| Show Softhearted Promoter Makes Good But Longs for Exciting Old Days Curley Believes Was Greatest Mat Artist of Al AI hut but Is Proud of Browning By r JACK New v York Journal Sports Writer PHILADELPHIA May 4 The kid came from Als Alsatian ancestry and his name was hard to pronounce So he called himself Jack Curley which Is easy to say in any language except Chinese Finding It difficult to make a living Jiving on the Pacific coast he reversed the Greeley precept and started east Eventually he landed in Chicago a big wicked town with plenty of excitement and apparently lots of money Our young hero decIded that he would take a fling tUng at the tight fight game He was strong and had won several street battles Put on In a prelimInary bout for 3 he was knocked cold in the fIrst round Though young Mr Curley was only 16 years old he was a business man manat manat at heart He made up his mind that the place for him was as a promoter So at 19 he was running shows and making money 1 popular conception of a pro pro- is a gimlet eyed ice hearted scoundreL If that is true Jack Curley isn't a promoter though he has had a hand in nearly everythIng but the staging of at the late world war Jack Is much too warmhearted warm for tor his own good He has loaned money to people who wouldn't th think of paying pay pay- ing him back He has taken care of enough down and outers to recruit the United States army to full strength But Jack is a modest soul and doesn't like limelight on his char char- Soft Hearted I His tenderness of heart Is probably due to the rigors of his youth He has not forgotten the days when he hc was ridIng the rods and a halt half dollar was much bigger than any sum John D. D Rockefeller could have in the bank But Curleys Curley's humaneness did not I spoil him for the of entertain entertain- ment He put on the Gotch schmidt match in Chicago which drew the gate receipts for a wrestling show in this country He handled Jess Willard and had him tour the country with Barnum and Baileys Bailey's circus He took Annette Kellermann Kel Kel- lermann in a one piece bathing suit which in the light licht of current modes was no more shocking than Aunt Mamie's Ma Ma- mies mie's kImono around the country and excited the parsons no end He brought Mrs and the Vat Vat- lean ican choIr to the interested attention ot of the United States Curleys Curley's principal interest In life lICe is wrestlIng He controls the sport as completely as John ORyan does the New York police force He is proud of his champion JIm BrownIng who he believes could throw Jim Londos if 11 the Gorgeous Greek would agree to a match But deep down in hL heart Jack do doesn't nt believe the I Is the best he has s n. n Curleys Curley's money would go 0 on George the Russian Lion in spite ot of the fact that Gotch Hacks Hack's shoulder to the mat on two different o Curley will tell YOU the RussIan was vas not In shape at atthe atthe the time and at his best could whip any champion we have had in Amen Ameri ca before or after Gotch Lonesome Jack Sometimes I think Jack gets a little lonesome for the old days das Much Muchas lS as h he loves wr wrestling hed he'd like to take another fling around the c country with witha a 3 or ora a Kellermann or a aVii Vii Wil lard But where could he get one The girls nowadays show more epidermis accidentally than Ann Annette tte did op on pun pU-o pose aAd besides the Scandals has ade nudity so common the chorus now dresses up to attract att attention Suffragettes arc out of date and PrImo Pd- Pd mo Camera Carnera is no lon longer er a novelty If Curley who is a Barnum at heart could find a r raal aJ novelty I believe he would leave his wrestlers for a fw few months md and go roving the one stands a an |
