San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-28
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Hertz Richest Manager.
Once Handled Yanger.
Daddy of Yellow Taxi.
Brady and Sam Harris.
Kearns Is Well Fixed.
BY Damon Runyon :
Copyright, 1925. International Feature
Service, Inc.)

One of my correspondents askes:
what is the richest man ever con-
nectcd with what you call The Manly
Art of Scrambling Ears, as a boxer,
or as a manager?"
The answer is easy. He is John
D. Hertz, of Chicago. once familiar
ly known as johnny. and as the man
ager of Benny Yanger, who was call
cd the Upton Slasher.
They got this nickname for Yam
ger out of the books. The original
Upton Slasher was a heavyweight
who lived many years ago. He was
William Perry, and he was born at
Upton, in England. There was no
good reason for calling Yanger the
Upton Slasher.
Yauger. who still lives in Chicago,
is an Italian, born in New York
City. He was one of the best feather
contemporaneous with such as Kid
Broad, Young Corbett, Tim Callahan,
Aurelio Herrera. George Dixon. Joe
Bernstein, Abe Attell, Clarence Eng
lish and Harry Forbes.
He was a great fighter at his
best. He once stopped Abe Attell
in nineteen rounds of n tremendous
battle in st. Louis. He was not
champion, but he could lick most of
the fellows that thought they were
champions. And he had a good man
ager.
The most familiar street sight in
Chicago today is the yellow taxicab.
You see them elsewhere, TO be sure,
but Chicago has had them for years.
and they seem to multiply like guinea
pigs.
/ am willing to wager that YOU
cannot stand on any street corner
within the corporate limits of the
city of Chicago ten minutes without
seeing a yellow taXicab.
John ID. Hertz. former manager OF
Benny Yanger, is the father of the
yellow taxicab. He has many other
interests now. and is accounted one
of the wealthiest men in the Middle
West. but this fortune was founded
on the Illuminated taxi. There is no
doubt that Hertz is far and away
the richest man ever connected with
the boxing game in any capacity.
Bill Brady Of New York. who
managed two worlds heavyweight
champions and is the only man who
holds that distinction, is undoubted-
" wealthy man. He made his
money in the theatrical business. but
he is probably not in Hertz's class
in the matter of wealth. though he
may have been a better manager. lie
| had better men to manage.
Sam X. Harris is another theatrlc'
nj wealthy man who was formerly
identified with the Manly Art OF
Scrambling Ears as a manager. Har
| ris was a great manager, too-ont
of the best the game has ever known
He handled Terry McGovern. tht
Brooklyn Terror, and he made few
mistakes with McGovern. Harris alst
had a heavyweight. Stockings Con
roy. but Stockings wasn't much Of {
fighter.
Maxey Blumenthal. a well known
New York boolmaker. is rateC
wealthy, and at one time he managed
Al Reich. the Gotham Adonis.
heavyweight who should have beef
heavyweight champion of the world.
Reich had everything. except on
rather important essential-stamina
He couldn't take a punch. Blumen
thai handled Reich largely as mat
ter of amusement. He did not follow
the game as business for any lengtl
of time. Hertz, Harris and Brad!
did.
However. I fear I cannot offel
much encouragement to would-bt
managers beyond these shining ex
amples. The average former man
ager is broke. So are many of the
present managers. You name Jacl
Kearns, Leo p. Flynn, and one OIL
two others as having money, and yor
about exhaust the list.
Hertz. Harris and Brady would un
doubtedly have made fortunes if they
had never been connected with The
Manly Art of ScraWbling Ears. Per
haps they would have attained richie:
even more rapidly than they did haC
they not wasted time with boxing.
Tom Jones, probably the only mar
that ever had three worlds cham
pions, wound up with his little exper
fences practically broke.
u-sa-s