Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-06
FIGHTERS SEEM DOOMED
If WITHOUT MANAGERS
Misfortune Came to Ted Lewis
Almost Immediately After Break
With Jimmy johnson.
SAME FATE BEFELL RlTCHlE
Nolan Developed Former Lightweight
Champion, Only to See Him Lose
His Title to Freddie Welsh in Ill
Advised Match.
ny JAMES J. CONFETTI.

One OF the strange rulings Of ring
warfare is That when hghter DIS
him famous. il seems TO spell disaster
for the athlete.
Ever since Ted KID Lewis cut the
son. the weiterweigAt has known
nothing but bad luck. Johnson l!fted
Lewis from ohscurity 10 fame and
championship OF the world. Through
all the time that Johnson was guild
ing the destiny of Lewis. the weltcr-
weight raked IN hugo purses and was
But Lewis got the idea that manag
ins his own affairs could be made
lew Lewis Gu, adrift from Johnson And
announced 10 the civilized world that
hcncetor;h lie was to be his own bust
Mistortnns came almost ., once
thereafter and the few he got paid
with what Johnson used TO GET for
him.
Suffered First Knockout.
He finally succeeded in making
match with Jack Britton. and in the
battle which followed Britton knocked
out Lewis for the first time in his
career. Shortly atterward illness
came TO Lewis and even mis- most
reached the end Of mis- big league"
string.
Irish Patsy Cline was a New York
youTsS,er who was hsh'i I,, in me
Donald discovered him The Two
fsnad up yeTN ,rs shSsY the Shf S
iop-notchers. But Patsy was one OF
those harum- scarum kids who had but
little business judgment OF his own,
and little appreciation OF the neces
sity for keeping in condition. and who
liked TO have his own way about
everything. Mcdonald repeatedly eau.
dissipation. but Cline needed him no,
at all.
Eventually. Mcpnalds advce, given
Success and hatte ,r!' had gone to his his;
head. He didn't think that Mcdonald
had anything 10 do with his uplift
the youthful Cline said get thee
hence" or something TO that effect, 20
Mcdonald, and Cline's name almost
since that time has disappeared from
wcinert Among Gins Becns."
Charlie Weinert cut wide swath
New Jersey. Jack nulser r raMSS pr tn
manage his affairs. The weincr,-
Bulser combination quickly doomed UP
with. considerable import on the
ser so arranged lights for Weinert
that the yomnEster moved along sure
ly, yet swiftly, toward top ranklns
that Bulser was weinert's manage
gold poured in upon the fighter and
he waHed rich
Just about that time .weiner, decided
$3.50 out OF every $1,000 which he
earned with his lists. Like many an
could handle his own affairs in very
effective fashion: So he fred" Bulser
nnd shars s tor heE Fs
Purliistic chute and is Z now WI" in The
!ishtweight champion Of The world i.
&c Soa had Who dH msde Sn dss %GIan B
great promise in Richie during the
k R7inp;s!s esriy days He became
match making OF Nolan. Ritchie
quickly rose 70 a championship and
tune.
Lost Title TO welsh.
AHd men WREN ne seemed 70 have
IL 'S-oE+" w!,h Nolan and a!'' Ssgsn 10
W. ;!s 2"n oqssness waS k;;ehis
l % e nshti ; ;frssdie yEeisR i
ahead Urn me program. one ina;
Nolan. crafty and shre.d. never would
have perEniited. R!tchie los, his title,
many had predicted
sam Fitzpatrick WAS the man be-
hind Jack Johnson. While he handled
the regros interests Johnson moved
upward % .ame and fortune f3ut
eventually there came 4 parting o. the
ways and from that time on John
Sons pathway, instead .. being scrc~u
with roses, was tAorny lie got ;nto
legal difficulties and had 70 leave IN"
country Then he vent To Europe and
squandered par; OF his fortune At last
he fought less willard and tn. cham
pionship vent back to The white race.
Those are only few o. the rualg
instances in ring history that would
seem 10 show that fighter 10 j!nx"d
VINO attempts 20 20 along on his Owu
way and discard the man who helped
20 make him ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS lGlG
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