Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-10
THAT STRANGE BIRD
THE PUG'S MANAGER
BY RIPLEY.

by hIPI6Y. 5
You can tell one as far as you can
hear him-or within a radius of two
miles. He is a feast for the ear and
eye--his clothes are as large and loud
as his language, and his jaws. hands,
arms, legs and lungs work in con-
junction as il attached to string like
Il jumping-jack with monograph for
a head. Just pull the thread Of con-
versation-then watch and listen.
A human toy-doesn't need wind
ing or adjusting. but it requires all of
your attention just the same. 1t is
easily operated: IN fact, it operates It.
self. All that il necessary ror you to
Go is to merely mention little
word such as "Howaryuh" or "G'day"
and Immediately the mechanism is
set in motion. BY some marvellous
arrangement the sound of Your voice
falls on highly sensitive spring that
Immediately revolyes, adjusting re
cord In place as it does so, and an
abundance of language pours forth.
Each manager Is man Of many
records. The favorite Is that we'll
known fantasy, "The Coming Champ"
Il Was Robbed is another that we
hear very often. Cant Lose" is a
cheerful little thing played mostly as
an overture Probably the most beau
tiful record of all is that sweet lula
by, "The Greatest LII Fighter That
Ever Wore q Glove" You can 60 to
sleep listening to this-as there is
no CLOSING law"
Ever notice? mean when listen
ing to a manager at work.
He always says, I'VE win" and
"HE lose Fought four times and
WE win two, and HE lose two" That
is the only time that the fighter en-
tiers into the argument. Always it is
IN fight you" or II fought him." etc.
Amt it the truth? The fei:ow who
really does the work is as far in the
rear in conversation as he is when
about by the hand, figuratiyely, actu-
ally and conyersationally.
The manager is always as fresh at
the end of the battle as he Is at the
start No matter how badly the fight.
er is beaten up, it doesn't hurt the
manager a particle. There Is never g.
mark on him. The manager is either
smiling or he isn't-that Is the only
noticeable change caused by long,
hard battle. Otherwise he is the
same-we mean by that, still talking.
A manager is usually doing one of
two things: either furnishing reasons
Why his man win win, or furnishing
reasons why he lost. He is equally
good at either.
1t is the duty of a manager to coll
Iect the money from the promoters
end then 1t becomes the fighters bus
mess TO collect from the manager.
Some Of the hardest battles" have
taken place after the fight was over.
But they are not bad lot, these
managers. You like EN-, like EN-.
and we all ike EN-; and We couldn't
DO without EN- any more than the
fighters could. If we had waited to
let the fighters tell us of boxing we
would have never heard of the sport.
Imagine, if you can, X. o. Brown
trying to tell who he was.
You never will finds finer fellow
than Dan Morgan or one with such an
overflow or language. larry F0ley,
Ritchie's manager. is great friend
and trainer. Tom O'Rourke 3 :n;eF.
esting and foxy. Jimmy tombstone
makes live ones out of dead ,ones.
Jimmy Dime, who manages multi |
tude, is sunny and scientific. Dan |
McKetriek is nifty. Harry Poiioc6 is
nobby-and sometimes nasty. Billy
NIolor 70 cbrau.d TOO cirou,d Tor, 1
Jones, noisy and natty; Scotty Mon
tieth, Scotch, and skeptica:; Sam
one of the OH school;
Jimmy Dunn, quick and quiet; Lee
Flynn, unique and humorous; Sam
WaI1aeh of the Cross brothers, poll
ished and practical; George Melon
alds,the famous Englishman, bloody
good 'un, by Jove. Jimmy Walsh OF
The South is a good favorite and
mighty good manager as we'll.