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AD'S MANAGER
BETSSIS.7GS
ON CHAMPION
By H. M. Walker.
LOS ANOBLBR. July 4.—Ad
Wolgast will defend his
lightweight title at Vernon
th!« afternoon ngnlnet Joe Rivers,
a aturdy Mexican, who battles ex
actly along the/iines of the cham
pion It 1s not going to baa one
sided mill, and 1 refuse to make a
selection.
Plenty of Coin on Mexican.
The uncovering of a lot of Riv
ers money during the past fen
hours has kept th’ betting going
along at a lively rate, with Wolgast
ruling as a 10-to-6 favorite
This reminds me that should th’
Mexican topple Ad over and win
the championship this feat will
make a beggar out of "Cherokee"
Tom Jones, as the champion's
manager is taking every bet that
comes to his notice.
"If Rivers is good enough to
whip Ad Wolgast I am ready to go
back to work and begin life all
over again," said Jones today "I
took all bets at 2 to 1 until the
odds were shortened to 10 to fi
This Is the figure that I am re
specting now and 1 will take every
dollar that is offered on Rivers. I
have s few diamonds and a solid
gold watch that I win turn Into
money when my hank account
gives out 1 will wager every-
"If It's at Hartman's, It's Correct”
A STORE FOR
YOUNG MEN
And old men too, but
studying the wants of
young men and supplying
those wants satisfactorily
is our principal life work.
Most men know that the
Hartman Store ean be de
pended upon to give more
value for the same money
than can he obtained else
where
Six Peachtree Street
i Opp. Peters Bldg. >
"If It’s Correct, It's at Hartman’s”
Ball Friday, July 5
Atlanta »S. Montgomery
PONCE OF LEON PARK
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• Johnson Flynn
: Title-Fight Facts •
• •
• Battle ground
• N. M. •
• Starting time .1 p. m. (Atlanta •
• time), «
• Principals Jack Johnson, chain- •
• pion, native of Galveston. Texas. «
• and Jim Flynn, challenger, native *
• of Hoboken, N. .1 •
• Last two fights—Johnson: K. •
• O, Jim Jeffries, 15 rounds, Reno. •
• Nev., July 4. 1910; K. O. Stanley •
• Ketchel, 12 rounds, Colma. Cal., •
• Oct. 16, 1909. Flynn: Defeated •
• Carl Morris, 10 rounds, Madison •
• Square Garden, New York. Sept. •
• 15, 1911; K, 0.. Al Kaufman, 10 •
• rounds, Kansas City, Mo., May 5, •
• 1911.
• Measurements: •
• Flynn. Johnson. •
• 5:10 1-2 .. . Height ... 6:00 1-4 •
• 190 Weight 315 •
• 70 1-2 Reach 75 1-2 •
• 17 Neck 17 •
• 12 1 2 Biceps 15 •
• 121-2 Forearm 15 7-8 •
• 99 Chest nt rest ... 40 1 4 •
•42 1-2 Chest full Inspr'n .421 -2 •
• 27 . Chest expansion .19 •
• 24 1-2 Waist 96 1-2 •
•29 1-2 Thigh 26 1-2 •
• 15 . Calf 1H
• Present betting price Johnson •
• 2 to 1 favorite •
• John O. Talbot, official betting •
• commissioner. •
• Seating eaparity—l7,lso *
• Farthest seat from ring tm feet. *
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thing 1 possess, even the button
on my clothes, on my hoy. I have
placed $13,765 on Wolgast to win."
Wolgast Challenged Rivers.
Rivers has been tagged as the
i hallenger of Wolgast. yet the
Mexican marvel has never by word
of mouth, action or design, issued
a defi to the 133-pound title holder.
Attention to this unusual point
was called by Manager Joe Levy
last night while a crowd of the
faithful were filling a cigar shop
with fight talk and tobacco sinoke
"Wolgnst challenged Rivers. If
vou want to know the real facts of
the matter," said Levy, "and 1 be
lieve that this is positively the first
and only case of its kind In the
history of the boxing game where a
champion traveled several thou
sand miles to.reach the home of a
rival and then challenged his man
“You see, it was like this: W<d
cast was ready to tight and so
looked about for the opponent that
would bring him the most mom y
McFarland he figured, would keep
until there were no more legiti
mate 133-pounders in sight Welsh
and Hogan were dead ones Man
dot would have commanded a fair
house In the South, lull when Riv
ers was considered Ad realized
that Joe would bring more money
than all the others put together
Rivers Go Means Fortune.
"The champion was quick to see
that with Rivers an 1do! In |,os
Angeles, be could pack the house
here, no matter what the prices
were. Joe meant a sm -lj fortune
to him, so h“ challenged us tnd we
accept ed.
