Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-06-30
'FAD$ OF Fighters
AMI HUM0RING EN-
Mana! ger of Large "Stable"
Tells of How He Handles
His Proteges.
/ (By Frank G.. Menke.)


are as temperamental as prima dom
mas ami almost as hard to manage, in
the opinion of Jimmy Dime of New
castle, Pa, who has been in the bust
ness OF managing and training fight
ers ALMOST since the time that Chris
ColumHls cast anchor off Sandy
Hook ID wherever it was he did cast
anchor.
They're a hard bunch to handle
unless you just get the knack of it,"
declares Dime, who at present, has
as big stable" as any man in the
country. "Some of 'em you've got
to humor. Others you have to brow
beat. You have to study their tenn
peraments and figure out just the
right method for each. When you dis
cover the method and apply it, the
rest is easy.
Cared Of Cream Puff Habit.
"'Big Dan Daley, the heavyweight
in my string, used to have a fondness
for pastry, with cream puffs as his
particular specially. Everybody
knows that pastry isn't good for fight
ers. I told Dan so but he said he
guessed it wouldn't hurt him. Finally
l forbid his eating pastry. But he
used to slip away and eat his fill at
a neighboring restaurant"
But l fixed that finally. Took the
restaurant man in my confidence The
next day when Dan called for cream
puffs he got them. But he noticed
peculiar flavor about them. The de-
licious flavor was gone. And he kept
noticing that peculiar flavor every
time he ate the cream puffs. Pretty
soon he decided that cream puffs did
not agree with him. And he quit.
The flavor that he noticed was alum,
which had been injected in the cream
puff.
Stopping the Tango Ffend.
Tommy Jones, one of the light
weights in my string, is tango
fiend. Tangoing is all right if it
isn't overdone-but what tangoer
doesn't overdo it? Tommy used to
slip away at night and go to tangoing
instead of sleeping. / finally had to
cure Tommy's tangoing ideas by in
structing one of the men that he
works out with to slip over a punch
that would blacken Tommy's eye. No
matter how crazy a man is to tango
he isn't going to glide around dance
floor wearing a black eye. At any
rate Tommy didn't.
Fads of Other Fighters.
"Joe Chip, middleweight, and
brother OF George Chip who was mid
dleweight champion until Al Mccoy
put him out, has strange fondness
for jewelry. Where other fighters
think of banking their money, Joe
thinks only of investing it in dia-
monds and rubies. He has quite a
collection of gems now, and he wears
them every moment he is out Of the
ring. He wanted to wear them in
the ring, contending that they would
rot hurt his fingers, but l fically con-
yi1.ced him to the con'rarv by hiding
MS jewelry on the nights Of his
fights.
George Chip has bug on gather
ing cigarette coupons. 'Bearcat Tom
Mcmahon likes the movies. He's a
fiend. And l have discovered that
watching the films isn't good for the
eyesight. 1t hurts it, as far as a
fighter is concerned. l had hard
time trying to convince Mcmahon,
though.
"Patsey Brannigan, the bantam, is
what might be called a dude. Patsey
aims to be immaculate in his street
dress and usually is. He never goes
into a fight before he gets his hair
cut, his face shaved and is treated
with massage 1t seems funny that
man who is facing the prospect Of,
having his face battered up pretty
we'll in the next hour or two wanting
to have it beautiful beforehand, but
that's the case with Patsey.
$50 it goes with all others that
am handling now or have handled.
They're mighty peculiar. AS I said,
you have to humor some and browbeat
the, others. And when both these
methods fail you have to hit upon
some scheme whereby you can cure
them OF the faults and peculiarities
that are a detriment to their ring sue
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