The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-09
HARD To FIGURE ON
Tomorrow FIGHT
Visitors to Training Camps OF
Flynn and McCarty Can
not Decide.
BY w. w. NAUGHToN.

| Los ANGELES Dec. S.--This was a
| gala day at the training camps at YER
non and Venice by the sea. IL was the
| final day OF big doings In the preparatory
line for White Hope McCarty and De-
stroyer Jim Flynn. and vast crowds
gathered TO watch the rival hesvies In
action.
Interest OF course centered IN the beat
ing up OF the sparring partners by the
championship candidates This was done
to tho kings taste and that the watchers
enjoyed It was evidenced by the applause
which waited upon each spirited spell
Of cuffine
When the visitors turned homeward It
Is safe TO say that so per cent OF the
chances In Tuesday nights encounter.
while corresponding proportion OF those
who went 10 Vernon felt sure that Flynn
will win
This is human nature A man with
no particularly fixed ideas in regard TO
the chances of prospective opponents
goes to one OF tho training camps. What
he sees there has a one-sidcd look. and
Is likely to leave a one sided impression.
He sees man who has proflted by reg
ular work, good hours and proper fare.
buffetlng a staff OF sparring partners who
are merely required TO report for duty
every day at 3 o'clock and who may
consume all the cigarettes and beer they
isn't he wonder?" they'll say later
And no is-but only by comparison. The
best antidote for opinion formed at a
camp Is to pay o visit to the other.
and that, II the betting is any guide,
is about what ails those who have been
making close study of the McCarty-
Flynn prospect
On one point everybody Is agreed
Matters have reached O. crisis In white
hope affairs.
And lest there should be any mistake
about 1T let rs repeat that Jim Flynn
rebels with all the force his modest ma
ture can command at being classed as
white hope 1t pains him in fact.
has been fifteen years before the public
as glove brandisher-that during that
time he has met the best in the lists and
has been hammered into shape on the
If you ask Jim how lie would Ike to
be described he will murmur, "WeIl, suit
yerself, kid, but Pm the. .suy the white
hopes have to deal with"
"a kind of Cerberus. as Il were" sus
gesied some one, and then Jim waxed
silent and thoughtful. lie was wondering
n Cernerus was another hope that would
have to he operated on later for cham
pionship ambitions.
Flynn is Gracious enough TO admit
Una. 1nat wRite I,,I hopes are all right in their
called them white hopes there is moth
Ing further you can saw about them.
They,Ve never done nothin',' said
FLYNN the other day, He was out 90
breath at the time which probably had
something TO do with rendering his SEN
lences curt and Gngramma tical.
II was at this Juncture that some ono
told MIN of Al Palzers arrival
They met him at the depot WIFI q
hrass band volunteered the Informant
with vhlainous tact '''h ut
Sure shot" beloved Flynn. sa n.
polished his neck with a towel .',rbev
brought him into town in a band wa COR
but they'll tske him away In an srnhn
tired" me
From which it will be ratbored th,.
Fireman Jim Flynn. the battIe-scarreS
veteran Of hundred fights. has about
as much use for white hopes as p scior
Of genuinely ''old family has for a
man who has made a fortune In soan
and is trying to climb.
And who shall say that Flynn Is
wrong is II not fact that In the old
Years nghter had to work his Wav to
the front. whereas nowadays a big fell
low who looks the part" Is boosted hair
way mp the ladder OF fame before 'Ja III
has administered wallop?