"Eventually we would have chai
lenged Wolgast, but we were go
ing to box some of the otbe- light
weights first and gradually work
up to Ad, When the champion
.ame out flatfooted and named
Rivers we could only accept and be
glad of the opportunity I think,
too. that Rivers is the only light
weight whose first tight as a 133-
pounder was against the chani[>lon
B' gtr tllng as a bantamweight. Riv
ers finally grew Into the feather
weight division and now goes Into
Ute ilng for the first time as a
light W eight "
•ITLE Al bAM A GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY. JULY 4. 1912
i Police Chief s Curiosity Starts Flynh on Pugilistic Career
: Aspirant for Jack Johnson s Crown Travels Tough Trails
* There Never Was Time in His
* Life He Wouldn’t Fight Any-
* body Anywhere, and Size of
’ Man and Size of Purse Didn’t
* Count Anything With Him.
I
By Damon Runyan.
r A N a bright moonlight Saturday
I I night in later summer Chief
of Police Bob Griffin stood in
front of Pete Reilley's, combing his
gray whiskers with his fingers. Be
fore him lay the main channel of
* Pueblo’s activity—this was in
Pueblo. Colo, understand, and the
time some twelve years ago. The
* eye of the good old chief—■peace to
* his ashes! —rested meditatively
* -upon the shifting throngs of steel
* workers and smelter hands, and
recalling that ft had been pay day
1 nt the mills, the chief was consld
-1 ering whether he should send flf
' teen officers, or the entire force of
1 sixteen. down into the "Grove''
“ against the exigencies of the eve.
’ As he debated this Important
1 matter in his mind, and listened
' to the polygot voices, his gaze
gathered up in the moving film of
folks the figure of young Mr. An
drew t’blariglione—broad of beam,
and careless of manner and attire.
Young Mr. Chiarigllone was shoul
dering his way through the throng
without reference to any human
obt tructions in his path
The brow of the chief clouded.
He searched his memory swiftly,
and brought to light a recollection
of certain Chiarigllone peccadilloes
of the past —only in Pueblo they
don't call ’em that. He raised a
beckoning finger
"tine moment, there. Andren!"
he called.
Mr. Chriarlglione looked around.
A moonbeam fell upon the chief's
golden shield, and glanced off into
Mr. Chlariglione's eye. An alley
way yawned conveniently close at
hand. Without wafting to hold
converse with Chief Griftin. Mr.
Chiarigllone dived into the alley
as a rabbit dives in the whins.
Such was the custom in our —in
that -day. Any time the chief of
police, or any person associated
with him in an official capacity,
bespoke a youth running free, It
was no occasion to wait to ascer
tain their capricious desires.
Flynn Obeys Instinct and Runs,
What Chief Griffin wanted of
Mr. Chiarigllone will probably nev
er be known Whatever he want
ed. Mr. Chiarigllone lingered not
He obeyed Instinct and was gone
A s Mr. Chiariglione fled into the
darkness of the alleyway. Chief
Griffin drew a long, blue-beaked
revolver from his waistband, where
he wore it hooked to a suspender
button, and raising the nose of the
gun toward the moon, he fired two
separate and distinct shots
bloole! blooie! This was merely to
accelerate the departure of Mr.
t'hia iglione. and carried no Intent
to harm
Had t'hief Griffin not flrcif any
-hots whatever. Mr chiarigllone
would have paused at the city lim
its The first blast decided him to
ktep moving until he reached the
state line, the second shot nerved
him to keep going until he ar
rived, a bit breathless in Salt
bake City. I’tah,
Time passed. One afternoon
Chief Griffin encountered in Main
street a large diamond stud, be
hind w hich was concealed a bulky
young man
There's that t'hiariglionelTe
commented. ertishh Til hate
to speak to him again "
< hia'tgllone" ' urn.-tinned a
hearer. t'hiariglione nothin'
- ✓ •
S FIGHTERS’ FINAL STATEMENTS
By JACK JOHNSON. By JIM FLYNN.
111 win. My friends need only to It may taftce me 30 rounds to win*
collect their money. They say Flynn but I’ll surely win. lam going to set
has taken on over twenty pounds, a terrific pace from the start and
but he is still too small for me. I keep it up until Johnson drops. I
. know Flynn’s style and I’ll nail him am fully 200 per cent better now
coming in, and I’ll nail him so hard than I was when I fought Johnson
that he’ll never be able to stand the ' ca * P unch twi . ce a ’ ar
, . . . . .x .. anc > do not any longer swing, but hit
pace. I am faster and better than straight.! I will be champion of tha
ever. world tonight.
