South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-16
MANAGERS CRAB
THEIR SHARE Of
REVENUE At CATE
SofteSt Snap is Managing Some
Boob Who Knows How to
Fight, But That's All.
Keeps the Coin.
BY Frank G. Menke.

NEW YORK. Nov. 16.-The next
crop OF American milliOnaires will be
harvested from the army OF prize
fight manageable persons who have
discovered how TO get rich quick with
tie least eXertiOn-
The unlearned in pugilistic methods
are possessed Of the ldea that the
fighter gets the bulk Of all the huge
purses that are hung up for battles In
these frenzied finance days. The un-
learned has the wrong idea. It's the
so-called managers" who grab off the
hugest share Of the gold tinted ma
yuma
A gOOC manager very often helps
fighter tc get near the top in the pu-
gilisti1 h aap-but there are few good
manaAa-t, in this era The fair and
honest manager is satisfied with a
per cent share Of the lighters income
as payment for his efforts in boosting
his man and guiding him along the
fnanaial pathway. but the trouble
with the pugilistic game IS that many
INSCRIPTIONS persons have grated
themselves onto fighters and act like
leeches-they suck out of the fighter
nearly every dollar ne earns, and in
the end. the fighter has nothing and
the manager has everything.
A New York sport writer recently
made the rounds Of the fight man
ayers offices in Gotham and mar
yelled because many OF them Occu-
pied regal suites in some of the big
gest office buildings in the town. That
don't seem strange to us. The only
marvellous thing about this discovery,
in our opinion, is that he didn't find
"A bunch Of managers Occupying-and
OWning-the whole building.
Many Managers Like Leeches.
The softest way of gathering in big
money these days is to manage some
boob battler-a guy who knows how
TO fight and knows little or nothing
about the financial end of the game.
That class of hghters-and they are
in the majOrity-are easy prey FOR the
human vultures who term themselves
managers"
Whenever a yOungster rises in the
pugilistic world there's a mad
scram bic among the managers 10
crab him off and put his financial af-
fairs under their control They scent
prey and they are like wolves in pur-
suit OF IT,
The managers usually sign up the
boob battler to a contract that is lOp-
sided: one that is irOn-Clad as far as
the fighter is concerned but can be
broken any time the manager desires.
The manager" has nothing TO lose
and everything to gain. If the fighter
develops into a real drawing card, the
his usefulness is over. If the fighter
should prove to be a fivver the man
ager can cut loose.
One battler who recently cut loose
from his manager told us that in
trihe over one year he had earne|
$4,000 in the ring. but that all he got
out of II was 1000.
81 should have received nearly
$1,000" he said, but my manager
got the big bulk of the money. He
was TO get % per cent Of my income
fer managing me. Well. he got nearly
90 per cent And what happened to
re is happening to other fighters right
along. They are being trimmed by
their managers. a fighter doesn't know
much about the fighting game. He
leaves that up to his manager. If
the manager is a square one the
fighter gets a square deal But if he
isn't, the fighter is trimmed
Larns $1,000; Gets SOS.
ct once fought for a $1.2OO guar