The evening world., 1912-02-19
Maybe Promoter CurIey Is Going
to Pull or the Johnson. Flynn
Fight In an Acceptance!

Copyright. 1914. by The i'r. publshiss Co.
fTte Ne~ York wofldl.
SEE In the news dispatches that
Jack johnson and Jim Flynn. with
Promoter Curley. have posted tho
Misc little sum OF Sp.oco. IN money and
checks. to cover various forfeit clauses
IN connection with the somewhat vague
And lndehn.tc Johnson Flynn match.
curley gives out q statement tina, hr
IL not ready to tell where tho night
viii be held. as mai.y cities are bidding
for II. He won't decide Nj the place
until May l. In the meanwhile. I sup
pose. Jack n Jim can 40 on and
gather more or less coin ON the stage.
II might . added u little 10 the
interest n Curley had given ont the
name Of Just one city that IL bidding
for the match. To date We news dis-
pensers haven't heard anything hut tho
names Of a couple OF mining camps.
New York certainly isn't bidding for
Johnson-F Flynn. even for n one round
scrap New Orleans. which Is very
much on the night map just now with
twenty round championship bouts held
on sunday afternoons. might have a
chance, hut Johnson probably would
take a couple Of hard thinks before
going AS far South as tha, to fight a
HIT man. ana cspecialIJ a little bit
OF a white man like Flynn. Those
0)utherners are 30 sympathetic,
San Francisco doesn't want the
match. and neither does Los Angeles.
A. FOR Reno and the other centres OF
population In Nevada. they haven'i
been sending GU, any advertising liter
s,urc telling US how dead anxious they
are to give Q couple OF hundred thon-
and dollars TO attract the fighters.
Probably Cur'ey has a hat fuii OF offers
from those large n populous cities
down In the Great American Desert.
ITO . man up a tree with q tele.
scope II looks very much as II
Johnson was conducting this
little decker with Curiey and Flynn "a
AVOID half "A dozen chances he nigh,
hnd TO get INTO a real night
- ERMANY In training athletes al
over the country. and expects Il
send q team Of abou, one hundrc,
anl sixty men TO the Olympic Games
Tract, and field athletics In q ncv
branch Of spor, In Germany. come Int
popular favor only within the past 81
or eight years. hut Germany has oil
ready developed q few grea, athletes
and will no doubt make = very srsditsb
showing al Stockholm.
Until recent years the Germans hnv'
been great indoor athletes. acroba'i
Vs.t.At nftara ava usNastlsvs
This branch Of athlets, work develop
powerful men. but In OF little help !
outdoor athletic stunts, which depen
upon a more naturai physical develop
m~rnt-upon speed and endurance rattle
than burly strength. St'll. b~eslnnln
with gymnasttc work and then loosen
ting up with the outdoor work. Gerna
athletes rhonid do very well. Just ho'
we'll wen see In the spring. A tear
/; Of 10 men should make some lmpressio
on the point columns,
-HAT'S a glowing prospect :or III
sporting men at Panama. Thin
Of racing and betting with h !
on, n gambling casino on n prlrai
isiard In a lake. to he q only b
the motor boats OF the amusement con
many. The license OF he amuscmcr
company. granted by the Panama Coz
eminent. Includes various sports. eve
''pr,ze-nghtins," Apparently there W
be no objection TO nnish lights, And
isn't much more OF "A trip to Panam
than 10 Reno.
years ago Clark Ball hsd q sehen
for holding Nights In Panama. lie wei
around New York telling everybody ~
how crazy Panama was IN sec a b
championshlp fight, and I believe TIT
he oNered Rob fitsSslmmons ana Jnt
o. Brlen $1,000 TO so down there al
night for the light heavyweight title.
suspect that Clark didn't show any re
money, for the matter sizaled cut, ~
FYtssimmons and o'nrien fought {
much less.
ATTY BALDWIN thinks tn
mi he'll show X. q. Brown how
Ava lie Nat while the referee cou
ten. Matty IL a great little fighter. u
hen M more than he has shown
q couple Of years II he fiattens Brown
~YHILE Craig, the grea, collie
Nv sprinter. announces that
w can't take time from his bu
ncss to train for the Olympic Games,
20 60 to Stockholm with the team,
needn't despair OF picking OF
sprints, This looks Ike a good ye
tor sprinters. First. We have Gwy
Henry, with a year OF good experier
under his Selt TO temper down that W
Texas style OF running that he h
when he first came GU, and became
champion. Henry ought 10 be fas
than ever this year, Then there 10 u
hen cha npion. Meyer Of the !. A. A.
who tied the siXty-yard record Sat
day night and In man aces this W
ter has shown promise OF record ros
Ing speed on the outdoor c.nier path
the spring. And there arc others-l,
Of en-.
KRIKE DONi.IN with the Pirat
M Wonder how he'll hitch W
ave- Wagner! IL nike comes ba
into his old hitting form therein be
ssss sssvssa sAs nd vertA watching