The Washington herald., 1918-03-11
JACK DEMPSEY
SETTLES FLYNN
Pueblo Fireman Is Polished
of by Younger Man.

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sey. just over the twenty-year-line,
polished off Jim Flynn. the venera-
BILE Pueblo fireman, in about two
minutes of actual fighting.
The performances is Interesting
and particular gratifying to Demp-
sey. because it wiped his record
clean Of g. one-round knockout
given him by Flynn. in Salt Lake
City a year ago. 1t is more intet-
esting. however. in that 1t points
again to the old, old adage that
youth will be served.
There Is something about the
fighting game, IL seems. that gets
into a mans blood and warps his
judgment. They always-the real
fighters. at least-think they have
one more good battle in their sys-
TENS.
Flynn. as most everyone knows,
has been a wonderful scrapper. He
has never been clever, never a
champion. but he always has been
a fighter. When Flynn entered the
ring everyone knew he was in there
to fight.
Nearly ten years ago Sam Lang
ford cut Flynn to ribbons in q bout
that put the skids under the fight
game in Los Angeles. but he could
not put the Pueblo man away. That
fight was so CORY that II shocked
the esthretic sense of the Angelenos
and there has been no fighting in
the city limits since. 1t demon
strated that Flynn was one of the
toughest and gamest men in the
ring.
A few years later, in 1912 to be
exact, when Jack Johnson was
champion. he met Flynn and beat
him so that they stopped the fight
in the ninth round. Yet Flynn,
when the officials interfered. was
up on his legs and fighting the best
he knew how.
These things show that Flynn,
whatever his scientific shortcom-
ings, was q man with a fighting
heart. He battled because he liked
it-and he still likes IT, it would
seem.
But. regardless OF his gameness,
Flynn is through as a tighter. His
defeat means his passing from the
ranks of top notch heavy-weights.
ready to fight, but II is unlikely pro-
motors will consider him for impoc-
tant matches.
The sensible thing for Flynn to do
now would be to referee.
Right now. exclusive Of the cham
pion. Pete Herman, who is in the
navy, there are a bunch of sprightly
bantams who are active. Johnny Er-
tie, Kid Williams, the former cham
pion; Jack Wolfe. of Cleveland; Pal
Moore, Of Memphis; Joe Burnam, the
Chicago lad; George Thompson, from
California; Joe Lynch. of New York,
and several others are dinging away
at the mltt game and keeping the
bantam division well stirred I'D.
Now comes another bantam to make
a bid for fame. SHe is Mike Dundee.
a swarthy little scrapper from Rock
Island. Ill, who gave the clever ana
shifty Pal Moore all the fight he could
handle in q hx-round struggle last
week.
Dundee believes he Is headed
straight for the title and his con-
fdence is not entirely without justi-
fcation. Dundee Is a cool little chap
with a lot OF cleverness to back him
up. He is a good defensive fighter
and can hit hard enough to make his
punches dangerous. When he deveI-
ops a little more hitting power and
offensive ability he VIII make a tough
tussle for any man in the bantam
weight class.
The Rock Island lad is young and
ambitious. His name yet may adorn
the top Of the bantam-weight list, but
he has quite a field ahead Of him.
Under the management of Peanuts
Sheiberl. Dundee has set out to clean
up the field and all Rock Island is
back Of him.
Soldiers in the various army canton
ments are due to see a lot of fighting
that the general public will not
glimpse. according to a recent an
nouncement by directors of army ath-
leics. The announcement does not
mean that there is going to he . Iot
of fighting at cantonments, but rather
that film reproductions of ring battles
are to be exhibited for the benefit of
the soldiers,
A plan recently suggested to show
films Of fights to the soldiers has met
with ready reception, and the first
picture was shot" when Fred Fulton
and Frank Moran met at New Orleans
two weeks ago. This film will be ready
for release before long and will be
started on its trip around the army
circuit. Pictures Of other fights are
10 be taken with the same end in view.
Besides the current fights that will
be mined it is planned also to resur-
rect lot Of old film that has been in
storage since the Federal law forbade
shipment Of hght pictures from one