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Show IVY IK STARS GET WHOLE PURSE Boxers at Training Station Do Not Have to Split With Managers. Imagine, if possible, a dozen or so of the greatest box fighters In the game Ritchie Mitchell. Cal Delaney. Pal Moore. Vincent Pokorni, Morrie Bloom. Joe Sherman and not a manager or press agent in the crowd. Imagine, if possible, a fighter drawing draw-ing down every cent of his share instead in-stead of splitting from :'5 to 50 per cent with a manager. Imagine, if possible, a high officer of the Untted States personally backing each professional ring artist and protecting protect-ing him from fraud. Such Is not an idealistic state of affairs, af-fairs, but is the status of every professional pro-fessional in naval uniform at the vast Great Lakes training station. Lieutenant Commander John B. Kaufman, athletic officer, has Issued a strict order severing sever-ing all civilian connection with fighters In the navy. All- managers are automatically auto-matically bounced by this order. It's a novel and enjoyable experience for the biffers -this collecting all Instead of a portion of their earnings. Protected by Uncle Sam, they no longer need a business agent or a publicity man. They know they'll collect after climbing out of, the ring. There, is a difference, too. Pal Moore recently boxed Frankie liurns and .Tack Sharkey In the east, rhe matches being arranged through the athletic department depart-ment here. He obtained a short furlough, fur-lough, eased through twenty rounds and returned with his roll, which he duly turned over to Lieutenant Commander Kaufman. "It's yours. Pal. all yours. We do rot have managers' splits In the navy." The Memphis bantam promptly invested In $500 worth of Liberty bonds. "It'a great feeling,'.' explains Pal. "Down south managers oh. I hud several sev-eral of them held out their little 25 per cent on every bout. I was not my own boss. It was manager this1 and irnBMOr that Make this weight and make that weight. The fighter did not have anything any-thing to say about It. "Here It Is different. The athletic officer of-ficer attends to all details. My Job s to fight clean, hard and fair then collect." col-lect." , , Morrie Bloom gives another ring e. Morris was handled by a manager who Insisted on a certain weight regard ess of the strain on his physical condition Bloom states he was repeatedly forced to take off poundage until his health was weakened. Tie also had to turn over 35 per cen. of his purse to -a manager. |
