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Show CHARLEY MILLER HAS I LEARNED GREAT DEAL BY W. W. NAUOHTON. JIM FIiTNN l experiencing tho ups and downs of the Queensberry game. Last July he went against Johnson. This coming Tyabor day he will tackle big Charley Miller, the veriest novice In the heavyweight ranks. "Just think of It," mused Flynn nfter he had Installed hlmcelf In his training quarters at the Seal Rock house. "I was tho first man who put a glove ori Miller's hand. Ho came over to Billy Shannon's when T began training for my first fight with Jack Johnson, and asked to be allowed to help out. Ho did not know a thing about sparring, but matters wore In Fiich shape that I could not spare him Sparring partners part-ners wore scare, and I wanted to practice body punching, so Miller got his. Occasionally ho would say to me, 'Please, If you don't mind, would you hit me in the face Instead.' In-stead.' " Flynn will hav to divest his mind of the idea that Miller Is as easy now as he was then. The big Roumanian Rou-manian has gained In confidence if ho has not widened his knowledge of hitting or sparring, and be has also become so seasoned by hard knocks, that the ordinary smashes of pugilistic pugil-istic commerce disturb him very little. lit-tle. And he has developed a forthright style of fighting. He ha had It .dinned Into him by the wise lads of the game who have seconded him from tlmj to time, that the only way to discount clever boxing is by tearing tear-ing into close quartorB. ' When Charley starts after his man he thuds like a horse on a boardwalk, board-walk, and BtralnB the ropes to such an extent that spectators with close 1 scats are willing to exchange for locations further back. He is about as jjraccfui as an elephant crashing through underbrush, and Just about as easy to stop. |