Show Side Betting Managers Are Real Comedians of 1 Copyright b by the Press Prees PublishIng Publishing Publish Publish- ing Co the New ew York York World World BY HI HOB nOD EDG ALK is th the cheapest thing in tho the T TALK world Tho The cheapest lino of ot talk i Is d delivered H by tho the man who mal makes es Conversa conversational side bets This fellow never nevor puts up an any real monc money Ho doesn't have to He Ho can imagine himself betting thousands an and exist In a dream of ot bliss bUss If he ho happened to toTI tomake make TI ice e a t. t real 1 10 bet bel and lost it hed he'd nave a remorseful streak that would last until he raised enough money to eat cat again at regular Intervals Funny the figure most commonly mentioned by b- the Imaginary side bet bug ls Ho lie thinks that ten thousand thousand thou thou- sand is a neat figure It has a round full swelling sound And then thon nobody will ever think of trying to take up a thousand ten betting betting- proposition If the dreamer offered to wager ten dollars someone might accept The Tue thousand ten wager Is particularly popular among antong managers of oC boxers The rolling s syllables carr carry with them a tone of prosperity In the theold theold theold old da days s 's managers used to make a flash b by wearing diamonds Tile They I dont don't wear diamonds un any more Its It's Just JUAt as effective to bluff blutt about making big bets and not nearl nearly as expensive Sometimes these gentlemen get to together together to- to gether In some public place and banter and challenge each other until one ono sa says s Ill bet you a thousand dollars your oUr man mart doesn't stick ten rounds Got cha chin says sas the other fellow Then there's theres a aran ran wrangle lc over oer the stal stakeholder Checks are arc recklessly drawn and as recklessly posted That's as far tar as they go 10 They're Just posted In ln the stakeholders stakeholder's hands Does tho stakeholder ever or try to cash the these o checks checks' Of Ot course not Ho lie Isn't so flO foolish He lIe shows them around a A. little and then hands them back to the original owners or tears them up and drops them Into tho the waste pap paper 1 can at a u. subway wa station It re iI doesn't matter which A couple of million of or those checks s might bo worth something some somo- thing as soiled paper pulp to make wrapping trapping paper of oC NE of ot the funniest runniest things I know of ot O ONE is the tile meeting of ot two managers of or boxers at a newspaper office Thc They como In ostensibly to talk over a match so 0 that the tho sporting editor will b become Interested and put something about it in the The paper managers may have o been together just before the they thie- entered tho thin office hut but tile they alwa alwayn 1 arrive sep sep- ep- ep When tho the second on ono comes In tho first glar glares s at al him and then the now arrival glares back t. In Jn a minute thc they are arc tolling each other how hots quickly ly their respective fighters can hung hang It Iton Iton Iton on that dub of ot yours ours Then they tell how much monc money the they have cleared cleare up within tho past year Its It's a point of or pride with managers of or champions to claim that thai they've the earned or 01 their melr n fighters have hae earned moro more mone money In six months than Joe loc Gans Game or Frank Erne or Jim Jint Jeffries or so some mo other real fighter earned In Inas Inas Inas as man ninny many years As S the they tell of or their various matches tile they dilate upon tho the heavy hean betting they've done Why ilY 1 sa says sas s 's to Ai Ad lets bet your end of tho the pu purse and or ur so on the sill side 1 Its It's n. n pipe you'll lick this gu guy So wo Se clear H OIL on that on one After Arter that the tIle two managers begin to banter each other Say a team of mules couldn't drag your our man in the ring with mine You know it it says one Forget It My Iy mans man's the champ and amI you ou got to come to my terms I If it r you OU fight him Ill I'll fight I ht you winner take all with a side bet lIe tHo says an Ill fight but he lie doesn't mean meun that at atall all all he he means that his boxer will fight Nix says the other Im a business man alan This I Is business with ale mo Cut Chit Cutout Cutout out that winner take toke all stuff and make It 60 been howling for or a match and you ou got cold feet teet accuses the first manager manarel Then they bicker er and quarrel and get geta a little uncomplimentary tar tary and finally grow grov so nois noisy that they the attract all the tho theoffice theoffice office bo boys and then the second one says hotly Youre on Ill I'll take that ten thousand awa away from rom rota you ou hut but It'll be like stealing cand candy from a it kid Ill I'll meet you ou tonight and post lost forfeits You bettor better save enough to get home on on- on take take- It from mae me Then the second manager goes out and the first lingers Iners a f few W minutes and tells the tho sporting writer l' l how his tl fighter fight fight- ht- ht er or will make mako a. a bum out of oC that guy uy and then he goes out I never ne followed an any of these theBe managers ers but I havo no doubt time tho first to leave waits for tOl theother tho the other fellow tIto downstairs an and they thoy go goto goto o oto to some som place where th they can sit it down low and have a friendly chat together and anti Walt ait to see what th the next edition of or orthe the paper will have havo to say a about the tho bl big side bets and anti all the rest of It lt As g for real side wagers they're thoro out of or date Thc They belong to the tho ago Of t tho do dodo o. o I J believe bellevo that John L. L Sullivan and some of oC those timers old us d to tomako tomako mako flake real side bets bet or their backers did dill Today TolJa- there are arc no backers and there are no side wa wagers except in England Over O on tho the othor other side betting bet bet- tin ting on n bouts and furnishing stakes to bo be fought for Cor aro are part of or the game iv it relic of or the good oh old days of or James Digg when oYer every gentleman had hall his bully timid and bet real thousands of oC pounds Wh whenever ho he was turned loose In tho the ring ring- Talk wa wasn't nt tho tilt cheapest thing In tho the world In those days buys |