The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-27
Champion
CasheS In
On Tour
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

Among the interesting peo-
pie I encountered on a slight
swing through Florida was
Little Joe Gould, the wee man
behind Big Jim Braddock,
who, with the Large Lew Dia-
mond, are on tour of the him
terland, picking up around
$4,000 a week exhibiting, with
Jack Mccarthy taking the
punching bag role.
Little Joe is what you might
call a half-pint manager. That is
to say he can't be much more
than a featherweight in avoirdu-
pois, but he'd balance the mental
scales as a good, big heavy
weight, particularly when you
analyze his business acumen, in
connection with the fact he
unanswered into the world cham
pionship a fighter, who, to all
intents and purposes, was quite
washed up.
Tour Big Success
The twain, Little Joe and Big
Jim, with the kindly conniving
of Large Lew Diamond and Jack
Mccarthy, were packing them in
throughout their Dixie meander-
ings, making as many as five
appearances a week up to last
Friday night at Tampa where
there wasn't room enough to
wedge all the curious inside the
arena walls.
1t was the same story in Sara
sofa, earlier in the week where
our own Nick Altrock refereed the
three-round workout. That is all
it amounted to. In st. Peters
burg and Orlando the crowds also
foregathered in copiouS quanti-
ties for the opportunity OF wit
Messing the world champion IN a
working mood.
Little Joe Gould pointed to the
popularity of Big Jim on his
southern swing as standing IN
rare contrast to the fact that
over a month ago when Joe Louis
took to he sticks, his exhibition
tour wa short lived because OF
poor turnoutS.
This week Joe and Jim are va
cationing in Miami, after Wnlcn
they will pack their duttle bags
and fare forth into virgin terri
tory in so far as Jim's having cast
a shadow thereover, is concerned.
$4,000 at Least Weekly
7 was impudent enough to IN
onire of Little Joe whether the
financial returns were in keeping
with the labor, and he kind OF
looked at me as though ne
thought the tropical heat hao
possibly "teched" me a bit.
Glow many fighters and
their managers are picking up
a minimum of $4,000 per week
these days?" Little Joe par
ried.
"That's the least we've made
so far and we've been on tne
road since just after the llFS'
of the year" :.
Large Lew Diamond, Wlo 10
the advance man, yes-man ana
general factotum of the troupe
crabs a $500 guarantee on sign
ing for the Acknowledgements,
nine.minute show with the local
promoters, inserting clause III
the contract that they snail naVe
a privilege of so per cent OF tne
Thev have vet to pull down less
than 81 900 for their end and IN
several of the larger cities it has
swarmed to sometimes double
that amount. H..
little Joe Gould tells me that
for 10 of the II years ne mas
been managing Big Jim, tnere
has been no contract between
them, He mentioned this item
to impress me with the trusting
nature of the big Jersey IRISH
Offered Human Security
lust before the Baer-BraddocK
fight Little Joe was called before
the New York boxing bigwlgs ana
asked for look at his contracV
with Braddock, as we'll as for a
$4,000 appearance guarantee as
against Braddock's showing up IN
the ring to face Baer.
Informed they held no contract,
Little Joe was forced to execute
one. and as for the $4,000 appear.
ance guarantee, why, the firm OF
Gould and Braddock simply didn't
have it, what with Big Jim fresh
off the docks and all the little
Braddocks ragged and hungry.
''But I'll tell yOu," Little Joe
assured the commission, "I'm
Just so sure that Jim will show
up for the Baer fight, that I'll
leave him here with you for col
lateral"
Well, that isn't exactly the way
a boxing commission operates, but
in face of the facts that tickets
already had been sold and the
ballyhoo was already steaming
strong, there was nothing else to
do except assume Braddock would