Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-29
HART RECEIVES
THE DECISIONS
JOHNSON WAS UNABLE TO PUT
MARVIN AWAY
Victor Badly Punished but He Lands
oftener-Blaek Mans Clever
ness Laeklng-Hart Bores
in Continually
by Associated Press.

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WOODWARD'S PAVILION. Sar
Francisco. March 2s.-Marvn Hart
was awarded the decision over JACK
johnson I'm twenty-round contest to-
night that went the limit, but he was
far from demonstrating that he is
qualified to meet Jim Jeffries. Hart
was as badly punished a man as has
been seen in the ring for long time
but he was game to the core and kept
boring into the big colored man all
| through the fight. Johnson's much
Wanted cleverness did not manifest
itself.
Hart's face was battered to a pulp,
but Johnson's blows did not seem to
have much sting in them. Johnson did
a great deal of uppercutting, but Hart
covered up and the blows did not seem
to hurt him.
The general opinion of those who
witnessed the fight was that neither
man would stand any chance with
Jeffries The champion would probably
beat them both in the same night.
Jabez White, who arrived yesterday
from England to fight Jimmy Britt,
Yves introduced prior to the main event
and SAID that he was glad to arrive
here at last and that before he left
would try to give a good account of
himself.
Battling Nelson also appeared and
said that he would fight Britt any old
time. Britt did not appear and it was
said that he was in the country.
johnson Starts OF Well
In the first round the fighting was
light and neither suffered any damage.
The second round closed with the
honors in favor of Johnson. Hart
was bleeding from the nostrils
The third was practically an even
one. Hart's attempts to land ap-
peared very clumsy, so clever was the
big colored man.
In the fourth round Johnson drove
Hart to the ropes, but Hart blocked
his blows and hooked the negro twice
with lefts to head and then brought his
right to Johnson's ear. Hart swung
his right for the jaw, but it went wild,
back with a right uppercut to the jaw
Hart's advantage was slight in this
round as it was also in the fifth.
In the sixth considerable clinching
was indulged in and the round was a
tame one.
In the seventh clinching tactics were
continued and the crowd yelled
Fight"
In the eighth they put up a better
fight. Hart brought his right to the
body and his left to the jaw. A
straight lett by Johnson reached the
Kentuckian's face.
Hart then shot in vicious left to
the stomach and Johnson WINGED.
They fought at a brisk pace at close
quarters, but did little damage.
The ninth was Johnson's round. He
backed Hart against the ropes and
while in this position Hart received a
vicious right over the eye. They mixed
it in the center of the ring and John.
son landed right and left on the face
the blood in a stream from
Harts noStrils. Johnson followed his
advantage and hooked his right to the
stomach. Hart bored in to escape pun
and bled freely as he went to
his corner.
At the close of the tenth Johnson
had a safe lead. Hart seemed worried.
Hart Mixes
Hart kept in close and landed
short arm over the kidneys. He re-
oeated it an instant later, but Johnson
lrove his right and left hard to the
face, starting the blood afresh from
Hart's nose.
Hart rallied in the eleventh. Leaning
against the ropes Hart drove his right
% the head and then shot two lefts
% the stomach. Johnson countered
with left hook to the jaw and fast
followed in which Hart
anded terrific right hand swing 70
he jaw that sent Johnson's head back
/ foot. Hart drove his right stiffly
o the body as the bell rang.
The twelfth, thirteenth and four
eenth rounds were pretty even. Con-
siderable clinching and in-fighting was
ndulged in. Each landed few blows.
Both men were apparently strong at
his stage. Hart took considerable
punishment in the fifteenth, but evened
ip matters in the sixteenth
In the seventeenth the fighting was
# a desperate character.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth the
lonors were even, Hart doing the lead
ng.
In the last round both fought at
lose quarters and tried to land a vital
blow.
AS the round neared its conclusion /
someone exploded hashlight and the
principals inferred that it denoted the
md of the contest. Such was not the
,ase, however, and the referee. who
lad declared Hart the winner, motioned
or the men to continue. This they
lid and the bell rang with the men
lighting fiercely in Johnson's corner.
Referee Greggains at once declared
art the NUinnar