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Show FIGHTER ARTISTS AT FOUR-FLUSHING , I i Four-flushing as an art has been car-" car-" ried to Its highest development by the mitt-sllngers , who claim to be champions cham-pions or .who are "near champions." Failure to put up a brand of "con talk" that will make the fans pause and gasp is considered worse than going into the ring and taking a beating." i When in his prime Kid McCoy was the goods with the spangles, but since public opinion has made him a high private in the rear ranks of the Jab artists ar-tists he has been holding his peace and - giving the other fellows a chance. . Tommy Ryan, and Jack O'Brien always . did give McCoy a hard run for -first money, and now this entire bunch is becoming be-coming involved in a gabfert which breaks all records before it is even half cyt- ; .,rrhat wallop which Ryan landed on O'Brien in Philadelphia seems to have made Jack a candidate for the queer house. H sits around the "con" Joints In the sleep city now and tells how he is going to take on McCoy, Ryan and Bob Fitzsimmons, Just as fast as he can drag those gentlemen Into a ring. Of course, this kind of talk gives McCoy and Ryan a chance to get back, and they are not passing up the opportunity. opportu-nity. Even old Bob Fitzsimmons has developed into quite a "con" peddler since Jeffrie hammered him to death.; Before O'Brien finishes with that . bunch, if he really intends to take them on, he will have a bad case of lockjaw. The English champion can probably trim Kid McCoy,. as the Hoosier Is one of the Boft spots tn the game now, but Tommy Ryan will drive him to the woods long before a twenty-round fight la ended, and if- he ever gets to old "Speckled Bob" he will get a trimming ' . that will Induce him to retire from active ac-tive business and live on bis income. In spite of all his talking, O'Brien is a top-notch fighter, and should be able . to make trouble for the best of them, but he might as well talk about whipping whip-ping Jeffries slSn Fitzsimmons. Gardner proved to be one of the best of the Jight heavy-weights, and Fltz made him look like a sucker. That fight proved almost beyond a doubt that, with the single exception of Jeffries, there is not a man in the business whocan beat "Lanky Bob." i |
