The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-18
Consensus Is that Jeffries Must Be As Good As
 When He Retired
TO BEAT THE BLACK
Ketchel Was Knocked Out In 18th Round = Negro Showed Best Form of His Career = Winner Copped $26,O for His End of Purse.
Special from United Press.)


 San Francisco, Got. 1s.-Jim Jeffries when he retired from the rig if he is to regain the championship of the world. This is the opinion of nine tenths of the men who saw Jack John son play with Stanley Ketchel for eleven rounds at Colna, Saturday and then polish off the white boy with a whirling attack in the 12th. Before the fight there were many Frisco sports who took Johnson's champion ship claim as joke and thought all that would be needed to carry off the laurels would be to send Jeff against him. These people have radically re- viSed their opinion and it is now rea1- ized that only the 'Jeffries of 0ld,' the Jeffries who for years stood un- approachable in the heavyweight class who could go against the crafty col ored fighter and it is believed Jeff will have the biggest job of his life to add the colored mans scalp to his imposing collection.
 In the Ketchel fight Johnson's show ing was the "classiest'' of his career. It was the first time he really had shown true championship calibre. Johnson's fights with Jack OBrien, Tony Ross and Al. Kaufman, since his return from Australia, were any, thing but high class exhibitions and gave rise to the belief that the color ed man was shine" True, he ney- CT extended himself in any of these fights and the sports wouldn't believe he had it in him.
 Every doubt was removed in his fight with Ketchel and that, too, with out Johnson letting himself out to the big man against a good little one with the usual verdict. Ketchel was so outcfassed in every manner that it ap- peared he was lacking in aggressive ness. But he was not. He simply didn't get to Johnson. The colored man usually managed to brushs Ket che} aside as though it were the rankest on the part of the latter to attempt tos"mix'' with him.
 Either Ketchel hasn't the "kick of a mule" or else Johnson can stand more punishment than the critics have sup posed, for Ketchel landed several of his famous wallops without apparent effect The ttxnockdown" blow deliv- cred in the final round was a fine bit of craftiness on JCQ1nson's part for he sprang from his supposedly distress ed position and finished the fight with a fusilade of blows that stNaned the big crowd as well as the luckless Ketchel.
 Johnson picked up s2S2oo by his vic- tory, including his side bet of $5,00O. ketCnel got $6, SU0 or the BTOSS IeCelplS of SS3, GOO, but as he lost his $5,O00 bet he is only sLsoo ahead. The receipts were the largest in San Francisco in years Though Ketche1 was a pret- ty battered fighter he declared to-day he believed he had made an import ant discovery. That is,, Johnson,s point is not in his s'bread- basket as is the case with most black fighters, but it is on the jaw. far back, near the ear.
 ''If Jeffries will play for his ear at the time when they meet instead of his stomach, he. will get the black man sure as fate,''. said Ketchel to- day Ketchel thinks the blow which knocked Johnson down in the 12th round of their fight Saturday really hurt the black. Most of: the specta- tors thought Johnson merely faked the knockdown to make the moving pictures better but Johnson himself admits that the blow hurt. It is pointed out that Ketchel landed only one hard blow on Johnson's jaw and that one, while not nearly so hard as Ketchel is capable of delivering, put the negro to the floor.