Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1910-07-08

Johnson followed this with two sim
liar punches. and the blood spouted
from the retired champions nose as
he took his seat when the bell ended
the round. Jeffries' seconds worked
heroically on his damaged optics.
Johnson's round.
Round Z.
Jeffries came up with ferocious
! frown and then closed in. A long
sparring bee followed without
blow being struck, johnson mean
while carefully priming himself for
an opening. Although Jeffries eye
was badly bruised. he never lost his
poise Johnson laughed sarcastic
ally as Jeffries essayed right
swing at close quarters. With the
men locked in an embrace, Johnson
jolted his man three times over the
damaged right eye, and followed this
with right uppercut TO the jaw.
Jeffries stopped Johnson's chickering's
with straight right to the jaw
Johnson countered with left and
right to Jeffries' sore face. The bell
changed, with the honors on John
sons side and Jeffries looked badly
cut as he took his corner.
Round &.
Jeffries rushed in and the black
drove left to the mouth, and short
ly after shot in two straight lefts to
the face that carried considerable
force behind them. Hello, Jimmy"
shouted the black, did you see that
one?' AS they closed in without
damage, Jeffries shouted Break
away, Johnson But Johnson did
not break away, and laughed as Jeff
res missed a vicious left swing. Then
Jeffries, at close range, worked in
two rights to the body that failed to
feaze the negro. Jeffries pushed his
man about the ring aud the bell rang,
closing rather featureless session.
Round o.
Johnson kept up constant con-
versation in his corner before com
ing up to the scratch in this round.
He hooked his left to Jeffries face
with great force and continued to
hurl tersely framed sentences at Jim
Corbett. Johnson hooked another
left to the jaw that carried with it
world of power. After Jeffries had
butted with his head, Johnson flung
his left to the stomach, and they
went into a friendly clinch. Jeff
ries crouched low, and Johnson drove
home wicked left full tilt in the
stomach A moment later he sent in
two left jabs to the mouth and eye,
but Jeffries apparently paid little at
tention to these blows. The round
ended in Johnson's favor and with
Jeffries face bleeding from several
places.
Round 10.
Not much life marked the, coming
to the center of the ring. Johnson
shot two lefts to the head and fol-
lowed this with a short-arm right to
the ear. A long clinch, mixed with
wrestling, followed. Jeffries swung
his right around the body. The men
confined themselves mostly to in
fighting and short streaks of wrestl-
ing, Johnson always on the alert to
land a punch Johnson whipped two
lefts to the jaw and right upDercut
to the jaw made Jeffries yell "oh"
audibly. Johnson peppered away
with his left and clearly outboxed
his burly opponent. II was John
sons round. Delaney asked Rickard
to watch the gloves when the men
were holding to see that they were
not broken.
Round II.
A half-minute wrestling bee with
, out damage opened the round, and
| Johnson smashed Jeffries time and
again with left and right TO the jaw.
and the big boiermaker fought back
wildly. Johnson swung a terrific
right, more OF an uppercut to the
jaw. and followed this with a clean
right uppercut to the jaw, and Jeff
ries almost weakened Johnson EN-
ployed left and right uppercuts
again and again to the jaw, varied
this with left and right swings to the
jaw, and the blood spurted from Jeff
ries' mouth in a stream. Jeffries was
a bad-looking sight at this stage, but
he suddenly electrified the crowd by
making a round-end rally landing
his right to the Jaw and a hard left
10 the body that brought the crowd
10 IFS feet. Johnson, however, had a
good advantage.
Round 12.
The men clinched after the black