Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-10-07
Biddy Bishop Declares ManyNould
Have Failed but for Wise
Handling.
He SAYS II IS NECESSARY.
Cites the Case Of Nelson, McGoycrn,
Britt and Others What Brady
Did for i'm COrbctt

"Wll Billy Delaney make worlds
heavyweight champion out OF Al Kauf-
monn?' asks Biddy Bishop IN the saa
Francisco Bulletin.
cor Will Al Kaufmauu prove to be 20
fsr ahead OF the average amateur as 10
make Billy Delaney more famous than
he is ~
In other words, viii the manager
make the fighter, or will the fighter
make the manager? These are questions
Left Hook asked o. few months back,
and as far as is known were never am
swered TO the satisfaction Of the writ
er.
II is necessary that every tighter
should havc a. manager and q manager
can hardly expect TO do business at the
ilstic game without having % fighter.
Both are sort OF necessary evil 20
each other Many fighters would be as
dead rs mackcrCl If IL were not for the
husting managers who are continually
plugging ana boosting their cause and
securing matches for them ON the 9TH
cr hund many fighters are working uu-
der managers who are absolutely Of no
use TO them, There arc lots of fighters
VINO owe their fame 10 their hustliny
managers, and then there are managers
who would never have been heard OF
had IL not been that the We're butted in
with boxers who had already acquired
much prominence through the efforts
Of managers who had preceded them
Take the case Of Billy Nolan, Tor in-
stance, lie would never have been
heard Of had II not been that ne was
butted In with Battling Nelson Nolan
working fnY ID gulqTV iT "a I'D
pOoroom in the capacity Of sheet writ
er, and later he was Interested In q
boxing club In the Montana town Just
one or two contests I'm which be worked
with Nelson brought him out prOmi-
nently. and not because OF any brilliant
work on his part as q handler Of boxers.
Sam Harris was largely responsible
for Terry McGovern being the most
talked Of and best advertised boxer Of
his time while Al HEREFORD is just az
much responsible for the prominence at
tanned by the lightweight champion OF
the world, Joe Cans Billy Brady did
much for jim Corbett aud assisted
largely I'm placing Corbett to the front
as champion. Johnny Dunn did a
lot for Matty Matthews and helped
him gain prominence, but still It is a
question whether Matthews would have
made good II he had not had the prop
err material In his makeup. However. &c
was the opportunities Matthews needed
and Dunn gave them 10 him without
which he may have lived in oblivion,
Jimmy Britt would not have
acquired his present high stand
ing IN pugilism had II not
| been that he was properly han
died and boosted, and It Is almost =
cinoh that Battling Nelson would not
! be where he Is today had It not been
that little Teddy Murphy placed him
there. Murphy got him his first fight
| IN San Francisco and this started him.
| Nelson should have q warm spot In his
heart for Murphy. 1t IL true that II was
| up 20 the Dane 10 make good, which he
| did IN swell fashion, but the fact re-
| mains that the boy manager procured
| the opportunity for the Dane, else he
might now be boxing around the bushes
| IN Illinois,