Show COLORADO STAR ARRIVES FOR SIX ROUND BATTLE WiTH WT JACKIE JACKI ORO I. I Lack of Training Trag finally i Tells o on f Fek of f Ring Rg 1 N ew w Middleweight King Has Hot Career i Fights in All Classes 1 i By Robert Edgren ff Micky Walkers Walker's chance to gather gather- in the middleweight champion champion- by fighting Harry Grebb in the Los Angeles coliseum has gone u Up in in smoke The smoke is Tiger Flow Flowers rs a dusky gentleman from Georgia who beat Mickey to it the evening of February 26 by lJ Trig wg ig Harry from the Mickey middleweight title itle himself on a round fifteen de da- da rendered In in Tex i ex y Madison Square Garden In New rt Y rk i v Flowers Is the first black blacky y champIon champlon since Jack Johnsons Johnson's time 11 i He is the first black holder of the Middleweight title He Is a veteran i. i h It over oer a hundred and twenty fights tights u 4 It six years ears always has been a good rl s has been near champion champion- lp Iv ip form before and has been out several times when he hes ts s expected to win l- l Flowers lowers Is a deacon Beacon and a moral citizen a very velT lr Ir and nd honest fighter fis and will probably be a a. good champion while he ho which be for some lasts may time Greb thinks Flowers can fight larry Harry bet on Flowers both times j hen Flowers fought Delaney ft 1 l 4 f 1 JOr or f several years rears ring followers e pointed to Greb as a champion who upset all notions of training nd careful living l Harry has been t more ore or less of or a wild lad training t I Ittle or not at all staying up late latent nt itt ht night and frequently slipping I i something into his hie ginger gins ale be before beI be- be I i. i tore sore downing it Yet he always has hasi i i.- i. Appeared in remarkably Rood good condition condi condl- tion Uon Lon in the ring and has shown amazing and punch absorb- absorb 1 ng qualities in hundreds of ot fights J e was vas a 1 puzzle to the cranks on I ul living and hard training f v nut Ut ot no Ill more As a puzzle Harry as been solved Like all has found out that he is human W nd that he cant can't ignore training i rules les and get away with it In th the II J round fifteen round fight sight with Flowers J who vho was figured little more than a at I tup for tor the rough and rugged champion Greb start- start e listlessly and took a beating for Several eral rounds before he really beAn bein be- be An in to fight right And after acter making a airly aj j irly good showing for a he ew up and took another beating lI ough the last e rounds nEB EB NEEDED PUNCH The thin thing that Greb GIeb lacked and that f-that he needed most to whip Flow- Flow J- J i feers rs was a real knockout punch r. r t. t Greb has won his fights tights by mauling from bell to bell His Ii knockout percentage is poor Flow- Flow f rs rs could and outfight as he went along if IC he wasn't Jilt lh I on the button with a punch hard enough to drop him He could fight k in hi just the right wa way to beat Greb Grebla la the decision route fighting itel lY and scoring points while f b was doing his hold and hit hits s nt as usual which made no hit 4 a veteran like Gunboat Smith referee who always was a clean rind nd open fighter himself Tiger Flowers has had a hot ca ca- ca reer Beginning in the South he fought a lot Jot of colored boys of varying vary vary- ing ng ng degrees of or skill A middleweight middle middle- weight he fought heavies welters I heavies anything heavies anything he lie was matched against Among the dusl dusky y swat purveyors ors he knocked o out r d were vere several who fought Harry Harrt Wills Tut Jackson Jaclson for Cor instance And he flattened Battling Ghee and J the he Jamaica Kid He usually de deI delivered delivered de- de I livered a quick knockout in a round or r two or three He knocked out Johnny Johnn Wilson f former rmel middleweight middle middle- weight champion In three rounds Ho He ro beat a a a- alot lot of others fifty or sixty or so on decisions 0 The Tiger is a buey busy fighter As 4 E champion he ought ht to be the cleanup clean clean- up lip p kid unless he changes his habits hab- hab its and becomes coy and hard to please in matchmaking