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Show Backseat I DmuiriG Boxers' Prices Drop May Incrtaaa Intartst Cagar to Fight Now By FRANK K. BARER ' Telegram gperla Editor Smallar Purtta May Bring About Rtvival The dwindling purses may be the very thing that will inspire the boxing box-ing rennaissance, ( there is to be lurh a thing. Fighters are not only willing to step into the ring for lets money now than they got five years ago, but by ' necessity they are ambitious enough to fight more often. Sine they must deliver th old fighting goods it they went mor engagements, they are working harder to make good impressions. impres-sions. This Inclination to work harder In the ring and to fight mora frequently will make a hit with tha fans. Fight lovers want fighting champions, and when they get such characters, they'll turn out In support of the fight game with aome thing of th old Um enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. Tke peaehaat ea tha part eg th gentlemen eg tha flstle prefee-elea prefee-elea to high hat th werU with their deataaa eg Imaeeaeo gear-aateeo. gear-aateeo. aad their averaiea le fight, tag aae re than aaee a year aa at made aaeh treaaeadeas hit with the easteaaera after alt Tree, they taraed eel fer the aallllea dollar fates at th Demaaev Taney aattlee, bat that era haa tea Itself eat Tha fight gaaaa mast get bask to reaeea agela, aad the tighten aad aaaaagert are realising it Ceaeeaaeatly their services eaa be had far a email . fraetlea of what they oaw d aaaaded a arret aatly. Battlers Sign for Modarata Tarma Two titleholders, tor example, will defend their crowns this month in California at extremely moderate terms. On la Jack! Fields, welterweight welter-weight champion, who will fight Young Corbett and the new N. B. A. feetherweight champion Freddi Miller, who meets Arlxmendl at San Francisco, Jack Xearna. signing for Fields, had to accept terms which In other years would hav been regarded by this ftttle highbinder aa "the nerta." while Miller, defending a title won lea than a year ago, aska and gate a modest 39000 guarantee. Or there I th offer by Kid Choc-slate, Choc-slate, Junior lightweight champion, and recognised by New York state as th featherweight UUa holder, to meet th winner at the Arixmendl-Miller fight in Tijuana over any distance, 30 rounds preferred. Chocolate, who la big money maker, will go Into th ring lor only 310,000 guarantee with th usual privilege of th receipts. re-ceipts. ' , ' , Title Onca Waa Worth $40,000 These mark-downs ar siseable one. In thoa Inflated daya of 182ft-1B29, 182ft-1B29, Mr. Kearnt would hava demand-ad demand-ad 340,000, while the feather till was rated at least 320.00a When you recall that for hi last fight with Dempeey, tha scholarly ' Geo Tunney garnered a mere 3090,-' 3090,-' 000 for hla end, you cannot adequately value t th heavyweight title tha chief Jewel of th fistic crown. After Tunney abandoned the title and it was flnslly attached by a made-tn-Grmany trade mark, th price dropped. Max Schmellng draw no flat guarantee for hla two title defenses, . either against Young Strlbling at Cleveland or Jack Sharkey at New York. There 1 lltu likelihood, either, that Sharkey will be offered any guarantee guar-antee when he defends his present title sometime before July 1. It Just Isn't being don, and th champions are convinced that they've got to make th bMt at It Thar baa been a taadaaey aa tha part of fighter la lake every Ihlag oat f the fight game aad pat aelklag beak lata It Thee waa drew a large pars far a big tight were area ta Mia a beat fer aix meal ha ar a year aad lavish their lichee ea tkeaaeelvea ba va-eatleautg. va-eatleautg. Other wa ha at reached the big Mase dreaesed at M and bemeaaed their IU tee. tea at ae beutg hi the big aaeaey ntll they dldal aat ap the high grade eatertaiaaaeat they aaoald hava aredeeed. Th fight rofeeeloa Is laaralag aaew ah trath that the eaaaller ftehat stake the big beat earned at the big aaeaey shews seat leg the gaaae. ' 3)1 ftghte eaaaa aat a a aataral reealt eg the He ml ee rials let. dlvtdaala ta the eaaaller baea Tha paeple waat ae ae Jaaea fight Baatlh, beeaaee each haa beea wslleplag vrythla ta hie regtea. They have their wa eaia-leas eaia-leas a t who wlU whv They ea theae aver the peeepeeat eg eee-tag eee-tag their prealetieae JasUfted. aad they'll pay te eee the brat That's what ssakea th a pert |