Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-09
Trying To Reform
The Boxing Game

y New York, Nov. Maintaining
that bookings chief source of trouble
comes from petty larceny and grand
larceny managers, William Muldor,
chairman of the New York Boxing
commission, breaks out with a now,
idea.
Muldon would give all the managers
the air and let the commission handie
their affairs.
He thinks well of plan to have
a booking Office in the headquarters OF
! the commission where boxers couli
register for work.
Five per cent of the boxers ulGe
would be exaeted as commission for
the expenses of maintaining the en-
ployment agency.
1t sounds fine and the theory is vel
: intended, but it never would work.
There are some managers who
would benefit the sport by accepting
the gate but there are many others
who are Of more credit to the game
than lot of the boxers.
! Good management is a tremendous
factor in the success of a young box
ct. ne VI VIC 1HSi1SS
fighter is notgeare d high enough 20
enable him to handle his own affairs
As rule the boxers are poor bust
ness men and even if their managers
didn't get a big cut of their money
the promoters would.
The commission has tried to place a
limit on the percentage which man
ager can demand from the earnings OF
his charge, but it did not work out.
For forms sake manager can file
a contract with the commission show
ing that he is asking only 10 per cent
for his share, but he can have an out
side agreement standing for another
40 per cent.
Many managers have only a verbal
agreement with their boxers. Jack
Kearns and Jack Dempsey are said
to work on a $3.50 agreement, out
, they have nothing but verbal un-
derstanding. Billy Gibson and Benny
Leonard are said to split all their
earnings even. Very few pilots work
for less than 30 per cent.
No trouble, however, comes From
the champions and the headliners. II
is the management of the little fellows,
the preliminary boys and the young
sters Just starting in the game that
constitutes the evil.
/ Some of the youngsters draw around
/ 5000 to $500 for preliminary anu
{ by the time the manager takes his
share and hands the boxer bill for
/ training and expenses, he sometimes
has about S25 left.
/ Perhaps the worst difficulty faced
bv the commission is to break up the
ciiuues existing between promoters
and p certain set of managers. The
evil has been broken up fairly well,
/ but it still exists in some of the big
clubs. 49,,
1t used to be the case that a boxer,
to get work or any kind of fair purs
es. was forced to line up with GER
tain manager and place himself prac-
tically at his mercy.
Because Of the extent to which this
practice had developed, the commits
sion forced one of the biggest clubs
in town to get rid of MATHEMATICS
\ who was Officially" relieved of his
II duties, ne SUN SSSiiS "
a lot to say about the cards, as ne m
variably has at least two OF his box
erS on every card.
The commission went far enough 70
bawl out the management of Madison
Square Garden for the poor quality OF
boxing that has been staged there
this season.
It was claimed in answer that the
management was doing its best to ge'
GOOD attractions but couldn't find the
material.
Some new faces would improve the
bouts in New York and please the
FANS immensely and there are plenty
of new faces available if the, clique
of New York managers would lose
their influence and make 1t possible
for an outsider to come into New YORK.
and make some money.