LANGFORD FLYNN

17 March 1910

Gallant Jim Flynn Sent To Dreamland

By Dusky Langford 

Chopping Right Uppercut Lands him in

The Land Of Birds In Eighth – Dazed

Upon Rising “Fireman” Cannot

Understand Fight is Over.

A Gingery Set -To
 

The term "sent to dreamland" Is sometimes used without due consideration in describing prize fights, but Jim Flynn certainly took the trip at Vernon arena this afternoon. 

He dropped face downward after receiving a whizzing right uppercut from Sam Langford in the eighth round, and al-though he  managed to pull himself together and stand swaying on his feet before twelve seconds had elapsed, his senses were still dulled. 

In his semi-consciousness Flynn thought he had arisen within the time limit and was qualified to continue boxing, but referee Eyton  sorrowfully informed him that the fight was over and shouldered him gently towards his corner. 

AIL this time grinning Sam Langford was rushing around the' ring shaking hands with 'his well wishers and saying: 'id ha' done for him that last time, only I wasn't in condition” Flynn seemed dazed for many minutes after receiving the settling, blow. As he reclined in his corner it was hard was to make him understand  that the battle had been fought  He finally grasped the situation and they took him to his dressing  room. 

Crammed With Action.

It would be difficult to conceive a ring event more crammed with action, Flynn fought desperately from bell to bell in every round and any slowing up that Langford engaged in was merely for the purpose of locating an opening for his right uppercut, the smash with which he won out. 

Langford would have been a thickhead Indeed if he did not devote some of the time to taking observations, for Flynn, under instruction from his corner, would  cover up like a hedgehog in some of the later rounds. It was on such occasions that. Sam held his fire and sized up the situation, and Sam's inactivity—there were very brief spells of it at that had a misleading effect on the crowd. The spectators thought Sam was tiring, but he was only studying the puzzle  and Flynn's defense certainly was puzzling on occasion. 

It can hardly be said, that the result will be even in doubt. The difficulty between Flynn and Langford is the difference between a fighter who mauls and one who measures,  Flynn whaled away continuously with little regard to distance or direction; -Langford did not start his blow .until the proper moment and as a rule he made the punches tell. 

"One Best Bet."

The uppercut which terminated the fight is certainly Langfords  one best bet It is unlike Johnson's uppercut, for Jack, as a rule, stands upright when delivering 'his famous blow, Langford twists his body to the right and has such command of his punishing punch that he can hook it under,a pair of crossed forearms and then reach the target. ,  He used it in the first round of to-day's encounter and Flynn's bruised and bleeding

face as he went to his corner bore 'testimony, to the accuracy of the negro's hitting He still used it in the succeeding rounds and when he held it in reserve for a while it was only because, as stated  before, Flynn barricaded his face effectually and forced his opponent to watch more closely for openings.

You would not have given much for Flynn's chances when the first round ended, nor did the prospects appear any brighter for the fireman In the third round when he flopped on his stomach from the effects of an uppercut extremely similar to the ones that ended the fight Flynn was up within the ten seconds, however, and from the energetic manner In which he was lashing out in the concluding seconds of the round it.did not look as though he had been rattled to any extent by the Knockdown blow 

Some Close Work 

It was in the fourth round that Langford ford took a bit of a rap. Flynn, who is always the first to begin hostilities, had a trick of covering up and rushing to close quarters. The fireman aimed to place his

head beneath his opponent's chin and while in this position he hammered away at the ribs and sides of the head. His blows were of the short arm variety, however, and I do not think that he struck the colored man one really hurtful smash during the whole fight. 

Although Langford made less use of the uppercut in the fourth, fifth and sixth rounds, he stabbed Flynn repeatedly with a straight left and he threw in some solid body blows. Flynn; as usual hooked and poked in a persistent way. He was so busy that he hardly took time to draw his elbow back before delivering a punch, but he had little regard as to where his blows fell, There might be such a thing as Langford being worn down by Flynn but that is about the only way the fireman could win from the negro, Flynn is always too. busy with little punches at close quarters to shine as a knockout specialist. 

There was some blood on Langford's lips in the fifth round and at the end of the sixth the negro's  right cheek –was bruised. In the seventh Langford was so inactive for a while and Flynn so extremely energetic that the crowd, which clearly sympathized with the white man, began cheering. 

It was thought that Sam was a victim of the hurricane pace that Flynn was rendering his dusky opponent tamer every minute, but Langford was simply holding his fire and marking down openings.Toward the end of the three minutes he cut loose again with his uppercuts, and this time he brought both gloves into play. The first punch was stinging enough to partly daze Flynn and demoralize his defense. Noticing that the fireman did not throw his forearms across his face, Sam whipped In one ripping punch after another, and the bell-sounded at a lucky moment for Flynn, The Pueblo man walked to his corner with none too firma step, 

Exciting Finish,

The concluding round was an exciting one. In the beginning Flynn, who as usual had rushed into a clinch, used short arm blows on the negro's body and face and Langford at that time did not Tight back. Sam tried to push Flynn away the better to employ his uppercut, but Flynn stuck to him like glue, Langford suddenly backed away under Flynn's pressing, and the body blows Flynn began to send in seemed more promising punches than any he had previously delivered. 

Flynn carried Langford to the ropes and Jim's friends were jubilant. They thought that the negro was surely caving in under the merciless rushing and buffeting. The two men worked to mid-ring, clinched and Broke .Flynn then lowered his head with the evident purpose of tearing into close quarters. As he did so Langford stepped back a pace and then sent in the finishing uppercut. It was delivered with the full sweep of Langford's arm and there was nothing to Intercept it It took Flynn between the chin and the mouth and dropped him to the floor, 

The fight will always be remembered for its speed and spitefulness, Flynn, although he lost, has enhanced his reputation as a game ring man. While  for that matter there was nothing in Langford’s actions to-day to suggest that he is not as stout hearted as the man he whipped.

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