Hymie Caplin
Hymie Caplin was a colorful and popular New York-based boxing manager known as "Howling Hymie." Like Ray Arcel and Jack Hurley, Caplin lived with his fighters around the clock when they were in training while simultaneously managing their business affairs. He proved extremely effective in both regards. During a ten year span he steered five fighters to world championships. Some of the boxers in his stable included:
- Solly Krieger
- Ben Jeby
- Lew Jenkins
- Al Singer
- Lou Salica
- Sid Terris
- Allie Stolz
- Abe Feldman
- Herbie Katz
- Leo Rodak
"Veterans of the boxing game concede to a man that Hymie Caplin ... rates as one of the greatest as a tutor of boxing and training. That always obliging, much quoted saga of fistiana, our unfailing friend, Dumb Dan Morgan, is even more vocal than usual on the subject of Hymie as a boxing Svengali. "I call Hymie Caplin the best of the modern boxing teachers," stoutly declares Mr. Morgan. "Look what the guy has done. He took Ben Jeby, who never figured to get out of the preliminaries, and brought him along to the title. Jenkins was nothing but a guy fighting for eating money who had been licked by everybody in Texas, and look what Hymie did with him. Solly Krieger was a grandfather, as fighters go, when Hymie took him over, and the first thing you know the guy was champion of the world. He did the same thing with Lou Salica, who looked all washed up two years ago.
Hymie used to always say, 'I know what to show my fighters.' I don't know what it is but it must be all right."
Dan's audience nodded read assent to the words of the authority, indeed there was nothing else for them to do, for the records prove convincingly that Caplin is one modern who belongs in any company when it comes to teaching the fine art of fisticuffs." --Ted Carroll, The Ring (May 1941)
