The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-07-05
WONDERF III
IGh 7 Err
Johnson Has No Equal
Deep Gloom Around
Jim Jeffries


ii was on Saturday and Sunday wei.
coming them. The getaway began
within thrcc-quarters of an hour after
Jeffries went through the ropes yes
terday afternoon and trains In quick
succession have followed one another
out of the city. with every car pack
ed to capacity. All the evening and
into the early hours today automo-
bles swept outbound for the coast
and the California valley cities, for
the mining camps far out in the Nc
yada desert and places more remote
and today Reno begins to look nor.
NAL as far as population is con
cerned
The restaurants are still limited TO
rather scanty bills-of-fare, and the
hotels uDcomiortably full, but tho
biggest day in the history OF the III
tie city is done
Here and there. where groups OF
fight experts still llnger on the shady
side of the principal streets and in
the cafes and hotel lObbes. the big
battle is. OF course, the one topic and
Is discussed in the cold calm of gone
enthusiasm
The big mans decisive, unqualified
and thorough whipping seems per
5onal sorrow to these men OF the
sporting world There Is no animos-
ity against Johnson rather keen adj
miration OF his ability as q fighter
and his beautiful spaTring, but appar-
emily mogt OF these men had persuad-
cd themselves into the belief that
Jeffries. who motoTed into the ring.
side yesterday, was the Jeffries Of
six years ago. The fight had not
gone five rounds before they began
to doubt that belief aud in the eighth
they felt sure they had been self
deiuded
No One to Meet johnson.
With Johnson the one undlsputed
worlds champion. the next question
is who will wrest 1t from him? Ring
followers agree that no man now In
the game measures up To the job.
Very little attention is paid TO Sam
I,angford's challenge. and the black
champion himself regards it as
Joke. He said last night that he would
source so apparently 1t means a wait
Tor an unknown.
No one knows just how many peo-
pie saw the big fight or what the
gate receipts we're No turnstlles
were used and the tickets were on
sale Ia so many places that only an
approximate figure can be given. The
lowest estimate of the gate money Is
$23O,OOO and the highest $4,000
Guessers among the promoters staff
place the attendance at from $4,000
10 10000 Anyway, it was the big
gest crowd that ever saw a prize
fight and the receipts were SO far
ahead OF am similar event that the
record disappears.
No Yellow Streak.
In all the fight talk and the dis.
section OF yesterday afternoons
event, one thing stands out sharply
there is no more mention OF Johnson's
yellow streak. the thing that has
been written and talked about ever
since he came into ring prominence.
The experts who sat within sound OF
the blows he delivered at will agree
in saying that not once did he give
any indications OF fear Fills nervous
ness In the first round was apparent,
but no one who watched him IN that
hour of action could fairly attribute IL
10 anything less than natural nervous
ness-a kind of stage fright. He was
not afraid of the big man who faced
him from The other corner but rather
afraid from the knowledge that his all
WAS at stake
his statement given out at his
quarters last evening had been well
thought out. but his remarks. as he
slipped back TO his corner after
Jeifrics had been battered down, were
spontaneous and show his state of
mind when the heat OF battle was
still on him
johnson Was Confident,
As his seconds and friends and the
uewspapermen crowded about him
while he lay back in the hands OF
bis seconds. he said;
"Jeffries never could hit me. He
couldn't penetrate my defense.
have always known this and he has
inst found il out When he crouchcd.
/ made him str0ighten up and then
] picked him to pieces. | used every
thing that thcro is in pugillsm on
Jeffries and he could not stand the
strain"
Jeffries' people had little to say.
They were too sorely hurt and dis
appointed jim Corbett. who was
lenTles chief adviser said last night
while the fight was being talked over
at camp:
corbetta Statement.
II was simply the old story OF the
pitcher and the went too often u
has happened TO lot OF us and that
u must happen to Jcifries some day
was Just as sure as fate.
Jeffries did not box enough TO
give ~ line on him We all knew
him to be in great. shape as far as
@blbty TO run miles and miles on the
road was concerned, but he did not
care TO guess how ne would show up.
As soon as he had boxed two rounds
Knew he had nothing He was all
llsht enough In spots whore he did
hot lccd 10 DC good but tho muscles
used mostly in actual sighting. be
cause oil lack OF practice during thc
training. failed to respond when CALI
I'd upon.
The big fellow thought hlmself
light and he must have been or hn
1ould not feel - well us he duus aft
70 that beating but be should haYc