Show GET RICH QUICK APPARENTLY SOLE OBJECT OF BOXERS TODAY They Imagine Theres There's Millions Millions in the Game Nowadays Nowadays Nowadays Nowa Nowa- days but Only a Small Number of the Ring Stars Ever Acquire Great Wealth Like Corbett Jeff Willard By Jack Shelly Skelly DW YORK July 31 That That NEW boxing promoter Tex 1 Rickard not only astonished some of the greatest financial showmen of ot the he he world when he guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guar guar- and paid over to Jess Villard Willard Willard Wil Wil- lard for nine minutes' minutes action within the ropes but he has haa also turned the heads of an army of ambitious ambitious ambitious am am- get rich quick young fellows who Imagine they can become wonderful wonderful won won- pugilistic stars and gather In tons of ot golden shekels in a a. few short 3 years ears by ring combating Weve We've all seen such supposed coming cornIng com corn ing champions as Carl Morris Gunboat Smith Soldier Kearns Jim Stewart Jim Coffey Frank Moran Al Reich Jack Dillon Fred Fulton Bill DIU Brennan Brennan Bren- Bren nan Joe Cox Tom McMahon and a a. host o of other big fighters sidetracked In some way or other on the road to fame and fortune and well we'll see within a couple of years vears another crop of champions on the trail of Jack Dempsey endeavoring to win his crown and the big coin that goes with It It Ever since the Dem sey L bout a at t Toledo Ive I've over a score of letters from aspiring big young joUng chaps who have caught lI the k hn get rich quick fever v They want v me meto meto to and coach them along to championship form wealth etc Some of these boys may possibly havo have all the essential qualifications and makings Q of a great fighter tighter but Its It's no easy task to pick the best and develop them Into a world beater Ive I've tried this experiment several times years ago and turned out a afew afew few tew clever formidable boxers but It requires a man with rather a philosophical philosophical philo philo- and diligent temperament to nurse and pamper most fighters along the righteous path Some may be quite easy to handle but most of them required too much attention and pampering to suit yours truly Poor old Billy Delaney used to tell me what a hard job he had with Jim Jeffries after the husky boilermaker won a a. few fights Delaney took Jeff under his paternal wing when the former former former for for- mer champion was only a raw novice He le groomed him step by step with great care and patience until Jeff Jer I finally landed on the heavyweight Continued on nn p pa page e 3 3 GET RICH QUICK Continued from page 2 throne I dont don't really believe there was another expert trainer In the country who could have developed Jeff Jet as Delaney did It was too bad they ever ver fell out for It was the be beginnIng beginning beginning be- be ginning of Jeffs Jeff's end when he and old Billy parted They dont don't make k any g ta conditioners like Delaney nowa nowa- 0 days He was of the wise old careful careful careful care care- ful school that knew his ls man like a book Probably my old friends Jimmy De Forest and Jimmy Dime come nearest to trainers like Delaney Delaney De De- laney which are left or of the old guard CANT CAN'T BE ALL MILLIONAIRE FIGHTERS Just because Jim Corbett Jim Jeffries Jeffries Jeffries Jef Jef- fries Jess Willard Benny Leonard Packey McFarland Mike Gibbons Johnny Dundee Battling Levinsky Willie Ritchie Battling Nelson a and d afew a afew afew few other have rather big fat tat bankrolls Its It's no reason that every young fellow who starts boxIng boxIng boxIng box- box Ing professionally will be lucky enough to hit a golden harvest also Im I'm sorry Indeed to confess that the I vast majority of the best bas t an and d gamest fighters have finished their ring career In rather a poor financial con con- So all is not gold that glitters within the ropes boys What did old John L L. L Sullivan Bob FItzsImmons Jack Jacle Dempsey the Nonpareil Ceorge Dixon Peter Jackson Joe Gans Cans and other fa famous famous famous fa- fa champions leave behind them Very very little In money or value to speak of ot and they were the greatest great great- es est that ever happened So oth dont don't n start ta boxing g young fel fellow fellow fel- fel I low with the Idea that yo you can be another Jack Dempsey and can corral corral cor cor- 01 ral thousands and thousands of dollars poi poi- dollars dol- dol lars after you OU win a big title battle There Is always good money In the game galTIe to the boy who has the mental and physical qualifications for a scientific scientific scientific boxer if it he puts M his mind down and makes maltes a hard and close study of the manly art But how now few of them nowadays even learn the rudiments of skillful boxing TOM SHARKEY IN CLOVER My Iy old deep sea sailor friend Tom Sharkey Is at present stopping at the Getty House in Yonkers He lie has become be become be- be come COtTle quite an expert and is at the Empire race track trac every day successfully picking and betting on winners I The old salt won quite a pot of JacK money money backing his opinion on Dempsey to beat Willard In fact Tom seems to be very lucky Indeed this summer in his selections of man manor manor manor or beast The only thing that seems to bother Sharkey is that he is not young enough to take a crack at Dempsey himself He has still the gallant old fighting spirit within him and is sore because old Father Time has given him the pugilistic gate TOO bad |