Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-30

than 500 have been able to get engage
ments at the clubs. Boys who split
fifty fifty or better with some col
lector' get all the appearances. To stop
that evil we now compel every so-called
manager" to show a written contract
with each fighter he says he represents,
and we viii not let a man into the ring
who has not been at least eight days in
the State. The effect has been to shut
out 'foater lighters from other cities
who engage managers for a day. Back
in the old times it meant something to
manage pugilist. The boxers were sent
out into the country for training and
made to live healthy lives. Nowadays
these collectors some of whom have as
many as twenty or thirty boxers on their
strings, send their wards to some stuffy
gymnasium. 1t would cost them real
money to put their boys In the country.
where they should be, and all they save
in training expenses is considered vel
vet.
ENCOURAGE BOXERS To
'MANAGE THEMSELVES.
I'VE are now encouraging boxers to
make their own arrangements with the
clubs, and forcing the clubs to recognize
boxers who cannot afford collectors The
eight days In the State rule also shuts
out the appearances here of men with
injured hands and bunged-up faces fresh
from ring encounters in other big cities.
Ideal boxing requires no battered wrecks
in the ring. We also have cut out the
whistle sounding ten seconds before the
end Of each round. Fighters from other
States where they have no such rule have
been knocked out by turning to their
corners at the sound Of the whistle.
Chairman Muidoon wants boxing In New
York made fair to everybody. fair TO the
fighters, fair to the clubs and fair to
the public"
Mr.. Muldoon makes" his Manhattan
Office on Tuesdays ard Fridays when he
disposes Of the business accumulated in
the interim by his deputies. He aims
to put order into boxing. He owns 172
acres Of farming land on the top OF a
hill near Purchase, KY. where, like En-
tsllus. the aged but huge and sinewy
Sicilian who defeated Greeks and Tro-
JAMS alike. he does his morning exercises
and ten-mile walk without a sign Of
fatigue
World champions used to be satisfied
with what star-bout boxers want nova
days" said Mr. Muldoon, reciting an
anecdote OF the great bare-fst fight In
Richberg, Miss. July s, 1880, when John
L. Sullivan defeated Jake kilraln under
London prize ring rules IN seventy five
rounds. In March Of that year l was
sent for by Phil Kearney and Phil
DIVER. who we're Sulllvan's hackers
They had 5000 forfeit up, which Richard
K. Fox had covered for Kilrain. and they
were IN a bad way, as two doctors just
returned from Boston said the cham plon
would never rise from his sick bed.
TELLS HOW SULLIVAN
WAS PUT INTO SHAPE.
The question was, should they put up
the rest Of that $4,000? Sullivans kid
news were reported gone and he had the
dropsy so bad the local physician was
tapping his leg daily for a pint or more
OF water I took the Job Of getting Su-
Ivan into shape. I was 10 get $1,000 II
he won the fight and nothing If he lost.
I stipulated that I was to have a con-
tract with Sullivan in which be agreed 10
do what I said Abe Hummen, the
lawyer. drew the contract. Then I went
to Boston and brought Sullivan on to
ny farm in New York. He was that bad
he could not walk a mile for four weeks
after had him I got big negro named
Smith down from Albany and shamed
Sullivan into rousing himself Inside OF
eight weeks I had the big fellow doing
ten miles. Then put him up 10 twenty
miles and sfterward back to sixteen
miles. I wrestled him myself, for under
the London rules. wrestling went and
every fall ended a round. That is how
we had to prepare men for the ring In
the old days"
In that memorable fight Bat Masterson
vas time keeper and umpire for Knrain,
while the late Tom Costello Of Cleveland,
was in SuIlivan's corner.-Copyright
1921, by Public Ledger Co.