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Show FIGHTERS DO WORK; MANAGERS GET COIfl Menke Says Latest Get-rich-quick Scheme Is Easiest Ever. By FRANK MENKE. NKW Y'OJfK, Nov. ii'J. T)jp next crop of AffM-ri'-ari millionaire's will be; har-i'-rl I'roni the army of pri,e fi'ht sin nyprh - 1 hp pprons v.iio bavp, ejia-('ove-rpfl how to r:l ri b o,ni:k with the len.-t pxprt ion. j 7 1 1 o iinlfarnf-f in pngilif-ti: methods 1 urn o-.'-t-xui of the ileTa. that the Ifightr-r t"tM thn l-ilk of all the huge I piirr-PH lhat arc hnnp up for battles in tlipe fren.ip'i finance oayg. Toe un-j un-j learned havp the wroujj idea. 7t 's the so-' so-' ca I ir-cj " mana frpj'B ' who grab off the hup-1. rhare of the gold-tinteH mazuma. A trood manappr very oft,PD helps j thp f'iht'r to ;'pt, iiar the top in trie, i pnilitic heap --but tiVrp are ipw poo MjHiiae-rv in thispra. Thp fair and honest ' niana'pr is -atisfir-d with a l per rent ! sharp of thn fiiit'pr'fi ine-ome as pay-t pay-t nif-nt for bin pi t orts in boontinj; his : man arid guiding him along the financial finan-cial nathwav, but the trouble with the ; I'Utfiliti''. 2am' is that many unscrupulous unscrupu-lous f'eron11 have ,?raftpd thpmfelves I onto fijihtpr and a-t likp leeches they puck out oi the fighter nearly c-votv dejllr f.e earns, and in the end the fifhter has nothing and the ma.nager evfryt h inp. A Ne-w Vork fj'Ort writer rerently made the rounds of the fight managers' ! offices in Gotham, and marveled be-i be-i r-a ne man v of t hem occupied real i s-uites in .ome of the biggest office i b::ilding- in the town. That don't seem strange to us. The only marvelous ! thing about his discovery, in our opiD-1 opiD-1 ion. is-that he didn't find a bunch of j managers ofcupyi ng and owning the j whole building. i Many Like Leeches. The rs'jftest way of gathering in big ; morify thete days is to manage some boob battler a guv who knows how to fight and knows little or nothing about ! the financial end of the game. That i c-Tm.ci; nf fifliTPrs and thev are in the majority are easy prry for the human vultures who term themselves '"managers. '"man-agers. 5 ' "When ever a voungster rises in the pugilistic world there's a mad scramble among the "managers'' to grab him off and put bis financial affairs under 'their control. They scent prev and they are like wolves in pursuit of it. l"he "managers'-" usually sign up the boob battler to a contract that is lopsided; lop-sided; one that is ironclad as far as the fighter is concerned, but can be broken any time the manager desires. The "manager''" has nothing to lose and everything to gain. If the fighter de- j velops into a real drawing card the "manager'7 can hang onto him until ' hi6 usefulness is over. If the fighter should prove to be a flivver the man- . ager can cut loose. , One battler who recently cut loose from bis "manager'' told us that in a trifle over one year he earned $9000 in : the ring, but that all he got out of it ( was l!H'0. "I should have received nearly STOOD.'1 he said, "but my manager got the big bulk of the money. He Teas to get 2o per rent of my income for , managing me. Well, he got nearly 90 ; per cent. And what happened to me is happening to other fighters right along. They are being trimmed by their managers. A fighter doesn't know much about the fighting game. He leaves that up to his manager. Tf the manager is a square one the fighter gets j a square deal. But if he isn't, the fighter is trimmed. Earns $1200, Gets $65. ' t "I once fought for a $1200 guarantee. guaran-tee. That amount of money was turned over to mv manager by the promoter. Out of that I should have revived $900, but when it came to settling up my manager gave me $iio. He said that was all that was left. T made a howl, but he explained that he had to pay out $100 for pres agenting mo, o0 for something else, another $75 here, and so on. "T investigated all those expenditures he said he had made, and found that he actnallv paid out only about $3-5. He gave me $'55 and he pocketed 41100. That was the wav with most of my fights." I That case is onlv one of many. One fighter who earned' over $130,000'in five vears is said to have received only about $:i0, iiiiii. His manager got the bulk of the balaiK-e. One of the most prominent heavyweights heavy-weights in the country today said he earned over $14,000 for three fights and lie never got a dollar. It went to the manager. A featherweight was guaranteed $500 for a fight. That sum. was paid over bv the promoter to the manager, but the battler the man who worked and suffered got $40. A onetime one-time champion told us recently that various managers had drained him for over $30,000 before he decided he'd do , his own managing. It's a great little get-rich-quicV without-unnecessary -exertion game, isn't it 7 |