Show COLORED CHAMP MUST FIGHT SOON Tiger Flowers in Sar Same e Fix as Eugene Criqui By HENRY L. L F FARRELL RRELL United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK March arch 4 Tiger Tiger Flowers the sad-faced sad Georgia deacon deacon dea dea- con con has been gwen given ven only a short spell In which to eloy himself asa as aa aaa asa a champion Just out of a fight tIght in which hewon he e eWon won the worlds world's middleweight championship Flowers now finds himself with the prospector prospect prospector of or a fight with Paul Berlenbach the worlds world's I light heavyweight champion and 1 the most devastating hitter in the ring It is a matter of record that BerI Berlenbach Ber I lenbach has J eaten beaten Jack Tack Delaney twice and Delaney has knocked out outI I Flowers the same number num-ber of tim times timea I even though the manager of ot Flowers Flow Flow- ers era said that Delaney's fists were packed Flowers as a champion has been caught In the same kind of a jam that made the reign of Gene Criqui so short as the worlds world's featherweight featherweight featherweight feather feather- weight champion Poor Criqui with his Ms broken Jaw from Verdun had to agree agree that he would defend his title if he won It within sixty days after he won It before h he could get a bout with Johnny Kilbane knocked out Kilbane and won the title but buthe buthe buthe he never had a a. chance to show France the crown as he was hustled Into a bout with Johnny Dundee and was badly beater beaten Flowers had to sign a a. contract that he would fight within ninety days against any man that Tex Rickard 1 picked before he could get Into the Garden with Harry Greb Harry Greb the champion ex-champion asked for tor the first shot at t his successor successor suc sue cessor and It was decided tentatively tentatively tentatively tenta tenta- to throw them Into the ring together on May 21 Then these plans were set aside and Berlenbach Berlenbach Berlenbach Berlen Berlen- bach was selected as his first op op- op Berlenbach of course cant can't make maRe I Ithe the weight of a middleweight but that wont won't mean much to Flowers because he will vill take a terrific beatIng beatIng beating beat- beat Ing for tor nothing but b the purse V When en Flowers gets gete over his fight with Berlenbach he will be asked to meet Jack D Delaney lane one of the terrors of the ring and may be forced to meet another Harry Greb who has learned that learned that the pa paved ved streets of Broadway are not a good I place for tor road work |