The Morning standard. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1910-191?, 1910-12-25
BOXERS POOR COMPARED TO
PRESENT DAY WRESTlERS.
There Are Five Rich Wrestlers to
One Rich Fighter, Says Geiger.
AN Edward j. GeIcer.l


Chicago. Dec. 21.-Whcn fighter
manages. by some economy and a
strict observance of the rules OF good
| finance, to accumulate bank roll he
| Is spoken OF by friends and sometimes
by enemies as a smart young fellow
| and as man setting worthy ex-
| ample.
| The fighter today with money Is
| rather a rare person. because OF them,
no matter how far they have gone
in the game of flstlcufis,e quit with
| anything more than fair lot OF coin,
| Those that accumulate enough to call
themselves Independent, even 10 them
| selves, are exceptionally few,
How are we TO account. then. for
the fact that the chief factors over in
the sister sport of wrestling are men
of money? Has II ever occurred to
you that almost every well-known
wrestler In this country and abroad
is man of considerable wealth?
Perhaps YOU didn't know II, but
moments perusal OF the Figures viii
convince you that there is something
about the wrestling game that compels
financial craft and large bank ac-
counts.
1t is a fact that there are five rich
wrestlers to one rich fighter
How are we TO account for this
strange difference Is IT because there
are different set of men engaged in
the two games. or what is II One must
consider, too, that the financial plums
are richer in the boxing game than In
the wrestling contests of today Even
without mention Of the purse oil SlOl,-
900 at Reno for the JohOsoa,Jeffries
battle. all of the purses for the fight
ers big and little. run generally high
Ell than those offered the wresuers'
But the mat artists get theirs oftener
and that may account for the differ
ence.
There is scarcely a really RICH
glove fighter philadelphia Jack
O'Br.en generally Is spoken Os rs one
of the most affluent. Champion Jack
Johnson is said to have sum close TO
$500 900 In cash made in mis- recent
matches. for he had little or nothing
before the Reno affair Jim JeffTies
also had nothing before that-thats
principally why he fought the black !
man Now he has upward OF Sl5O,-
900. 1t is said John L. Sullivan is
credited with having attained a COM
Portable fortune in the last four years
under the Shrewd management OF |
Frank Hall Tommp Burns is another !
said TO have made himself sure OF the |
future. Bat Nelson also is In the run
ming as a wealthy fighter. and Jim
Corbett is sometimes spoken of as hav"
ing plenty, although this lsaa matter OF
doubt
Now take the wreStlers. George
IIackenschmidt is easily the richest
of all OF them. He admits to beng
a millionaire, and. admitting that
much, probably has in excess OF that
amount He has one trust fund In I
London alone of 100000, besides three
estates scattered through Europe and
n bushel of the best paying and safest
of the European. Japanese and Amer-
can securities locked away In safety
vaults Hack" has been accumulat-
Ing for years and for the last eight
has been an extremely high salaried
artist.
Frank Gotch. champion of the world.
is credited with a quarter OF mil,
lion, salted down in fine securities and
farm lands in Iowa. DR.. + B. Bol"
Ter, the Seattle physician, made for
tune by buying land in the Northwest
aud never is Idle a day In his life
when there is a chance to work.
Charley Olson Of Indianapolis owns
lheaters and good paying property of
other kinds and is credited with be-
Ing worth 100000 Freddie Beell has
almost as much. invested In Wisconsin
and Bill Demetral. the Greek, is an
other rich man and has invested In
oklahoma,
Gus Schoenlein. known as "Ameri-
Gus" Is the son OF a rich Baltimore
contractor and member of the firm
which bid recently on the building OF
the new city hall In Chicago. Farm
or Burns is more tnan comfortable.
So are Jess Westergaard. Henry Orde-
man, Tom Jenkins and John j. Room
ey. Zbysco, the Pole, is reputed to be
extremely rich. and SO are several
others among the foreign stars
And so il runs all the way through
Another strange thing about this IL
lancIal end of wrestling and boxing is
hat we do not hear Of any OF the pro
accommodating much How is
)ne 10 account for this?