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Show FLVIIII TRIES TO PUT Oil MOREVEIGHT a ' . Man Who Is to Meet Morris Now Weighs But 170 - Pounds. KANSAS orrr, Jtma 17. With the most tmportant battle of hu earear tare weeks ' away, Jim Tlynn tad that he la getting too light aad that If k (James) doesn't look out he will be entering the ring a middle weight whan ha hook ap with Carl Morris la Tnlaa an Iadepcadeae day. The Pueblo face disturber be gas training a week age yeiterday. At that time he weighed ia the neighborhood neighbor-hood of 185 ponhda and said that he intended to lose about tea pounds during dur-ing the four weeks he had te prepare for tha battle. Yesterday ha stepped oa tha scales aad tipped tha beam at exactly 170 pounds. During tha one week of training Flyaa kaa loot fifteea pounde- Flyan ia too light and aow he realize re-alize the fact. Carl Moms will enter en-ter tha ring . weighing at least 840 pound, and thi means that Fives will have to concede at least seventy pounds. So Flyaa ia going to try to baild ap. For the aezt week be will confine hi operations to gymnasium work aad abort run oa tha road. By takiag thing easy ha hopes te enter the nag July 4 weighing In tha aeigh-borhood aeigh-borhood of 180 pounds. ' This Flyaa person ia a hard gt to get alerted, but whoa he ence digs into hia training he worka like a Trojan. Heretofore Flynn kaeat takea aay ef kia bouts seriously, but he realizee the importance of the Morris Mor-ris engagement aad ha ia adding a little extra work to tha training layout. lay-out. Flraa aavg that ha has beea losing hia wsight ea the read; ha is onlv hardening himself ia the gym- naaiutn. However, he needs the work for both eagles. - When he fongbt Ksnfman her hi wind wa bad, and several time during th ten-round tilt be ehowed signs ef exhaustion. He knows that to perfect hia wind he must do plenty of traveling in the open air. Flynn pleas te leave here for Tnlsa next Friday. He aay that hia contract con-tract -with Promoter lifer calls for him to be oa the battleground at least a week before the gonk rings, and that he is going to beat it a few days earlier thaa the eontrva', time. The firemen haa received a latter from Art Harden, ia which Hayflen aaid thet he had earn ea-rn red the aefviee of sveral hefty Oklahoma "tope" te blp. out Flvna during the doting day of ale training. The letter pleaaed Flynn, Tor th lire man want to mak a hot finish ia th gymnaaium. The referee question Ig still ia th air. Tke latent candidate for the job who ia being considered ia Lee Shea. Leo gave aatiafaetioa as a referee for tb Grand Avenue Athletic (lnb, ha plenty ef nerve aad knows the game from every angle. Dave Porteout, also is being considered. Two "I" writers have filed application for the iob, but Flyaa doesn't believe that either has the right, kind of serve or experience. |