The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-18
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Easy Winner

LOS ANGELES, March 1S.-Sam
Langford, Boston's wonderful colored
fighter, did away with Jim Flynn, the
Pueblo fireman, in the last half OF
the eighth round of a fight that was
scheduled to go As rounds at the old
Jeffries arena yesterday. The knockout
was not a clean one, the uppercut
which Langford delivered with his left
hand merely accelarating Flynn's fall
after he had missed a right swing at
Langfords jaw and lost his balance.
Flynn fell with his arms extended,
striking on his jaw and dislocating it.
Referee Charles Eyton counted the
fireman out before even Flynn's sec
onds were able to realize just what
had happened, and the badly punished
fighter, staggering to his feet, his legs
lettering and his senses Keeling, made
feeble efforts to fight again, though
the opponent he saw through his half
shut eyes was imaginary. Langford
had retired to his corner, smiling over
his victory and proud of his green
trunks.
Chances Are Dimmed.
Flynn's chances of winning were
dimmed in the first round when Lang
ford, breaking away from the first
clinch, delivered right swing to the
fireman's left cheek. The blow opened
a cash and started the blood flowing.
Again before the first round was ended
Langford found Flynn's face with his
right and in the almost continual elm
ching he frequently brought both
gloves to F1ynn's face and neck. The
round was easily Langford's and it was
apparent that something little less than
miracle could make Flynn the WIN
ner of the fight
With his face cut and swollen, bleed
ing from the nose and mouth, and
apparently weakened in body and spir-
it by terrific blows that the colored
wonder drove to his face and body,
Flynn brayely fought through six
mora rounds, and came up for the
eighth still determined to keep the col
ored man close to him. He had hug
ged Langford throughout all of the
previous rounds and smothered away
a fierce and we'll intended blow, but he
was too weak and too dazed to keep
up the uneven struggle. In those
other seven rounds he had prevented
the colored demon, who so terribly har
assed 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 oppo-
nent's chin. But he could not do that
now-Langford had him at his mercy
and could keep him off with jabs IT,
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 Langford leaped
backward with panther-like agility and
that instant prepared to swing his right
to F'lynn's jaw
Flynn made his last desperate eff
fort then and when the blow he sent
out with his right failed to find it's des-
tination his body followed it. Lang
ford's left hand shot out like streak
Of lightning to Flynn's jaw but it was
not so much the force of the blow as
from the momentum of his body that
Flynn went down to his end
A crowd that damned the Jeffries
arena and was estimated at 10000 saw
the contest and the preliminary bouts
In one of these Al Rogers SO severely
punished young Kenny that the ref
cree stopped it in the third round.
In the other frankie Sullivan knock
ed out Kid Cleveland in the second
round of what was to have been
ten round go.