The Cordova daily times., 1922-06-20
By LEO P. FLYNN, Manager of the Largest Stable of Fighters in America.

Fighters in America.
 NEW YORK, June 19-Those unfa- miliar with the intracacies of ring affairs has no idea that all fight man. agers do most of their business in haphazard fashion-and on the cuff Perhaps some do follow that system, but in my own particular case, l oper' ate in the same way as does a big commercial concern.
 Mine is an office, neat but not gaudy; it's fairly well peopled with clerks, stenographers, multigraphing machines, addressographs and all those trick appliances. Likewise it has a file system which embraces the complete up-to-date record of every fighter, fight manager, fight promoter and fight club in the world
 My exchange list of newspapers per haps is as great as that of any news paper itself. One man is employed in my office to clip every item which con- cerns fights and fighters. Likewise he handles the card index. By it's use I can get at moments notice the full history of every man; names of men he has fought, result of battles, number of knockdowns, strength and weakness of each fighter-everything
 SYSTEM IS GREAT AID
 The system is of invaluable aid. It has helped me a hundred times in making matches for men. By it's use I am guarded against bad matching.
 decided upon that index soon after l became a fight manager A sad ex- perience brought about that determine tion.
 I had coraled a rather promising youngster, who, however, was still somewhat "green" and needed season. ing. 1 was offered a fight for him against a youngster that hadn't heard anything about-simply because l hadn't been paying much attention to that particular youngsters records, I thought he was dub, too. But that stranger knocked out my boy in two rounds and practically ruined his ca reer.
 If I had been reading the papers and looking up all available records I would have discovered that the boy who fought mine had risen from ob- scurity to greatness overnight; that he was a punching terror and had beaten some truly great fighters with in a period of three months before he met my novice And then, of course, would have dodged the unfair match.
 NO MORE "NAPPING"
 They haven't caught me mapping since. When fight is offered one of my boys I turn to my card index and can tell at glance just how good or bad, the challenger is. A half minutes study of the card which bears his name tells be all there is to know about him. I need look no further.
 The chief duty of my life is to keep my boys happy-Which means keeping them busy earning money. How well I've succeeded I couldn't say definite ly without looking at my records. But I don't think it's any stretch of facts to state that the fighters under my management have earned close to Sl,- 100000 in little more than two years.
 And, mind you, I haven't worlds champion in my barn.
 Bill Brennan, the heavyweight, gathered in nearly $70,0OO in six or seven months; Dave Shade, nineteen years old, the kid who fought a draw with Jack Britton, has gathered in close to $5O,000 since February. "Pana- ma" Joe Cans, who earned an average of $1,5O0 a year, bought a Sl5,0Oo house and has plenty of money in the bank. He's been with me only lit tie more than year.
 NORFOLK ON EASY STREET"
 .'Kid" Norfolk the negro light-heavy, could retire now and not worry much about pork chops during the rest of his life. Billy Shade hasn't performed as sensationally in America as he did in Australia. And he hasn't fought so often. Yet Billy has gathered in about twice as much under my management as he did before.
 Pete Hobin, the Belgian welter- weight, was in America three months ago and couldn't get a fight. He asked me to manage him two months ago. Since then he has made $5,000 and looks like a sure earner of $15,O00 to