The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-02-08


One reason that Flynn retained
Williams to travel with. him on his
tour through vaudeville, is that Will
Jams size will help him show that
bigness is not everything. Williams
is no SLOUGH. yet Elynn's aggressive
work even in the stage bouts shows
that he outclasses the big fellow.
despite his advantage in size.
The idea that has gained prevalence
is that Flynn is going 10 be up against
a mountain when Johnson towers over
him. II may be true enough that he
doesn't stand ghost OF show with
the black man, whether in condition
or not. but the size bugaboo is les
sened greatly when one sees Flynn
and Williams together.
Flynn is disguised with the way
the public treats his chances TO Yin
from Johnson. II rolls him especially
to have anybody hint thu, ne Il a
tighter who keeps. his W. ~. ather eye on
me losers eng OF the purse.
uon tr cent out of this John
son ns~t unless | win." says Jim. Il
uoil have to. have plenty OF money
" take care of myself as II Is with
out coping this battle. But I'm going
10 do it because | believe l am the
best fighter there Is today.
I'm small they say. But I've
licked big men right along. I've con-
coded weight. height, reach, every
thing else and won. | don't see
where have anything TO fear along
that line any more than before, do
you, bEether2
The public wants me 70 be a trial
horse for all the white hopes in the
land. Whenever a new heavyweight
makes his appearance they put him
up against me to see what he is made
OF. II one should happen to win they
hail MIN as the greatest prospect
ever.
Il fight every moment I'm in the
ring. | never stop. don't hug my
opponent | keep him going. III
and that am firing reason that
he is. also, and If / can outgame him.
I'll win"
: Jim says he wouldn't know what
he felt like in an athletic club. He
didn't become a fighter the way most
of the young fellows do, by working
up to the finals through the prelim'
inaries. He saw a fight In Salt Lake
Trfry n tUzeu years age between tue
heavyweights.
IF | can't fight better than that
I'll die in the attempt" said he and
issued a challenge to the winner oil
the bout. Two weeks after he
knocked the man out in the same
ring. Then he changed his name from
Andrew Haynes TO Jim Flynn, quit
his job of feeding a locomotive on
the Rio Grande, and became a profes
sional pug.
Jim thinks he was born to be q
fighter.
Flynns right ear Is the only par
: OF his face that shows the effects o.
, screaming That was somewha
/ bunged several years ago. by George
Gardner, whom Flynn knocked out II
: the same fight in which he got thu
:. bad ear&
: In Tuesday nights show the eai
: ives opened up and bled profusely
{ II was merely the scrapping OF tn
: skin by the strings in Williams glove
that caused Il. however, and for thu
D first time for long while, Flynn
{ made use or cigarette PAPER Dor
I rowed from an Avenue chorus man
I. With IL he plastered the wound ant
;. stopped il from bleeding
, FLYNN doesn't sleep late ever!
: morning even II his vaudeville en-
: gagements does keep him up late a
night. He is up by seven and By
eight Is out for brisk walk which h
is substituting for his customary
road work while in the city.
Flynn has often been called Andrew
Chiarligion, instead of Haynes. His
stepfather's name was ChiarligioI
!, and RE was an Italian Hence Tbs
idea was gathered that Flynn wai