The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-02-29
CHAMP WILL NOT
FIND FLYNN EASY
Curley Says He Is the Right
Man For Big Fight With
Johnson

New York. Feb. 29.-If. as many
fight fan and critics think, Jim
Flynn. Pueblo's fireman. has no chance
in his coming battle with Jack john
son for the heavyweight championship
of the world. set for July 4. next. why
did Flynn and his manager. Jack
Curley. make the match?
Not for n losing end they may
hope to get out of the contest, for
the conditions are SO framed it is the
there will be a losing end of sufficient
size to pay training expenses. ANY
other answer might be hard to those
who have a well-grounded impression
that Flynn will be a child in the big
blacks hands.
But IL Is easy for FLYNN and his
manager to give good and sufficient
reasons for thus running their heads,
and especially Flynn's into this sup
posedly deadly moose. Flynn's faith
In himself is abiding. He infects 9TH
with Curley, but long before Curley
got some ideas about johnson and he
is willing to give them to the public
now for the purpose of justifying his
acton and Flyhn's in the matter.
How Victory Is Possible.
"While l was in Europe l saw mucn
of johnson and had to take notice Of
the way he vas living there" Curley
said last night. He was much in evil
dence in the boulevard cafes in Paris
and every time I "a him l felt that
IT some scrappy. game fellow would
show up he could take the title away
FROM him 40 yDA0tt4~ 30 c->k 4
thought I knew of some middleweights
In America who could whip him in
the condition l noted he was in sew
eral times.
Mind you. this was long before 1
had any idea Of hooking up in any
way with Jim Flynn.
When I returned to this country, I
saw a Norris 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 q heating that poor AL a laid
was under police surveillance. Kauf-
man ruled n 1-to-3 first choice, but
1t was Flynn's fight over every inch
of the way. -.
Before that contest there had been
much talk OF matching Kaufman
against johnson, he being considered
the ideal white hope Indeed, as !
remember 1t. Jack was roasted severe
ly for seeming to dodge Al when the
late Billy Delaney and Billy Brady
offered to find Il fat purse for The
scrap. -.
Now. " Kaufman was so we'll en-
TITLED 10 n iaatck with Johnsony why
is'sanot the man who SO thoros,ElAy
whipped Kaufman? This query: goes
directly n pertinentlv to the wise
fellows who conceded Kaufman such
n grand chance with Johnson.
Then. Too. please consider that
W. would give Sam Lang
1ord a chance. side-stepping him per-
Flynn once meet Langford in Los An
geles In ten rounds, getting e
newspaper decision there after the
contest? '"e
and did not Flynn hand ont an
unmerctful beating to Carl Norris.
a beating in fact. that the ref
cree. Charley White. nearly lost his
Incense for not stopping 1t and the club
was severely censured? Had Morris
much as shaded FLYNN the conn
Try would have acclaimed him the real
gooos and would have demanded that
Johnson fight the Oklahoma man. As
d matter OF fact the match would
nave been made the following days
NOW then. here's the point: If
A. MauIman' Itangford and Morris were
NJ opponents for Johnson. why not
the man who beat them all?
Five years ago johnson beat FLYNN
weighed, 1856 pounds and was
really an inexperienced man. TODAY
itlynn weighs 1875. knows how to Nov
IN and at the same time protect him.
self. '-NNese ''ii'-
johnson OH Down Grade.
surely o n will say that John.
son Is any better today than he was
men: And besides this. five years e
oonnson did not stop Flynn. He
him a bad y and had him blcedine
80 that Mrs. Flynn jumped into the
ring IN the eleventh round and ston-
PED he battle, the referee refnsipp
20 permit the game and still willing
= lynn to continue. Coast critics have
told me all this. nave
Before johnson beat Jeffries did
NE people think he was SO much?
maL'i mart went twenty-five rounds
Win MIN and even If the decision was
questionable Hart was there and -
ing hard at the end. Johnson didn:t
stop Tommp Burns in Australia. R,Irns
aiWays claiming 1t was a rotten DO.
clslon that stopped the battle. So
for Johnson's championship "a.
reer. - q
And Flynn claims that johnson is
nearly as good now as he was two
again." '' e'ou
Gurley further points out that il
VII De two years to the day on the
ncxt Fourth of July since johnson has
nad a battle. that the black nan is
years Of or over. has lived
rapidly and summed up, never was =
man-killer In the ring.
isn't It a case now of johnson try-
ing TO come back. lust as Jim ferries
tried and failed? "A two wears. sneII
of idleness at Johnson's age is almost
to be, fatal. thinks Curlev All