Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-06

whose great ring career came to a pitt
full ending when he fell before Cham
pion Jack Johnson in the arena here
Yesterday, left the scene of his defeat
at 1880 o'clock tonight. He Is headed
toward his alfalfa ranch In Southern
California. and there in the quiet of
his fields, surrounded by hills that ne
loves, he will try to forget.
In the meantime he will spend few
days in San Francisco, Strengthening
up his business affairs.
The Jeffries car was hitched to the
regular evening train. He motored into
the city from his camp at Moana
Springs with Sam Berger and other
members of his patty an hour before
train time and hid himself as soon as
possible from the curious gaze OF the
crowd that still throngs the streets of
the worlds fight capital.
A VITAL BLOW
In his every stumbling movement, in
his bowed head. in the depths OF ms
somber eyes, in his nervous RUBBING OF
his swollen face and blackened eyes,
in his almost timid shrinking from the
public, the great James ]. Jeffrles
showed that his defeat had dealt him a
vital blow and that he never again
would be the man that he was Few
hours ago.
There was silence as he passed
through the streets. Men rushed forth
from the gambling tables to gaze, but
no word of taunt or dertsion was
thrown at him. Those who saw that
fight, and that includes everybody in
Reno. know that Jeffries did his best.
The train was lost In the red glow
that the sun shed over the Slerras.
Jeffries was gone into history. In the
other direction, somewhere in the desert
to the east, a hilarious band of negroes
was journeying with the banner Of the
worlds champion floating from the car
window.
SPECIALS LEAVING
Special trains have been pulling out
of Reno all last night and all day, try
ing to get 10000 visitors back home.
Thousands stood for hours, grips in
hand, at the railroad station, waiting
to be the first to Chamber into the next
train.
other thousands gave It up and de-
cided to wait over for lighter traffic.
AS a consequence, the gambling houses
were running full blast and the main
street presented the aspect Of a frontier
mining camp at the height of gold
strike. A determined effort was made
by the losers in the fight betting to re-
coup their losses and at last accounts
there were many who will have to wire
home for more money. The financial
condition of hundreds hit by the fight
and the games is desperate.
CROWDS WEARY
There was an air of great WEAKNESS
pervading the crowds. The restaurants
were recovering from the famine, the
freight trains were alive with clinging
hoboes and thieves sent out of town by
the ever vigilant state police The bar
rooms were filed with listless, thirst
quenching groups, and the poolroom
men were settling up their bets.
The betting at Tom Corbett's official
poolroom was not as heavy as had
been expected. Corbett, however, de-
clared himself satisfied. The lack of
Johnson money was a surprise. The
largest Individual loss on record in the
poolroom was that suffered by Clar-
ence Berry, the California oil operator.
He bet $4,000 on Jeffries. Among the
sporting men left here there is not a
dissenting opinion as to the justice or
the flights end. Many have nothing
but their return tickets to show for
their judgment on the outcome, but
that Jeffries ever had a chance with
the wonderful negro no one can be
found now who is willing to admit.
Johnson's coolness, his repartee in the
ring, the terrible power of his punches,
his marvellous judgment of distance
and his almost uncanny quickness and
boxing skill, is the talk OF the town.
Men are living the fight over round
by round. AS long as they live they
never will forget the pitiful spectacle
of Jeffries at the mercy of the black
panther in the fifteenth round.
What was the matter with JEFF
fries?" some asked. A well known
sporting authority who talked with
Jeffries this morning answered this
question.
NERVES GONE
"He was whipped before he left
Moana Springs for the ringside," said
this man. HE felt that he was to
fall before the colored fellow, and it
was too much for him to face. AS the
hour approached his nervous condition
became such that his mind lost all
control over his body 1t began Satur-
day and indicated itself in various
ways. Sunday night he did not sleep
wink but walked about his room and
looked out of the windows. Yesterday
morning he ate little breakfast. When
he sat In the corner in the ring Choyn-
ski, as he wrapped his hands, ex-
claimed: "Why, Jim, your hands are
as cold as ice and clammy." His sec
onds thought even that he was lit
tie nervous and that he would get
over it in the fight.
when 1 asked him today what he
remembered from the time he entered
the ring, he replied: Well, remember
slltA-S III the CoIHeI anu 6oIIihS w
and not being able to get my arms up
right. I really don't remember much
about what I did,"
A New Yorker who came out to see
the fight was taken i'll and was operat-
ed upon while the fight was going on.
When he came to his senses his first
words were:
"Who Won?"
He was not told until, today and
when he heard the name of johnson he
turned over with his face to the wall
and groaned. This expresses the gen.
eral sentiment fairly WELL
THIRTY-SIX ARRESTED