El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-03-15
WHY THE BOXING GAME
HAS BEEN OUT OFLUCK
The "Gang" Is Generally In On Frameups; Managers
and Promoters Greater Gamblers Than Boxers;
Jeff On Verge of Frame; "Ruby Robert" Foxy.

not be caught betting his money on
the other fellow that leaves but one
man 10 DO the sure thing betting.
Placing bets requires some time As
the winner should be in the better
condition Of the two. he has but little
time to spend in placing the bets
Immediately prior to the bout when
often the best opportunities are 70
be had in taking bets, he must be
engaged so that he cannot give the
betting game his attention
Consequently other parties are gen
orally let in on the affair so that
the betting may be more satisfactory
ly arranged To the faker IL is also
even more desirable to have others in
on the deal, as the money OF the fight
ers is generally limited By letting
in men who have plenty OF capital
they are enabled to further rake off
a percent from all the sure thing
gamblers whom they put next to the
termination OF the bout
Generally where two boxers
nEree TO a certain ending Of a bout
in which they are engaged per-
hitting no others TO know Of the
deal, the object Il to secure an
other bout. Not infrequenfly in
such eases the bout ends in q
The Double.
Occasionally there creeps into the
plans Of the takers the little plan
known as the double cross, where one
Of the fighters agrees with the other
to lay down" in a certain round OF
at such time as the beating by the
other warrants without suspicion on
the part Of the fans that the thing is
framed" He agrees TO have his
cOterie OF ring gamblers bet all their
coin on the agreed winner but instead
Of that advises his followers 20 bet
all their money on him. His appon-
ent, trusting him to lay down" &C
cording TO their agreement. often does
not train, thinking he does not need
il, while the fellow supposed TO lay
down trains to the minute. Naturally
the man who believes ne is to win is
a bit careless because OF the arrange
ment and the other is enabled 10 slip
across one that puts an end TO the
bout.
Many variations are added to the
methods Of crooked ringsters in fleec-
ing the public, the general principle
employed being to let the man win
whom the public least believes viii
win, thus enabling the gamblers TO
place greater number OF bets The
biggest gamblers in the game are not
the boxers. but fight promoters. some
OF whom give bouts only 70 those
who Will fight according TO their di-
rections- OF course, there are many
+ uQueEL promoters.
Did Jeff aFrameF5
There are those who claim that Jim
Jeffries faxed" when he first met
the big miner. Jack AIunroe- For the
most part Jeff is merely considered
foxy" for his part there. He caused
nobody TO lose any money by permit
ting Munroe to knock him down sew
eral times There was nobody for
Jeff 10 fight those days. He had
D. ali "a
no agreement with Munroe. jeff Just
permitted himself to be knocked
down to get Munroe himself to believe
In his own prowess a bit more so that
he could perhaps later get a big bout,
which he did.
II could hardly be called fixing
because # would be necessary for
munrOe to win n number OF bouts
before he met jeff. This he did
but how was Jeff to know that he
wouldn't get kHyOeds
It might be charged that when the
two met JEFF deceived the public be-
cause he knew Munroe was not as
good as he had appeared when they
met in that famous four round affair.
Yet even this Is not OF such a certain
nature that the bout can be called a
frame Munroe was young. There
was a possibility that he had i'm
proved since the first meeting enough
to really put Jeff away. he was
conner, jeff might be slipping. Munroe
might have been unwhippabIe. Jeff
may have believed that he had a sure
thing. which turned out to be true,
out II was probably as much a matter
OF chance as usually accompanies
bouts on the square. as Il was a sure
thing"
FitE Wise Old owl
Old Bob FitzsImmons was accus-
toned TO monkey along with an op-
ponent whom he didn't believe overly
dangerous and after taking a sound
beating. kayo his man with what
might oe construed to be q chance
blow. Other boxers seeing the bout
were often led to believe that they
coul beat Fitz because OF the poor
showing he made on purpose. Robert
was not Trainer" No POKER has
a cleaner record Bob was just
Io1y. Nobody else entered into the
secret II he won money betting on
hlmseh Il was because he believed he
could win, no matter how hard his
opponent fought or who he was