Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-07
HAM FIGHTERS DEMAND
. BIG MONEY FOR BATTLES
Promoters Oncr Dub" Boxers For
tunes tn Enter Arena, and Fans
Must Pay High Prices.
Hi wESTHRoOK pEt:I.E:R.

! NEW YORK, Dec. G.-Thc high
price Of ham on the hoof and ham
sinmbering in it's own lard on the
! floor Of a twenty our-f foot ring is
causing quite Il Scrccch from our
leading ham fanciers.
Thirty-Hvc thousand dollars 70:
E!il Brennan 10 fight Jack Dempsey
and may he not more than Dempsey's
regulation limit for opponents, three
New Yorker is accustomed to paying
10: the stuff that undcrlies his sunny
side eggs.
still. Tex Richard in trying TO find
u bout for the champion. had 10 take
the best available match-onc that
wouldn't he too downright easy for
Jack and ono that still would not at
tract too much attention from the
blue element. lie pays Brcnnan'y
price and the gallery fans pay 81 a
ticket 20 sec bout get away 10 ::
conclusion.
Decision Bouts Costly.
the lighters are demanding many
New, York than they are glad 20 gc;
in Milwaukee and Jersey and Phila-
d"lphia for no-dccision fro!ics over
ten, twelve or eight rounds.
Willie Jackson wanted so. Goo
TO box Kenny Leonard FOR the light
weigh; title at the Garden. Lew
Tender has similar comic ideas, The
".
the only promoter now haniiiuE
real. big fights here. Went ont and
signed Joe yelling as I.eona-d's vie
tim. for less than half of what II
would have cost to lure one OF the
other "contcndcrs" into the ring.
The same boys have been lighting
for $1,000 or As much more as they
could get. which wasn't much more.
either.
New York once dozet through ten
rounds OF ronderous pantom'me by
s5i, ooo Moran t way tn, the ham nIivi in his
dish and ne got S27.lo0. which is
somewhat less than Eil! Brennan is
Times used to bo when q lighter
who thought he could beat the
shi f"r w" mere chance Nam .'n of Win, 10
ming the title. plus a little change.
After paying his training expenses
and splitting the remainder with his
Syndicate Of talented managers. Jess
Willard WAS lucky TO have the fare
home from Havana the. time he heat
Jack Johnson. hut willard went
By conserving it and sheltering il he
made II bring him one of the great
est fortunes in puEilism. At that he
made most OF tho money outside the
ropes
Little Fighter Gets spin Money
Tradition seems TO have il that the
smaller the fighter. the less money
he rates for his work. Kid Will
iiams used to barnstorm around the
south. with an occasional scrap in
New Orleans-and he was u slug
cling champion. too--for less money
than dubs like Jim Concy and Tom
Cowlcr got Tor some of their awk
ward displays here.
But Jack Sharkcv and Joe Lynch
put out more fighting in their first
bout at the Garden than Bat Lee
Whisky, bill Brennan and Jess Will
lard would show in an old fashioned
battle royal sim. those guarantees
OF $4,000 apiece seem high for thou
sand-dolar bantamS who aren't
champions. and tho Garden seats only
1000 fans ordinarily. making the
tax pretty heavy for the lads who
pay and pay and pay.
Anyhow this Dempsey Brennan
fight is coming off. The New York
Boxing Commission mas given lis
blessings. And Richard has given
the fighters his guarantee for so
much money tina: the cheapest seats
viii be 81 each and The best 525. |;
vii! he Dcmpscy's first show in the
East since he won the title and re-
ally his urs. since he became promi-
mcnt. because tn. Fulton bout was
over in such quick time that nobody
had chance TO size MP the man VINO
WAS TO beat willard.