The Washington herald., 1915-08-08
Fighting LAWS
NEED REVISION
So Claims Little Miss Lozette
Hoag, Manager Of Feather
weight Kid Marshall.
HOW SHE GETS BOUTS
Girl Manager Is Treated in Strictly
Business Fashion in Arranging
Fights for Brother.
HOW SHE GETS BOUTS
BY GRACE PHELPS,

New York Representative Of The Washington HerlE.
New York. Aug. Women can
manage fights. but they ought to stay
out of the ring. I'm not a suffraSIst.
but the boxing laws need a lot OF
\ revision"
With the above words little Miss
Lozette Hoag, the only girl manag ger
known to the ring. proved herself to
be essentially feminine. But if her
reasoning is sometimes contradictory
her instinct doesn't often go wrong
when IL comes to arranging bouts for
her brother. 'Clarry Marshall"
Garry, who is twenty and five years
younger than his blonde manage
stands somewhat in awe of her-as Il
younger brother should. For in the
four fights in which his sister has
starred him he has come off better
than under his former managers.
Il don't know exactly how she does
IT," drawled the young feather-weight
and ex-soldier, but / fight better and
get more money with Lozette as boss
than l ever did before
Just how do you go about it," I
asked Miss HoaG as she sat beside
at 81 West 10sth street last night.
How She Gets Bouts.
The girl manager dropped her blue
eyes meditatively for a few moments,
then she said. modestly:
''Oh, l just go to q manager and
tell him l have a brother who fights
at 126 pounds and ask him when he
expects to have an opening. Then I
go over his to-be -opponent's record.
and if I think Clarry can put up
good fight against him and the other
man isn't a rough fighter. / go to see
him train. Then if l decide that he is
all right I sign up for a bout"
Jess willard says he doesn't approve
of women attending prize fights. but
little Miss Hoag declares that the big
fighter is directly responsible for her
entrance into the game. The young
woman, who was a member of a bur
lesque show, was In Kansas City when
she met Willard and his manager, Tom
Jones.
Willard was doing an exhibition stunt
with Al Norton at the time she said,
and 1 talked to him about my brother.
had met a number of prize fighters and
managers, and I asked his advice about
becoming my brothers manaser. He said
stood a fine chance OF making a sue
cess of it, and so did Jones' So I got
a number OF letters to managers here
in the East. and when the theatrical sea-
son ended In May started in.
Easy to Praise Brother.
THE managers treat me just like they'd
treat a man. It's strictly business all
the way through. though. as a matter
of fact, she added with a smile. II
think they are more interested in Garry
than II a man manager tried to arrange
his fights. Because he is my brother I
can praise him to the skies. If he
weren't a relation, though. I don't be-
lieve I would have the nerve to talk
about his good points,
That's the reason I wouldn't advise
other women going into the field. she
added. inconsistency. 1T wouldn't be
exactly nice
Miss Hoag isn't going back to the
stage. Now that she has undertaken
to push her brother up to the feather
weight championship she expects to de-
vote all her time to him.
II see that Garry gets the right kind
of food and at regular hours" said this
all-round little woman. Il even cook
1t myself sometimes
What about the financial end of it?'
I asked.
Brother CIarry looked at his sister
with a grin.
"Oh, we split fifty-fifty." she replied.
And if her answer was in terms of the
ringside, at least it showed that no mat
ter what a woman does she can be de-
pended upon to play fair.