Flynn, Feary & Friends

Noticeable in the comparatively small crowds that attend the A. A. U. boxing championships each year are certain shabby individuals who stand in the corridors of Madison Square Garden, munching on unlighted cigars, spitting thoughtfully. They are professional fight managers on the lookout for good material. They do not bother to look at most of the fights because they know before the tournament starts which fighters are worth watching. Last week the members of this group spent most of their time in or near the dressing room of Eddie Flynn, a Loyola University dentistry student who was defending his championship in the 147-lb. class. Flynn, a better boxer than most professionals, won his semi-final bout and then lay down to nap on a rubbing table while his trainer explained that Flynn was 22 years old and married, that he earned $60 a month as a janitor, that he had no intention of becoming a professional. Presently Flynn swung himself off the rubbing bench, walked out to the ring and retained his title in a three-round fight against a rough little San Francisco Italian named Andrew Bozzano.

Amateur heavyweights, because they are usually youths who have grown too rapidly, are not likely to be as good as the men in the smaller classes. Among the 146 boxers in last week's tournament, there were two exceptions to this rule: John Kilcullen, a 195-lb. Yale sophomore whom experts had picked to win not only the A. A. U. championship but the world's championship at Los Angeles next summer; and Fred Feary, a 20-year-old high-school boy of Stockton, Calif., who bounces about the ring as lightly as though his 215-lb. body were inflated with air. Feary and Kilcullen fought each other in the third round of the tournament. In the second round Kilcullen knocked Feary down once and Feary knocked Kilcullen down twice. In the third round, Feary scored his 33rd knockout in 38 recorded fights. In the semifinal, he scored the 34th when the handler of his opponent. Jack Holland of New Orleans, took off his shirt and threw it into the ring. His opponent in the final, George Schultz of Cleveland, stayed on his feet till the third round when Feary knocked him down for eight seconds and won the decision.

Other title-winners:

112 lb. Louis Salica, New York.

118 lb. James Martin, New York.

126 lb. Richard Carter, New York.

135 lb. Nat Bor, Fall River, Mass.

160 lb. Fred Caserio, Chicago.

175 lb. Homer Brandis, San Francisco.

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