BOXING.

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14400, 6 July 1912, Page 12

BOXING.

JOHNSON BEATS FLYNN.

FIGHT STOPPED IN THE NINTH ROUND.

FLYNN'S FOUL TACTICS.- ---• United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, July 4. Johnson beat Flynn in the contest for the championship of the world at Las Vegas, near Alexico. The police stopped the fight in the ninth round because Flynn was butting. Ho was badly whipped. In the first round, Flynn started rushing, but Johnson easily avoided him, and shook him with left and right hooks. In tho second round, Johuson toyed with Flynn* In the third round, Flynn rushed, and hooked Johnson on the mouth with the right and left, bringing blood. ' Flynn was badly punished in the next three rounds, lie tried to reach Johnson's stomach, but Johnson laughed at his efforts, and dazzled tho spectators by his speed. Flynn started butting in tho sixth round, and was warned. He claimed that Johnson was holding. Johnson dazed him with a volley of straight lefts and rights to the face, and then stopped, apparently to prolong tho fight. . In tho seventh rcund, Flynn failed to land a blow, but Johnson landed a dozen hard punches. > In the eighth round, Flynn started butting again, and was warned. Ho was again unablo to land a blow. In tho ninth round, Johnson held Flyrm at arm's length, in an attempt to prevent his butting. Finally, Flynn got close to him, jumped a foot into tho air, and landed with the top of his head against Johnson's jaw. The police thereupon stopped tho fight, and Johnson was given the decision. Tho crowd was wrathful, and hooted Flynn. An earlier message stated that Johnson was confident that h© would win in ten rounds, and was backing himself heavily. Ed. Smith, the Chicago sporting writer, was referee.

EVERNDEN SUSPENDED.

PARIS, July 4. The French Boxing Federation has suspended Evernden for a year in connection with his recentifight at Dieppe, which ended in a riot. .

WOLGAST-RIVERS FIGHT.

BEDLAAI UNLOOSED.

(Received July sth, 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 5. In tho thirteenth round of the Wol-gast-Rivers fight, both men sprawled on tho floor. The referee, Welch, counted Rivers out. Bedlam was unloosed, and many fights, took place among the ten thousand spectators.' The police were powerless to restore order for half an hour. Th© referee disappeared immediately he announced his decision.