The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1910-07-07

ed twice with left and took left on !
the face.
Round Jeff stood up and walk
ed into a left to the chest. Make him !
fight" yelled Corbett. Never mind,
just watt replied Johnson as he |
walked in and tried left for the
body. Jeff got inside of it and put his !
head against Johnson's chest and
showed the black fellow back to the
ropes. Jeff took it all calmly and
seemed to be waiting an opportunity
to land a good one. Jeff walked into
two left jabs on the face that did no
damage. His right landed hard on
the ribs and Johnson did not appear
to like it.
Round 10-They came up slowly.
Jack shot a left to the face but Jeff
brushed it away and responded with
left to the body. Jack again miss
ed right for the jaw. Jeff put his
showed him back. At close range
Johnson sent uppercut to Jeffries
face. jeff got under a left lead and
seemed to want to wear Johnson out
by bearing his weight and showing
in. Jeff struck two lefts to the face
from a clinch and got one of the
same kind. Jeff took two let's on the
face. When they broke he stepped
in quickly and shot left to body as
gong rang. jeff appeared to be as
fresh as when the gong rang for the
first round.
Round 11-They walked up care
fully; finally Jeff tried his left and
landed on ribs. They broke from a
clinch and Johnson sent stiff left up
percut to face and right to the body.
He kept Jeff bobbing his head to es-
| cape the right uppercut whenever
they came together In a clinch John
son sent two uppercuts to face and
Jeff appeared tired Johnson showed
Jeff with his head and hooked his
left to Jeff's nose, drawing blood.
Jeff appeared slow compared with
Johnson. Just before the call of time
Jeff sent left and right to body but
Johnson was going away and was not
hurt. Decidedly Johnson's round.
Round 12-Jeff walked forward
waiting for chance to get inside the
Negroes defense. Johnson waited and
then drew back and hooked left to
face. Thought you We're going to
have me Wild" said Johnson to Cor
belts taunts. Jeff forced his way in
to close quarters but got left on the
sore nose for his reward. His nose
bled freely as he turned to take his
seat and he spat out mess of blood
Jeff was not worried and looked
, fresh.
Round 13-Putting his right glove
= before his face Jeff walked into a
clinch without a blow. When they
broke Johnson sent a left to the
body and right uppercut to the
chin. Stick there JIM" shouted
>Corbett. jeff stuck but was forced
away. Then he took two lefts and a
right uppercut to face. Holding him
E with right on the shoulder johnson
sent in three lefts to the face in
quick succession and then uppercut
to the face. Jeff seemed tired and
slow. He could not solve Johnson s
defense and took all the blows that
came his way. Johnson swung left
to face and then calmly clinched
Jeff continued to come in. The round
was all Johnsons.
Round 14-Jack tapped the big fell
low on the face twice and blocked
Jeff's attempt at close fighting. JEFF
took three straight let's to the fac,
and got in left to the face. Jeff's
lefts were blocked by Johnson before
they could get within six inches OF
his face. How do you feel" sale
Johnson as they stood clinched. "Hov
do you like EN-" Jeff was sober ant
made no response. He took three
more lefts. They don't hurt" sale
JEFF.
Round 15-When the men faced
each other it was plain to all thai
Jeffries was in distress. His face
was puffed and bleeding from the pun.
ishing lefts and rights he had receiv.
ed, and his movements We're languid
| He Shambled after the elusive negro
sometimes crouching low with his
left hand stuck out in front, and
sometimes standing erect. Stoopins
or erect, he was mark for John
sons accurately driven blows. John
son simply waied for the big white
man TO come in and chopped his face
to pieces. They came into a clinch
after feeble attempt by Jeffries to
land a left hand blow on the body
and as they broke away Johnson shot
his left and right to the jaw in 4
fash.
Jeffries staggered back against the
ropes. His defensive power seemed
TO desert him in an instant. johnson
dashed at him like tiger. A rain
of lefts and rights delivered at close
quarters sent Jeffries Keeling blindly
Another series of short, snappy pun