Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-05
BEATEN,
TURNS TO FOUL|NG
Referee Disqualifies outc!assed
Man in Ninth Round of
Fight with johnson.

EAST LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, July 5
The Jack Johnson-Jim Flynn forty
five round fight for the heavyweight
championship was brought to a close
In the ninth round yesterday by the
State police.
Captain Fornoff, of the State force,
personal representative at the ring
side of Governor Mcdonald, declared
that it was no longer a boxing ON
test; that it was a brutal exhibition
and that FIynn's foul tactics made
It's continuance impossible. He
jumped into the ring with his depu-
ties and drove the fighters and Off
Gals who followed him to the or
ners. Referee Ed w. Smith then an
nounced that Johnson had won and
the fight was over.
Flynn displayed no ability through
out the fight. He was cut about h
face until blood ran down his breast
in a stream. He was utterly helpless
from the first round on. and by tbs
sixth was deliberately trying to butt
the champions chin with his head.
Time after time as johnson held him
powerless in the clinches Flynn
jerked his head upward.
Smith warned him repeatedly, but
it did no good. In the seventh he
began leaping upward every time he
could work his head under Johnson's
chin Flynn's feet were both off the
floor time and again with the energy
he put into his bounds. Sometimes
he seemed to leap two feet into the
air in frantic plunges at the elusive
jaw above him.
Referee Smith forced Flynn back
toward his corner a half-dozen times.
"Stop that butting," he would say,
shaking his finger in Flynn's face;
stop it or 1 will disqualify YOU"
The - nigger's holding me-"
Flynn roared back. Hes holding me
all the time He's holding me like
this" and he offered to illustrate on
the referee. Smith evaded the blood
waved the two men together again.
Flynn's Foul Tactics.
In the next clinch-it was in the
eighth round-Flynn flung himself
upward again. Smith jumped be-
tween them and warned him once
more. Next time you do 1t I'll dis
qualify you" he shouted to Flynn;
but changed his mind, for it hap
pened again and again in that round
and repeatedly in the ninth before
the police took a hand.
Through it all the champion was
smiling. He evaded Flynn's attacks
with the utmost ease whether the
Pueblo man led with his hands or his
head. Only once in the nine rounds
did he show any wish to end the
fight, and yet ringside opinion was
unanimous that he could have put
Flynn u at any time he happened to
whether in the first or the ninth
round. The champion opened up only
once early in the fight when Flynn
landed his only good blows, right and
left hooks to the jaw, delivered dur
ing a clinch. Johnson appeared net
tied at his own carelessness and
smashed a right uppercut through
Flynn's guard which rocked the white
man on his feet. Then the champion
smiled again and went Jack to deliv-
ering uppercuts in the clinches and
covered Flynn's face with blood.
johnson Took 1t Easy.
Apparently Johnson did not at
tempt to hit hard. He c~ontented him
self with a slow, scientific chopping,
every blow finding it's way through
the barricade Of gloves and elbows
Iohs-l xrhiah E1xynn PrnnNhQd II
was a perfect exhibition of guarding
and hitting in the clinches as far as
the champion was concerned. Not a
blow Of Flynn's reached Johnson with
n force behind it. Flynn's blows
were tossed aside unless Johnson
chose to allow him to batter AVA at
his stomach, Johnson smiling the
while over Flynn's shoulders.
When the fight vas over there was
not a mark on Johnson beyond a cut
inside his lower lip, which bled slight
ly for a few minutes. Immediately
after the fight Johnson FASTENED to
the betting counter to collect his
wagers on himself. He drove there
from the ringside In his automobile
and was forced to address the crowd
in the big room before he could leave
for his camp.
Flynn was rushed to his camp
from the arena. He was not hurt
except for the cuts and bruises on
his face. He had nothing to say.
The fight was utterly lacking in in
terest. 1t was like a training bout
at Johnson's camp outside of the
blood Flynn lost. There was not a
cheer throughout the nine rounds and
the crowd accepted the action of the
police with apparent relief. Long
before the end came ringside opinion
seemed to be that Flynn was eager to
be disqualified. He was helpless as a
child and made no effort to disguise
his attempt to do with his skull what
his gloves could not accomplish.