BOXING.
JOHNSON AND FLYNN.
TO FIGHT IN NEVADA.
CHAMPION HURT: AT RUMOUR OF FAKE;
CHICAGO, January 6. Contrary tovexpectatipns, articles for the Johnspn-Flynn contest were signed yesterday. The match is to take place at Nevada, California, on . July . 22, which date may be changed. Johnson .is-, to receive £6220, arid one-third of the money from the sale of the Jilms.
The ideiitity of the pipinpter is a secret. . i : -J- ...-. ~.
The boxers have agreed riot 'to fight between May i and July 22, without mutual consent. This means that the Johnson-M-Vea fight, which was to have taken place in" Paris la^e in June, may be abandoned or postponed in favor of the Nevada fixture. .
Before May'Flynn is likely to meet Al. Kubiak and Al. Palzer:
The champion's feelings, are hurt at the rumor that the match will not be "on the square." ' "Two years "ago," he said,, "I had a chance to make 'a big cleanrup, and I did so. I have fought tooharcl for my honors ft) have any intention of losing them by agreeing to go down in a fake match with Fly nn." Johnson has declined an -offer of £300 a week offered by Jack Curley, for a. series of theatrical exhibitions.
Tommy Ryan, the. veteran, has been engaged to tram Flynn,
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Grey River Argus, 19 January 1912, Page 8
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