The Alaska citizen., 1912-03-25
L latest Outside Sporting Dope

MlLWAUKEE, Wis. Feb. 24.-If. as many fight fans and critics think. Jim Flynn. Pueblo's fireman. has no chance in his coming fight with Jack Johnson for the heavyweight championship of the world. set for July next, why did Flynn and his manager make the match.
 Not for the losing end they may hope to get out of the contest for the conditions are so framed it is the biggest kind of gamble wheth. CT there will be a losing end of suffi- cient size to pay training expenses.
 Any other answer might be hard to those who have well grounded impression that Flynn will be a mere child in the big blacks hands.
 But it is easy for Flynn and his manager to give good and sufficient reasons for thus running their heads, and especially Hymns, into this sup posedly deadly moose.
 Hymns faith in himself is abid- ing. He infects others with this confidence. So it was with Curley. but long before Curley and Flynn formed their alliance. Curley got some ideas about Johnson and he is willing 10 give them 10 the pub lie now for the purpose of justifyiug his action and Hymns in the mat ter
 While was in Europe saw much of Johnson and had 10 take notice of the way he was living there" Curley said last night. He was much in evidence in the boule- yard cafes in Paris and every time l saw him felt that if some scrap py, game fellow would show up he could take the title away from him. AS a matter of fact l thought I knew of some middlewefghts in America. who could whip him in the condition I noted he was in several times"
 Mind you, this was long before I had any idea of hooking up in any way with Jim Flynn.
 Like C,rI Morris.
 When l returned to this country. l saw Carl Morris and gave him a grand outside chance of being the lucky man against the big black They told me that Flynn had given Al Kaufman an unmerciful beating in Kansas City. such a beating that poor Al was laid up for seventy two hours and Flynn was under po- lice surveillance. Kaufman ruled a to choice, but it was Hymns fight over every inch of the way.
 Before that contest there had been much talk of matching Kauf- man against Johnson, he being con- sidered the ideal white hope h. deed, as I remember il. Jack was roasted severely for seeming to dodge Al when the late Billy Delaney and Billy Brady offered to find a fat purse for the scrap.
 Now, if Kaufman was so well entitled to a match with Johnson. why is not the man who so thor oughly whipped Kaufman? This query goes directly and pertinently to Brady, Masterson, Corbett and the other wise fellows who conceded Kaufman such grand chance with Johnson.
 Then, too, please consider that Johnson never would give Sam Langford chance, side-stepping him consistently and religiously. Did not Flynn once beat Langford in Los Angeles in ten rounds, getting every newspaper decision there af- ter the contest?
 And did not Flynn hand out an unmerciful beating to Carl Morris, such beating, in fact, that the referee, Charley White, nearly lost his license for not stopping it and the club was severely censured. Had Morris as much as shaded Flynn the country would have acclaimed him the real goods and would have de- manded that Johnson fight the Ok lahoma man. As matter of fact the match would have been made the following day.
 Now, then, here's the point: If Kaufman, Langford and Morris were fit opponents for Johnson, why not the man who beat them all?
 Five years ago Johnson beat Flynn, who weighed only 155 pounds and was really an inexperienced be- ginner. Today Flynn weighs 195, knows how to blow in and at the same time protect himself.
 Surely no one will say that John con is any better today than he was then. And besides this, five years ago Johnson did not stop Flynn. He pecked away at him until he gave him bad eye and had him bleeding so that Mrs. Flynn jumped into the ring in the eleventh round