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Show FLYNN TELLS WHY 1 BE HOPES TO WIN ym East Las Vegas, N. M., July 2. Jim Ifff? Flynn came into the city for a look JffiSa about and to shake hands with some :g friends who. arrived for tho contest .JiSei next week with Jack Johnson. fin During one of the lapses in tho con- ITCi vorsational fire that besieged the Pu- I Hjjjir oblo man, he was asked why he felt J 0 so confident of whipping the cham- j )Sm plou. Wlf Without any hesitancy Flynn reeled fli off four reasons that he figured to be ma very good ones. He is betting heavily -tICF on each of them. Here they are, tab- lj ulated in the order he doled them out: $ j First I am bigger and stronger and , Sn faster than ever before. L jlfj Second I know how to hit straighl fjfij now; didn't before. jgaj Third I will make Johnson come tj e , jjSjt mo, fighting cautiously and thus neu- j tejjj tralizlng the Johnson "method of mill- ; rig ing. , ' i tjgt Fourth I'm fit now to go 100 rounds jSgj at any clip he may fancy. . J -Sifz You will notice perhaps that Flynn : SV didn't include the much mooted ques- , f"S tion of his opponent's condition. j I igij "As a matter of fact, I'm not fig- . . HK urlng on what condition ho is in at I 11 all." said Flynn. "For the sake of $ making my victory all the more pro- I TK nounced and clean cut, I'm hoping that j JS he won't have any excuses in the mat- r AM ter of condition. But good or not, i ifejryi I feel that 1 can trim him this time. ; 7J4 'I'm going Into tho ring weighing i x TOJSfF within a few ounces of 190 pounds, tJ&Cfel and every atom of it will be the 'vjjM toughest kind of cood fighting ma- IW, terial, oo. ! WW "I'm as tough as a wedge fiom head j jS?a to heels; haven't got a single spot on j jij$ me that hasn't been thoroughly con- JftTrf dltioned, and know that the added ' ijjj weight hasn't slowed me up a bit To 4 be truthful, I'm faster than ever be- Am fore. mm "Only lately I have learned the WUi knack of getting in close and hitting lljm straight, especially for the body. By JW that I don't mean that I use rushing - -FJj tactlcE at all. I glide in close and as ' jSJj I never clinch in a fight I'm always &5fl (Continued on Page Nine.) I ; fejl -i ' I ; :WI (Continued from Page Two.) prepared to land a heavy wallop to the body. "I used to swing a whole lot. Now I'm using the straight punches and hooks altogether, "Further than this, I've made up my mind that unless Johnson comes to me and makes some of the pace, that it is apt to be a slow fight for a few rounds. I'm going to fight him cautiously cau-tiously without rushing in, and hope by that scheme to neutralize his style of standlug off for an opponent to whale away at him." |