The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-07-19
Leo. P. Flynn
Is Able Man
He s Clever
Is First Manager to Go in
For Fighting on Mass Scale
Middle Name Is Peter
(BY JIMMY POWERS,

Saratoga Springs, N. Y, July 10.
-tNEA)-If Jack Dempsey, the
well-known Hollow Shell, gets by
Jack Sharkey it will make the big
gest comeback in the history of the
sport.
And if he goes on to knock the
Sears off the erudite Gene Tunney it
will mark a recordw- breaking epoch
in the long dynasty of the heavy
weights.
Now when, and if, all this comes
awful lot about q gray-haired, foxy
old 1rishman named Leo Peter
Flynn.
lnasmuch as he is going to have
SO much to do with the public prints
1t is quite defensiblc that we jump
the gun with an up-to-the minute
personality sketch.
Has Color
Leo Peter Flynn has more color,
more personal accomplishments, more
humOr, more caginess and is more
garrulous with the possible excep-
ton of "Dumb" Dan Mor1an) than
any other manager in the fight
racket.
He is the first man to 60 in for
boxing management on a mass scale.
One night he had IS men from his
stable fighting in various cities of
the country land the next morning,
so help me, got Is kilograms from
IL different towns telling me that 10
of them polookas went and got them
selves knocked cold!"
Leo's string Of fighters reads like
Tom Andrews boxing guide but of
late he has become notorious" Che
would insist, as manager Of Bill
Brennan and Dave Shade, those two
grabbing him most of the ink.
Leo Peter, and this story is one Of
the rare instances when his c0nfir-
nation name has been written cor
"Phelonius," aPilfering," "pic-eyed,"
"Pancake" or "Panic," was born in
| Providence, K. l., 81 years ago.
Started Early
I! Leo Peter started out early to be
Humdingcr. A Humdinger among
other things is right smart with a
pool cue. Leo PeteE made q lot of
sucker dough for many a year with
his beveled stick. He tried his mitt
at everything from bricklaying to
banana peddling.
! In 1900, for instance, he won the
buck-and-wing championship, breez-
l
son Square Garden.
Today he is short, a little padded
at the tummy, bronze of face and
silvery haired. He is an intelligent,
| well-informed conversationalist but
never ''high-hats" his current COM
i panions. If they are pugs, he is
singing their lingo, calling a mugg
! a mugg. If they are business men,
his voice is as we'll modulated as the
J best. He is no chump at a poker
table and the way he lays into a
brassie or long iron is an action pic
ture of art. He shoots in the low
Sos and twice, in the company of
this writer, dipped into the high T0s.
He is q nut on high-powered auto
mobiles and his garage has known
everything from Hispano- Suiza,
Mercedes and Rolls-Royce down to
In the ring he is recognized as be-
!, ing one of the foxiest Of veterans.
fer's glove down to secreting tin-foil,
are known to, and some have been
| inspired by, Leo Peter.
Tex Richard. Of course, bears out
this panegyric by his action in
choosing Flynn for the monument
task Of bringing back Dempsey.
It was Leo Peter who drilled Bill
Brennan in certain tricks Of foot
work that made Demnsey's vaunted
left hook = useless weapon SO that
Jack had to use his questionable
rabbit" punch beyond the ton round
limit to bring his man down.
\ Gene Tunney copied Flynn's
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