Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-07-05

sheds the black and blue, he will never
know he had been in a fight.
There is not a mark on his body,
his heart action is not affected in the
least, and except for the soreness in
hi@ face, he will feel just as good as
ever"
! BY James j. Jeffries.
. L lost my fight, but | did not have
the snap OF youth | used TO have. |
believed in my own heart that all the
Old time dash was there but when
started to execute, the speed and
youthful stamina were lacking. The
things / used to do were impossible
For instance, | used to shoot in a
right hand body punch, a sort of short
range blow that never used to fail me.
But when I tried it the snap was not
there and it was only love tap.
Il suppose most Of my trainers and
helpers will say that | did not box of
ten enough. 1t wouldn't have made
any difference if / had spared a doz-
en- times more than | did. l simply
was not there, and that's all there is
to it,
Il guess it's all my fault. I was
getting along nicely and living beau
tlfully on my alfalfa farm but when
they started calling for me and men
tioning me as the white mans hope
| guess my pride got the better of my
ilri7 OTrAn} thot I nd
hd1d to condition myself and ! was
fit, as far as strength goes. but the
old snap and dash, the willingness to
tear in and crush, were not with me-
Six years ago, the result might
have been different But nOw-well
I guess the public will let me alone af-
ter this"
The big man with the bruised face
and downcast spirit was carried
swiftly back from the ringside to the
cottage where the last days of his
training were carried through. He
was still dazed and mistaken when he
climbed from the machine. He knew
that he had been beaten but of the
way in which his defeat was accOmp-
lished he had no idea. The story Of
the blows which sent him stumbling
over the ropes, beaten man and
brought the blood bubbIng from his
lips as he sat stupified, unable to To-
cate his adversary in the glare Of the
sun, was told to him by jim COrbett.
Jeffries knew nothing beyond the fact
that he was beaten, that the object
for which he abandoned his quiet life
the defeat of Jack Johnson, had not
been accomplished.
Mrs. Jeffries arrived at the camp
half an hour before the car from the
ringside appeared. She was weeping
but endeavored to restrain her sobs.
When Jeffries' car stopped in front Of
the cottage she rushed out to him and
together they passed through the
door.
There were few to witness the re-
turn of the yanauished fighter. Two
or three automobiles stood in the road
where fifty had been crowded in the
morning. Jeffries' personal friends
were there eager to do something tC
aid him but unable to find words.
Jeffries stepped from the house 6
few moments after he entered it and
went to the rubbing room. He walk
ed a little unsteady. His trainers &C
compained him and after bath he
uac ruhhad down and DartOOly Of 2
glass of two of wine. 1t was ther
that he made his first statement after
leaving the ring, and said that he was
sorry for his friends. Jeffries' face
was puffffed from the blows that hi
him, but the flow of blood had been
stopped. His right eye, to the blind
ing of which his trainers attribute his
defeat in so few rounds was swoller
almost shut but not injured seriously
According to DR.. Potter, Jeffries
personal physician, his injuries are
not worthy of note. He suffered fa
more damage in previous fights, the
, doctor said, notably that with Fitz
+ simmons, when his face was cut anC
, bruised almost beyound recognition.
Roger Cornell, Jeffries' trainer de
. clared that the blinded right eye wa
the main cause of his defeat. Th'
|, blow which swelled the lids until sigh
was all but gone, landed in the sec
ond round.
BY Jack Johnson.
Il won from Mr.. Jeffries because
outclassed him in every department
: of the fighting gfame. Before l enter
, ed the ring | was certain | would b
the victor. / never changed my min,
: at any time.
: "Jeffries' blows had no steam be
f hind them, SO how could he hope t
} defeat me? With the exception of
: slight cut on my lower lip, which wa
j. really caused by an old wound beinl
> struck, was unmarked. l heard pee
nj at tho YiD cido obo11