Milford chronicle., 1910-07-08
GOIOTGd Champion TOysd With
White Opponent
FIGHT LASTED IS ROUNDS
Bollermaker Was outpointed From the
start and Was Knocked Repeatedly
Through the Ropes.

JACK uUAAS0Hs Tue ANeA@ -N+EFs
weight champion. has turned over the
sporting world He knocked out James
J. Jenries in the fifteenth round at
Reno, New
II was sudden. this defeating OF
hitherto unbeaten man. 1t came very
swiftly. like the dropping Of some bolt
that wrecks a 10000 horse power dy-
namo.
Hardly had the bell sounded for the
fifteenth round when the lightning
movement of the negros right arm IN
an uppercut ended in thud. The tre-
mendous head Of the white fighting
man swung back as the glove landed
on his jaw just to the right Of mid
chin.
His torso relaxed, his knees trem-
bled, then crooked Down he went
Sixteen thousand people leaped TO
their feet and the great dish Of the
arena was so still that those sitting
next to the ring could hear the click
OF the black champions teeth as he
snapped his jaw shut and stood wait
ing over the fallen fighter.
The timekeeper had counted nine;
Jeffries, his head swinging from side
70 side on his thick neck, struggled to
his knees, TO his feet. Hardly had ne
Rtraightened when two terrific blows
shot over his feebly rising guard.
right and left uppercut to the chin fol
lowed. Down the white man tumbled.
This time his body was outside the
ropes and his legs were crooked over
the white strands. He sat haunched IN
this squat, eyes closed hands droop-
ing over knees.
The spell was broken. The arena
roared.
Referee Was Ratified
Rickard. the referee, was ratified He
stood by the side of the beaten pu
gNist, counting in a dazed sort Of way
Nobody watched him. Everybody had
his eyes on Jenries.
In the uproar Timekeeper Harting
counted Jenries out. Nobody heard
Nm. Abe Atten ran over from Je
fries corner and lifted up the ropes
while the fighter clambered blindly
through.
The man stood, half crouching.
Knowing nothing Then came the black
man, not knowing that his antagonist
was counted out
He came lightly, stepping swiftly
like a cat stalking He jumped up to
the side of the bloodied half conscious
man. and with his arms jerking back
and forth with the thrust Of an en-
gines piston he pounded and pounded
the dropping head OF the former cham
pion
Uppercuts. each one of them. First
with the right, then with the left
johnson swung back the lolling head.
Again the tremendous bulk Of the
white man tottered.
Sam Berger, Jeffries' manager, now
Jumped into the ring and rushed to
Jefries side. Rickard understood and
be waved the tigerish Johnson back
20 his corner. At the same time he
held up his hand and motioned toward
the black. retreating. That was the
end. The fight was won. A man un-
beaten and thought TO be unbeatable
had been pounded into defeat The
championship remains with the negro
nnd SIC. 600, so per cent OF the purse,
Of &101 900, had been won.
Was a Clean Knockout.
II was what the followers of pugil-
Gsm call a clean knockout The blow
that the black man sent up from his
waist to the point Of Jeffries chin in
shat quarter minute of the finish round
va sthe blow that finished the battle.
Jeffries was outclassed, outpointed
He didn't lose because of a lucky
blow. He lost because he was an older
man than when he last fought, because
he had not come back" from his years
Of physical and nervous flabbiness.
A surprise they call this sort OF
thing in the sporting world surprise
because the results were not forecast
cd by the weightiest opinion of eX-
perts. Here is what one who was not
an expert in pugilism might have seen
IN the ring: A white man whose every
nerve was tensed to fiddle string taut
Bess, who kept his power of cO-ordina-
Hon between mind and muscle at such
q working pitch that mental fatigue
threatened each instant Opposed to
ham was a negro who was not afraid,
who was vain in his skill of self-pro-
lection, but not to the point of reck
lessness. who approached the task Of
stunning an antagonist with an easy
and battling confidence.
No such spectacle as the one inside
the graded tiers Of humanity has ever
been seen. Probably in this country no
such spectacle will be seen again. I'll
was the fight Of the century. It was the
surprise Of the century also.
johnson left for Chicago in his pr
yate car. He is under contract to fl
vaudeville engagements for time anc
Gays he will be glad to get anothe,
aght soon, but so far as can be learn
cd. no man in the world is really eager !
20 get into the ring with him.
Jim Jeffries left for his home IL
eouthern California in his special car
~ a result Of the fight be IS probably