Show large Purse in n fight Game in Quickly Passing By HENRY L L. L FARRELL U. U P. P Sports Editor NEW YORK Dec 31 By U. U P. P Disturbed by the sharp decline In business in the boxing racket boxers boxers boxers box box- ers and their managers are now ready to admit that the day of the huge purse p is passing and that boxers boxers boxers box box- I ers will have to fight harder In the future and send for less money If It the sport is to be maintained In the public fancy Eddie Kane manager for Tom Gibbons and Sammy Mandell two of ot the greatest drawing wing cards In the game ame was the first of at the prominent prominent prominent nent handlers of boxers to read the signs and he was the first to start a new precedent for tor modern managers managers managers man man- agers that will have ha to be bo followed If It the sport Is to be revived i The big purses that made boxing the most profitable profession proCessIon in the country countr- for tor three years resulted from outdoor shows and they were patronized so well that promoters could afford to offer absurd purses for the most ordinary attractions It was nas foolish Coolish to believe that the public would tolerate Indefinitely such an exorbitant assessment for tor forthe forthe the enjoyment of at a sport that was decreasing constantly In class by bythe bythe bythe the refusal of the to meet real opponents Some managers fooled tooled themselves Into the notion that the public would stand for anything and they wouldn't consider a match that would demand any kind of ot a risk for their fighter tighter The public finally got fed Ced up on poor shows and stopped paying the freight The WIlls Firpo-Wills fight was aR such nuch a n terrible bust that it practically clos closed d the outdoor arenas for the season and almost blew up the business |