Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-05-13

real fights you have ever seen. I an
going TO get my man I'm the shortest
! possible time.
announcement, will toll you that II Ia
to be n forty-fve round contest Let
me tell you that 1t will be nearer
| forty-five seconds.
when | was interrupted ! was tell
| ing you that the ring was rotten. 1t
| is-from top to bottom. 1t is run on
/ business principles. and you all know
what business principles are. Enough
/ said.
you are the suckers. every last one
of you that Is not making anything
out of IL. Why are the seats falling
down tonight? Graft. Like the fight
game. they were built on business
principles
He now held the audience stronger
than ever and knew it
There are three men squeezed on
two seats. L can see that everywhere.
What does it mean? Graft The stew
ards don't get any wages. They are
supposed to graft Business principles
again. You pay. OF course you pay.
How are the fight permits obtained?
Graft
And now let me ask you: II the
men who build the seats graft, II the
stewards graft, If the authorities graft.
why shouldn't those higher up in the
fight game graft? They do. And you
pay.
And let me tell you It is not the
fault OF the fighters. They don't run
Tho n-ba rron,OfarS and mana
gers run 1t; they're the business men.
The fighters are only fighters. They
begin honestly enough, but the mana
gers and promoters make them give In
or kick them out There have been
straight fighters. And there are now
a few. but they don't earn much as
a rule.
81 guess there have been straight
managers. Mine is about the best OF
the boiling But just ask him how
much he's got sailed down in real es-
tate and apartment houses"
Here the uproar began TO drown
his voice.
Let every man who wants to hear
shut up the man alongside of him"
Glendon instructed.
Again. like the murmur Of n surf.
there was rustlinG Of smacks and
thuds. and scufIles. and the house
quieted down.
why does every fighter work over
time insisting that he's always fought
square? Why are they called Homes.
Johns and Honest Bills and Honest
Blacksmiths and all the rest? Doesn't
IL ever strike you that they seem to
be afraid of something?
when man comes to you shout
ing he is honest you get suspicious. |
But when prizefighter passes the |
same dope out to you you swallow 1t |
down.
MAY the best man win. How often |
have you heard Billy Morgan say that? !
Let me tell you that the best man
doesn't win so often. and when he |
does it's usually arranged for him. !
Most of the Grudge fights you've heard !
or seen were arranged too.
It's program The whole thing is
Do you thinks the pro-
moters and managers are in it for
their health: They're not. They're
business men.
Tom. Dick and Harry are three
fighters. Dick is the best man In
two fights he could prove it. But what
happens? Tom ticks Harry. Dick ticks
Tom. Harry ticks Dick. Nothing
proved. Then come the return match
as. Harry ticks Tom. Tom ticks Dick.
Dick ticks Harry. Nothing proved.
Then they try again.
Dick is kicking Says he wants to
get along in the game. So Dick ticks
Tom and Dick ticks Harry. Eight
lights 10 prove Dick the best man,
when two could have done 1t. All ar
'anged. A regular program, and you