Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-07-05
JOHNSON PROVED HE'S GAME;
JIM JEFFRIES HIS DECLINE
Boilerrnaker Looked Like Novice in Hands
Of Colored Champion Is Dis
gorging Fight Crowd Rapid
ly-Aftermath of Battle.

RENO, New, July J.-RenO is as busy
disgoreing the fight crowds today as it
was Saturday and Sunday welcoming
them. The getaway began within three
quarters of an hour after Jeffries went
through the ropes yesterday afternoon.
and trains have followed one another out
CT the city in quick succession, with
every car packed to capacity. All the
evening and into the early hours today
automobiles swept out bound for the
coast and the California valley cities for
the mining camps far out in the Nevada
desert and places more remote, and to-
day Reno begins to look normal as far
as population is concerned.
The restaurants are still limited to
rather scanty bills of fare and the ho-
tells are uncomfortably full. but the big
gest day in the history of the little city
is gone.
still linger on the shady side of the prin-
cipal street and in the big cafe and hotel
lobbies. The big battle is, of course, the
one topic and is discussed i'm the cold
calm that has followed previous enthu-
siasm. The big mans decisive, unquali-
fed and thorough whipping seems per-
sonal sorrow to these men of the sport
ing world. There is no animosity against
cohhSOI, hccIl du1HlrdIlOn his
ability as fighter and his beautiful
sparring. But apparently most of these
men had persuaded themselves into the
belief that the Jeffries who motored to
the .ringside yesterday was the Jeffries
of six years ago. The fight had not gone
five rounds before they began to doubt
that belief. and in the eighth they felt
sure they had been iself-deluded.
Who Will Beat Johnson
With Johnson the one undisputed
worlds champion the next question is
who will wrest it from him. Ring fol-
lowers agree that no man now in the
game measures up to the job. Very lit
tie attention is paid to Sam Langford' 8
challenge and the black champion him.
self regards 1t as a joke. He said last
night he would disregard challenge
from that source. so apparently it means
wait for an unknown.
No one knows just how many people
saw the big fight or. what the gate
receipts We're. No turnstiles were used
and the tickets were on sale in so many
places that only approximate figures can
be given. The lowest estimate of the
gate money is S23OOOO and the highest
$4,000 Guessers among the promoter $
staff place the attendance at from 1900
to 10000. At all events it was the
biggest crowd that ever saw prize
fight. and the rates were so far ahead
vi uhs OahCi Cb60 SCIlcit tildt tUe rec
ord disappears.
Yellow Streak Talk Ceases.
In all the fight talk and the dissec-
tons of yesterday afternoons event one
thing stands out sharpy-there is no
more mention of Johnson's yellow streak,
the thing that has been written and
talked about ever since he came into ring
prominence. The experts who sat at the
ringside agree in saying that not once did
he give any indications of fear. His
nervousness in the first round was ap-
parent, but no one who watched him
In that period of the fight could
fairly attribute to anything else than
natural nervousness-a kind of stage
fright He was not afraid of the big
man who faced him from the other
corner. but rather afraid from the knowl-
edge that his all was at stake
His statement given out at his quarters
last evening had been we'll thought out,
but his remarks as he stepped back to
his corner after Jeffries had been battered
down were spontaneous and show his
state of mind when the heat of battle was
still on him.
AS his friends and the newspaper men
crowded about him while he lay back in
the hands of his seconds, he said:
Jeffries never could hit me- He
couldn't penetrate my defense. 1 have
always known this and he has just found
it out When he crouched 1 made him