America’s greatest pro- ducers, and partner of George M. Cohan. William Muldoon, now New York's Boxing Chairman. at one time man- aged Jobn L. Sullivan. He was the only man who could control John L. when John was drinking and running wild. Muldoon was world's cham- pion wrestler. “Iron Jawed" Nolan flashed across the map as manager of Battling Nel- son, Nolan was one of those men who said something and refused to rgue. He took pride in being ob- stinate, Nolan came East with Nel- son shortly after Nelsor. had twice nocked out Young Corbett in San rancisco, and matched Nelson for 4 six-round fight with Abe Attell, then featherweight champion of the world. “leon Jawed Bill" stubbornly de- manded $1,500 for Nelson's end that night, threatening to take his man out of the club unless he got {t— and he got it. Imagine Battling Nelson fighting Abe Attell TO-DAY—both at their best and Bat taking $1,500 for his end. A modern manager would demand and get at least $15,000 for Nelson's end in such a bout—probably $30,000. “Iron Jawed Bill” did better when he matched Nelson with Gans. He de- manded $20,000 for Nelson's end, thinkmg that would stop all talk about the match, for he didn’t want Nelson to fight Gans, having little idea then that Bat could beat the great black champion. But he was dluffing Tex Rickard—and Rickard thought no more of paying $20,000 to a fighter than of buying a two-dit cigar, 4 THE EVENING WORLD, ODERN RING MANAGERS 0 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922 PERATE ON BIG BUSINESS SCA LE SOME FAMOUS OLD.TIME BOXING MANAGERS “You ARENT Sick om ANYTHING 2” DELANEY ASKED JEFFRIES Fro & RINGSID@ SKeTOS KNOKED ovT woPiE AT CARSON « We MONT TRRRIBLE Thr” MC GoveRN Copyright by Robert Edgren. MRL. Tom GRevrne's Boxers WERE Moe AFRAID oF Tom “Han oF CHER, MéHTeRs. <7 ol The fight drew $69,715, then a world’s record for lightweights, and Nelson, with a bonus and expense money, received $23,000. Rat Nelson soon quarrelled with Nolan. Bat usually managed his man- agers. No manager could put any- thing over on the hard-headed Dane. He had a manager once, Murphy by name, who forgetfully started East from California without firet eplitting up a purse Bat had won. Bat ran around to see the San Francisco Chief of Police, and the Chief wired to Stockton and had the absent-minded manager taken off the train and brought back to settle up. NEW USE FOR TEETH. Billy Britt was a picturesque figure asa manager. He was Coast amateur bantam, feather and lightweight champion, and afterward started his brother Jimmy along the same trail. Billy managed Stanley Ketchel in some of Stanley's greatest fights and was his manager when the middle- weight champion went against Jack Johnson for the heavyweight title. Ketchel knocked Johnson down in that fight, but on getting up, Johnson landed a terrific swing that knocked Ketchel out and removed several of his front teeth. After the fight, Billy Britt was seen at a well known San Francisco bar weeping over the defeat of his friend “Steve,” as he called Ketchel. Britt was displaying Ketch- el's teeth, which he had in his pooket, and offered to “shoot dice” with them for the drinks. Joe Macies of Philadelphia managed Kid Carter for years, and had him fighting every week. Carter wan probably the hardest worked fighter in the world, and It broke him down and ended his career when he might have been a world’s champion with less pushing. One of the unluckiest fighters, so far as dealings with @ manager goes, was Frankie Neil, wio won the ban- tamweight title from Harry Forbes, Neil's father managed him. The old gentleman Hked to bet on the ponies, so Neil never got any money to show for a lot of hard ring work. Incidentally, the father-manager Py tnose days. In 1899 Terry knocked but Gesper Leon, Patsy Haley (now hme of the best referees in New York), sammy Kelly (afterward a Wall ts broker), Harry Vorbes and took Neil to England and matched him with Bowker, who won the cham- Pionship on points. Pop Nell put up a yelp that barred Frankie from get ting a return match, WMopyright, 1922, by Robert Etgrend Man,” aald Sito fhe Robber Red Gguie» §=The poem must Hog made a hole at the foot of the third hemlock north of mine. one who knew first-hand. Mr. Ground Hog’s other name {s Mr. Woodchuck, and