Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-05
RENO DISGORCTNG FIGHT
CROWDS AFTER BATTLE
Johnson VIII Ignore Sam LangfOrd'S Challenge
JOhnSOn'S Yellow Streak Did Not Show.
His Work Was Remarkable in Every Way.
JOHNSON HAS DEPARTED FOR TIE EAST: :
JEFFRIES WILL GO TO COAST SHORTLY

boxed two rounds today ] knew he had
nothing. He was 81 right enough ia
spots where he did not need to be good,
but the muscles used mostly IN actual
lighting. because Of lack of practise
during the training, failed to respond
when called upon
THE big fellow thought himself right.
and he must have been or he could not
feel as web as he does after thai beat
ing. but he should have boxed more.
Jeffries would have done better in a
Marathon race than he did IN his fight.
1t was only his courage and his condi-
ton that kept him there so long"
Frank Gofch-
Frank Gotch sized the ~ex-champion
as follows:
-Jeffries's head and his heart were
right. but his hands and feet were not.
Early in the fight / noticed him fail
on some of the stunts he used to per-
form SO well, and right then and there
l knew he did not have a chance. Jim
believed himself to be in great condi-
ton, ard / have no doubt he was. but
his trainers could not bring back the
form of his younger days"
Admission.
0dAl RGl 6GI- JSllI1CS 5 IldnHBGIs du~
mits that the better mar won the fight.
but insists Johnson could not have
beaten Jeffries when the latter was in
his prime. Berger said:
The Jeffries of Monday was not the
Jeffries Of old An absence from the
game for six years made the atmos-
phere of the ring as new to him as it
is to a raw amateur, except that the
vitality and strength of the ambitious
~youngster were lacking"
Gloom at aioana.
Out at Moana Springs an air of giocm
hung over the defeated Champions
quarters; but a morbidly curious crowd
shifted hither and thither down the
useless boxing platform and gynlna-
SUM equipment. and it promised to be
but a short time until every sign Of the
brief habitation of the resort by the
centre of attraction for the whole
sporting world Will be obliterated.
Johnson Departs.
AT the resort where the new cham
pion prepared for his great fight there
was little to Indicate thai he had ever
been there. When suddenly he with
drew to his private car last night.
sparing 40 effort to get started toward
the applause that awaited him in the
East, his packing was lone at great
speed. Not a vestige of his own camp
equipment remained today. News of
the champions departure was spread
during h day and there were no visit
ors at the resort last night. The days
of its greatness have vanished, 1t
has fallen back to the sleepy quiet that
II knew before the fighters came.
Johnson's departure was delayed I'M
til almost 2 o'clock this morning by q
tie-up in the railroad ain His train
was due TO leave over the Southern
Pacific at Gas. The party is due to ar
rive at Chicago Thursday afternoon.
Only a few people were present when
the champion went. There was a little
cheering n the negro came out on
the platform and bowed.
Jen's Banquet Gone.
The banquet that James j. Jeffries's
friends had planned TO give their idol
last night at a local cafe win never be
given. When Jeffries returned to his
training camp after the fight he re-
quested Berger to telephone to the cafe
and say that he would not be present at
the dinner A few OF the friends, moved
by hunger alone, sat at the table and