Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-04-23
Big OklahOman Believes He
Will Some Day Be the
Champion.
SHOWED A GAMENESS
First Bout With jim Flvnil
Proved That He Could
Take Beating.

SAPULPA. Okla. April 22.-On the
night Of September Is. 1911. a great
crowd was gathered in Madison
Square Garden. New York city, to
witness boxing match. The prin-
cipals were Carl Morris OF Sapulpa.
Okla. novice who was making u
name for himself, and Jim Flynn. the
Pueblo fireman. SCARED veteran of
a score Of fierccly contested ring bat
ties. II was youth and inexperience
against age and cunning. not age in
sofar as years are reckoned. but in
age which brings knowledge of how
and what to do.
And the fight? It was the old, old
story. the story that nobody knows is
how old They say that youth must
be served, but sometimes ii isn't. EX
Square Garden on the night Of Sep
tember 15. 1911. and Carl Morris as
simulated more punishment in the ten
roundO that evening than has any
other pugilist in a similar length of
time.
Both Eyes Closed.
Morris. the huge awkward novice
that he was then. was as so much
clay in the hands of Jim Flynn. the
mould Carl's face into q mcst rare
specimen OF cut ard bleeding features.
In the fourth round Flynn closed
Morris right eye. In the fifth round
he shut Carl's left optic with we'll
directed swing. Then for four rounds
fight fans of New York saw the most
remarkable exhibition of giving and
taking punishment ever seen In gay
Gotham.
The Sapulpa fighter was blind. abb
solutely helpless before his opponent.
Flynn would step away, measure the
distance carefully. the~ swing with all
the strength which his mighty right
or left contained. But Morris lived
and thrived under the bombardment.
Flynn was unable to register single
knockdown. True. he had Norris
groggy at times. almost down. but the
heart of the oak beat on despite the
merciless fusilaie of blows, and at the
end of the ten rounds Morris was still
on his feet. cropping pitifying about
trying to find his opponent. Morris
left the ring bruised and bleeding.
D.. Newspaper men in the press box at
the ringside were blood bespattered.
The ring was deep with the gore
which Flynn's blows had drawn.
Credit for Gameness.
The next morning sport RACES of
New York were filled with an account
of the fight. Not that it was such
clever exhibition, but because Norris
had given an exhibition Of gameness
Lever before equalled in ring battle.
But the same sport writer's who
lauded Morris for his nerve. con-
said he was too slow; that he lacked
ring generalship; that he used no
footwork, and that as possible
champion he was farce.
Today Carl Morris is regarded by
many sport writer's as the Most logi-
cal opponent for rho champion. Jess
Willard: Step by step, Norris has
fought his way toward the top OF the
pugilistic ladder. Time and again he
has been toppled backwards has
seemed against him On more than one
Cccasion-but as often as he failed, he
went back dogge1ly and won lost
laurels The awkward novice WHO
fought Jim Flynn five years ago has
been Transformed into a formidable
has won victory after victory without
q defeat. Carl's decisive win over
Gunboat Smith at Tulsa recently
stamps him as one Of the bes. heavy
weights in the game today, and he is
4 entitled to a match with such men as
Moran and Cosfey, the only two
fighters who stand between the Sa-
Iulpa Goliath ana Champion Willard.
Wants 20 Meet Them.
Morris is anxious to NEE. Moran
and Coffey. The latter holes de-
cision over Carl gained at the Garden
in New York some two years ago. But
different Morris is after Coffey's
scalp. and Carl feels confident he can
whip the Irishman. Morris is just as
confident of his ability to trim Frank
Moran. and he Is particularly anxious
to meet the latter.
'I'll never be satisfied until I meet
Willard" Morris tod the writer re-
Gently. Hes no bigger than ! am
and l don't concede him anything
except the confidence which victory
brings. Bur I've been winring a few
Victories myself lately and / believe