I think it suits him Over in Emgland the country children cal pigs chuckles, so wood- And better. It was for your sakes, kiddies, that I did it. I knew that you'd like to hear about Mr. Ground Hog and his shadow from chucks are woodland piggies. that is exactly what the woodchuck You'd think so certainly if you could see him when first he goes indoors to sleep Then he {s aa broad @o fat that he can is, a 1 for the winter. as he ittle pig of the woods. is long; scarcely waddle. He was considerably leaner when he came out the day before yesterday. Everybody said so. Almost everyone who ‘3 anyone in the Fair Forest was there and they all agreed that Chuckie looked thin, And that he ought to have gotten at least The Evening World’s Kiddie Klub Korner Coperiget, 1922, (New York Evening World) hy Pres Publishing Cv. Conducted by Eleanor Schorer Woodland Wonder Tales By Cousin Eleanor one good meal before going back. Pohykin and Pollykin's cat Tabdetha Pollykin’s daddy and his do" Joe, all the Bobtail Bobbity and Mama Bonny dow to Uittlebit, the wee-est bunny seven Mr. Ground Hog stick his nose bunnies, from babies, all were there hig hole and sniff fresh alr first ti me since fall As soon as he caught sigh Woodchuck, Joe's ears went tail straightened and his nose ‘And when Chuckie had got clear out there was to wiggle. Joe. With a yelp he sprang after Chuckie and a chase began. Chuokte can run, I'll say that for him, over the white floor of He ran in a circle trying to get back to his hole. He did not reach it. Joe was too close and Chuckle turned to fight. He is no moan little fighter either, I don't say he in brave but he can fight when put to it this time he thought he had to. But he didn't. Pollykin's daddy caught) Joe by the collar and took him off His coal black feet Daddy of the to home tn time to save Chuckie. “Are you much scared?” asked | - Bobbity Bobtail. “[’'m sorry it happened,” Pollykin apologized, but Mr. Woodchuck never even looked up. He kept looking for something beneath whik his feet to se you staying all out see vut of for the And the oO EAR Children Who Read About Me: Last fall when the ground hog dug himself in, I was careful to notic where he made his hole just so I could see him come out on Feb. 2. | Of course yon know that we squir- rels do not need to inquire of M: Ground Hog whether the weather will | continue cold or become fair and | warmer, Away back in nutting sea son we know how long the coming winter will last and just about when | to expect spring. The wise country- | man watches closely to see whether | we gather much or little food into our siorehouse, <A full storehouse means a long winter ahead, | So you see it was for no selfish reaso) that I noted that | Ground rel. “I've not much left in my store- house, so warm weather will suit me.” But Chuckie kept looking at the ground. Little and little the gray cir- cle around his feet grew darker and sharper, The sun was coming through, Chuckie was seeing his shadow. His eyes grew wider and wider when he was eure it really was his shadow.’ “I've got to be get ting back,” he sald in his slow Chuckie way, and disappeared down him as he went. And now kiddie friends, we'll have six weeks more of snow and skating and winter frosting on the window panes. =a Aren't you glad? Iam. Your own BILLY BRIGHTEYES. “What did the groundhog do when he came out?” asked Eena Bright eyes on the way home. “He looked for his shadow,” ex plained her daddy, Billy Brighteyes “Ana then, what?) Meena wanted to know. : “Well, he saw it, got scared, wen! back into his hole and now we wi have six weeks more of winter. If he had not seen his shadow he would have stayed out and it would hay meant that spring had come.’ “Does the sunshine make thé sroundhog see his shadow tli his hole, piling the earth tn behind | the contestant must not accept help from others. A note from the parents or teacher of the sender saying the poem Is orig- inal must accompany each contribu- tion. Write NAMB, AGE, ADDRESS and CERTIFICATE NUMBER distinctly. Address Cousin Eleanor, New York Evening World, No. 63 Park Row, New York City. QUESTIONS ANSWERED —about the heavens, the earth, plant life, animal Hfe, races and people, nations, science, invention, the Eng- lish wireless, steam en- geography, the World War. Send your questions to Cousin Elea- nor and look for the answers in the Kiddie Klub Korner for Thursday, Feb. 9. HOW TO JOIN THE KLUB, CUT OUT THIS COUPON. R with language, you must give ADDRESS, not only the the borough also, All children up to sixteen years of may become members, Each member te enented with a silver gray Klub Pin and membership certificate. COUPON 897. RICKARD HEARING GOES OVER A WEEK Arguments of Counsel Will Be Heard and Decision Made ‘Next Saturday. The case against Tex Rickard, sports promoter, accused of having had fillelt relations with a girl below the age of eighteen, was completed early this morning in West Side Court after Anna Hess, eleven, had been on the witness stand more than four hours, | The Hess girl was called as a cor witness for Alice fifteen, on whose behalf the for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil dren brought the charge against| | Rickard. No complaint is made on |behalt of the youn. child, Magistrate Simpson said he willing to hear argument and render \a@ decision at Once, but it was ag | roborative | let r-las tt makes me see mine?” Mina in up, 8) cutred. began | icyvog © “Then why can't we look et ou 0 holding lown shadows on Feb, 2 and decid for ourselves?” she wanted to know We can," said Billy Brighteyes Maahed | But it isn't nearly so much fun." the forest. Soon. Good old winter Soon will leave us His time will soon be And the binis Shall sing and tell us Spring is here at last By FLORENCE ROGDRS, age | Beacon, N.Y past FEBRUARY CONTEST. Subject: A Kiddie Klub Song. Ten awards of $1 each will be awarded the ten Kiddie Klub mem bers, aged from six to fifteen, inclu sive, who send in the best poem for dja Kiddie Klub song Bot be copied and between Max Steuer, attorney fo | Rickard, and Ferdinand Pecora, the Assistant District Attorney repre senting the society, \o defer thelr summing up until next Saturday | after thelr argument the Magistrate | will either throw the case out or order | {t laid before the Grand Jury. aS ACCUSED OF THEFT OF $2,144 FROM WOMAN Wormer Salvation Army nsign: 5 Years Old, Arrested. H. old, formerly an ensign tn thi salvation Army, was arrested at Tomestown, N. ¥., to-day by Detec ves Kenna and Brosnan of Brooklyn on @ Warrant issued by Magistrate vale of grand larceny. He ta allege to have stolen $2,144 from Miss Marta wr reventy-elght years old, No, 164 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn. The police t the money by tnducing Mis« ign what +! wet tor ome saligious Mlerauite William Copeland, seventy-five thought @& pocelpl Bitty MADDEN FROM A siKtertcrn MADE IN ENGLAND, AT RUBLINS CAMP) 190% FRawie WIS Fares By Roger Batchelder. “I think that our new Governor is using little tact in conducting the af- fairs of his office, but, in my optnion, Porto Rican difficulties are due mainly to a lack of proper legislation on the part of Congress for that part of the United States," remarked Ramon Valdes, Senator for the majority,-and prominent business man of Porto Rico, “I have often wondered.” he went on, “why Congress doea not give spec- ial attention to the Porto Rican prob- lem, for its solution would be of great advantage to this country. We are Latin, and South and Central Ameri- can countries regard the manner in which Porto Rico is governed as a barometer of the attitude of the States towards Spanish-speaking countries, We are all loyal Ameri- cans and have proved it on many oc- ec WAS out oFLuctc , MAN) iM Pores WITH Tae wari * “Ton Jawed Nova Demanven #) g00, FoR GAT NELSON Te FAGAT ATTELL, AND Got IT, BY Meck t S32 ORBAN, GIBSON on ANY MANAGER. WOULD ASKCTWENTY TIMES As. —_——s AND PLAYED The Row. are you engaged jn?” inquired one colored gentieman of another. “Tse engaged in de mining busi- "replied his friend, What kind of mining are you doin'—gold, silver or di'monds?” “I’se doin’ kalsomining.” Then George left for Havana oe “BELLS ON HER TOES.” Most peopte think that one must at least lead an elephant into a hotel dining room to create 4 stir in New York, but that idea dispetled yesterday by a beautiful young lady who, all by herself, nearly put a stop to busi- ness at the Biltmore. At about 9.30 she tripped in, clad in a green hat, green suit, green stockings and green shoes, And as she’ walked to the