The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-29
jim FLYNN TO Be
IN FINE SHAPE
Champion Will Not Out
weigh His White OPP
ponent Much.

Las Vegas. n. NJ. May 29.-Put a
bet down on the fact that Lii Artha
Johnson won't outweigh Jim Flynn
by over fifteen or twenty pounds when
the noted negro and the ambitious
lighting fireman square off in their
1orty-f1ve round engagement within
the confines of this fair city on the
Fourth of July. The champion gave 1t
out in Chicago. his home city, the
other day that he would get down to
2l5 pounds for the scrap johnson
must reduce to that figure. If he is to
mold on to the title. is a statement
attributed to Tom Flanagan in far
away Toronto. Can. the curly haired
sporting agent who was Lii Artha's
chief adviser in Reno. and who is
coming to Las Vegas to o~ficiate in a
like capacity.
When Jack Curley first arranged
e Fly~nn-Johnson match the first
vail that vent up was to the effect
that Master James was a little fel.
low. To read some of the tales that
We're sprung. n to overhear hotel
and tavern talk. Flynn was as tiny and
as tlmid, and as short and as soft. as
Little Lord Fauntleroy. Last springs
aale's coXswain was painted a second
IHyszko in point of physique. At bes.,
10 read scrap comment and to hear
III S!lOuIu stay Ill
ms class n seek an engagement
with Johnny Kilbane or Johnny Cou-
ion. instead of inviting murder by
signing to go to war with johnson.
May Weigh go Pounds.
If a 215-pounder. and one of attn
ietic training, who has ~hop-scotched
1t most of his career. does not como
under the head of husky, healthy soul,
men me baseball bookies will pay off
on the ST. Louis Browns and the Bos-
ton Bunks next October. Flynn was
at the 215 pound notch the last time
that he STEPPED on the scales. The fig
ures represented a gain of a pound a
DAY FOR five subsequent DAYS. as Flynn
mad been holding forth in New Mexico
Just that number of days up to the
time that he stepped on the scales.
NO; Flynn wont go to the post With
johnson Weighing 215. But he may
he as high as EGO by the time Tommy
burns, his chief adviser. begins work
at the happy camp at merry Monte
yuma Springs. Flynn's work since
going housekeeping on his own hook
n in a cozy. quiet spot has consisted
of eating three homemade meals daily.
walking. and jogging over the hills
behind his bungalow, and rising at 6
o'clock and hitting the hay at s. This
sweet. sensible schedule was preceded
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health and sound strength the ten
DAYS Jim spent at Arkansas Hot
Springs. the town he swears is all tn
the Huyler's.
Not as Tall as johnson.
Flynn is not as tall as johnson. Nor
is as short as FLYNN. And
maNhaps there is something to that
argument. All in all, sunny Jim is a
bigger man all over. save in reach,
than the illustrious John L. Sullivan
at the time the old. original champ
did old Macon Mccormick or n of
the other famed fistic experts of We
olden times ever call the Boston bow
a weaklingo
FLYNN is made to suit Flynn's Pc
cuiiar style of fighting. 1t is all fight
with him. as the Pacific coast and far
west generally learned many years
ago; as AL Kaufman and all Kansas
civ, Mo. discovered a yea ago this
month. and as Carl Morris and all
New York got hep to last September.
FLYNN found out early in his hueilis-
tic career that his arms and legs were
not constructed in such A way that he
could hope to shine as a boxer. S,
NJ scratched the scientific. snappy,
slonnN stuff from his repertoire.
Jim went in to master the smash
hang game. He's not slow o,
feet. nor slow with his dukes. But
his headline stunt when in action is
roughinG it. He's a bear" in the
clincE-s and in bursting ont of the
olinches. His punch is as good as any
of those modern time boys who arc
painted AS villainous smashers. He is
tn owner of two sound pairs of
n. nds. and for a fighter, particularly
for a heavyweight fighter. who has
engaged in over 100 scraps. that IS
"A fat asset.
Flynn Might Have Won.
The writer was on deck all the way
through at Reno. and picked the loser,
but got the kale off him within forty
eight hours after first seeing him in
action: Still. he figured we'll enough
TO be ~bracketed. for the simple reason
tn. t he was battling a black who ex.
pected to curl up when the pinch
as the world scarcely desires to be
reminded. there wasn't a battle left in
the old white champ that afternoon.
The Jim Flynn of today might have
won at Reno. The Jim Flynn of six
weeks hence ought to cop. Why?
Because Lii Artha has been going
the pace hat breaks down giants for
the greater part of two years. and the
Jim Flynn of six weeks hence will be
the best specimen it is possible to send
into the arena.
Word has been received from Chi
cago that Johnson will be here ext
week. ready to start work. Fight news
Will be brisk about Las Vegas after
the champion arrives.