Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-10-31
MARKSSUFFERS
WHEN MANAGER
GETS in HURRY
Corbett Declares Canadian
Lightweight Pushed
Too Fast.
BY M j. 3

Copyright, 1872, by King Feature service
The greatest asset d young fighter
can have is a brainy, heady manager;
the most terrific handicap is a mana
ger who becomes too enthusiastic
about him and tries to send him along
too fast.
No better illustration of this can be
shown than in the case of Sid Marks,
the Canadian lightweight. He sized up
d few weeks ago as one of the great
est lightweight prospects the game
has produced in a long time. But to-
day-well, what a vast difference two
or three weeks and pop-eyed manage
ment has made in his particular case.
Marks can hit with pile-driver force.
When he lands, something drops. He
has slowed away many, many men
with one or two punches from his
powerful fists. And because he did
that. it made his managers conclude
that Marks was a world beaten. They
forgot entirely, because of their en-
tkusiasm concerning him, that Marks
was q novice and that his entire ca
reer might be ruined if he were rush
ed along too hurriedly.
Easy K%nockouts
They sent him against Bobby Bar
rett of Philadelphia-apd Marks won
with a knockout. Then they matched
him with Willie Jackson. And Marks
pounded Willie into a near pulp. Be
cause he whipped Jackson, the Marks
handlers thought that he was a world
beater.
But Mey forgot that the Jackson
which Marks whipped wasn't the Willie
Jackson of a year ago. Jackson has
slipped tremendously through the year.
He never fully recovered from the
beating Charlie White gave him. He
was but a shadow of his former self,
in the matter of greatness.
Yet the Marks people didn't think
of that-they only remembered that
he had beaten Jackson. So, in their
eagerness to shoot him along, they
matched him with Charlie White. What
a terrible thing that wast
White Dangerous Vet
White is one of the real veterans OF
the prize ring. He has been fighting
something like Is years and there is
little about the trickery of the game
that he doesn't know. He's old, as
certain ringmen go, but White. like
wine, seem to grow better with age;
And. on top of that, White is one OF
the most terrific hitters the 1875 pound
division ever knew.
3 So there was the match.
White. Il seasoned veteran. crafty
ringman. with dynamite in his left
hand, against a comparative novice
who had little more than a punch to
recommend him.
1T wasn't a fight.
White simply waited back for the
youngster-and got him in the second.
The kid helped to beat himself sim
ply because of stage fright or a Ger
tain fear which he never would have
known il he hadn't been confronted
by so formidable a foe SO early In his
career.
Down Goes Marks
Having Numbered by sending Marks
against White. which fight ended with
Marks on the floor, dead IN the second
round. they made another blunder.
Three nights later they permitted
Marks TO go IN against the fast. clev-
er and terrific hitting Joe Tiplitz.
They gave Marks no time whatever to
recover from the body smashing which
White had dealt out to him, nor to
recover from the crushing smash
which White landed on his chin.
And Marks was knocked III BY lip
litz almost before the echo of the flrst
round bell had died away.
There should be a lesson for other
managers and other young fighters IN
what happened to Sid Marks, a les
son which, if learned, will save many
a y~oungster, with native greatness
from being ruined at the outset OF his
| career. It's an all right thing for
manager to send a young fighter along
! as speedily as he can-but its SUI
| cidaI to match a comparative Hedging
| with a seasoned warrior.
ElYWElGHT CHAMP WINS