Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-05

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pendent of this action Jeffries wol
RENO, July 4.-John Arthur john
son, Texas negro. the son of an
American slave, tonight is the first
and undisputed heavyweight champion
of the world.
James ]. Jeffries of California, win
ner OF. twenty-five championship fights,
the man who never was brought to his
knees before by a blow, tonight passed
into history as a broken idol. He met
defeat at the hands of the black cham
pion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out he was saved only from
this crowning shame by his 1riends
pleading with Johnson not to hit the
fallen man again, while the towel was
brought into the ring from his corner.
At the end of the fifteenth round Ref
cree Tex Rickard raised the black
mans arm and the crowd nled OUT
glum and silent.
Jeffries was dragged to his corner
bleeding from nose and mouth and
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.
BORE NO MARK
Johnson walked out of the ring with
out mark on his body except slight
cut on his lip, which was the opening
of a wound received in training.
Ring experts agree that it was not
even a championship fight. Jeffries had
a chance in the second round, perhaps,
but after this it was plain that the
undefeated one was weakening and
outclassed in every point, and after
the eleventh round it was hopeless.
II was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen of the failure
of a fighter TO ''come back after years
of retirement. The youth and science
of the black man made Jenrles look
like a green man. The great Jerrles
was like a log. The reviled Johnson
was like a black panther, beautiful IN
his alertness and defensive tactics.
Jeffries fought by instinct, 1t seemed,
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 and in until he landed the
knockout blow was gone.
TOYS WITH JEFF
After the third round Johnson
treated his opponent almost as Joke
warding off the bear-like rushes of
Jeffries with marvellous science, now
taking a blow under his arm, again
plucking one out of the air as a man
stops a baseball.
Ont of the sea of opinions and argu-
ments that bolster up this fight and
make it the talk of the world THESE
facts have been cast up:
The fight was on the square oi
of
round
There was no evidence or hint of the
much mooted "yellow streak on the
part of Johnson.
johnson proved himself so absolute
" Jeffries master that experts such
as w. Corbett the Australian writer
and sporting expert, declared tha'
Tommy Burns had put up a better
fight against Johnson, and that the
black man was only playing with MS
opponent. -,,,,,
The end was swift and terrible. II
looked as If Johnson had been hold
ing himself under cover all the rest
of the time. and now that he had meas
ured Jeffries in all his weakness mao
determined to stop it quick. Jetirles
had lost the power of defense Sc
ries of right and left uppercuts DENY
cred at will sent him staggering TO tht
ropes. He turned and fought BACK py
instinct and because he was uSlhs
hard. L.. so,,
rounds the fight was tame. Jeffrles
AID NOT have the power In his punch
to hurt Johnson after he had received
hlow after blow on the jaw, ana ms
vital power was ebbing. But even De,
fora this stage came Jeffries could nol
reach the black. The blows nearly al,
ways landed with nearly all the speeo
taken out of them. 1t was IKE hlttlns
a punching bag. The JeItrles Grouoa i',
was in evidence at tlmes' put un, tn,,d -
most of the fight Jeffries fought stand
ing straight and working WIN al ii's
old aggressiyeness. -,
The fifteenth round started with q
clinch after Jeffries had falled 10 lallu
ON the body. Johnson then tore loose'
and before the spectators were pre-
nared for the finish he had sent Jetrles
down with lightning-like left and rlsh'
blows to the jaw.
FINISH NEAR
Jeffries reeled and fell half way
through the ropes on the west slde ol
the ring. Those under him saw that he
had lost his sense of surroundings And
that the faces at the ringslde were
blur to him. his LlIne Ittu CoihS' -
was feeling what he had caused others
to feel in the days of his youth ana
power -. ,a
stood poised over his adversary, his
body ready for the hook if Jeffries
gained his feet. Jim Corbett, who twice
had gone down before Jeffries' blows
and who had stood in Jeffries' corner
all during this fight, telling Johnson
what a fool he was and how he was III
for the beating of his life, now ran
forward with outstretched arms cry
ing: I'm
Jeffrles painfully raised himselt 10
his feet His jaw dropped his eyes
were nearly shut and his face was
covered with blood. With trembling
legs and shielding arms he tried 10 put
up a defense, but he could not stop a
terrific right smash on the Jaw tol-
lowed by two left hooks. He Went
down again. His physician and other
friends Jumped into the ring.
THROWS UP SPONGE
"Ston i'll" they cried. Don't put the