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Show TOPNOTCH BATTLERS FIND EASY FORTUNES FIGHTING IN ROPED ARENA . - WILLIE ION JIB QUARTER ; iyp Leonard, Britton, Lynch, Dundee Amass F ortunet in Short Time By Henry L. Farrell VaM4 PrasM Hswti Kallar. KBW TORK Not. 14. posalbllH lea tha boglng gams provides for a willing worker and a food manager ara well Illustrated tn tha casa of Willie Jack-aoa. Jack-aoa. New York lightweight and until rsoantlr a prominent contender for Benny Leonard's tltla. Jackaoa'a financial aucoesa 1n the flag wsa mad publlo recently by Wank Doo Bag ley, his former manager man-ager when the pair decided to saver a aualneaa relationship that had existed for eight years. Pack In If 14 Jackson was a elxteen- . year-old stripling, weighing ninety-eight ninety-eight pounds and working aa an errand boy for tha larg aum of a week. fjlko Banny Leonard and many other Vromlnant boiera, Jackson had a keen fate root In tha boxing gam and he ' used to spend most of hie spar time around tha gymnasium end the old " Fairmont Athfetln club, which was then tha "garden" of New York. , BAOUBY WTJVS. Bagley wan then handling a number of boxers and he saw soma promise tn the youngster and after some little training and tutoring ha landed Jack-eon Jack-eon In a preliminary at tha Fairmont, for which he reoelvd Hla development devel-opment wm alow but he waa carefnlly handled and brought along by ahrswd management until ltl7 when ha be-ram be-ram a headltnr by knocking out Johnny lAinde In two mlnuiea and . thlrty-alx aeoonda of a bout In Ptln-de Ptln-de I ph la-Dundee la-Dundee had never been knocked nut be for and he never has sine that time. Jack eon naturally was hailed . as a prospect I vo champion and bouts for big purses cam thick and fast. Tn the laat three yeara, Hagley claims Jackson earned 1750.000. of which $l'-'0,- ' 0n wm brought In In thirteen months. H began slipping last winter and perhaps he la past the stag where be ran Improve, but ha la ai m a good rar7ranritla earning power has by no " means been stopped. nma rAvoRiTKt, ' Benny Leonard, Jack Brlttnn. Joe Lynch and other prominent New Tork bnsera have become wealthy tn their bLalnesa because of a large personal fvJIowIng of friends that pack the ft-oue every tlma they work, Jaekson, never popular, cashed In almost al-most aa much bees us tha ho tin a was racked every tlma he ahowed with fana v ho rame ln the hop of seeing Mm n;et tha worst of It. I Both Bagley and Jaokaon knew of IK feeling against hlni and Instead of .working to overcome It they shrcwrilv 4(ayed It up an that he becante one of, th best drawing tarda In New York Otty. i ' JACKVO DISLIKKH. How much of an attrsntlon Jackson wsa la shown In the figures prrsented 1 y Hsglcy thst In eight bouts In Madison Madi-son Oiuaro Clardan, he and his opponent oppon-ent a drew In excess of 4800, One tWiUt with inindee brought In a gate . of H,l'00 from 14,000 apectatora at V rices of tl to $r. Another bout with ;d4lt Kltxslmmuna drew $ 00 and a match wlLi Uocky Kansas brought in lkft.000. Bagley claims that their break was ' twit rsised by 111 feeling and that tUcy ar still on good terms. Jakeon t wanted to make a trip to A ut rail a ma . enga In some four-rounders In Cnl-Kornta Cnl-Kornta and Raglcy, having a big stable . inuld not afford the time, so ne turned over a five-year contract to Sammy tioldmnn. manager nt l'eta Herman, ftrmer bamtamwflght champion, 1IKRMW I1U. Herman by. 1he way. Is In had shape tn New York and Is on the verge of tidal blindness. Heveral years ago a ratara.t developed en on of his eyes, tut he gamely stuck to his business agslnst the advice of doctors and the results were so serious that the doc-Xtora doc-Xtora now fear they will not bo able jS to aave his eyes. Herman has dun well, lie has made a lt of money and haa Invested It wisely, according to his friends, so that If h Is forced to give up boxing Ms wife and two little girls will not b In neod. His wife Insist that ha ehatl retire from the ring If he doea recover, but ' little fete has an Idea that he ran v. In the bantam title again and make a record of having won a champlon-sMpthrce champlon-sMpthrce t lmMJtutaJiJJJLLi |
