Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-12-08

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If dreams come true, Jack Johnson
is doomed to defeat. ,Jeffries dreamed
recently that he put the big black out
in four rounds. Many persons believe
dreams go by contraries. The follow
ing story of his vision as told by Big
Jeff is interesting enough for repro
duction:
Foul rounds was all the fight went,
and won with left hook to the jaw.
AS remember the thing now, it was
very warm day / had never fought in
the open air before and the light kept
nee squirting all the time. Johnson
and tossed coin for corners and he
won, taking the chair with the sun to
his back. In my corner the sun was
right in my eyes, and Kid Mccoy, who
was behind me, held a parasol over
my head as l sat there waiting for the
bell to ring. He kept telling me
funny stories. Tim McGrath was a
great fellow for taking mans mind
off the fight by telling these stories,
and Mccoy had me giggling like big
kid at the jokes.
81 was a bit nervous at that My
first real fight in about seven years,
you know, and the mob, buzzing and
looking at me, like gawks, made me
fdgetty. l don't remember about the
first three rounds except that | missed
a lot My eye wasn't right for dis
lance | could see Johnson's black,
shining head in front of me, but every
time let go it seemed that he wasn't
there. The sun was awfully warm on
my head and shoulders. 1t reminded
me of the night / fought Sharkey.
They had about 10000 electric lights
over the ring for the moving pictures
and it was like fighting in an oven.
"Old Billy Jordan was the referee
yes, remember Bill hopping around.
Seems funny having Jordan as ref
cree. but | remember that we had an
awful fuss over the referee and finally
all hands decided that Billy was the
'"The sun that day was low, and if |
ever got that side of the ring where it
hit me in the face always backed
around until / had Johnson over there
and had my back to it,
my mouth was swollen from jabs,
I remember, and it felt as though a
bee had stung me. Neither one or
Us was bleeding at all. know that
my lips bothered me and the knuckle
on my right hand was bad from where
I belted Johnson on the head. When
| went to my corner in the third
round Mccoy told me to slam when
Johnson did and that the chances OF
a clean punch were better if l could
connect.
1--WE got close together after the
bell and exchanged punches to the
body. | know mine seemed to sting
him, as he fell on my shoulder just
for a second after we landed. Some
one, or rather all, in my corner were
waving their hands to rush him.
waded in and forced him toward his
corner. He shot out his left at my
nose again anu HOOhSu CuO 1OAC WV
on his chin.
"'There he goes!' they yelled. He
fell on the ropes and just sank like
a brick chimney hit in the middle by
a cannon ball. His knees sagged and
refused the weight of his body. His
head hit the lower rope and as Jordan
counted 10 seconds off l stood against
the post in my corner. | could hear
the, bowls, Jeff wins! Jeff wins!'
81 guess l was so excited that
woke up and then again l heard, JEFF
wins!' l rubbed my eyes and sat up
to listen. 1t was Berger on the phone
in the hall telling Gotch that won a
bet from him that we left to Berger
to decide Yes, jeff wins Berger
kept saying, and then jumped out
of bed to tell him about the dream.
'I'm pretty good on dreams and
think that one will come true surely.
The very fact of me knocking him
out with my left is so true that 1t
makes me feel good. I never knocked
a man out in my life with right-hand
punch l never put all of my force
into a punch, either, except in this
dream, and l sure did unbutton that
with vengeance"