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Show WHAT THEY SAY ' 1 CHARLES MUBR Y High wages which boxers draw down don't please Charles Murra ! I Buffalo promoter. He thinks the fcl- low who runs the she-bang" should; I get some of it. He says "Big purser are bad for boxing. It' makes the average wage-earner, who! can boast of a talr amount of grav I matter, sick at heart to sec two fight-i fight-i ers paid more for a single hour's work 'than hi- fun nlln on In llff nf wnnhv I effort. It also makes ommerclallsm I Of boxing and robs It of the element I of sport. I don't believe ' Tex" Rlckard l giving away $50,000 to Leonard and: I $16 000 to Fltzslmmons, but even If I he were, ho should keep that part of! the boxing buylness to himself I have never given out a statemin of the receipts at any of rny boxing shows, nor the amount of money the boxers received. I think Richard shows htm-i I self to be a bad business man In startling start-ling the game off w ith such an expen-1 jditure Thi-y won't get me doing busl-l ness with the boxers on any such scale, and I'll make money and last longer than the rest of them ' BOB Ml KEY Babe Huth Isn't the hardest man to; pitch to In the pln hos. according to I Bob Bbawkey Of the Yankees. Bob thinks that particular honor belongs to Ty Cobb. He says; "Ruth is the hardest hitter In the game and the most dangerous posslb-ll, posslb-ll, because you can't tell where he ' will slam the ball, but In my expert-1 lcr.ee I'll sav I'd rather face the Babe In a pinch than Ty Cobb. Cobb is the; greatest batter of them all He Is constantly con-stantly crowding the plate, making you I work your had off, shrewd, rarelj out .guessed, and can hit anything In the 'world a pitcher ever had. When the Bah is up you have a gambling chance if our stomaoh is good He'll either slam It out of the orchard ori strike out, or hit on to th- Infield Ruth rarely hits long flies. When he does they generally g0 out of the1 park." |