Show t Ilac acca sea A Likable Fellow FRANK K BAKER BAKER- There seems little reason to lament lamen on the end of Kid Chocolates Chocolate's fight tIght reign for the dusk dusky little battler from Cuba left bit little lIttIe to regret He acquired a world championship which Is something many outstanding outstanding out out- standing Manding gladiators never even got a shot at and he has lived a full fullme life lIe making money for tor himself and proving himself a genial around all I likable fighter The Bon Bon had a remarkable elgh year eight year run on the big time long enough for any beak buster and enjoyed himself thoroughly while having It After all no no one could ask more than that He was a newsboy newsboy newsboy news news- boy on Havanas Havana's burning pavements when Luis LuLs Gutierrez picked him up I If the dus dusky boy Isn't rich he should be Perhaps we cannot rank Chocolate equal with George Dixon or or Joe Gans Cans but he easily was the biggest attraction attraction tion ever contributed to the ring by the colored race He lie was more magnetic at t the box office than Jack Johnson Harry Barry Wills Sam Langford Gaits Cans or Dixon I No boxer ever skyrocketed to the important money as 25 rapidly as Chocolate He Hc was vas paid 40 for belting out Jut Eddie Enos at Mitchel field Long Island in his Amer Amer- A. A ican can debut in August 1928 and collected or exactly 1000 times as ns much for Al Singer at atthe atthe atthe the Polo grounds about a year later Chocolate came along at the fag end of the golden giddy era Otherwise he might have capitalized still further further fur fur- ther on his ability to put on n a 3 good fight entertainment No Contracts Needed T To Bind to fo His Promise Stories about Chocolates Chocolate's loyalty and commendable habits have drifted from one to another of ot the fight fraternity until hes he's famous the world over for his high Ideals as well as his prowess with the cloves gloves The word of at Chocolate and his manager was as good as an ironclad agreement They appreciated what the press the promoters and the fans did for them They kept faith with all aU three groups Some day Chocolate be beeg man the Cuban Is said to have e remarked remark d to the Mitchel field promoter who gave him his first opportunity In In th t this ls country Then I come back and fight for you And he did The The day day following the Singer scrap when Chocolates Chocolate's services were sought at fabulous prices all in over the world the and Gutierrez ambled into the office of the Mitchel field promoter Get someone for Chocolate said Gutierrez signing a ft blank contract He was beeg man Dian now and he was returning the volunteered favor for his big opportunity Not everybody remembers those who aided them in their more humble days the moment they fame me but Chocolate was loyal Joyal to every drop of blood that coursed through his ebony frame Dusky Battler Never Failed fo To Answer Call of Benefit The fight fraternity has a wealth of yarns about how the so-called so little things things' meant BO so much to Ch Chocolate and the former sports sportswriter writer who handled him Gutierrez kept the Patent Leather Kid out of Madison Square Gar den f for r a long period at a loss of thousands of dollars because Its then v. v J matchmaker Tom front om McArdle once refused him a complimentary ticket to Queensboro stadium And Chocolate didn't go In Into the Garden until a friend Frank Bruen was named general manager The never failed to answer the call calI of any benefit He packed New Yorks York's historic St. St Nicholas arena one night and turned his entire end over to Black Bill his flyweight countryman who had gone blind Incidentally his square quare moniker is Eliglo Montalvo No wonder the pseudonym stuck |