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Having for a generation applied himself with resource and concentration worthy of a more respectable cause, last week Michael Strauss Jacobs finally emerged at the pinnacle of the prizefight business. No one in the business was at all surprised, for the man who taught the late Tex Rickard more than one trick of the trade has for years been climbing the ladder of his chosen profession like a Horatio Alger hero...
Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued...
...business in pugilism means close co-operation between a heavyweight champion and his handlers on the one hand and a shrewd fight promoter on the other, like the partnership between Promoter Rickard and Champion Dempsey. Last week's fight was the first held for the heavyweight championship under other than Garden auspices since Dempsey won the title. To engage in it, because it promised greater profits. Champion Braddock and his manager had broken a Garden contract to fight German Max Schmeling...
...fighting Joe Louis will doubtless be for all challengers a similar contract with Promoter Jacobs, Louis' victory last week gave Promoter Jacobs a virtual monopoly on all really largescale pugilistic enterprises in the future, set up a new promoting partnership which may eventually make the biggest Dempsey-Rickard coups look like small beans. Confusion. When Max Schmeling last year surprisingly knocked out Joe Louis for the first time in his career, his just reward was obviously a fight with Champion Braddock. When after contracting for the fight, Champion Braddock withdrew to fight Challenger Louis, Challenger Schmeling lived...
Suing for divorce. Mrs. Maxine Rickard Dailey Gill, widow of late Fight Promoter Tex Rickard; from Thomas Gill, Chicago broker; in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty. After Promoter Rickard died in 1929, Mrs. Rickard married one Frank Dailey. He died and in 1936 she married Broker Gill...