El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-04-27

AN FRANCISCO. Cal, April zt--
So far as can be judged at this
- writing. the JohusOn-Flynn matcn
FOR the championship Of the World = a
fixture The financial atIail= elilt-l
whatever they may be were -. 80
7Inou Ions. ago The only lnlng lnat
.io-dod re atmosphere was the Ques-
ton Of q battle-ground, and nov al IN
,er+airtv on this score seems to nave
been removed ~ aro,feo
-,-ovfdinq for the handling CT p15I-
fisfic enterprise in that secllon oyeLle1
q new field for the wandering A.l- So
Of the padded rnllI anu w. w. +,---1,,,e-f
dav fbe Tripps measure Went InIoLs-
.s-Tie Tfo77seH at santa Ee. JACK Curley
nnrned Las Vegas the place OF me- tllls
fo- the championship, there was
suggestion Of team WoIA anu ''-9
nal fitness Of Things
Nothing succeeds like success anG
now thar CuTlaY has suce~soed pdslns
me wav for his championship te"~lL
be v-ilI compel critics aau upOEIlh6 men
e-anersITv TO sit Up and p1y Afternoon
10 the heavyweight event. u "i1 Ds
D-erfv hard to eradicate the opinion
that fireman Flynn IS nol VIZ" WIZ -
sdversarv for the black skinned WorL4
heater Jack Johnson Inc On4y pos
sfble vvav 10 induce the public 70 re-
gard Flynns chances with any QesLse
Of seriousness IS TO cause specu -- -
10 arise as to the effect that couple
OF years Of Incidence and luxury nave
mad upon johnson and JohDsons upper
cuts.
II there vera good grounds tof
thinking that Johnson can take up nls
work again and perform iL5 1eAtrous1y
As he did against JeffrieH 8 & Keno thls
match Tat hangs in the balance would
he q fit SUBJECT for iprestigauon Dy
some Of the sOcieLIes VINO iiisNe a spS
cialty Of preventing uncalled Tor cruel
-SS- go, ~ --,r T., E1,-o1's case
there IS s. dozen reasons for believing
that he is ilnpEoving as q IlgnJer, ne
most eloquent evluCEcs IN IaEor OF lis
assumption can be found Il ms ueLes-Ss
OF Al Kaufman and Carl MOTIFS IN
both affairs the fireman performed IN d
TFOrkmanlilIe manner. At that now
ever, the gains he has made would aVall
him nothing If Johnson could De count
ed on TO display his old-time form
johnson has passed his 54th year
and has not been In the ring Ior l"g
years. John l. Sullivan was "a ana
had been out Of the harness for three
Years when he lost TO Jim COrbett.
There is always disposition to attrlD-
ute the defeat Of champion TO pnyslcaL
retrogression and slowing up ana u
was so when Sullivan lost TO CorbetI.
And the chances are that sullivan II
ne had been a few years younger and
he had not enjoyed b three year lay
OF would have made things more IL
teresung for POmpadOur Jim
Seems to Be Fated Age.
jim Corbett was only a few months
past his goth year when he lost MS
sSlsgSels, to Fitzsimmons- This was IN
March. ISS(., and three years had elapsed
since -Corbett- az fs9tedt- mare Aatchell
so signally at Jacksonville
Well, II may be that tlIzsfl1Inons I
would have proved COrbett's master II .
they had met years sooner, bu- have J.
my doubts. In speed and c.eF erness i
Corbett did not show any particular I
falling away at Corson but in nerve I
force-in the ability 20 endure fatigue
snd remain proof against eEcltcH' eur ne ]
vas a mere mOckcry Of the LAD who
trOunced Sullivan and Mitchell.
Fitzsimmous was 81 when ne went 4
under TO Jeffries at Gomez Island ana
had been out d the ring couple Il
years.
It is a hard Thing to figJre in the casa
OF a freaky individual like itZsiIn-
fellow that age could not F1-her ana
a glance at his record VIII suggest that
50 far as pugilistic prestige is con
cerned he had as many lives IS cat
But the style OF fight ne put up Win /
Jeffries indicated that MS TWO years
holiday had taken the edgo OF his
proves.
A year later, when he made an active
campaign, it viii be remembered that
he knocked cut g Wlsose lot Of fellows
IN short order, the Iist including Tom ]
Sharkey and Gus Rubin, both Of whom (
were disposed Of within a week.
As to the JeffrIes Case.
Jim Jeffries was q few months over
the % year notch when he boxed Jack
Munroe in san Francisco Shortly aft
erward he retired literally because
there was nothing in the shape OF a
human fighting animal that could hold
a candle to him Six years later, at 4
the clamOring OF press and public he
came forth to give battle 10 Jack John
son.
Now this is a painful subject, but If
there was anyone AZ Reno who saw
anything about Jeffries TO recall in
the slightest measure Jeffries the pull
verizer OF six years previous, he has
not been located.
OF course, six years is enough TO put
man out Of touch with any kind Of a
game. but in the present instance Il I
is not a question OF what difference
six years viii make, but what two
years VIII make 1t may be that two {
years would have made as much inrOad I
On Jeffries on fighting force as six
According TO popular opinion, three
years knocked all the Championship I
class out Of John i. Sullivan and Jim I
COrbett and this too, when Sullivan
was the same age as Johnson is now