The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-29
THAT ssIT PAYS TO ADVERTISE" PROVEN
 BY TX. O. BROWN

One Of the biggest False alarms m
 modern ring history was tho young D91tchInan who is known to the fans as s.KnockoHts Brown, but who is Valentine Braun when wearing cifi- zensg clothing Brown passes his
 twenty-fourEh milestone this week. and his best years should be before him. but in the last annum he has
 boxed only second-rateEs and worse, and has often been bested by boys
 who newer did and never will rank any better than dl1bs
 The little Teuton is an illustration
 of the often noted fact that --It pays to adverf1se- For several years per-
 sistent press agent1ng by clever
 manager kept 4[Knockout'' constantly in the UneES7at, and the fans were hypnotized into the belief that the New York seEast Sider'7 was the sure piOn- Brown made fair showing in a few bot1ta but as a wou1d-be cham pion he was never anything but a, joke Jake Abel, Young McGoWans and many other boys who have never been heard of outside their own neigh I borhoods, have found the New Yorker an easy mark. Brown has often l shown ability to aaslmi7ate pHnish- Izaenfs and once in a while has lived
 ID to his sobr1quet by landing the
 sturdy left which got him the title of
 @Knockoutr but by and large he has shown no n1ore class than many a. preliminary lad whose fight are re- ported in tw0 lines in the local press. ] When he started fighting at the age Of sepen1een, it is said that Brown could do ht4le more in the literary I line than to write his name. It wasn't long, however, untn the New York
 papers were publishing statements couched in the best English with 4 tured as a flashing, slashing ring hero, and his love affairs got full-page spreads in the Sunday supplements. 1 When Annie C,B-iene his sweetheart, i said that he must give up the horrid | fighting game or else abandon all thought of leading her to the altar, the sesob sisters of the metropolitan press near broke our heartstrfngs with their pathetic yarns. After that sad affair. Dumb Dan' Morgan, with
 that adherence of publicity so mark
 ed in all fight mana gers, broke into q print with the statement that poor old
 busted hearted ''KnockoI1f'' was
 ready to receive applications ffrom
 other young ladies, the specidcation<
 being that they must be able to cook ? pigs knuckles and sauerkraut-
 9s By such distasteful notori ety { ittKnockout's became the hero of th< east Side of New York, and thousand, of fans always turned out to boos him whenever he fought. Brow1 } managed to get away with it until h.
 made trip to the Pacific coast il 3 i1913s There the unfeeIng fans ha6 t no regard for the tender romance y of the youth from the East, and gay, q way to raucous laughter over Brown ? performances. Joe Rivers was so ut ' ter1y heart1ess as to knock Knock : out out at Vernon, and Bud Ander f son gave him another dose of tn.
 sleep potion little later. Brown thel k returned to the East, and was de
 feated by Matty Baldwin at Boston. aI Browns printers ink reputation 7 now about played out, but it is al 2 legged that during the days when tn : harvest was on he garnered abou a $2Oo ,o00 worth of the long green. Al 7 I5most every dollar of this he took righ
 to his mother. as a d1ltifuI son shou1G q Sure he did We read it in the Ne4 ,. York papers.