New-York tribune., 1915-12-22
Personal Touches Here
and There in Boxing
By IGOE

Tom Cowler has business OF great
Importance on tonight. Jim Corbetts
likely looking English heavyweight
meets Porky Flynn at the American
Sporting Club, and by far it is the
hardest hurdle that Cowler has been
asked to negotiate. Not that Flynn is a
demon hitter. lie isn't. But he is a
master mechanic with pair Of five
ouncers. What he doesn't know about
rngmanship isn't worth knowing.
Flynn proved what great boxer nc
was the night he gave Jack Dillon that
lesson in blocking, fddling, outguess-
ing and outthinking at the Broadway
Sporting Club, in Brooklyn. Jack was
man killer right up to the time nc en-
tered the ring with Porkubus. By the
time the first citizen Of Bawston got
through with him Dillon had dwindled
10 the proportions Of an English spar
row.
Flynn's work reminded ono Of Jack
Twin sullivan. another old master with
the pillows. Now that Jack 7. has re-
tired to private life Flynn seems to
have become obsessed with the idea
that dear Boston must be kept on the
pugilistic map. Chris Brown. for Cor
bett, has selected Flynn as another
Cowler stepping stone.
Chris has been around the village
looking for odds. Has been betting that
Cowler hattens Jack Twins understudy.
Has been getting some customers, too.
BUT Chris, and jim and Tom. A word
Of warning. Porky Flynn has floating
chin. Now you see it, now you don't,
sor. of a chin.
If Cowler can pot-shot one 70 Flynn
classic law then he is elected 20 the
big league. Should Tom do that, then
he steps right up alongside OF steve
Kctchcl and Sam Langford in the hall
Of fame, for let it be known they alone
accomplished the feat. Tom, II you Do
gc. peek at Porky's chin, why let fly.
Astounding luck. old top, on this your
very, very busy night
Eddie Harvey. the manager OF
/ Frankie Whitney, is looking for the
man who flooded New York with tele-
grams supposed to have been sent by
/ himself from Atlanta after the Whit
ney- " Wolgast fight. Harvey did send r
short report Of Whituey's great fight
/ against WolCast TO many of the New
/ York Sporting Editors. Some one IN
/ New York closely connected with the
/ Harlem SportinS Club happened 20 see
I one of those Harvey messages. In nine
shakes Of lambs tail Hawkshaw, who
/ ever he was, got exceeding busy. Ieie-
grams arrived at most Of the news
papers signed Harvey and asking that
/ the r port sent out by him from At
lanta be disregardod.
Harvey didn't send any such wire,
and he suspected Larney Litchenstein,
Wolgast's manager, as being the man
who did. Harvey now finds that the
wires were written in New York. He
mas been doing a little Hawkshawing
: himself and has traced the original
draft Of the telegram. Instead of an
Atlanta date line New York appears,
proving that some one here, with the
success of the WolgastCross fight very
much at heart. scribbied that message.
Harvey doesn't intend 20 stop right
~ this point. II. vii! bring the matter
/ 10 the attention Of the boxing commits
/ sioners. Just what they Will be able 70
do about il is a question. This IS GER
tain: Professor Eddie Harvey las a
/ fine 18-karat crouch on. and If he finds
. this jim th Penman the fur is going
10 fly, yea, take wings.
Reports from ST. Paul have Mike Glib
bons ont Of bed and up and out in the
snow for a ten-mile run. That's giving
+ Battling Pneumonia his quietus in jig
time. First word had il that the phan-
tom would be on his back for more than
a month Nike has shaken of the cold
and will continue training. With
brother Tom as a pacemaker Nike
pioddcd through the snow for run
/ that brought him back to the rubbing
/ table in high spirits. Nike wants 10
get Ahearn of his mind. He says as
much. lie has resented the talk that
he has been trying 10 sidestcp John
Bulls Boy. "I'm as good as ever |
haven't been backsliding," says Mike,
"and nobody will know that better
than Ahearn when ! have finished with
him
They'll never be able TO make Ad
\ WolRast Quit the ring" said Nate