The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-01

The best advice that can be given to youngster of the present day who decides to enter the professional ring seems to be this:
 Get a good manager.
 In the bygone days in boxing man ager was not so important an asset for fighter. Pugilism then had not been
 commercialized to it's present point. Therefore, fighters with even the most ordinary business ability were able to handle their own affairs successfully
 But boxing now has reached place where a shrewd business man is vital to only guides the financial destiny of the fighter, but also keeps watch over rhe youngsters training.
 And so it is of vital importance fol every warrior in the ring to get man. ager who, at one and the same time, IS fair and honorable, has good, sound business mind. and who IS sufficiently versed in physical culture so as to ad- wise the fighter intelligently with refer ence to training.
 
 stories of how skillful managers have made fortunes for fighters who seemed to have only mediocre ability One Of the best illustrations is the case or Dan Morgan. manager for Knockout Brown, the lightweight. During five-year period Brown, never champion ana never a really wonderful fighter, earned $144000 The credit is due largely to the skillful publicity work performed ty Morgan Danny had an agile brain; he had ideas; he figured that the public wanted to hear something new concern ing fighter. So Dan fed them up With stories about Browns home life, elabor- ating on Browns kindness to his mother and Bown's ability as chef.
 All of this human interest stuff" con- corning Brown had the effect of whetting the public's appetite to see him in ac- ton. AS the result, whenever he was billed to fight big house was assured And Danny, of course, took advantage of this by forcing promoters to come through with some very sizeable purses Whenever interest in Brown would lag, Danny would think of some new publicity scheme to keep his warrior in the limelight And because he always had novel ideas, he succeeded
 Few men who have fought in the light- weight ranks ever have coined more money than Freddie Welsh. While he was champion he always commanded huge purses. Harry Pollok was the man behind" Before the Briton hooked up with the former newspaper man, he rarely got big money for his ring activi- ties. But Pollok. one of the "go-get-'em'' sort, insisted upon big purses for Welsh and got them.
 After Welsh was through, Pollok picked up Irish Patsy Cline. The youngster had been fighting around the east for some time almost unnoticed The purses ne had been receiving were small to an OK treme. Pollok, by his clever tactics, ing cards among the Hghtweights, and ever since then the little Irishman has been drawing down big money for his ring efforts.
 Frank Moran came back from Europe along in 1915 and hardly a line was print- ed about him. He had ranked fairly high a few years before In the heavyweight division, but after his defeat by John son had slipped somewhat from public view At that juncture. Ike Dorgan, a former newspaper man. became Moran manager. Immediately Moran began to get considerable publicity. While a dozen fighters were clamoring for a chance at Jim Coffey. Dorgan slipped III ana secured the match Tor Moran. Then he began a new publicity cam paign which helped to draw an im- mense crowd to Madison Square Garden for the first meeting of the two giadia- tors.
 Moran won. that fight. to the surprise of the boxing world. Then came the clamor for another match of the two men. Different promoters made bids. Moran lacking real business ability. was for accepting the first offers. but Doro- gan held off He insisted upon a big Moran was fearful that Dorgans demands were so high that they would scare off the promoters. But they didn't and in the end articles were signed which made 1t possible for Moran 10 collect close to $f0,o00 as his end.
 And then came the talk of Willard Moran match The blond Pittsburger was willing to fight for almost any amount. An offer of $l0.0oo probably would have caused him to sign articles If 1t had not been for Dorgan. But the latter. sensilg the fact that the public was keen to see such fight and that the promoters would offer bis money. held on. In the end he secured sosne- thing like s27.5Oo for Moran and a big percentage of the profits in the moving