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Show BURNS AND FLYNN TRY CONCLUSIONS TONIGHT LOS ANGELES, Oct. 2. Tommy Burn, who aspires to heavy-weight honors, has a hard nut to crack tonight. H ia to go against Jim Flynn, the Pueblo railroader, who has walloped abkit everything of his weight in the jfirttrmountain region. QTynn is not the name he arrived on XiaSfcjntb; it is a name his friends selected se-lected after they saw him fijrht a few rounds. They thought it would fit him better than the one he. already had, which haa a dash of Italian in it. AH Fighting Weight. He weighs close to 170 pounds, all of it raw fighting weight. He has a longshoreman's long-shoreman's muscles and mitts like a Virginia ham. What he knows about boxing will never hurt him. "I'm an awful rum at this game, says Mr. Flynn, "and no wise "Trter knows it anv better than me. I don t fight a man by hoppin- around him and -tabbing away with one hand. 1 getin close and wallop away, and the faster she goes, the better I'm suited." How He Got In Game. Flynn was a fireman on a Colorado road and he came into prominence because be-cause of his penchant for licking engineers engi-neers and things like that. One word never led to another with Flynn. It was one word and a biff on the nose. One night he had a date to fight Fred Cooley. the one-time sparring partner of Jack O'Brien. ' Flynn 's train had a stopover for an I hour and a half. Flynn tried to get a layoff, could not land one, so he went into the ring on a limited schedule. They say the fight was a furious one; at any rate, it was a esse of do or be done before train time. Cooley was done in the ninth round. Flynn is in good training for his fight with Tommy Burns tonight. Burns picked Flynn for an easy mark, but he has a surprise part on his bands. As rough a fighter as Flvnn is never easy money. He will be all over Burns from the tap of the gong and he will stay there, for Burns baa not the wallop to inconvenience thia tough Puebloite. |