•
that's Jim Flynn, th’ prizefighter.”
And so it was.
Thus do we introduce our hero.
Tn 'this corner—Jim Flynn, the
Pueblo Fighting Fireman!
I know what you are going to
say—but never mind that Consid
er this purely as a Boswellian sort
of stagger at Mr. Andrew Chiarig
llone’s Jim Flynn, not in the light
of what you think is going U> hap
pen at Las Vegas, weather per
mitting. on the forthcoming anni
versary of the Declaration of Inde
pendence.
Prior to his precipitate departure
to Salt Lake City, Flynn had been
doing a little organized fighting
around his home town, along with
a great deal of loose, unrestrained
milling of one kind and another,
but he rode on the zlzz of the
chief's skyward shots into a real
pugilistic career. Where they used
to go to see him fight in the hope
of also seeing him licked, bls home
town people are now preparing to
cheer for the railroad man. And.
to my prejudiced—for—Pueblo
manner of thinking, that is support
to l>e desired above championship
belts and all such trivialities.
Has Traveled Tough Trails.
To what slight eminence he has
won Jim Flynn traveled tough
trails There never was a time.in
his life when he wouldn’t fight
anybody, anywhere, and the size of
the man and the size of the purse
were the last things that entered
Into his calculations. Surely that
is something In a day of great pu
gilistic quibble over a pound of
flesh. And. too. whenever Jim
Flynn dipped his brow beneath the
ropes the audience could settle
back feeling that whatever the
outcome it would see a fight, for
he has a lion's courage In a small
sized frame.
Had he ridden around instead of
trying to ride over such obstacles
as Tommy Bums, Jack Johnson
• both the heavyweight champions
when Flynn fought them—and Sam
Langford; did he stand today upon
his record, with those fights omit
ted. he would have to be conceded
a chance of defeating the cham
pion Jack Twin Sullivan. George.
Gardner. Dave and Jim Barry.
Tony Ross. Al Kauffman. Billy
Papke, “Philad,elphia Jack" O'Brien'
Malaria-Blood Poverty
Malaria is a species of blood poverty known as Anaemia; the circulation
becomes so weak and impure that it is unable to supply the system with
sufficient nourishment and strength to preserve ordinary health. In the
first stages of Malaria the complexion grows pale and sallow, the appetite
is affected, the system grows bilious, and there is a general feeling of weak
ness. As the circulation becomes more thoroughly saturated with the ma
larial infection, the digestion is deranged, chills
and fever come and go, skin diseases, boils, sores
and ulcers break out, and the entire health becomes
impaired. Malaria can only be cured by removing
1 the germs from the blood, S. S. S. destroys every
I particle of malarial infection and builds up the
/ nlood to a strong nourishing condition. 'Then the
s s’ stera receives its proper amount of nutriment,
jy sallow complexions grow ruddy and healthful, the
liver and digestion are righted and every symptom
* of Malaria passes away. S. S. S. cures in every
case because it purifies the blood. S. S. S. is a safe and pleasant remedy
ias well as an efficient one. Book on the blood and any medical advice free.
; THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA.
—how many pf the “white hopes”
of today would care to take that
same route before clamoring for a
little tilt? Not many. I wot and
ween.
Flynn's first fight with Johnson
was in 1907 at San Francisco, and
he remained upright, or nearly so,
for eleven rounds. Then he be
came conversational with the Gal
veston black and cast aspersions
Uf»n the Johnsonian ancestry.
Whereupon. Johnson knocked him
over. Afterward Jim remarked:
"The only time I put a glove on
him was when we shook hands.”
Jim Flynn is no spring chicken,
as we reckon pugilistic springers
He is nearly 33 years old. In sport
ing circles this is considered bor
dering upon senility. Somehow,
age never seemed to rest very
heavily upon the shoulders of Jim
Flynn. .With all his 33 hard win
ters, and equally adamant sum
mers. he will weigh around 19(1
with his diamonds off.
Was Born in Brooklyn.
He was born in Brooklyn—
Brooklyn-Across-the-Tube—on De
cember 24, 1879. Brooklyn has sig
nally failed to commemorate this
event. In fact, Brooklyn didn't
suspect it until comparatively re
cently. But should Jim Flynn
chance to knock Mr. Johnson Into
the middle of next August, Charlie '
Ebbets might well choose Decem
ber 24 as a fitting anniversary for
the opening of his baseball park.
