The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-06-15
JIM FLYNN THINKS
He IS WHITE HoR[ HoE !:
Wants Bout With Gun
boat" Smith-NO Shines
20 Be Fought
By JEFF THOMPSON

Copyright, 1919, by the Publishers Press)
New York June 14.-Gf Jim Flynn is
out of the race for the white hope pre-
miership, he does not seem to be aware
of the fact. He now wants to fight Gun
boat smith and match between the
two probably soon will be arranged
of. Joe ChoyinsHi, though he is nothing
of Joe Ghokinski, though he is nothing
like the fighter Joe was The difference
is that In Choyinslds day there was per-
haps the greatest aggregation of real
heavyweight fighters the world have ever
seen at one time, which to state it gently
Is not the case now.
Choyinski WAS not good enough TO win
against men like Peter jackson, Sullivan,
Sharkey Mitchell. Kilran and half a
dozen others of that generation, but he
would have been able to go through the
present bunch of heavies like a hot knife
through bulls. the blacks not excepted
However, a fight between Smith and
Flynn should be arranged. If Smith
E, should win-and he ought to-it would be
a step upward for the man with the war
| like name, Only Palzer would stand be-
tween him and the top. and at that he
| aas as good a chance as AL to the head
ship of the class,
! note there is disposition on the
| part of some experts to hold that no man
can be heavyweight champion until he
! has met and defeated the three negroes,
| l-argford McNey or Jeanette. There is
nothing to this. | venture the prediction
that there will never be heavyweight
/ championship fight with a negro partici-
pant while either of these three smokes is
able to fight. We have had in John Ar
| thur Johnson one black champion and he
| has been an elegant sufficiency FOR one
generation
That Mike Gibbons is sill suffering
from the blow to his prestige that re-
| suited from his poor showing against
Eddie McGoorty is shown by the fact
that there was less than $500 in the
| house when he met Jimmy Perry at Pitts
burg recently The management wanted
to call off the bout at the last moment.
but Gibbons decided to go on. rather
than become implicated in another affair
| that would detract from his standing.
Noting the vacant chairs Gibbons wanted
the management to cut out all the pre-
liminaries in order to reduce expenses,
but this the club officers refused TO do
As the main bout lasted less than two
| rounds, by refusing they escaped creating
a new record.
Gibbons appears to have recovered his
old form.
If Bombardier Wells stays IN the fight
| game he'll be up against Johnny Coulon
before long. and be in for the worst
| beating of his career. Bombardier started
! with AL Palzer 30 pounds and got a
| fair trimming after showing signs OF be-
| ing fighter A little later he got Gum
! boat Smith who weighs about 1855 pounds
ana got it harder and more severely than
! PaZer dealt out, And then came Georges
/ Frenrllnan
aboutt fi0 pounds Bumbie took some
more -avslloping- and "a feur-round beat
Ting. ss
| lnasmuch as Bombarder made his best
| showing against the heavier Palzer it
would be sensible If he stuck to the big
uns and let the smaller men alone. They
do say that Wells never did recover
from that punch smith slipped him in the
garden.
Much interest is felt by, eastern fight
| fans in young Bob McAllister of San
| Francisco Those who have seen him
| fight in the west say he has everything
a champion needs. His physical makeup
! Is perfect. Nearly six feet tall. he is lean
and sinewy and symmetrical His reach
| is as great as that of Fitzsimmons. who
/ stretched 70 inches from tip to tip. arms
/ extended He is very fast in action, and
| his quick mind enables him to take in
| slant advantage of his opponents Added
! To clevenness he has a knockout punch in
| Fight or left boxing in somewhat the
| style OF Ketchel, He is cool. determined,
| clear mouthed. So say the California
! fight followers
We Will soon have a chance to see
him in action here in New York. for
he has weeded out the local middle
weight crop to such an extent that to
keep busy he will have to come east and
engage with Klaus, PapiSe Dillon and
other notables of the ring, who claim
that middleweight title he wants