Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-11
i'm FLYNN IS NOT
| SUCH AN EASY MARK
Heavyweight Who Bested
Langford Has Shown
Marked Improvement.

NEW YORK, February 11-Jim Flynn,
the Pueblo fireman who has jumped into
the limeight by showing an advantage
over Sam Langford i'm ten-round bout
at Los Angeles, is not an easy mark by
any means, even though Langford
slowed him away In less than one round
a year ago last December. On that oc-
casion Langford was in splendid physical
condition and with the quickness of a
cat he caught Flynn off his guard, a
heavy right-hand hook on the jaw fin
ishing the job before the fireman knew
what to make of it all. Some said at
the ringside that Flynn was the victim of
a lucky punch. while others expressed the
opinion that he was suffering from stage
fright. But since that memorable COL
lapse the Pueblo man has evidently i'm
proved in ring tactics and in confidence.
for his showing against Langford the
other night indicated both Of these nes-
essary qualities
ural fighting instinct and a fair amount
of cleverness, attracted some attention
in July. 1905. when he boxed fifteen
round draw with Jack ('Twin) Sullivan
at Pueblo. He did so we'll in that affair
that he was matched with Tommy Burns,
who met him at Frisco in October CT the
same year. Flynn put up a hard fight,
but Burns finally knocked him out in
the fifteenth round. Nothing daunted,
Flynn got another fight with Jack Twin
Sullivan. They came together at Los
Angeles in January, 1907. and Flynn got a
decision in a strenuous twenty-round bat
tie. month later they met again at
the same place under the same conditions
and the decision was a draw.
Flynn with increasing confidence went
after Jack Johnson, who was then re-
earded as a promising heavyweight, and
in November, 1907, at Colma they hooked
up In fierce ring duel Johnson had to
do his best, and in the eleventh round he
stopped the Pueblo man with right
hand uppercut on the chin. Another fight
with Jack Twin Sullivan followed two
months later, Flynn standing him off in
a ten-round no-decision affair at Los
Angeles. Flynn and Jim Barry fought a
ten-round draw at Denver in July, 1873,
and in August the same year the fireman
tackled Al Kaufman at Los Angeles.
This was fierce encounter, Flynn max
ing things hum for a while. but in the
ninth round Kaufman knocked him cold
with a stomach punch and wallop on the
jugular. Another ten-round draw with
Barry was Flynns next fight and it
took place at Los Angeles in November Of
that year-a month before Kaufman stop
ped Barry in thirty nine rounds at the
same battle-ground.
LangfOrd's one-round victory over
Flynn fits in here. but it didn't discour-
age the fireman much, it would seem, for
in March, 1909, he met Bill Papke in
ten-round bout at Los Angeles. Papke,
a terrific puncher, could not put Flynn
out, SO he demanded another contest
which took place in July. This time
Flynn held his own SO well that Papke's
stock slumped trifie. Then Flynn box
ed six rounds to a draw with Philadelphia
Jack O'Brien in Denver two weeks later
and took pretty good care not to rough
house the ancient Quaker. Altogether 1t
may be seen that Flynn is a pretty fair
sort of a heavyweight, and in a ten
round bout with friendly referee he is
able to make it hot for almost anybody.
AS he managed to stay ten rounds with
Tommy Burns. Jack Johnson and Papke.
there is no reason to consider Langford
back number because of his failure to
put Flynn away again in jig time.