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Show H Holds to Idea That White H Is the Better H Man H Tom O'Rourkc, boxing Impresario of H New York City, is at mental variance Hl with the eastern boxing critlcB. H I Tom believes t--.t the proposed H.-t match between Jack Johneon, cham- H ' pion of tho world, and Jim Flynn, j ' ' leading white hope. Is worth having. H - They cannot sec it all. H They couldn't see Johnson, cither, H i whon ho went after Jim Jeffries. H O'Rourkc would pay a nlco price to H get the famous black and tho confl- Hl dont Colorado white to meet in his H , arena for 10 rounds. L ' Incidentally, in tho negotiations for H the match he didn't get very far, by m the way ho admitted tacitly that H Flynn is a better man than Johnson. He wants Flynn to box JohnBon, but will not stand for Al Palzor, his own hopo, to meet tho nosro star at tho present time. "Flynn will mako a smashing fight of it with Johnson," said O'Rourkc. "But I wouldn't match Palzor with him now. Al doesn't know enough just yet." O'Rourlco Is an astuto Judge of affairs af-fairs of the ring and he is correct in his estimate of Flynn's ability to make a smashing fight of It with Johnson. And tho longer tho battle Is put off the harder fight Flynn will givo the black man. Two solid years of ring idleness Ii not going to help the Johnson caso any. At any time Jack would have to bo in protty good shapo to trim tho fighting fireman. And Just at tho present time thero seems to bo a reasonable doubt whether Johnson will bo able to get Into shapo at short notice. No wonder Jack is eagor to got some short workout bouts bofore ho goes Into a finish scrap with tho man who has beaten Carl Morris and Al Kaufman, the admitted best of tho whito hopes. Ho'll need all the work ho possibly can get between now and July 4 if ho would bo successful with Flynn. Tho Flynn people are figuring shrewdly and well. When they tie Johnson up so that ho couldn't battle any before the match with Jim they took a trick that will count heavily in tho final resume of points. And it looks as if Johnson Is be ginning to fret moro than a little about It right now, too. |
