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Show Cat Family Has Little On Curley for Lives By Ed W, Smith . J CHICAGO, Oct. 4. Old Tom and Moll of tha well known cat f.milv had better look to their laurels. Jack Curley la gradually outstripping them In ths matter of displaying a multiplicity of Hv a. Whereas the average est La said to i have nine lives. Jack already has displayed dis-played nearly as many and Isn't even beginning to show any signs of having exhausted his .stork Jack's new leases, of life In a prumoHotmT way Seem lii-l exhaustible. Jack ran the show between Benny I.eonard and Ted l,ewla in Newark, N. J. Kmart onea predicted another failure Ilka that Jack suffered In the recent Iemp-sey-Fulton sffalr, alao held lu Jersey, titnart ones cited the fad that boxing alwaya was a hoodoo for Curley; that he could make unlimited aum In the wrestling wres-tling game, but whsu It came 1o staging boxing ehows well. Jack Juat wasn't there, that's all. MAKIt BIQ WINNING. From ths east came word that Curley's chased out of Chicago, or rather left the town flat. He went Into New York and was an lnatnnt aiicceis. Wreatltng tour- "ulfhM put t ha Uljf. tnlitt right on the map and Jack made'thou-aunda, made'thou-aunda, PUT OVER TWO. Ha put over the import hie In ths Johnson-Flynn match and again he overrode over-rode ataggertng obstacle In the Wtllard-J Wtllard-J oh n wo it figlit, quitting Havana that April afternoon in wiih exactly M&O he could call his own. Then he got Willard some circus contracts and made a vast fortune for that peculiar Indtvtduul. He haa been good to hia athletea. TIs made fortunes for Jim Fl.vnn Curl Morris, Mor-ris, Jr. Roller, the younger Zhvasko. Hackenachmlfll ami hMltH vlf k ni tiara He seldom was given any lifts, for peo- ! pie were Inclined to try ni; hinder him. ! For the Willard-Johnson thing he waa t laughed off the face of the earth, or 1 nearly an. J I-on't forget that Curley hits done a ! world of good for the fund, too. One ; of his Madison Rquare 'tarden shown . netted over tu,0O0, every cent of It going to charity. There are two remarkable polnta about Curley that account for hla remarkable success. Ha has ths tenacity of a bulldog bull-dog and always Is Just one leap ahead of the other follow. "take" on the Leonard-Lewis battle ! apiounted to grand total of .11.HJ4 aome considerable "take," when the general j situation Is taken Into amount. And It merely goes to show that Curlev so me- i how or other leads a charmed life as a promoter. It was alwas so. The cat's nine lives ainke Into the Insignificance of a mere afternoon's existence, considering consid-ering the long time Ja.'k haa overcome what would bs Insurmounhvble obstacles to the ordinary promoter. Jack traveled a rock road In. Chicago. He wasn't too proud to be a waiter and was a good one. He boxed, too, and picked up some side money by traveling to the bushes for many a tough scrap. He learned the promotional end In the old school from such birds as Paddy Carroll Car-roll and there of that hard-headed type. ' MAKE Hit FORTUNB. Things didn't go good until he got Into the wrestling game. He waa about bankrupt bank-rupt when he went to Kn gland and Induced In-duced tieorge Harkenechmldt. then ths famed ''Kuaelan Hon," to come to Chicago Chi-cago and meet Frank Cotch In a return match at Comlskey park. He fore the match he had the consummate gall to buy out "Hark's" end for the flat sum of 1 10,00. He was considered loony by mors careful speculators In men's athletic ath-letic qualities. Yet that house drew over f AH. 004 and so sharp a bargain did Jack drive that ha cleared something over $3ii.oo0 on the deal legitimately and all alone.- -- - - - Kor thla unpardonable crime he was |