Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-14
SPORTING MEN MUST PAY
THE INCOME TAX WILL ArrE|
SOME OF THEM.
JOCKEYS WHO MAKE Mud
MoNEY--JIM coRBErT wri'
HAVE TO PAY a BIG TAx-iIi
EARNINGS PROBABLY $780,,
a YEAR.

a YEAR.
The number of sporting men W
viii come within the provisions OF
income tax law is considerable, esp,
cially II by sporting men" is mea
all those who receive an incor
through the medium OF sporting even, i.
Some OF the wealthy men OF the Ca
who own race horse horses and keep
stable rather as means of amuseme
than for the money they get out
would doubtless resent abeing classd
among sporting men; and even In MI
gard TO baseball players there has d
ways been the question wnetheE ID
national game should properly n
classified as a sport" or as an anus
ment Taking the term, however.
It's general sense MS applying TO a
who make their living through tlst
channels OF sporting events, and nu4
Including the mon who depend on OIL
er professions, there viii be founf
many persons who have regular III
como OF more than Si0O0-the limit ~
Income no; touached by law
Pugillst CHrhett undoubtedly has
greater inCprIU than any other MAI
w1pNv cAguinXd may he attributed "a
reet'y nu1 exclusively to such lined
Ills income on the stlge-wlieh, a.
courc Is Wholly due TO the rgpututioI2
he m1de IN tbs prize rms vari0usi
chllWattu NJ FROM $4,000 To slVbVll r.
year llaulng II al $lol.000 AS ma1
at1m, u wiz be soea that he woull
have To pay into the governmonts cols
IA q OBJ an "A
over 5lVle, Ilily Is enough iH itself Il,
support most men ucinlortnhl8i dHd W.
~ little wonder that Tho INST chnmpioi
iH comparatively iualHeront TO tlic ef
Ioriu TO FORCE him intu the ring AGi
Oitoh.
NJ aihcr pugilist than Corhett makel
anything Hike such an income. Most o
thom mdkt' a poor liylas, with Onlyt
b'.cf pcrod1 pf prosperity, tYtslmn
mons, the mid1lcwcjght champion, al
though not Incorporate iu h,s uaSis3l
and In reality no more l,htps! thpili
Curbett, has never known how 80 tNvt
his money, nui cannot now rsiaGf
enough to pay the third ius.R,!mvnt
OF his forfeit money for MS matu, ~it.ii
Curbctt Tommy Ryan, the NrteH4
weight champion, has barely uesn ahle
TO make a living by his skri IN the
rims, although he stands a good lnagett
OF improving In this particular as he M
yet young In the ring. None OF hsi
llght-weights is masking better than "a
living. George Dixon, the colored
fuathor-welEht. 10. however. doing we'll!
bclng "a business port OF feunw. Hls
income onn probably be put AT $40, 900
a year Jimmy Barry, OF MS city, thai
bantam feathur-welght OF the world.
30 good that he cannot get a match.
with any one OF his weight. has mnde,
nothing in the ring. md thinlts of go-f
ing baeI, TO his trade.
In the turf world thorc are few men
prniniuont ag owners who have NOT
inrge business intereat in other dlrec-
fiona. Amonp the traincrt ana iopkevs
though. there, Ia n number with blg in.
comes and Of these Inc Jockeys arc TAR
the more numerous. Matt Byrnes.
the trainer FOR Marcus DAILY. tho cop-
Der hing. mas a salary considernble bet
t.r thnn mo tax law limit but his
,,rninga vary oerordiuE toH
the s,iccess nf Tho etable +
A f.v years ntp when srotor
snlyntor ,yne In his primo. Bvrnea
probabiy made $40 Oo0 "A yonr. William
/ Lakeland ibo tininer Tor ibc Inenes
rnnl4a now in imuorfnnoe'
tut il M doIbtrul N he peta much aver
$1,000 a wear ordinarily.
Amnng me iorkeyg there nrc mlny
vim lnuontrs 9b,v. tlplo INT an ,ntsr.
ostlnr n,iogtlon tn,,sf rree,,rt It4eif 10 r
no tnv collector -ight nj tho ot,tart Il
a., MS tnst1n.c n5totttv ~ the Il
"i,cltsp nnrb1ns are nndsr tWonty-on,l Il