Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-02-26
.CURLEY BELIEVES
|. FLYNN THE mani
|. TO WHIP NEGRO
Promoter Of Proposed Heavy
weight Championship Bat
tie Gives Logical Reasons
for Opinion he Holds.

AOR VpkhAun AAo A9AWes
Chicago, FEB. &c -AIf. M many
fight fans and critics think. Jim
FLYNN. puohl0'a fireman. has no
chance IN his coming hattie with Jack
johnson fer Ere heavyweight cham-
pionship 81 the world. set fbf July 4
next why ana Flynn and hie man-
ager, Jack curiey. make the match ?
Not for any ioslng end they may
/ hope 70 get oat OF the cofteet--fur
the conditions are 40 framed II Il the
biggest kind % gamble whether
there will be a losing end OF suffis
Client aize 70 pay trainisig expenses.
ANY other answer might be hard 10
those who have q we'll grounded im-
preston that EIynh wff be a child
IN the big blacks hands.
But Il IL sasy FOR F'iynn and his
manager 20 give good and sufficient
reasons for thus running their heads,
and especially FIynn's, into this sup
posediy deadly moose.
Flynn's faith In himself Is abiding.
lie lnfocts others with this c0nfi-
dence. So Il was with Curieys but
long before curley and flynn formed
their alliance Curiey sol some ideas
about Johnson and he r. willing 20
give them to the public now for the
purpose OF jnstifying his action ana
Hymns In the matter
while was IN Europe ! saw much
OF johnson and had TO take notice
OF the way he was living there" Cur
ley said last night. "ne was much
III evidence in the boulevard cafes
IN Paris ana every time 4 saw him
felt that Il some scrappy, game TEL
low would show up he could tnke
the title away from him. As mat
ter Of fact ] thought 1 knew Of some
middelwcights In America who could
whip him In the condition acted
he was IN several times.
Mind yoH. this was long before
1 had any idea OF hooking up ir
any way with Jim Flynn
when I returned 10 this country
saw Carl Norris and gave him
grand outside chance OF being tbs
lucky man against the big black
they told me that flynn had given
| Al Kaufman an unmerclful beatine
IN Kansas City such beating that
poor Al was laid up for aeventy-twC
hours and Flynn was under poles
surveillance. Kaufman ruled Ito;
/ first choice. but Il WAS Flynn's figh'
over every inch Of the way
Before that contest there hot
been much talk OF matching Kauf
man against johnson, he being con
ssdered the ideal white hope In
deed. as ! renemVer IL Jack VA
roasted aal4nal y 4Op.seenlng 10 dods'
Al When the late Blily Delaney am
Billy Brady offered to find n
Prise for the scrap.
Now. II Kaufman was 50 well en-
titled 10 a match with johnson, VIII
Il not the man who 30 thorough.
whipped Kaufman? This query goe
directly and pertlnently to Brady
Masterson, Corbett and the othe
wise fellows who conceded Kaufmai
such a grand chance. with Johnson
Then, tDo, please consider tina
Johnson never would give sam Lang
ford chance, sidestepping him per
slstently and relgiously. hid nc
Flynn once beat LAngford IN To
Angeles IN ten rounds. getting ever
newspaper decision there after IN
contestg
"And did not Flynn hand out a
unmerclful beating 20 Carl Morris
such beating. in fact that IN
referee, Charley White. neafiy loi
mis- license for not stopping Il an
the club was severely censured3 TIA
Morris as much az shaded Flynn n
country would have acclaimed hi
| the real goods and would have 81
= manded that Johnson fight the Okla
. homa man. As q matter Of fact, Oh
match would have been made the 70
lowing day.
Vow then. here's the pcint;
Kaufman Langford and Morris WEI
: nc opponents for Johnson, why NJ
! the man who beat them all?
Five years ago Johnson bci
, Flynn, who weighed 1876 pounds an
Q was really an inexperieuced beginnc
To-day flynn weighs t96. knows no
to piow IN and at the same time pr
teet himself.
r "eurely no one win Say that Johi
son Is any better today thar ne va
then. And besides this, five yen.
! ago Johnson did not stop Flynn. =
pecked away at him until ne sa'
Iaim a bad eve and had him hieediI
80 that Mrs. Flynn jumped into =
3 ring IN the eleventh round and stel
{ ped the battle. the referee refnaii
q to permit the game and still WHIT
= Flynn to continue. Coast critics ha'
{ told me an this
Before johnson beat JeffrleA q
4 the people think he was 20 mucf
y Marvin Hart went twenty-five r0un'
2 with him, and even II the deciHi'
wac questionable HaFt was there az
. nRhting hard al the end dohnH'
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