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Show llFriDFS RflXINIi DOESJTI PAY Promoter Billy Gibson Works Six Years at Game to Earn Pin Money. New York. Oct. 31. Does boxing pay? This question, asked in the case of Promoter Billy Gibson, seems decidedly de-cidedly to require the answer "No ' Six years of unceasing labor with his Fairmont A. C do not seem to have given him anything beyond pin money mon-ey Now Billy announces he is getting get-ting out of boxing on account of other business interests In this state the books of fight clubs are open to the state officials Gibson in:;; entertained more than 700,000 at hi- club in the Bronx and the ktoss receipts were $450,000. Since about May. 1908, there has been at least one show a week with the ex- eption of four weeks. In the three years that the boxing has been on the statute books the state has received from tin? club more than 110,000 in revenues. This alone means that upward of $200,000 ha been handled in admissions at the Fairmont A. C. Since the Frawlev law became operative and indicates an attendance of about 300,000 people who paid to see the boxing exhibitions. exhibi-tions. Cue can easily add to this un,-000 un,-000 people v. ho did not pay to enter. Cleverest Boxers Shown. Under the "club law" the Fair mont A C. showed in exhibitions some of the best known and cleverest clever-est boxers in the world It played to Capacity time and time again und the receipts during these so-called war limes amounted to about $260,000. dlancinK at these figures one not familiar with the situation would expert ex-pert enormous profits But there were no profits. It all went back into the mill and fell into the hands of the boxers and to the large force of help that was maintained, rent bill, liht b( at and printing. Out of about $450,000 handled during dur-ing tin regime Ol the Fairmont A C., more than ta per cent went lo in boxers The balance went tor expenses ex-penses and to cover deficits on many Shows v. here the guarantees given per formers wpre often twice as large as the receipts. Packy Leads Van Packy McFarland leads all boxers in amounts received lor services at the club in the Bronx. He received about $40,000. Leach Cross was handed more than $2(.0uii for hia Work and other stars who proved a heavy drain ou the receipts were Owen Ow-en Morau. Jim Drlscoll, Tommy Murphy. Mur-phy. Sam Langford. Mike Cibbons. Freddie Welsh. Willie Lewis, Abe At-tell At-tell and Jack Goodman Big losses were sustained by the club when it failed to conduct the Langford-Ketchol bout five years aero and also the Kaufman-Lantc bout. Mr riibson called off both these events sooner than have trouble with the police. po-lice. He returned more than $19, 000 in advance money for the Ketch-el-Langford match and lost several thousand in forfeits posted to assure the boxers that the bout would be held. |