Argosy All-Story Weekly, Vol. 146 No. 4 — page 168: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

IZZY KAPLAN’S KOL UMN Received via W. O. McGEEHAN THE GATE RECEIPTS OT since the time when Izzy Kaplan had been mistaken for an umpire by an enthusiastic fan with a pop bottle had McGeehan seen his partner so upset as when, one night when the telegraph instrument had just clicked up the story of a fight, Izzy came stamping into the newspaper office. His eyes blazed fire, his teeth gleamed nungrily, his hands clawed the air. Jt was not that Izzy had picked, the wrong man to win. Izzy is too much of an expert to let details bother him. What made Izzy froth was that as he approached the Garden a small, dark stranger had darted from one of the pillars, grabbed him by the buttonhole, and tried to sell him, Izzy Kaplan, a ticket to the fight. For twenty minutes McGeehan abandoned his role of silent partner to assure Izzy that he did not look like the kind of person who pays to get into anything. At the end of that time Izzy was sufficiently coherent te give to the world his views on The Gate Receipts —THE Eprror. biggest feller which ever was in sports. I am sorry that I couldn't mention the name on account I don’t know it, but the feller, in my opinion, which he done it the biggest thing for sports, was the feller which inwentioned gate reseats. Gate reseats is what the customers pay to see the show, and if there wasn’t no gate reseats the sporting business would be practically nothing at all. I was esking Benneh Leonard, which me and him is chust like that, if he would be in the box fighting business if there was no gate reseats, and he answered me pretty quick: “ Izzy, I am surprised that you should think I was such a rotten busi- etsy ness man.” And so it is with all of them sporting fellers like _ Chack Dempsey and Baby Ruthstein. If there was no gate reseats them fellers wits aa = Sie is the sane vay wi could get it a chob somewhere. A FELLER writing into me is esking me who I would consider the