tele- phone, there came a "tinkle, tin- kle."") ‘The room clerks raised their eyes; bell-hops suspended operations and old gentiemen who was casions, notably during the Great] should have known better just War.” stared. For on her green shoes ee 8 were tiny bells. There was an HERE'S ONE FROM UP-STATE. George Morris of Amsterdam, N. Y.,| who owns a lot of mills up that way | and 1s a member of the State Boxing | Commission, told this one as he was packing his bag at the Biltmore yes- terday, preparatory to a trip to Cuba George said he heard \t on the train from Amsterdam, “Well, Rastus, I hear you are working again, What business awed hush, which lasted until she hung up the receiver and left the hotel. Then some one sighed and broke the tension, FARTHEST FROM HOME, The ®New Yorker for a Day or Two" who is farthest from home to-day 4s Gordon John, who is at the Pennsyl- vania, dlis home town, Vatparaiso, Chill, 1g over 4,600 miles from Broad- | way. — but was in reality an order on the Brooklyn Savings Bank for all the tmmoney she had there. Detectives Brosnan said Miss Wall worked for years at Wanamaker's and *. ved $27,000, most of which Is now «one. He said she once gave $3,000 to Copeland, who met her at a Salvation Army meeting. Copeland will b> brought back to Brooklyn this after- noon. oo ANNA GOULD WILLING TO PENSION HER DUKE Id Pay Well fer a Sepa Friends Say. PARIS, Feb. 4.—Anna Gould, Duch ess of Talleyrand, who was reported to have Inatituted divorce proceedings against her titled French husband, {s w prepared to grant the Duke a separa tion, with a generous allowan friends of the couple declared to-da The famous heiress, whose affai have been in the inublic press . decade, nas refused to 1 but is wi ree, her friends said « 190,00" v to separate and grant the Duke francs annually SCALDED BY STEAM ON SHIP Peter Stewart, a member of the crew of the steamship City of Pittsburgh, ts in Norwegian Hospital, Hrooklyn, to Creofos Succeeds even where vaccines and symptom treatments fall to prevent nfluenza and pneumoma Creofos positively destroys the germs the system that cause colds, influenzs and pneumonia, You cannot afford to walt for othe treatments to fall. Play safe during the | “fu epidemic and take Creofos at the first sign of a cold! Safe for the whole family. Take home a Peedi es whole tamiys va! R day tn a critical condition as the result of the bursting of a steam pipe on the ship. He was taken from the City of Pittsburgh by Police Launch No. 8 after a radio”had been received at Police Headquarters, and transferred to an | ambulance at the foot of 69th Street, Brooklyn. (aticura be “ MEDICINAL|: | SONLEr ji" TL pwice escrm Satisfies every want of the most critical in cleansing, purifying and beautifying the skin and complexion. Nothing purer, sweeter or more effective for every-day toilet purposes. seeps oly Wet, sates “emt cree era Geert Keak icure Soap shaves without mug. 7 | y INFLUENZA The pure food elements in ATereme N9 build energy +o pesiat Colds and Grip, REANER PROVING DARK HORSE OF -BILARD TOURNEY Youngstown Star Has Already | Beaten Two Former Na- tional Champions. In the national Class A 18.2 baiktine billiard tournament at the Crescent Ath- letic Club, Brooklyn, Emil A. Renner, the star from Youngstown, 0., defeated ©. W. Gardner In the matinee match of the tournament under the direction of the National Association of Amateur Billiard Players, ‘The score was 300 points to 298, the closest battle of the series. Renner by his victory over Gardner, the veteran, who has five times held the honors, has scored a record by account- Ing for the defeat of the two former champtons fn the classic. Percy N. Col- ‘ns of the Iilinols Athletic Club was the first to fall before his resourceful and nervy billlarda, | Perey N. Collins, the balk line wizard of the Wi hung up an average record for the national class A 18.2 balk line championship in this evening's game. He completed him string In eleven in- ings, The figure was 273-11. It marks the second record to be broken in the tournament, as Edgar T. Appleby hung up the high run of 142 last Tuesday. Incidentally the representative of the Illinois Athletic Club played tn a man- ner that amazed beholders, beating T. 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