Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1912-07-09
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HAD CHANCE
With NEGRO
johnson Toys With Challenger Till
Police Stop Farcial
Bout.
JIM FLYNN TRIES TO BUTT
Fireman Uses Head As Last Resort,
but Fails to Jar
Jack.
JIM FLYNN TRIES TO BUTT

East Las Vegas, N. NJ, July s.
The Jack Johnson-Jim Flynn forty
five round fight for the heavyweight
championship was brought to clos,
in the ninth round yesterday by tn,
state police.
Captain Fornoff of the state force
personal representative at the ring
side of Governor Mcdonald, declared
that it was no longer boxing con
test; that it was brutal exhibit.
s ton and that Flynn's foul tactics
made its continuance impossible. He
Jumped into the ring with his depu.
ties and drove the fighters and Of
ficials who followed him to the cor.
ners. Referee Ed w. Smith then
announced that Johnson had won
and the fight was over.
Flynn displayed no ability
throughout the fight. He was cut
about the face until blood ran down
his breast in stream. He was ut
terly helpless from the first round
on and by the 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 up
ward. Smith warned him repeated
1y, but it did no good. In the sew
enth round he began leaping up
ward 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 SEEM
ed to leap two feet into the air in
frantic plunges at the elusive black
Jaws 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 I will dis
qualify you"
1.-THE id niger is holding
me-" Flynn roared back. Hes
holding me all the time. He's hold
ing me like this" and he offered to
illustrate on the referee. Smith
evaded the blood-smeared arms held
toward him and waved the men to-
gether again.
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 it I'll dis
qualify you," he shouted at Flynn,
but changed his mind for it happen
ed again and again in that round
and repeatedly in the ninth before
the police took 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 out at any time he hap
pened to fancy, whether in the first
or the ninth round. The champion
opened up only once, that was early
In the fight when Flynn landed his
only good blows, right and left
hooks to the jaw, delivered during a
clinch. Johnson appeared nettled
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 back to the
monotonous chopping uppercuts in
the clinehes, which reduced Flynn's
face to a bloody mass in each round.
Apparently Johnson did not at
tempt to hit hard. He contented
himself with a slow, cOldly scien-
tif1c chopping. every blow finding its
way through the barricade of gloves
and elbows behind which Flynn
crouched 1t was a perfect exhibit
ton of guarding and hitting in the
clinches as far as the champion was
concerned. Not blow Flynn start
ed reached him with any steam be-
hind 1t. They were smothered or
tossed aside unless Johnson chose to
allow his opponent to batter away
at his stomach, smiling the while,
over Flynn's shoulder. When the
fight was over there was not mark
On Jehnson's body beyond cut in
side his lower lip which bled slight
" for few minutes.
Immediately after the fight John
son fastened to the betting counter