Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-30
Jack Skelly Cites Danny Nor.
gan and Descamps as
Examples.
RITCHIE WAS TOO CLEVER
Former Lightweight Champion
Spent Hours in Prelininaries
to Bout With Welsh.
By JACK SHELLY

| There are many shrewd, clever,
! skillful diplomats handling the affairs
of the champions and title contenders
in the fstic ring today. In their
small way some of them show more
remarkable ability in their various
negotiations than the high, courtly
diplomatists of the European ma
lions that are now in a terrible,
wrangling conflict, on the continent
of the old world
! consider Danny Morgan, of New
York, one of the shrewdest and clev-
crest diplomats of the ring. A few
years ago he took hold of that unso-
phisticated, little, tow-headed Dutch
man, Knockout Brown, and made a
fortune for him by his shllful han
ding of the East Side lightweight.
Taking into consideration that Brown
was q raw. unscientific fellow, who
simply had a good punch, it was re-
markable the money and success
Manager Morgan made with "kayo."
He matched him up with such crack
cracks as Leach Cross, Tommy Muir
ply, Matt Wells, Matty Baldwin and
others. In one combat Brown put
Murphy out in the first round; in an
other bout he was beaten; but this
made no difference to diplomatic
Danny Morgan. He doomed the
young Dutchman through the press,
and drew down many a fat purse for
| his little whirlwind fighter. In fact,
this clever pugilistic manager worked
''Kayo" SO fast and so often that he's
now all in at the age of twenty-thrae
years, but for four years he was
| certainly a rapid money getter When
you take into consideration also that
| this same little Dutch boy didn't
even know the rudlments OF The
manly art, it is certainly marvellous
example of sllillful diplomacy and
mana cement.
and number of contests Battling Lee
whisky has fought, under the nimble,
shrewd negotiations of Morgan.
There's not fighter in the land who
has contested SO often and so success
fully as Levinsky for the past four
years As to how long he can keep
the hot pace Is another consideration.
But it is Morgan policy to keep boxers
boxing constantly, so long as there is
any steam left in them. After they
blow up as stars they are thrown
back into the preliminary bouts, and
finally into the scrap heap.
Descamps Great Ring Diplomat.
One cannot but help admire that
cunning, cat-like manager of Georges
Carpenter, Descamps. He is re-
marlkable man in many ways. He is
not only cagey matchmaker, but a
wonderful handler of his champion in
! 70 ~ ha Ia
He quickly grasps the situation in q
contest and takes advantage Of every
move with wildcat rapidly.
Descamps seems to always have SUI
preme control of Carpenter, in or oui
of the ring, which in itself is quite 6
remarkable power. Very few mana
) gers seem to acquire this over theil
fighters
/ would like to have seen the mana
ger who could absolutely control sucl
fighters as John l.. Sullivan, Jim Cor
bett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack McAu
} life, Jack Dempsey, Kid Mccoy, Pete
{ jackson, Tommy Ryan, or a humble
of other fistic warriors of the OLE
r bunch.
Al smith "Bossed" John L..
r Sullivan alone broke many a mana
, gers heart and bank account by hi
h defiant independence and strenuou
s stubbornness. Possibly the only ma
e who had John L. anywhere near unde
a subsection was poor old AL Smith, VIII
S toured the big fellow on that famou
: knockout trip, throughout the Unite
/. States and Canada, that made John 1
It the fistic idol of the world. But eve
t Ambassador Smith had his trouble
d with Sullivan and was finally glad I
y hand him over to bold Pat Sheed!
l. who likewise gave up the hard job