The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-11-22
HAS GATHERED
REAL FORTUNE
Jess Willard Has Made STA
900 IN Past Seven
Months.
WILL. START TRAINING
WILL START TRAINING

It's lust a trife over seven months
since Jess willard became the heavy
weight champion, but in that time ne
has earned approximately $2l4,0oe-
and not one dollar Of II via the fight
route.
willard spent 14o days doing circus
stunts. He was guaranteed $1,000
day-and he averaged $1,000. That
made his income from that source
total 100000. He got $4,000 for his
newspaper writings and another S2o,-
600 or SO through his theatrical VEN
ture.
Two hundred and fourteen thousand
dollars in eight months? Yes Oscar, II
surely pays to be q champion
OF HIS income, however, II is said
that Willard only got 60 per cent OF
the gross-about $3.50, Goethe balance
divided among his managers. Tom
Jones, chief manager for willard, re-
Gently said that Willard has "salted"
away a sum close to 100000 despite
the fact that he paid $4,000 to Harry
Frazee and Lawrence Weber when
he bought out their managerial inter-
est in him.
And now Willard plans to go back
into the lighting game where $4,000
purses await him. II he retains his
championship as long as his heavy
weight predecessor. 1t looks as IL his
nOHes
$500, 600 before his puglistic star sets.
Heavfes Desert New York.
There is a big void in New York
just now-but 1t can't exactly be call
ed an aching one. The void has been
caused by the sudden exodus OF the
leaking heavy-weights.
Frank Moran is doing theatricals
somewhere in the Middle West Jim
Coffey is resting up in the noun
tains. Jack Dillon has fitted back to
the West; Charley Weiaert is vaca-
tioning'' somewhere and the lesser
lights in the heavyweight ornaments
are shining in parts distant from
Gotham
Ritchie's Decision a Good One.
If Willie Richie really invades the
welter-weight class it will boom that
di,ision, because it is certain that many
otAer overweight Iight-weights will
b. gin battling in that department.
Jack Britton. Kid Lewis, Jimmy Duffy,
Matt Wells, Johnny Griffiths, and many
others who have grown too bulky 10
be genuine light-weights probably would
welcome a chance to enter the welter-
weight department If they were assured
of getting fights. The main reason why
those fellows have fingered in the light
weight division is because there are few
active welter-weights and that means but
little business for them
However If Ritchie joins the welters,
it will. add prestige to that division,
renew activity and start a real demand
on the part of the fairs for welter-
weight bouts.
Bat Nelson Is Through.
Battling Nelson is through as a fighter.
The durability of the Durable Dane
seems to have gone forever. The old
punch long ago disappeared-and Nelson
today. as a fighter. seems TO be but q
skeleton of the Nelson of other days.
Bat put UP q really wonderful fight
in Havana last spring against Jimmy
Fryor but it seems that fight burned
out the last fire. 1t took from him all
that was left as relic of the days
when he was king Of the lightweight
division.
Nelson made a woeful showing in
Kansas City recently against second
rater, and that bout has written the word
''finis' on the career of the most popular
lad that ever was champion