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FEW BOXERSSAVE MONEYth.« «ff*ct tb*t b# recoup'd ,B ***** part bis lovMt tl cirdi.It imd ta ta the jfMiMil oplrto* tbti JluUlin* Nulioa hw rid blMHff of much of the mow tbht h« »*u paid by the promote ri, by wtwlof picture concern ud tbeulrlcul «*»-agen.Indeed, if tie Better b« tn/tttng It 1h a aafo bet lb u he 1§ lum* poor.Ho waa always a speculator more than an investor, and hlfl tpeculattoiis have never boon of the beet, at *it-neas the roko cane, fur which claptrap he paid $15,POO ami found it waa practically worthieie.Hln law! purchase* have tieo been anything but profitable, and it haa Just corae to light thut the Battler always considered hlmaelf aonwthini of a poker player.Nelaon Hat Monty.“Whwu tba Battler and 1 split ieM Billy Nolan. '*1 am quite euro he waa worth from |7n.0f» lu $100,000 and had lt;tulte a nupply or ready eaah. What has happened to him since :bat time I don't ksow. 1 do know that he liked to play poker, which will probably Burprlae you, and be loit a lot of coin that way.”Jim Jeffries la comfortably fixed, and lis kb loon in Us Angolan, now own»A hr .Wfriet; and hlw brother, is a email mint. Before the Johneo® light, which brought Jefirlm tomc-thlng like $100,000. 11 Is said lie was in flQftUcial etrelta. asd not on*y lacked ready money, but was hard up.That fight, whatever !t may have mane to hie pride, put him on hia feet, from a buslnens point of view, and aloce then he has been able to loan out large mime. But Jeffries cannot be considered a fair example of n fighter, as he la In reality out of that game altogether.Stanley Ketchel ran through sfor-tune ami left little or nothing, except a mortgaged ranch, when ho carae to an untimely end. Ketchel was never much of a gambler, but he spent money like the wind, and his predilection for automobillng lwst have cost him a pretty penny; also ho leaned money to almost any one who approached him.What Is the reason, yon ask, that fighters with such large incomes should go broke? *The answer is chlefiy because they are In no sense of tbs word bUBlneasi men. They don’t know whal it Is toj same money or how to Invent it. Uen-1 ally they have never had much money,’ and when' it comos io large Hinounts it is altogether loo much for (hem. Then they proceed to spend it as if they were millionaires, and the consequence is that they are living from one fight, to mother. Tbeir life—that of the sport, with plenty of time nnfl a world of hangers-on— Is to anmn extent responsible. At all even’s, the fighter who enn save hla money is an exception.And the only exception writers can call to mind are Mtko and Jack (Twin) Sullivan. Jimmy Britt, PackerQuito au interesting convention was . McFarland and Jofcnny Ktlbane. started the other day ns nwsnvil* lo, finances or various modern riniislcra. j snoHt of wbon; have cleaned up hand- j comely in their flsllc encounter*, and •It was surprising to hear Ibe gossip' of this man or ihat one who apparently hasn’t much of this world s goods ax he was supposed to have !r« his possession.Champion Light w?isht au Wolgart. for inataiice. Is commonly supposed! to he financially strong, hut according to no lean Information than t’romoter Turn McCnroy. Ad hod no more than $gnyAftO prior to Ida bout with Joe HIvors Is Vernon. Cnl. Jiily i. Or Ibis n portion whs invested In beach properly near i/os Angeles find Borae in u farm at Gudilins, Mich.It doeen’t surprise mo in Ihej least, enld one man tn whom this;Morv was told. “In fad, 1 had heard]’ long before the. July bout Ihat Woi-j goat and Jon** were proliy nearly | broke, which might account Tor Tom Jones going to work for Jeffries after Wolgast’s operation for appendicitis.Wolgust bn* aV.vaj’H been more or less of n gambler nml a speculator, and in n nirc. quiet, way be likes to frt nut and have a lime. . .Wolgafit h*’.B not alone bet on mr own lmutF. but he has been known in wager largo sums *?n other matches.That hclna Into, it stands to retiRon ; that lie might make wagers on oilier propositions. nnn a gambler 1b up t«-d»y and down tomorrow.Abe AUeil’? repntnriou as a card player has been so thoroughly eatab-; IIshed that. It needs no comment. Abe , has always been midlcled to gambling 1 utui bus won and lost many fortunes •In Ms day, all hough since he has gone under the management at Billy . Nolan lie has cut loose from that sort of life.j It can't be said, however, that the j former fenlhcrwelcht champion of the I world is plentifully endowed with | money, as ho Is u good liver and when i hr lost the title was fihpni up to the i limit, although there was a story to
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Ogden City Evening Standard
Ogden, Utah, US
Sat, Oct 12, 1912
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