Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-07-05
BIC WHITE Fighter
COULDN1 I GONE BACK
JOHNSON WHIPS JEFFRiEs TO A
FINISH, END COMING IN FlF- IS.
TEENTH ROUND. =
FORMER uNDEFEATEp CHAM
HloN ouTcLAssED AND EASY
sust Play For johnson After First Few
Rounds ~ Jeffries Friends Saw He
! Va. Beaten After Sixth Round-End
Swift and TerribIe-The Fight BY
Rounds.
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Reno, Nev.,-July 5.--John Arthur
johnson. a Texas negro, the son. Of an
American slave, is the first and undls-
puted heavyweight champion of the
world.
James J. Jenries Of California, win
ner Of twenty-five championship fights.
the man who never was brought to
his knees before by blow, last night
passed into history as broken idol.
He met utter defeat at the hands of
the black champion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out, he was saved only from
this 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 corner.
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
q dozen cuts on the face. He had a
black, closed eye and swollen features
and he held his head in his hands,
dazed and incoherent-
Johnson walked out. Of the ring with
out q mark. on his body, except a slight
cut on his lip. which was the opening
Of q wound received in training.
Jsseries 10 outciassed.
Ring experts agree that it was not
even q championship fight. Jeffries
had a chance in the second round per-
haps. but after the sixth it was plain
that he was weakened and outclassed
in everyapoint, and after the eleventh
round tttwas hopeless.
It was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen Of the failure OF
q fighter to "come back" after years ol
retirement. The youth and science OF
tho black man made Jeffries look like
q green man. The great Jeffries was
like hog. The reviled Johnson was
like black panther, beautiful In his
alertness and defensive tactics.
Jeftries foughktby instinct, it SEEM
ed, showing his 'gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round,
but he was only the shell of his old
self The old power to take a terrible
beating and bore in until he landed the
knockout blow was gone.
johnson Thinks It Joke.
After the third round Johnson treat
ed his opponent as a joke. He smiled
and blocked playfully, warding of the
bearlike rushes of Jeffries with a mar
velous science, now tucking blow
under his arm, again plucking 1t out
Of the air as a man stops a baseball.
The end was swift and terrible. 1t
looked as If johnson had been holding
himself under cover all the rest Of the
time. and now that he had measured
Jeffries in all his weakness ehe had de-
termined to stop 1t quickly.
With the exception Of a few fast
rounds, the fight was tame. Jeffries did
not have the power in his punch to
hurt johnson after he had received
blow after blow on the Jaw, and his
fore this stage came Jeffries could not
reach the black. The blows, almost all
Of them, landed with all the speel taxi
en- out Of them. 1t was like hitting a
punching bag.
First Round.
Round One-The men refused to
shake hands. Johnson smiled and
Jeffries continually chewed gum.
After long opening session Of SPAR
ring, Johnson shot his ,iefts ito the face
and they clinched. johnson pushing
Jeffries back. Johnson swung his left
to the Jaw and as Jeffries roughed it
at close quarters, the big black man
shot his left again to the face. The
men locked arms. Jeffries clouted his
man twice with two short-arm lefts
. to the> face and the crowd yelled.
''Why don't you taught" shouted Cor
bett at Johnson and the latter winked
and smiled back at the former cham
pion.
The men continued In locked en-
brace, and, as the gong terminated the
round, johnson playful1y tapped JET
fries on the shoulder, and went to his
corner smiling. Jeffries then told his
seconds to let him alone; he would
fight his battle, 1t was a tame round.
Second Round.
Round Two-Johnson came up chat
ting like a magpie. but Jeffries only
smiled. "He wants to fight a little
bit, Jim," yelled Corbett. "You bet I
do, Mistah Corbett," replied the cham
pion. AS Jeffries held on, Johnson
clouted him with wicked right to the
Jaw. AS the men separated from a
clinch Jeffries swung his right to the
stomach. to which johnson retaliated
with two ripping left uppercuts to the
Jaw. The men closed together, Jeffries
leaning against the champion with sheer
weight Of his shoulders. It was case
Of strength against cleverness, with
the Nubian having the better OF It.
johnson and Corbett kidded each other
incessantly during the minute rest be-
tween the second and third rounds.
Third Round.
Round Three-Both came UP slowly.
"Come in Closer" shouted Johnson.
hooking left to the, stomach with
much force. Johnson jabbed his left
to the race AMI as they s:e::.
to breast, johnson whipped a left upper
cut - the back and neatly blocked