HEENEY’S FOLLOWERS GET BIG “CUT” OUT OF MAORILANDER’S RING EARNINGS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 429, 10 August 1928, Page 10

HEENEY’S FOLLOWERS GET BIG “CUT” OUT OF MAORILANDER’S RING EARNINGS

fP'HE retirement of Gene | Tunney, and Tom i Heeney’s impending depart- | ure for New Zealand, directs I attention to the earnings i of the champion and the challenger in the past few years. Tunney goes out with £500,000 to his credit. I The biggest “cut” Tunney received from any one fight was the £198,000 paid over to him after his return bout with Dempsey last September. _ Heeney has earned £51,000 since he landed in America last year in w r hat one of his genial Irish friends describes as “a state of chronic impecuniosity.” The cant part of the cabled message dealing with Tom s ■ earnings is that “he has managed to save about | half.” It doesn’t mean that Tom has been throwing njs i money about, but simply that a boxer has got to pay heavily for a •’board o | management,” and a retinu I of camp followers, trainers, etc., all of whom had to get their ‘cut” of the SZ I - s ®? | which Rickard handed oter . to Heeney after the Big fight. However. Tom 18 today worth about £ -='°®®: which isn't bad for a . ® 8 . . who landed in America last fall unknown as a boxer, and just about at the end l of his resources financially.