South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-07-10
Racing Card County Fall Games Today
"knockouts"
BY I'd. W. smith.

The deeper one digs into the boxing
game the stranger are the angles one
hnds. Here. for instance. is the story
Oh bright young man who bet $500
on losing fighter and then picked up
lhe winner, managed him into the top
fortune.
Joe Mandot is the fighter who won
the battle that lost Tommy Walsh all
the READY money be happened TO have
at the time
Later zoe and Tommy doubled up
and since then have been going along
In nice shape, making neat little piles
OF money and sailing Ii down for the
day mat comes TO all fighters-the day
When the snap is gone and the atten-
ton OF the promoters cannot be Sc
cured
incidentally it was this fight-Joe's
battle with Milburn Saylor in New
Orleans in OctOh~- 1911-that BOOST
ed the French lads stock up SO that
ne became a national figure in the
lightweight class
The match was made as a sort of
accommodation TO Saylor. who was
going from Indianapolis out to Los
Angeles via New Orleans. SaylOr had
some profitable time in sight, among
other things being a contest with Joe
Rivers that would have netted him
well. Saylor wanted to break his trip
and pick up a little expense money
by thrashing Mandot. who looked eX-
tremelv easy 10 him at that particu-
lar time
Savior had Eddie Mack of Indian
apOlls with him then. Mack met
Tommy Walsh the day before the con-
s1-
cinch SaylOr was TOmmv had been
out with a bunch of aviators and had
little bankrOll. He promptly
sought the French market. where they
were wild about Little Joe" and
plunked down some $500, taking the
Saylor end.
Walsh and Mack sat near the ring
side that night watching the battle.
Walsh hadn't seen Mandot work in
is months and had heard he had gone
back greatly. Mack was so enam-
ored of SaylOr's chances for the cham
pionship that he simply couldn't see
Mandot at ALL
1t was Mandot's fight from the
jump. Walsh knew it in the second
round Mack refused to see it that
way at all. IN the fourth round
Saylor was having n stormy passage
and Walsh remarked to Mack:
IT'S all off with US; our money
isn't worth so cents on the dollar"
flush. tush," said the confident
Mack, "SaylOr hasn't got started yet
In the seventh round Mandot cross
ed his right over to Saylor's jaw and
dropped the Hoosier for a mine"
count.
"I'll take Is cents for my bets right
now" said Walsh as he prepared to
leave the arena.
The end came i'm the 18th round.
Saylor got worse instead of better, and
couldn't land on the slippery Mandot
and near the end Of the session got a
right full on the point of the chin
and Topped down and out. He fell on
his head and was counted out trying
10 pillow up every inch or the canvas
with his dome.
They took Saylor back home the
next night, a completely crushed
young man. Walsh had to get even
somehow for that $500. He took the
management of Mandot soon after
that and the ombinatiOn has been
generally successful one ever since.
Indianapolis had produced some eX-
ceptionally good men and they were
a fine lot of boys personally. One of
them | will always remember with
great deal of fondness because of his
extreme earnestness and sincerity.
He attracted my attention one night
in the HOOSier capital by making what
[ thought was an unusually amusing
remark though he was in deadly earn
est about il and saw nothing funny in
the situation at all
"Chick" Hayes is the boy | have ref
erence to. He is a bantam weight
and was battling Kid Herman, a ter
rife puncher from Pekin. Ill, in the
semi-windup to the Packey McFar-
land-Ray Bronson match at the base
ball park there one night before the
big automobile event. and l was the
ring official that night.
Hayes was a great local favorite
and was wildly cheered at the end OF
the first round for having a clever
shade over Herman. But the end
came suddenly in the middle of the
second round. Herman swung
smashing right to Chicks jaw and he
fell in a heap. out as cold as any day
last month. He never even wiggled
during the count.
After the main event was over and
T was walking out of the park | met
Chick and there were tears in his eyes.
That's tough luck, Chick / said
by way Of consolation. Don't be
downcast You'll do better next time
probably"
The little fellows lips quivered and
the tears started afresh. Finally he
managed to speak and this is what ne
pulled:
But did fine in the first round.
didn't ?"