The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01
BY JACK CUDDY United Press Stan Corresponds

United Press Stan Correspondent
 New York, Sept. 1. (uP)-Imagine an advertisement reading; "Wanted A youngster between IS and i7. who has little chance of getting R college education; but who has . good body and would like to make a million dollars before he is 90, All he has to do is toss leather-intel- ligently,"
 We'll, such an nd actually would be an under statement of the op- portunitles for teen.age kids who are Sprouting up today on farms. in logging camps, mining camps md in cit!es-kids who could be- come fighters.
 The kids of today who move Into professional boxing in intelligent. businesS-like fashion will make for. tunes. We mean the kids who fight their way Into strataS above the crowd. Because the biggest pots of gold in the history of sports will bo waiting there at the end of their rainbowg-or rain blows,
 This is true because boxing is the sport of the future. After the war there will be c tremendous boom in boxing, what with the return of II or i2 million men to civilian life most of whom have become more interested in leather. tossing during their period of service than In any other sport.
 That's looking at boxing merely from the angle of enthusiasm: but from the slant of cold cash 1t should be emphasized that the beltsand- block sport already has proved tops In CD radio and (2) televiSion.
 The fight game long has proved the most lucrative of oil sports for the men who made good in it. For example, Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey made far more money than did Babe Ruth, Red Grange. or even Jockey Johnny Longden. True, Sonia Henie did mighty well with her skates, but 1t was after she quit competition and went in for en- tertainment-iee shows and motion pictures. But for top performers in competition, boxing for years has paid of best.
 Radio has brought new life to boxing. It enables the promoters to give the fighters much larger cuts of the net gate than in the past. Advertising agencies agree that boxing is the perfect sport for airing. That's one reason why Mike Jacobs begins week from tonight promoting fight c week for e solid year for safety razor company. However, radio will be but Q trickle In tho pail compared to the mill lions of dollars that will be involved in televising important bouts.
 During the past few years of OK. pertinent 1t has been discovered naturally that boxing Is Q perfect sport for television-a departure that will blossom magnifcently in the post-war era-a deveIopment that will "pipe" important bouts from the ringside Into 1000 or 5000 theaters and halls. And the customers ct those television pipe ends will pay from @ to e6 to wit- ness c bout aB 1t occurs. The 9i,s 100000 gate will jump to 90 or 10 million, with the fighters getting their cuts.
 There's fabulous future wealth in boxing gloves for the teen.age kids of today who will take the fight game seriously-wlio iwIl learn the rudiments as If beginning on types writer or plano--Who will spend hours in the gymnasium each day (not going through training ges- lures for Tninutes), and who will hit the road at dawn. Such kids can take advantage Of the isnagiil- ary advsgtisamant ".anticnee Dbove.