The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-10
NO MORE GUARANTEES FOR
 BOXERS, PROMOTERS DECLARE
Former Champion Corbett Says Club Managers, Must Protect Them
 selves In Future
TBy James J. Corbett. Former Heavy weight Champion of the World.)
(special to The Farner2l

.eBy James J. corbett. Former Heavy
 weight Champion of the Wor1d0
 Especial to The Farner0
 New York, Oct. 1o.--Apparently boxing is coming into it's own agal1I- Indications are all that way. lne s .- nancial support the local public mas given the opening bouts of the 1s14- K term makes 1t look as if the man W art is due for one great big season And it is about time. Metropolitan promoters have had couple of pret- owners have no one but themselves co the fans it must be said that the cAuo owners have no but themselves to blame for. the lack of interest which prevailed the last few seasons
 It is to be hoped New Y ork nnatcn- makers will profit by their mistakes of the past and treat their public to something worth while in the way of new talent occasionally. This thing of serving up the same old cards week in and week out ~ II mot .do---as they have found to4their cost S1ne, iboxing fan likes to; see new faces in the ring now and then, and especially when those faces adorn the heasdl1n-- CTS in the different divisions of box ing The Levinskys. Knock-Out Browns and the rest of the boxers who perforn under the hammer or a few favored mana gersT hereabouts are
 
 the sports a run for their money, but the too frequent re-matching of men. even though stars, hurts the game and makes it's supporters lose interest
 what New Workers want is the best in the game And they are not par fic41Ia.r whether the boxers hail from this section or from the back woods. What they want to see are men who can deliver the goods. who know the game, and play it according to the rules. PromotersA have learned, in the two spoor years just past, that 1t is not good business policy to stage the same boys in contests too frequently. Once or twice, if the men are clever, may be all right, but the fans renig when it comes to paying to see the same old faces in the same old stunts over and over again
 Now that the Madison Square Gar den A. c. is about to open again, and it's matchmaker has agreed to stand by the policy of paying boxers only in proportion to what they draw at the box office; the smaller club owners will not have so many kicks coming over the matter of competing with the big organization in the matter of < guarantees-and by reason thereof compelled to pass the stars up and deal only in the second and third raters. It has taken. the promoters q long time to arrive at the sensible concIusiom that the policy of overbid- ding one another is a foolish and eS- pensive one. and from now on boxers will be compelled to work on a per centage basis at the leading local club or look for matches elsewhere.
 note that Milwaukee promotes have also gone on record that there is to be nothing doing in the way of guarantees to lighters rem now on. Tom Andrews. who conducts one of xT. IL N IA r-- says he has learned his lesson, and intends to operate accordingly. in the future. Andrews 1t will be recalled, staged the Willie Ritchie-CharIey Wise bout, and has not recovered from the blow yet It cost Tom. and make up the deficit for that show
 If Jim Conroth and Tom McCarey would join the reform movement it would just about make it unanimous, Eand really prove the best thing for everybody concerned. While am, and always have been an ardent sup porter of the men who make a living by boxing, having been an exponent E offthe game myself, realize that the time has arrived when promoters must protect themselves. The grant ing of the big demands asked by the stars of the ring means failure for those who comply. A boxer is worth fair percentage of the money he can 1draw7he should rem emoer that he does not supply the entire show. His opponent. even if not so great a card, contributes his mite and must be con sidered, and the men who stage the bout should also be allowed to take down a piece of the change. f>> Con- tinued acquiescence on the parts of promoters has enceuraged many box CTS to press their exorbitant demands until they have in numerous instances mi inf SD n fOT1 hat iS vi to impossible for Q matchmaker to even talk business with them The general adoption of the plan to make boxers work on percentage would bring these birds to their senses, and firmness by the promoters in talking error of their ways. Then the box ing fans can look forward to a higher grade of sport and, locally speaking that's all they ask. Give New York CTS classy cards-not so muck Quantity as quality=and the sport will boom here as never before.
 Johnny Kilbane, the most abused champion we have with us today, is deserving of sympathy rather than censure. Matches with the feather weight titIe-hoIder are scarcer thar hens teeth Just when he thought he had landed a bout that assured him at least the sum of $5 900 some thing had to happen to knock the prospect.
 The match with AtteIl. while from sporting standpoint poor one would have been pretty sweet fol KiIbane in a monetary way. The sont fellow in the feather division who re semhled anything like a good matcf for the champion had to up and ge' foo big. refer to Johnny Dundee rfe New York boy who has given uI his feather-weight championship as piratfons owing to increased averdu pois. Dundee had been signed to bo1 KfIbane at 122 pounds the limit nov recognized in the division, but fount he could not do the weight any longer