The San Francisco call., 1910-03-18
.LANGfORD KNOCKS
TIE FIREMAN OUT
Lands Sleep Producer in Eighth
Round as Flynn TOfferS
From Missed Blow

LOS ANGELES, March 17.-Sam
Langford, Bostons wonderful colored
fighter, did away with Jim Flynn, the
Pueblo fireman, in the last half of the
eighth round of fight that was sched-
uled to go As rounds at the old Jeffries
arena here today. The knockout was
not clean one. the uppercut which
Langford delivered with his left hand
merely accelerating FIynn's fall after
he had missed right swing at Lang
ford's jaw and lost his balance.
Flynn fell prone on the mat with
his arms extended and, striking first
with his jaw, he dislocated it. for the
whole weight of his body was in the
fall Referee Charles Eyton counted
the fireman out before even Flynn.s
seconds were able to realize just wha L
had happened, and the badly punished
fighter, staggering to his feet, his legs
tottering and his senses reeling, made
feeble efforts to fight again, though
the opponent he saw through his half
shut eyes was imaginary. LanSford
had retired to his corner, smiling over
his victory.
Flynn;s chances of winning were
dimmed in the first round, when Lang
clinch, delivered a right swing to the
fireman's left cheek The blow opened
cash and started the blood flowing.
Again before the first round was ended
Langford found Flynns face with his
right, and in the almost continual
clinching he frequently brought both
gloves to Flynns face and neck. The
round was easily Langford's and it was
apparent that only miracle could
make Flynn the winner of the fight.
With his face cut and swollen, bleed
ing from the nose and mouth, and ap-
parently weakened in body and spirit
by the terrific blows that the colored
wonder drove to his face and body,
Flynn bravely fought through six
more rounds, and came up for the
eighth still determined to keep the
colored man close to him. He had
hugged Langford throughout all of the
previous rounds and smothered many
fierce and well intended blow, but now
he was too weak and dazed to keep
up the uneven struggle.
In those other seven rounds he had
prevented the colored demon who so
terribly harassed him from setting
himself for a final knockout blow by
rushing in whenever he found his
arms free and butting his head up
against his opponents chin. But to-
ward the end Langford had him at his
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jabs TO the face and swings with left
and right to the body. When the
round was little more than half gone,
and it was apparent that Flynn was
not able to fight much longer, Lang
ford leaped back with panther like
agility and that instant prepared to
swing his right to F'lynn's jaw. Flynn
made his last desperate effort then,
and when the blow he sent out with
his right failed to find it's destination
his body followed it. Langford's left
hand shot like a streak of lightning
to F'lynns jaw, but it was not so much
from the force of the blow as from the
momentum of his body that Flynn
went down to his end.
In the third round Flynn had fallen
TO his knees in much the same way
when Langford stepped aside from
right swing that Flynn had intended
for the ebony jaw. Flynn was down
for seven seconds and big bruise ap-
peared on each of his knees.
In the fifth round Flynn poked his
left hand into Langford's face and
opened a cash over his eye, which bled
profusely The crowd cheered the
white fighter wildly. Langford was
dancing about in this round, evidently
trying to get Flynn to swing and open
his guard. but the fireman was eau
tious and preferred to elinch.
The end of the seventh found the
fighters in a fierce mixup and Flynn
delivered a vicious swing after the
gong had sounded. which caught the
colored man on the neck. Dangford
only shook his head and let it go at
that.
A crowd that jammed the Jeffries
arena and was estimated at 10000 saw
the contest and the preliminary bouts.
In one of these All Rogers so Sc
verely punished Young Kenny that the
referee stopped it in the third round.
In the other frankie Sullivan
knocked out Kid Cleveland in the sec
ond round of what was to have been
10 round go.