The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-07-08
JACK JOHNSON, THE
WORLDS BEST PUGILlST
Colored Man Wins Over Jim Jeffries in Greatest Ring
Battle in History.-Jeff Unable to "Come Back"
.--Negro Wins in Fifteenth Round

home in Chicago to rest. l do not
think | shall fight for several months,
because | do not know man now
who could give me good battle. No
attention will be paid to San Lang
ford's challenge by me. l don't con-
slider he could give me a fight that
would draw.
Reno, July 4-John Arthur John
son, Texas negro, the son of an
American slave, tonight is the first
and undisputed heavyweight champ
ion of the world.
James ]. Jeffries of California, win
ner of % championship fights, the
man who never was brought to his
knees before by blow. tonight pass
ed into history as broken idol. He
suffered defeat at the hands of the
black champion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out, he was saved only from
the crowning shame by his friends
pleading with Johnson not to hit the
fallen man again, and the towel was
brought into the ring from his cor
ner.
At the end of the fifteenth round
Referee Tex Richard raised the black
arm and the great crowd filed out,
glum and silent.
Jeffries was dragged to his corner
bleeding from nose and mouth and a
dozen cuts on the face. He had a
black, closed eye and swollen features
and he had his head in his hands,
dazed and incoherent.
Johnson walked out If the ring
without mark on his body except a
slight cut on his lip, which was the
opening of wound received In train
ing.
Ring experts say that it was not
even championship fight, Jeffries
had chance in the second round,
perhaps, but after the sixth it was
plain that he was outclassad in every
point after the eleventh round 1t was
hopeless.
1t vas the greatest demonstration
ever seen of the failure of fighter to
come back" after years of retire.
ment. The science of the black man
made Jeffries look like green man.
The big Jeffries was like a log. The
reviled Johnson was like a black
beautiful In his alertness and
defensive tactics.
Jeffries fought by instinct, it SEEM
ed, showing his gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round,
but he was only shell of his old
self. The old ability to take a terri
Bile beating and bore in until he
anded the knockout blow was gone.
After the third round, Johnson
reated his opponent almost as joke.
He smiled and blocked playfully.
varding off the bear-like rushes of
effries with marvellous science, now
ucking blow under his arm, again
it out of the air as man
tops a baseball.
Out of the sea of opinions and arg
lments that bolstered up this fight
md made it the talk of the world,
hese pinnacles of fact have been cast
lp. The fight was on the square; of
hat there was no doubt after the
Irst round. There was no evidence of
he famous yellow streak" on the
art Of Johnson.
Johnson proved himself so abso-
utely Jeffries' master that experts
uch as w. Corbett, the Australian
writer and sporting expert, declared
hat Tommy Burns had put up bet
er fight against Johnson and that
he black man was only playing with
he other man.
The end was sudden and terrible.
looked as though Johnson had been
olding himself under cover all the
est of the time and when he had
leasured Jeffries in all his weakness
e had determined to stop it quick.
Jeffries had lost the power of de-
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