One time, when the Pueblo club
of the Western league was in sore
s‘raits. Jim heard about the matter
out in Los Angeles, and he prompt- ,
ly volunteered to return home at 1
his own expense and box an exhibi- 1
tion for the benefit of the strug- ’
-rling baseballers. The offer was ‘
accepted; Jim filled the coffers of
the club by beating Bill Pettus, a
colored basetail catcher, now
around New York, who had pugilis
tic aspirations at the time. That
cost Jim a pretty penny, but it
endeared him to the of his
fellow-townsmen.
Meantime he was fighting con
stantly on the coast, sometimes los
ing. sometimes winning. Oddly
enough, he improved rather than
retrograded with the years. He is
bigger and stronger now than he
Was Born in Brooklyn 33 Years
Ago—Started on Pugilistic
Way in Pueblo, and Has Both
Jaws Broken—Has Battled
With the Best in the Game.
ever was in his life. He was lit
tle more than a middleweight when
he was meeting champions.
He never really had a manager
until he met Jack Curley, the pro
moter of the present bout. Occa
sionally some friend looked after
his affairs for hint temporarily, but
as a general thing Jim has been
his own boss,
NASHVILLE W?LL HOLD
A “DOC WISEMAN DAY"
NASHVILLE. TENN., July 4.—Doc
Wiseman, who retired from baseball
this season after having set Ji record
for continuous service with one team,
having played right field for Nashville
since the Southern league’s organiza
tion twelve years ago. wilk soon be
honored by the Nashville fans.
"Doc Wiseman day” will be
brated at the Nashville baseball park
on July 8, according to plans already
completed by the local management. On
this day Wiseman, who is at present
employed at Cincinnati in the service
of the city, will come to Nashville at
the club’s expense and will be presented
with a handsome present on behalf of
the fans. It is also hoped that he will
be prevailed upon to play in his old
position in right field that day against
New Orleans.
KNOCKOUT BROWN LOSES
BOUT TO JIMMY DUFFY
BUFFALO, N. Y„ July 4.-Jimmy
Duffy, of Lockport, had the better of
Knockout Brown, of New York, in all
but one round of a ten-round bout here,
In the fifth Duffy closed Brown’s left
eye and in the sixth opened up a two
inch gash in his cheek.
MARE WOnIiACE WITH
DEAD MAN IN SULKY
SANTA CRUZ, CAL., July 4.—T. M.
Ferguson, near the end of a trotting
race here, fell dead from his sulky, but
his mare finished first in the race and
trotted to her stable. The races were
called off.
Steam rollers may have their
purpose---!) u t excessive
weight means discomfort in
an automobile—-or a man.
He alone is sure that the
heavy car rides easiest who
has never ridden in the
light, Vanadium-built Ford.
A demonstration is a
revelation.
More than 75,000 new Fords into service
this season—proof that they must be right
Three passenger Roadster $590 —five
passenger touring car $690 —delivery car
S7O0 —f. o. h. Detroit, with all equipment
Catalogue from Ford. Motor Company,.
311 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, or direct
from Detroit factory
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• • TODAY'S BIG FIGHTS. «
• ;
• Jack Johnson vs. Jim Flynn. •
• Lais Vegas. •
• Ad Wolgast vs. Joe Risers. Los •
, • Angeles. . «
I • Johnny Kllbane vs, Tomin' •
• Dixon. Cleveland, «
• George K. O. Brown vs Edd “ i
• McGoorty, Benton Harbor •
> • Harry Donahue vs. Phil Harn- •
• son, Peoria. •
1 • Patsy McKenna vs. Joe Her- »
• rick. Fort Wayne. <
| • Harry Brady vs. Eddie Mo'. •
• Shamokin. •
I « Willie Canole vs. Harry Dell. •
• Tonopah. t
• Tommy Devlin vs. Yankee «
1 • Schwartz. Nashville. «
• Willie Beecher vs. Joe Thomas, «
• New- Orleans. «
• Jumbo Wells vs. Jess* Willard t
• Fond-du-Lac. •
• •
McFarland knocks out
RANDALL IN THIRD ROUND
CINCINNATI, OHIO, July 4-
Packey McFarland knocked out Eddie
Randall, of St. Louig, in the third round!
of a scheduled ten-round bout here:
last, night. Randall was completely
outclassed.
CREE OUT FOR TWO MONTHS
BOSTON, MASS., July 3 Biriie
Cree, the Highlanders' star outfielder,
will be out of the game for two months
on account of a fractured wrist sus
tained in the game with the Red Sox
a few days ago.
STATEN TO GIVE RETURNS
Returns of* the Johnson-Flynn tight
at Las Vegas will be given at Hary
Staten's old club on the viaduct today.
CALLER KING
WILL GIVE RETURNS 0?
Flynn-Johnson Fight
TODAY
FROM POSTAL WIRE,
Blow for Blow,
AT
Harry Staten’s Old Club.
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