Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-07-07
Ninth Round.


together His wrist landed hard on
the ribs and Johnson did not appear
to like it.
Tenth Round.
Johnson shot a left to the face, but
Jeffres brushed it away and respond
ed with a left to the body. Johnson
again missed lighting right for the
jaw and they hauled about the ring
III clinch.
Jeffries put his shoulder against
Johnson's body and showed him back.
At close range Johnson sent a left
uppercut to the mouth and as they
broke and missed a right for the jaw.
.Jeffries struck two lefts to the face
from a clinch and he got one of the
same in return. Johnson took two
let's in the face when they broke.
Johnson stepped in quickly. and shot
a left to the body just as the gong
rang.
Eleventh Round.
They walked up carefully, Jefries
finally trying his left once, only to
find it blocked. He took a left on the
face three times, but smiled and talk
ed to Johnson in the clinches. They
broke away and Johnson sent stiff
left uppercut to the face and right
to the body. He kept Jeffries bobbing
his head to escape the right uppercut
whenever they got together.
Just before the call of time Jeffries
sent his left and right to the body, but
Johnson was going away and was
not hurt. 1t was decidedly Johnson's
round.
Round Thirteen.
Putting his right glove before his
face, Jeff walked into clinch without
blow. When they broke Johnson
sent left to the body and right
upper cut touched the chin. Then he
took two lefts and right upper-cut
to the face. Johnson sent in three
let's to the face in quick succession,
and then uppercut to the face. John
son stood back and swung left to the
face, then calmly clinched. Jeff con-
tinued to come in in spite of the pun
ishment This round was all John
sons.
Round Fourteen.
Jeff walked straight into a left and
they hung on to each other. Johnson
tapped the big fellow on the face with
left twice and blocked Jeff's attempt
at close fighting. Shambling forward
Jeff took three straight lefts to the
face and got in left to the face,
lightly. Jeff's lefts were simply picked
out of the air by the clever negro be-
fore they could get within six inches
o. his face. He walked into three
let's in quick succession.
Fifteenth Round.
When the men faced each other, it
was plain to all that Jeffries was in
distress. His face was pulled and
bleeding from the Furnishing let's and
rights he had received, and his move
ments were languid. He shambled
afer the elusive negro, sometimes
crouching low with his left hand
struck out in front, and sometimes
standing erect. STOPPING or erect, he
was mark for Johnson's accurately
driven blows. They came into a cinch
after feeble attempt by Jetfries to
land left-hand blow on the body, and
as they broke away, Johnson shot his
left and right to the jaw in flash.
Jeffries staggered back against the
ropes. His defensive power seemed
to desert him in an instant.
Johnson went at him like a tiger.
A rain of left and rights delivered at
close quorters sent Jeffries Keeling
blindly. Another series of short, snap
py punches, and the big white giant
went down for the first time in his
ring career. He fell under the top
rope over the lower one and onto the
overhanding of the platform. Resting
on his launches and right elbow.
Jeffries looked around in dazed way,
and got up at the count Of nine. While
he was down Johnson stood almost
over him until Richard waved him
back. He stood ready to strike, and
when Jeffries arose from his knees
he dashed in again. Jeffries reeled
about, and tried to clinch, but Johnson
eluded him and as the champion swung
around to the south side of the ring,
he jolted him twice on the jaw. jeff
ries sank to his knees, weak and tired,
but got up again at the count of nine.
1t was then that Jeffries' friends be-
gan to call to Richard to stop the
fight. -.. 81.
Stop it! Stop it! they shouted
from all sides. Don't let him be
knocked OUT .5% al
Richard gave no heed to these ap-
peals. Jeffries was helpless now and
as he staggered to standing position,
the negro was waiting for him. A left,
a right, and another left, short, snap
ny, powerful blows, found their way
to Jeffries' chin and he went down for
the third time. Again he sprawled
over the lower rope, hanging half out
side the ring. The timekeeper raised
and lowered him arm, tolling off the
seconds. He had reached the count