The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-06-28
Special to The Daily Leader.

East Las Vegas, N. NJ, June Is
he Jim Flynn-Jack Johnson contest
us barely week off It is the noisy
show of the Fourths busy fistic
schedule and now that Governor Nc.
Donald has officially decided to keep
bands off and allow East Las Vegas
to have what it wants. with Mayor
Iaupert keeping watchfu eye on
the fight crowd during the early and
active scenes of the championship
combat thus being held personally
responsible for all that happens. in
terest in the big battle is so acute
that the success of the attraction is
assured.
California puts on pair of cham
piorship battles July T. Most natur-
ally the coast crowd is keen on it's
own fstic bookings, but positive proof
that the Wolgast-Rivers and Attell-
Murphy matches are minor ones at
best in comparison to the heavyweight
title contest between Flynn and John
son was proven when w. w. Naugh-
ton the brilliant pugilistic expert of
fearsts great string of California
papers, arrived in East Las Vegas
tns week. Though located in San
Francisco, where his following equals
those of Otto Floto in Denver and
Ed Smith in Chicago Naughton
could not stand for his sections two
shows and came on to New Mexico !
10 cover the battle between Lii
Artha and the Fighting Fireman.
NaHshtons appearance in East Las
Vegas proves that the sparkling ring
critic is confident that the Flynn
johnson contest is going to be well
worth seeing. Otherwise he would
Lave remained in California, as the
tunk in pugdom never gets him away
rom home.
With this city we'll stocked with
tstic sharps and newspaper experts
the country is learning just what the
little coterie of fight folks on the Job
here from May 8 has known for the
past six weeks-that Champion Jack
Johnson is working faithfully to be
on edge for the battle and that Chal-
ienger Flynn is in wonderful physical
and has absolute confidence
r his ability to dethrone Ii Artha
The success of the July match is
assured and the knockers of 80 days
igo are now among the warmest OF
The boosters
Seeing is believing always. Orig :
nally many had it that the Flynn /,
Johnson contest was poor one. BY /,
he way have you ever noticed that !
when the worlds champion is not1
Sighting regularly he gets panned? ,
Also when he makes a match he is
ianned over again, styled a lemon
Iicker and a fortune hunter?
Johnson won the heavyweight
,rown from Jeffries two years ago. 1t
vas most natural that he be called
,pon to battle for his title some time
his year Following his triumph
,yer Jeff the experts began picking III
lis next antagonist Most of them
dominated al Kaufman Then, when :
tarl Morris, after polishing up every
hing he tackled in Oklahoma, hit
Tew York lot of the big writer's.
,ctting stuck on his bulk and his
0oks, declared that here was the
light ringster to be sent against John
on.
In the course of time, or from May
to September 10. 1911, to be exact,
LYNN went to war with both Kauf'
nan and Norris Though the long
hot of the betting in each encounter,
le was bracketed both times and in
r ost emphatic fashion, too. He stop
cd Kaufman in the tenth round, after
making the pace every inch of the
tay, and though not able to topDle
ver Morris, beat the Sapulpa lad up
=, badly that he has never been able
Q show the advantage since.
To be exact, Flynn didn't defeat
Kaufman and Morris. the white boys
Who were backing in the bright
nulgent rays of the spotlight up to
he time that both ran afoul of the
He annihilated them.
lynn was slipped the tip TO go slow
a Kansas City, when he had Kauf-
nan as good as stopped in the sec
nd round. as those concerned in the
fe of the Kaw's fistic game feared
hat it would be curtains for all
ines with it if the fireman did not
ct up.
It was the same against Morris in
lew York. The bout only went the
init of 10 rounds because Morris
utweighed Flynn by about so pounds