Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-01

and foul fighting were made by b.
edly won and earned the victory
Willis made an excellent impression
in the early rounds of the battle. and
until the fourth round seemed to be
winning. He was fighting a systematic
battle. pumping steady and effective
rights to the wind, and varying occa-
sionally with leads to the head that
landed. All this time Flynn was work
ing alternately from the body in
clinches to swings to the head and jaw
at long range.
At the end of the fourth round the
score stood about even up, and the
remaining rounds had to decide the
issue. Flynn took the lead in the fifth
by a fair margin. and when the sixth
started he was quick to follow up what
ever advantage he held. He sailed
right out after Willis and began mix
ing it in true rough-house style, con-
fusing Willis with his quick and eff
fective swings to the head and jaw. He
fought Willis into his own corner and
closed in, putting over effective swings
to the jaw that staggered Willis. The
San Francisco husky was so unsteady
that he toppied, and Flynn, closing in
fast, fell with him. In few seconds
he repeated the trick.
When Willis went down the second
time in this round. he remained for a
portion of the count. When he arose
Flynn tore into him, and after a brief
exchange of blows, Flynn swung his
right flush to the jaw and Wills
sprawi5d backward and took the full
count being assisted to his feet after
ward
Flynn started the first round with
his usual rush and beat Willis into
a neutral corner, where they clinched
After several harmless stalls, Willis
began to play his right to Flynn's
wind and in clinches he worked this
right effectively Flynn used a right
uppercut at close quarters with good
effect and as they clinched Willis
whipped his right to wind again. The
first round was slightly in favor Of
Willis, whose clean hitting and in
fighting scored for him.
Willis went on the aggressive at the
beginning OF the second round and
they fought into a clinch. Breaking
away, Flynn hooked his right to the
Jaw and put Willis down, falling on
top of him. Both landed terrific rights
to head and began a fierce assault
with one arm free. Both were bleed
ing before the round was half finished.
This round was slightly in favor of
Flynn, but the total score was about
even up.
They came together with a rush at
the start of the third and both sue
ceeded in damaging each others fea-
lures with stiff uppercuts and swings
to the head and face. They fought
like a pair of wild goats through the
round, diving in head first and clinch-
ing with lefts, while they swung rights
hard to wind and head. The round
was about even.
Willis began in savage manner as
they met for the fourth, and after go
ing into a clinch he sank his right
hard into Jim's wind with much ef-
feet. Flynn threw his right hard to
the head and Willis countered with
right uppercut to jaw. They fought
to the mat in a clinch and Flynn
scored hard right uppercut to jaw.
Willis retaliated with terrific swings
to wind. Willis drove Flynn to the
ropes with right swings to wind and
uppercuts to jaw.
The fifth round was another session
of terrific mauling and alternating ad-
vantage. Flynn continued to work his
uppercuts to jaw and right swings to
head, while Willis pumped rights regu-
larly to his wind, both holding in
clinch with one arm. Flynn did the
more effective work in this round.
Flynn scored another knOckdown,
the sixth round opened. He fought
Willis into his own corner and deliv-
cred several right and left swings to
the head and as Willis tumbled, Flynn
was on top of him. He repeated this
knockdown a few seconds later, neith-
er knockdoWn being clean cut They
met in headon collision on the west
side OF the ring and exchanged a few
wallops, Flynn being the more effec-
lis started to back away Flynn caught
him with full right swing to the jaw.
Willis fell spraWling on his back and
remained motionless until after counted
out.
After the fight, Willis remained in
the ring, gathering his wits, for sew
eral minutes. Then he made a state-
ment in which he complained Of foul
fighting by Flynn and exhibited a
dented cup which he wore. which he
said proved that Flynn had hit him
low and jumped on him as he fell,
causing painful injury. Replying to
this, Flynn said that he could prove
that the cup is an old one that Willis
had worn into the ring dented as IL
was after the fight.
Livermore Wins Opener
The preliminaries were UP to the
usual standard Of excellence and gave
the crowd plenty of amusement and
excitement preceding the big doings.
The opening card was scheduled as
four-round bout between Dan Cullen
and Joe Livermore and was started
promptly on time. The first round was
slightly in favor of LiVermore, although
Cullen started out like he would win
IN jig time. Becoming careless after
the round was half finished he stepped
In the way Of a Wild haymaker and
nearly went down. He was unsteady