like other champions fLOWERS FLOWERS TOUGH Flowers is tough but he has be been bean n knocked out occasionally when hit hitOn hiton on n the chin Panama Joe Gans knocked him out in five rounds Kid Norfolk polished him off ott In three am Langford you Langford-you you can see b by this hat for a middleweight Tiger Flowers Flow Flow- 1 ers met a wide range of or opponents in two knocked 4 T him cuckoo rounds Kid Klel Norfolk finished him a a second time in the first round in 1923 l-It l It was after aner this that Tiger Flowers Flow Flow- Ii era ers jumped right back into the Ii fj limelight and won sixteen fights e clean knockouts won ten deci- deci i and fought eight no-decision no outs all in 1924 Harry Greb Oreb was lis his rival In one of ot the no-decision no A t l outs outs and Flowers gave ga Greb a ai i pasting asting He wasn't picking l either and in those L our ur fights he ho met some someer er very good goodS S heavyweights and light heavy- heavy eIghts i i The next year Flowers went right long winning his first three bouts with knockouts By this time he had iad such a reputation that he was against Jack Delaney the cleverest and most scientific puncher punch punch- er r in the light heavyweight class Nearly carly everybody expected to see lowers swarm all over Delaney But ut it didn't work out that Wi wp D De- De ney janey ney met his fast rushes with a ap apol p pol ol defense and In the second round und crossed his right to the ther Tigers Tiger's r gerS ger'S chops and knocked him so soc cold c ld they could have sold sod him to tonn toJ toan J nn an icehouse There Was a great fandal sandal andal after tb that t tight right Flowers' Flowers manager who was disappointed and noyed by bv the flopping of ot his coining eon coin eon eon- ing g champion and who couldn't beeve beeve be- be eve anybody could wilt Flowers with a a. single punch claimed that elaney Delaney had brass knuckles or tea ad wrappings or something or of that in his glove S 8 GOOD SPORT Being a good sport Delaney gave grave lowers flowers another match a month later ater let 1 Flowers Flowers' manager Inspect ils ls hands and the gloves again lunched Flowers vers woozy WOOZ with neatness and again again put the kayo sayo yo kick across when he had a alean EJean lean ean opening for fell it which was in j he fourth round In the dressing bom after that fight right Flowers who Js s a good sport himself told the newspaper writers s that he wished Jo I o 0 apologize to De Delaney aney the brass story stony and to assure the J that Delaney was a good lenn lef fighter and a R grand fellow Io els went vent right on fighting fighting- won of ot decisions landed a few knockouts fought 60 sone e no decision stuff stuer and lost decisions to Lou Bogash Bogash Bo- Bo gash and Mike In all he lie fought thirty ring bouts last year He lie knocked out Ted Moore beal Tock Jock Malone Lou Bogash Jacl Jack Stone Frank o l Moody dY Lee Anderson and man many others If It Flowers goes on fighting as Industriously now that he has a world title to defend as he has ha's Inthe in inthe inthe the past two or three years hell he'll make more mone money than any other colored champion in the past And theres there's no reason why he He always puts up a a. fast and In Interesting in- in fight He has been fightIng fightIng fighting fight- fight Ing eight years and while It was said after his fights with Delaney that he had a glass jaw no man manof manof manot of ot his weight has ever proved it except Panama Joe Gans and Jamaica Jamaica Ja Ja- Ja- Ja maica maiCo Kid Kill when Flowers was less experienced In ring technique than he is now The others who knocked him out were much bigger and heavier men As middleweight ht champion Tiger Flowers will have only middleweights to fight He wont won't have to take heavyweights or go without matches Negotiations ons for tor a return match are already under way Then Greb will ilI change his habits and go into regular training and nobody can cantell cantell cantell tell what will happen Training may not agree with him Greb Isa is isa isa a freak among fighters and never will be anything else Copyright 1926 by b the Bell S Syn Syn- n Inc |