Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-21


In which the championship fight be-
tween johnson and Flynn shall he
fought here Is to be seventeen feet
square. ...
This cable, which came over the
wires last night, is puzzler to local
ring followers. II II Is authentic
and there seems good chance that 1t
is mott means that both johnson and
Flynn figure that they will have the
edge in a smaller square. Johnson
may figure that he Is not physically
Ht t. run round a fuil-sizcd ring,
while Flynn may argue that his best
chance l. to mix 1t with the champion
at close quarters. This Is about the
only way that any such agreement
could be reached.
Honolulu ring fans are beginning to
sit up and take notice over the COM
ing fight, and a question that will not
he settled until the curtain of night
has been rung down on July Is, will
the Big Smoke, Jack Johnson, hand
his championship heavyweight title
over to Jim Flynn via the fake route?
followed the fighting game for years
and years. through good and hard luck
before and since the frenzied lighting
finance day. say, without equivocation,
that IL Jim Flynn wins, he will win
either on foul or by n feigned knock
out, or that, II he wins at all, John
son has sold out to the white man, and
that he Is simply daring the wrath of
the fight fans and following out the
general line of conduct he followed
before he became champion.
Other Fellow Must Listen.
Going over Flynn's past fighting rec
ord, judging his chances strictly on
what he has shown, and not shown, |
share the opinion of others, and that
u.s. he hasn't "A chance with the black
champion, unless he Is lucky enough
to Slip over that so-called lucky punch,
which may happen In any fight, but
hardly in Il fight with n foxy fighter
of Johnson's reputation. In the first
place. Flynn Is too small In physical
makeup. | do not mean by this that
all small men are no good, hut n small
man, with limited class, can not hope
to put things over when he hooks up
with n fighter of Johnson's kind and
get away with anything, unless the
other fellow has listened to reason.
In the first place, Johnson never
could fight man who could hit and
hurt while he was going away. He
has never met this kind of "A fighter.
Had he met Kid Mccoy, Jim Corbett,
Bob Fitzsimmons, Peter Jackson, or
any other of the good old fellows, the
negro would have had a new expert
ence. johnson Ii a fiatfooted, defen-
sivo fighter. who Is almost invincible
against fighters who bring the fight
to him. Tommy Burns, who lost the
title to Johnson, even gone back as
he has, Is "A better man today than
Jim Flynn, when II comes to general
ring tactics. He lost to Johnson be-
cause he was too small In stature,
Burns had to jump on his toes in
order to reach Johnson with "A punch,
and he fought just rs the Big Smoke
wanted him to, for Burns had to al
ways bring the fight to the black man.
Jack Curley deserves a great deal OF
credit for staging the fight and spend
ing so much money in making the ar
rangcments Fight promoters with less
nerve would have quailed under the
opposition with which he was con-
frontcd. II the fight Is frame-up
which all the wise talent expects II
to be, one thing can he said of Curley
and that Is, that he broke all fake
fight records for 1912, and that ht
staged something that no other fight
promoter in the country would have
dared attempt.