The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-07-06
was. greatly impressed and expects
Jttf III SLttr
H6ries Declares Aiterward That
he Did Not Have the Steam of
His Youth and Could Not Get
Away With Grilling Ring Work
Which Gave Him His Former
Victories.


undisputed heavyweight champion
of the world. James j. Jeffries, Of
California, winner of 22 champion
ship fights, and man who never
was brought to his knees before by
a blow, tonight passed into history
as a broken idol when he met de-
feat at the hands OF the black cham
pion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out, he was saved only from
this browning shame by his friends
pleading with johnson not to hit the
fallen man again and a towel was
brought into the ring from his corner.
At the end of the fifteenth round,
Tex Richard raised the black arm ard
threatening crowd filed out glum
and silent. Jeffries was dragged to
his corner bleeding from the nose
and mouth and from dozen cuts
on the face. He had black, closed
eyes and swollen features and he
held mis- head in his hands, dazed and
incoherent.
Big Negro Unframed.
johnson walked out of the ring
without a mark on his body except
slight cut on his lip which was
reopening of wound received in
training. Ring experts agree that it
was not even a cham pionship fight.
Jeffries had chance in the second
round, perhaps, but after this it was
plain that the undefeated one was
weakening and out-classed in every
point and after the eleventh round it
was hopeless.
1t was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen of the failure
OF fighter to come back after
years of retirement. The youth and
science of the black made Jeffries
look like a green man. The great
Jeffries was like a log revled, John
son was like a black panther beauti-
full in his alertness and defensive
tactics. Jeffres fought by instinct.
il seemed, showing his gameness and
his great fighting heart in every
round, but he was only shell of his
old self He maintained his old
power to take a terrible beating and
bore it until his knockout blow was
gone. After the third round johnson
treated his opponent as Toxic.
johnson Very I'IayfuI
He smiled and blocked playfully
evading the bearlile rushes of Jeffries
with marvellous skill nov tucking
the blow under his arm and again
plucking it out of the air as a man
stops baseball and out of the sea
of opinions and arguments that boil
ster up this fight, and make it the
talk of the world, these facts have
been derived. The fight was on the
square. OF this there was no doubt
after the first round. There was no
evidence or hint of the famous "vel-
low streak on the part of Johnson
johnson proved himself so absolutely
Jeffries master that such experts as
w. Corbett. the Australian writer
and sporting expert, declared Tommy
Burns had put up better fight with
Johnson and that the black man was
only playing with the other man.
End Was Terrible.
The end was swift and terrible. It
looked as though johnson had been
holding himself under cover all the
rest of the time and now that he had
measured JeffrieS i'm all his weakness
he had determined 20 stop it quickly.
Jeffries had lost his power of defense
a series of right and left uppercuts
delivered at will sent him staggering
TO the ropes. He turned and fought
back by instinct and because he was
dying hard
With the exception of a few fast
rounds, the fight was tame Jeffries
did not have the power in his punches
TO hurt johnson after he had receiV-
ed blow after blow on the jaw and
his vital power was ebbing But even
before this stage came JeffrieS could
not reach the black. His blows near
~ always landed with all the speed
taken out o. them. 1t was like hit
ting punching bag. Jeffries' crouch
was i'm evidence at all times, but dur
ing most of the fight, Jeftries fought
standing straight and working with
all his old aggressiveness. The fif-
teenth round started with a clinch
after Jeffries had failed to land on
the body. Johnson then tore ,yose
and before the spectators were pre-
pared for a finish, he had sent JEFF
fries down with lightninglille left and
right blows to the jaw
'Stop it," Fans Plead.
stop it," they cried, don't put the
old fellow out" Sam Berger, JEFF
fries manager, ran along the ring
calling to Bob Armstrong
Bring a towel-you know what l
mean don't let him get hot" From
Johnson's corner his seconds were
calling to him to quit. Then the ref
cree stopped the timekeeper and 1t
was all over.
Heart Hurt Worse Than Body.
Soothing liquids We're applied to the
fallen champions bruised face but his
heart was something that could not
be reached.