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Show .Making matches once was play . i.i n . boxers knew no strife I Fqa half the house those fellows Would sandbag for dear life. Cut In Ihese other palmy days They've got the money touch- Before they'll even shadow box Their song is this "How much." '- it Pity the poor matchmaker' He has a hard row to hoe In the ring game today. Every fighter la a financier and many of them are fast becoming banking institutions. The $500,000 purse of joy-getters whb h Dempsey and Carpentler would split 3 to Juck and 2 to George--. Is tin peak of ring strategy expressed in gold. To gamble on such a card the gentlemen gen-tlemen -liickard. Brady and Cochran will have to figure oti a new budget basis for applying the vacuum cleaner lo the public's kale pocket. 'Slot a money: Yea bankers: But Managers Kearns and Pescamps aren't going to say. "Hey, hold on I fcllera- 'Stoo much. We'll let 'em fight for a hundred thou" because It will be more popular with the fans." They'd be poor business men If they let dut a squeak like that. The money in de pocket' is their slogan and tiiat of every other l.uslnen man. And If I'uba want to raise tie Jackpot a few more thou', why that's Where the" boy s will put on the mittens. mit-tens. Hack In the old days the gladiators used to fieht bare knuckles for a century bank note, till one of them dropped. Fifty per cent of the house to b spill ftO-40 was the usual agreement for matches. i Jim Jeffrie?, after winning the championship from "Kubj" bob Pitsslnimone, was the first to become bold lie demanded 60 per cent for his share In defending the world title' on the win. lose or draw basis. . - FightW'S were more evenly match d then. too. Take Jeffries, PitZfelm-mons. PitZfelm-mons. Sharkey, McCoy, Choynskl and the other heavyweights They were all good ones, But now Dempsey finds himself in the fiN of being too good for any Of the pres. nt contenders. Benny Leonard Leon-ard is o j to I 'favorite every time he climbs between the ropes with the lightweights. . Matchmakers have a sweet time Of it now. Besides facing the risk of Cashing OirythInk out of a one-sided match they have to give the fighters .all but a few thin dimes. Good by Mister Yard on. And so long Mister Kay Here's hoping you enmP buck again And tench us how to play ; We've enjoyed you on the sport page We liked you on the greens ' To see such guy a as you perform i Is worth good Yankee beana. Ted Ray and Harrv Vardon have finished their long marathon over (American golf courses whbh started last July. . It Is estimated that the British golfers hav stepped off mora than a thousand miles whin displaying their abilltv to American galleries. ... I But Harry Vardon aay that he'll never rsturn again as a golfer, lie is no longer young and the strain of such a tour as the one Just finished II has proven a ncrve-racker to him. . . . Raj may return to defend the title he won at Toledo some time. . . . Both the distinguished lsltors hav nothing hut praise to say of the gams II aa it has developed in America. Lssssm . . . Both will take back home with them the everlasting Impression that Amer les is greal golfing nation among other things. laTBa They have played before more pen- pie. taken collectively, on this trip than they- had played before In all times previously to their ai rival here. Psl Vardon didn't stutter when he said Ejf that while Enland was still showing ll .JJ ih way In k - i f u scam margin, . EajSI that it would have to take n bracer or Hl soon be over taken by American en- . . . So that's that Ted I;,, v and liar-ry liar-ry Vardon ha-- proven to be a flm-pair flm-pair of guya Harwell as golfers. v , mean they're regular fellows an real sportsmen. Their visit has dona American golf a testing good. H We II pay them back some dgv by beating I hem. That's a habit Van- 1 |