The Sentinel=record., 1912-04-23
FLYNN ARRIVES
 IN HOT SPRINGS
PUEBLO FIREMAN MAKING PRE-. PARTITIONS FOR HIS GO
 WITH JACK JOHNSON.
Will Take Baths Here Until May First and Then Go Into Active Training for the Black
 Champion.

recent conquerer of Al Kaufman and Carl Morris, and Jack Johnson's next opponent for the heavy feight cham. pionship- Las Vegas, N. M, will be the scene of the battle and July i is the date-reached Arkansas Hot Springs from Chicago yesterday morning in company with Jack Cur ley, his manager, and promptly be- gan to condition himself for the com ing big encounter.
 Flynn eliminated Kaufman from the list of white hopes last May, de- feating the bulky Californian so de- cisively that he has never been of any account since. Last September. in New York, Flynn. again giving away lot of weight thfashed Morris in emphatic fashion. Since then Flynn has been in the show business, but IA weeks tour came to close last Friday and now he has started to prepare himself for his big battle with Lil' Artha.
 Flynn is here for brief course of the baths and a well earned rest Curley will depart for Las Vegas with his charge May 1 and last night wired Tommy Ryan. the former middle weight champion, to be in the fair New Mexico city the day he arrived with Flynn.
 Flynn and Curley, together with Art Greiner, the famous auto driver, and w. H. Lanigan, who served as the press representative of the Ar lington and Eastman hotels during the past winter season, reached the Arlington yesterday morning and will be the guests of that famous hostery during their stay in Arkan- sas Hot Springs. Greiner, a famous athlete himself, will assist in con ditionng Flynn, while Lanigan will aid Curley in the publicity depart ment.
 Flynn, in company with Curley and Greiner, took mild drill over the i mountains early in the afternoon and after the Pueblo fireman climbed out of his bath and received a rub down, he jumped on the scales and tipped them at exactly 216 So that proves he is no little fellow. He is much shorter than Johnson and is not the possessor of anything like as long a reach.
 Just the same he has fetched Sam Langford, Jack O'Brien, Twin Jack Sullivan and Bill Squires, in addi- tion to Kaufman and Morris, among host of other big fellows, and re- | gardless of how he may be classed with Johnson on this early day and date the fact remains that he has proven himself to be the second best heavy weight in the world and Man ager Curley. as keen a judge of a l sporting entertainment as there is in the country, could have taken the Johnson-Flynn fight to New York or Paris, or even into Nevada or Utah. which affords positive proof that the sporting public. and public generally, has started to become generally in terested in the match which was at first pooh-poohed.
 Curley has pulled off lot of other big sport affairs and the famous sporting man Is confident that Flynn and Johnson are going to play to over a Sl0O,000 "house." in fact, that only the Johnson-Jeffrles receipts will eclipse what will be taken in at Las Vegas
 Jim Corbett, the worlds former
 heavy weight champion. rode south with Flynn and Curley Sunday night Corbett boarded the train in St. Louis and left them at Little Rock, where he is showing In vaudeville this week Corbett not only met Flynn for the first time, but got his first peek at the rushing, crushing {, Colorado fireman
 The train pulled out of St Louis at 9 o'clock and the party of pugil. istic celebrities were in Hymns drawing room until almost midnight Then, after Jim declared it was past bed time for him, Corbett and Curley withdrew to the observation car, where the fight talk was continued until daylight.
 Flynn is a bright sort of chap. He has a splendid personality; is we'll read and as far removed from being boob as New Haven, Conn. { IS from Fort Worth. Texas. He and Corbett made each other in a twinkling and Gentleman Jim did not make any bones over the fact that originally when the JohnsonF Flynn match was built he refused 10 take 1t seriously. But after he learned
 from Flynn his plans and ideas and q