The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-13
CHOYNSKI TELLS HOW
 HE KNOCKED JOHNSON
 OUT IN THREE ROUNDS
Only Fighter on Record in Recent Years Who Has Done The
 Trick to Champion.
By Joseph Bartlett Choynskf. (Famous California Light Heavy

! (Famous California Light Heavy 1 weight Boxer).
 1 As the only man who ever knock 1 ed out Jack Johnson, the present champion of the world, it might be ] inferred that possess considerable ] who is soon, let us hope, to meet 1 Jam J. Jeffries for the worlds great est honor in pugilism.
 Perhaps I have such knowledge, 1 but at the start let me advise my
 readers that they must not expect 1 too much of me. I have some opin- l of the Boston American am writing
 them. But crave indulgence of the
 statement that they are merely opin- 1 ions
 1 Let me further excuse this by say l ing that after I had whipped Jack l Johnson-perhap decisively, if you will have it-and had been forced to l remain some twehty-eight days in a. 1 Galveston jail for the feat, I was so glad to get away from Texas and its environs that Johnson and Texas and | the jail slipped out of mind as easily
 as if the entire incident, the whole affair, in fact, had been one of a
 trivial nature. I want to be cheerful and the unpieasantness of some parts | of the Texas trip back in 1901 rather 1 incline to make me the reverse.
 Dismissed Johnson. For that reason I dismissed John son almost entirely from my mind at one time and only recalled him and hiS prowesS and our battle later when he became so prominent a figure as to compel attention. l have boxed many men and indeed, some times I have to think very hard to recall how soTne of them looked and shaped up to me. That is but natural since my career has been one of extreme ath- letic activity for close to twenty-five years. And am only a trlfle passed forty years of age at the present time.
 Out of the fragments of my mem ory I can piece together a pretty sort of a report on this ring mastadon, even with the little details missing stands out strongest to me is this:
 Sees Little Change.
 In the nine years elapsed since my battle with him, I can today see little change in Johnson.
 Then, as now, he was extremely clever. Certainly at all times he was a wonderfully strong fellow, for he swung me around a couple of times sdren playing the old game of crack the-whip.
 But there has been one wonderful change in him and this, to my way of thinking, accounts in great part for his being champion of the world to- day. He has attained confidence
 Just as Frank Gotch's victory over George Hackenschmidt made him an unbeatable man in the wrestling l game, so has the confidence Johnson | attained by whipping Tommy Burns | and others. made him the most dread ed of men in the ring today, a qualitysj of uncertainty that makes the task | of figuring out the Jeffries battle one of great question
 Johnson jumped around a, lot more | in those days than he does now.
 That's because today he is con- .fdent and when he faces an opponent 1 he is not alarmed at the slightest l feint. He stands still and waits, the | experience he has gained telling him that he is the master and that there is nothing to fear.
 He Used Left Hook.
 ,- Knocked Johnson out with a left | hook to the right eye. It landed just Below the temple and doored John upon his back, widowed around and Attempted to get up. But he was counted out.
 Perhaps I have got ahead of my story The fight was held in Febru- Ary, 1901, and was to. have been ten TouIlds. I had whipped a big fellow named Herman Berman down there in sfhree rounds and after Johnson had made quite splurge by whip ping several big men,. they began tiIus. Johnson wanted them to get Jim Corhett, and when my name was suggested, Johnson laughed and said I Mouldut do, was too small, etc.
 We'll, ] got the match anyway. It WAS just after the Galveston cyclone and f1ooG and the hall in which we boxed was partly unroofed. But there was a good sized crowd present and this self same Bermau had beaten the year before acted as referee Il. went to Galveston in the gulse of a boxing t7acher and to dodge some sort of law covering the case they 2 adNertisefl that was to give a dem onstration of physical culture ori sofnethinry like that. There was no fnkIing C interference or trouble of
 J6hnso1 weighed 192 pounds that day, T onsy 15e. But I was confident and his powerful frame and the des- berately fine development he display ed when he stripped didn't worry me any
 Tn the opening round we both did lot of dancing around He was aWfully long and reacl1y, remember sxeII, and it was hard for me to reach kIfh. He kept dancing away and there was scarcely a punch struck in sffesentirt round.
 The second was about the same, aeHfier oT us doing much excepting .e exchange rather light punches. We