Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-05
RENO. Nar.- July ).

IlE<sOs New, July ,.
= EMO is as busy ~disgorging the
N fight crowds today as 1t was on
Saturday and Sunday welcoming
them. The getaway began within three
quarters of an hour after James J. JEFF
ries went through the ropes yesterday
afternoon and trains nave followed one
another out of the city in quick sue
cession with every car packed to ca
pacity. All the evening and into the
early hours today automobiles swept
out bound for the coast and the Cali
fornia valley cities, for the mining
camps far out in the Nevada desert
and places more remote. and today
Reno begins to look normal as far as
population is concerned.
The restaurants are still limited To
rather scanty bills of fare and the
hotels uncomfortably full, but the big
gest day in the history of the little
city is gone.
Here and there groups Of fight ex-
perts still linger on the shady side of
the principal street and in the cafes
and hotel Hobbies. The big battle is, of
course, the n topic and is discussed
in the cold calm that has followed
previous enthusiasm. The big mans
decisive. unqualified and thorough
whipping seems a personal sorrow to
these men of the sporting world. There
Is no animosity against Johnson:
rather keen admiration of his ability
as a fighter and his beautiful sparring.
but apparently most of these men had
persuaded themselves into he belief
that Jeffries. who motored to the ring
side yesterday, was the Jeffries of six
years ago. The fight had not gone five
rounds before they began to doubt that
belief, and in the eighth they felt sure
they had been s~elf-deluded.
johnson Ignores Langferd.
With johnson the one undisputed
worlds champion. the next question is
who will wrest it from him. Ring fol-
lowers agree that no man now in the
game measures up to the job. Very
little attention is paid to Sam Lang
ford's challenge, and the black cham
pion himself regards it as a joke. He
said last night he would disregard a
challenge from that source, so appar-
emily 1t means a wait for an unknown.
No one knows Just how many peop.a
saw the big fight or what the gate re-
ceipts We're. No turnstiles were used,
n the tickets were on sale in so
many places that only Appropriated
figures can be given. The lowest esti-
mate of the gate money is $3.50, 900, and
the highest $2T0,0 00. Guessers among
the promoters staff place the attend
ance at from $4,000 to 10000. AT all
events 1t was the biggest crowd that
ever saw a prize fight. and the rates
were SO far ahead of any other engage
ment that the record disappears.
No johnson Yellow Streak.
In all the fight talk and the disser.-
lions of yesterday afternoons event
enc thing stands out sharply-there Is
no more mention of Johnson's yellow
streak. the thing that has been written
and talked about every since he came
into ring prominence. The experts who
sat at the ringside agree In saying that
not once did he give any indications OF
fear. His nervousness in the first round
was apparent, but not one who watched
lin in that period of the fight, could
fairly attribute ii to anything else thar
natural nervousness kind of stage
fright. He was not afraid of the bis
man who faced him in the other cor
her, but rathor from the knowledge thai
his all was at stake. His statement
given u at his quarters last evening
had been well thought out, but his re-
marks as he stepped back to his cor
ner after Jeffries had been battered
down were spontaneous and show his
state of mind when the heat Of tbs
battle was still on him.
COrbett,s Say,
Jeffries people had little to say. They
were too sorely hurt and disappointed
Jim Corbett, who was Jeffries's chief
adviser. said last night while the day
was being talked over at Jeffriesas
camp:
1T was simply the old story of the
pitcher and the well-once too often
1t has happered to a whole lot of US,
and that it must happen to Jeffries was
just as sure as fate
t.Jeffries did not box often enough to
give us a line on HIM. We all knew
him to be IN great shape so far as I'M
ming miles on the road was concerned,
but he did not spar enough for any OF
us to guess how he would show up on
the firing line. AS soon as he had