Show BOXERS POOR COMPARED TO PRESENT DAY WRESTLERS There Arc Are Five Rich Wrestlers to toOne toOne toOne One Rich Fighter Says Geiger By D B Edward Edard J 1 Geiger Gelgor Chicago Dee Dec 21 When a fighter manages e by br some Home economy and a l strict observance of oC the rules of oC good finance e to lo accumulate a hank bank toll roll he heIB heib IB lEi spoken of f by b and sometimes by b enemies as M a a smart young follow fellow feo und as a man setting a worthy ex cx example example ample Tho fighter tod y wIth money is rather a rare poison person because of them I no imo matter how hos far fur they the have gone in tho the game of quit with an anything thing more mor than a 1 fair lot of or coin Those that thu accumulate le enough to call ca callI themselves I Independent even oven to tJ them themselves selves are exceptionally few How ate arc we wo to account then for forthe tho the fact that the chief factors over oer In Inthe Inthe Inthe the sister sport of or wrestling arc men menor of or money mone Has Hns It ever cor occurred to you ou that almost every wrestler In this country countr and abroad Is Ib u it man of O considerable wealth Perhaps you jou ou know it but hut a moments perusal of i tho tile figures r lIres will vui convince you ou that there Is something about the tho wrestling gome that compels financial craft and large bank bani ac accounts accounts counts comm is isIt It Is a l fact ct that there are arc five flye rich wrestlers to one olle rich fighter How are arc wo we o to account for fOl this strange difference Is It because there are ure a different sit set s t of men engaged in inthe Inthe inthe the two games gaines or Jr what Is U it Ono One must consider too that tho the plums are arc richer in time the boxing gamo than tItan in inthe inthe the wrestling contests con of oC today Even without mention of or the time of l 01 mOO OO at Reno Roan for the battle all aU of the purses for Cor tho time fight fighters ers era big and und little run generally high higher I Ier er em than timan those thoe offered the time wrestlers But Out the nat artists get theirs and that may ma account for the time differ difference ence emice There is scarcely a n really RICH RIChI glove fighter Philadelphia in Jack OBren generally Is spoken os Oi ns mS one of the most affluent Champion Jack Johnson Is said to have a sum sum close to in cash made in lit his recent matches for lie he had little or nothing before beC ro the Reno affair Jim lini Jeffries also had nothing before that principally why wIly he fought the black blackman bla blackman li man Ulan Now ho he has lias upward of It Is said John L Sullivan is credited with having attained a com corn comfortable comfortable fortune in the last four Cour years ears under the shrewd management of Frank Hall Hail Burns is another said Bald to have made mude himself sure of the future Bat lint Nelson Nolon also is ia In the run ning as a wealthy fighter and Jim I Corbett Corbell Is sometimes spoken of as hay hav having ha haIng haying ing plenty although this isa I matter maller of or I doubt Now take the wrestlers Georgo George is easily the time richest of nil all of or them lie admits to heni hemig henia a n millionaire and admitting that much probably hns has in excess of oC that amount He has one trust fund in London alone of o besides three estates scattered through Europe and anda an ana a bushel of tho the best paying and safest of tho the European Japanese and and Ameri Amerl American can securities locked away awn in safety vaults aults Hack has baB been accumulating t lug ing for Cor years and amid for the last eight has lIas been an aim extremely high salaried artist V Frank Prank Gotch champion of o the world worRis s 8 credited with a quarter of a mil million lion salted down lown In iii fine Cine securities and amI farm lands in Iowa Dr V P I B D nol Rol Roller noller ler the Seattle physician made u a for fortune fortune tune by b buying bu land in the Northwest and never is Idle a day lay in his life when there thero Is a chance to work worl Charley Olson of or Indianapolis owns theaters theater and nOlI good paying property of other kinds and Is s credited with willI be he being beIng ing worth Freddie Beell has almost as much Invested In Wisconsin and anti Bill Bm the Greek is an another another other rich man and has invested In Oklahoma Gus known as Ameil Amerl cus Is Ute the son on of a rich Baltimore Ballimore contractor and u Jl member of the linn firm I rm which bid id recently on the time building of o the new city hall Imail In Chicago Farm Farmer Farmr er Or r Burns Is more tuna titan comfortable So are arc Jess Jeas Henry Henr Orde Ordeman Ordeman man mun Tom Toni Jenkins and John J Roon Rooney Rooney ey e the Pole Is reputed to he lie extremely rich and so 80 are several others among the tIme foreign stars And EO so It runs all the time way WI through Another strange thing timing about a this fi II financial end of wrestling and boxing b xing Is that we do not hear of any ammy an of the tho pro promoters promoters motels accumulating much How Ilow is isone isone one to account for Cor this |