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Frank Marlow. By WILLIAM RITT Central Press Sports Editor EW YORK, June 30—Gang- Nater guns, spitting the venom of death on a Long Island road, put an end to the career of a man who might have been one of the biggest sport figures in America if he had only stuck to the game. But Frank Marlow, dead Broad way night club owner, didn't stick. Blessed with the Midas touch which comes to some in the fight racket, Marlow gave up active connection with the ring for other enterprises. Marlow had a fight fortune in his hands—and threw it away. He pos sessed the contract of a rising young Canadian boxer named Ovila Chap delaine, now known to the ring sport as Jack Delaney. When Marlow had Delaney, Jack was a comer. He looked like the real stuff. However (friends now say that Marlow disliked Delaney) in an impulsive moment he sold Jack's contract. Later Delaney fought his way to the light heavyweight champion ship of the world and a round, fat fortune, a good share of which would have gone to Marlow had he stuck. It isn't too much to speculate that had Marlow held his Delaney contract and branched out in the fifth sport he might easily have become one of the most powerful men in the game. The ring racket rewards lavishly those who have the rare combination of luck and nerve and Marlow had plenty of both. Marlow also managed, at one time, Johnny Wilson, who was mid dleweight champion of the world. Few of even the smartest of fight managers ever have the chance tat Marlow had and tossed aside: the good fortune of managing two world's ring champions. Wilson incidentally, remained a pal of Marlow’s after Johnny’s ring days had ended. However, Marlow’s early good fortune in pugilism hardly compar ed with the great luck he experienc ed on the turf. He broke into sport prominence with a racing stable which promptly proceeded to earn a fine fortune for him. It was said by the boys who were close to Marlow that in one season at Saratoga he cleaned up $900,000 by betting on his stable. That fleet little mare, Anne Marrone, was the ace wag of his outfit, usually racing home to win when Marlow had a huge sum on her nose. His bets are said to have often totaled $50,000 in one day. But all that dough went back to the bookies where it came from. Some of Marlow's money gained from other sources than the track went with it and when he was killed the papers announced a g ood he was MARLOW ONCE RACE. FIGHT FIGURE Frank Marlow, Broadway night club figure whose bullet-riddled body was found on a road near Flushing, L. I., was once an outstanding figure in sports. Marlow, above, once held the contract of Jack Delaney, former light heavyweight champion, and also managed Johnny Wilson, former middleweight champion. Marlow was also a well-known race track plunger and won and lost fortunes with a stable of horses he owned.
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Somerset Daily Herald
Somerset, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Jul 01, 1929
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