Show FEW FIGHTERS SAVE THEIR COIN COMES IN BUNCHES BUT GOES AS FAST New York Nov 6 A curious fact it is that so few successful eucce ful prize fighters are area financial success They are all alike a said an follower of o the ring last night Just think of the bunch that was fighting around here a few years ago go and what they were getting Kid land Wilmington Jack Daly Tim Kearns Reams Jack Downe Downey Mysterious Billy BUly Smith Joe Joa Walcott Kid Lavigne Dan Creedon Eddie Ed Eddie Eddie die Connley Tommy Feltz Matty Mat Matthews Matthews thaws and a hundred others Any Anyone one of that bunch should be fixed for life but most of them are barely g enough to hang on by Of course there are some who have not gone the route and who have some something something something thing left to remember the game by be besides besIdes besides sides cauliflower ears and broken noses Gus who fought all of the heavies in his day is in fairly prosperous circumstances circum circumstances circumstances stances Gus was a levelheaded fellow and hung on to his cash Today he be has enough and a little lI tle over to carry him bun along Oscar Gardner was able to hang on to enough to put him out of reach of want and Martin Flaherty and Austin Rice are both counted well wen to do at their homes up in Connecticut There are a few of the present crop who seem to have more than the usual allotment of gray matter that is ascribed to fighters but the majority have learned nothing from the misfortunes of the great fighters of yesterday Leach Cross has cleaned up about 15 while he has been in the game and has still got It He will hang on to it too He Is a dentist by profession and handles a good practice Battling Nelson likes to talk about what he has but it is hardly likely that he is i anywhere near as well fixed as he to be Still he ho is pretty well off oCt and from the looks of things he never will be compelled to ask for a handout Jeffries ought to be well fixed but he has a poor head for business and his ventures outside of the theatrical end have been far from successes Jeff sank sanka a large largo part of his in an alfalfa farm He expected to make a fortune but Jeff was never cut out for a farmer He lIe lacks sticking ability and while off oft hunting in inthe Inthe inthe the mountains the farming venture ate atea a big chunk in his bank roll The saloon business did not bring any coin to Jim either Oither He Ho fitted up a fine place in Los Angeles but he had more than customers and that crimped him a little bit more Jim must be pretty well In or he never n ver could have been coaxed out in the open again His last theatrical venture netted him about 20 and has gone a long way toward put putting putting putting ting him on his feet again If he fights Johnson and defeats the negro Jeff can clean up a couple of hundred thousand If he ho has learned anything by b experience this sum should carry him along com corn comfortably comfortably for the rest of his days This fellow Johnson looks like the worst of the bunch Its only a matter of at ofa ofa a R year or so ago that he was barely ex existing exIsting and now that he has it coming he heIs heIs heis Is sending it along like a sailor He cant hang onto a cent Its come easy cas go goeasy goeasy goeasy easy with him |