Show Mullen Revives Mil Mt Contests In Chicago Veteran Promoter Is Given Credit for Latest Move By fly JOE WILLIAMS July You 26 26 You may Mayi i want to hear something about the man mn who ho promoted this towns town's first legalized boxing contest In more than 25 years year the man who is 19 mainly responsible for the comeback of the sport here the theman theman theroan man whom midwesterners mid consid consid er a greater grenter promotional genius th than n Tex Rickard Ills His name Is II James Jamell Code Aus Au- Austin tin in Mullen he la Is 4 42 43 years ears old Irish as Paddy Paddys Paddy's pig gray as lIS an eagle and dynamic as the they make mako em The day I met him ha he was sit sit- sit lit sitting ting Ung In his s office In We West Wet Ran Ran- Randolph Randolph dolph street In his shirt sleeves eating a fish sandwich and talk talk- talkIng talking talkIng Ing Into the mouthpiece of a tele- tele telephone tele telephone phone that seemed never to be beidle beIdle idle Who Bill Swift from Aurora Sure I 1 remember you You want rae me to hold one of my best beet fM seats Beata for tor you ou T It'll be here for lor you ou The Duke of ot the Loop went enl back to munching his After a 0 moment or so he ex- ex ex explained he had made a habit of taking laking care of au all ticket requests personally back In the days when he was wag promoting little shows In Inthe inthe Inthe the neighboring villages I Intend to keep It up If It I Ican Ican can h he added Those fellows fellos made mado my my little shows shawl go go over when a 2000 Investment was a alot alot alot lot of ot mone money I feel that they are re entitled to the same kind of at service at lit these bigger shows hows THEY fliEY wJ-lm wJ I SEATS EATS The Duke of the Loop then turned to his hla business associate Harry Ho Hochstatder and requested rc 1 him to pick out the tho best seat he had bad left and put It II away way for Jim Madden ladden rhe The Irony of othis this was that that the tho 20 seats were the cheapest and ami conse consequently the worst seats scats for the tho championship fight ht be between tween Rocky Hocky Kansas anti and Sammy Mandell Illinois admits that Mullen did more to bring boxing back to a legalized status than any other In- In In Individual In the state stale he gave gao prodigiously of ot his money energy and Influence of which he has haa plenty on all alt three counts And ho he did so largely because of his hla boundless enthusiasm for tor the th sport Mullen has been an Incurable boxing nut ever since sines the day Ed Ed- Eddie Eddie die McGoorty time old-time middle middle- middleweight weight middle weight came Into his life back In 1906 when he C full n was an umpire In the Wisconsin Illi nois lea league ue All 11 during the game Iame Mullen was razzed viciously by a certain lunged lunged leather Individual In the bleachers After the tho game Iame Mul- Mul Mul-en Mul en set out to discover who th the heckler was 1011 It developed to be b who was WS wa then just starting starling as a fighter Somehow 0 or other what that hOod had all ull tho the promissory marks ear of An Impending fist fIght tight lId did not occur The Tho two grinned broadly shook hands and th the upshot ot of the meeting was McGoorty cain to Chicago with Ith Mullen who ho turned him over to Mart Marty For For For- Forkin For kins kIna kin In less tess than a year Mc McGoorty was one of o the games game's great middleweights HI- HI IN 1920 1020 Mullen didn't begin promoting 1920 He went to Aurora an town ton matched Po Pal Moore with Jimmy Kelly and 1 bal bal- ballyhooed bal the tha card Into a n gate ateo A year ear later he built his own arena at Aurora paid 16 15 15 o on tot rotS It It and paid off oft all the cost In five weeks with fig fight lit profits When that sea season on dosed closed hIs books showed a a net gain ot of U The Duke Dule was wat never ne a fighter himself but there ar are few bet better tar Judges of o fighters In the land It was he who ho discovered Mandell Madell and It was he hI who gave ravo v Mandeli his first tight fight This was thre three years ago at East hka o There Tt was no opponent for tor one 0 e Enl a preliminary The Duke singled out Mandell sitting In n on ono one ot nt o the hack back rows rOII Put that kid In there ann you'll start your show with a It nilI ens round knockout he suggested Sll to tn Ih the rs They did fan Mandell dell stopped slopped Eulo In less than two minutes an An |