The San Francisco call., 1910-07-06
COMING HERE TO SETTLE
UP BUSINESS AFFAIRS
Pail of Depression Is Spread
Over Reno After Pathetic
Ending of Contest
JOHNSON SPEEDS EAST
TO APPEAR ON STAGE
By BATTLING NELSON
Especial Dispatch to The Call

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~ EMO, July 5.-Reno today looks
X more like funeral procession
- than anything can name Yes
terday it reminded one of Broadway,
New York city, on an election day.
Last night after the fight it was one
jam of humanity at the depots trying
to get on the trains and get out of
town. All night long the lobbies of
the hotels and the trucks at the depOts
were loaded with sleeping humanity,
who had checked out of the hotel ex-
pecting to get on an eastbound train.
The efforts the white man made
against the big black were pitiful, to
say the least, and amore disappointed
crowd at ringside never saw. Even
though Jack johnson showed such
supremacy over jeff there were very
few Nevadans who felt sorry for the
big boiler maker and they all left the
ring with remarks that were anything
but complimentary to jeff.
Around the gambling resorts il was
common talk that any man who would
WEIGH on $4,000 gambling debt like
Jeff is accused of doing was treated TO
the right dose of medicine when the
big black defeated him so decidedly.
The big hotels were the center of
animated groups. while a maelstrom
of people besieged the depot in an
endeavor to get away from the scene
of action. Train after train pulled out
east and west and north and south,
loaded to the guardrails- Never in the
history of the Southern Pacific system
was it called upon to move so many
people within a given time.
All last night, all today, mammoth
engines snOrted and tugged, each train
breaking away with it's limit aboard,
and there still remain several thou
sand outsiders yet to start upon their
homeward ways. And over them all,
with a few possible exceptions, hangs
a pail of depression, for what they
came to see did not come up to their
fond expectations
Jack Johnson. the champion heavy
weight of the world. who traced his
ancestry back to slavery days, is speed
ing eastward to Chicago in a special
car surrounded by a bunch of admiring
handlers. When the conqueror OF
James j. Jeffries and Tommy Burns
of that battle yesterday flushed with
victory. for the first time in his life he
attempted to avoid the plaudits OF the
populace. He sought his car by a
roundabout route and closed himself
up in his stateroom away from the
curious gaze of the multitude. Here
tofore he has always sought admiration
and ,courted publicity. But once after
that hour of triumph he sought seclu-
sion and thrust aside that proffered
admiration he always craved-
James ]. Jeffries, battle SCARED and
heart broken. passed miserable night
and a weary day at his training quar-
ters at Moana springs. He retired there
Immediately after the contest. where
a weeping wife welcomed a fallen. idol.
The meeting was pathetic in the eN-
treme.
Poor old Jim" sobbed Mrs. Jeffriss
as she chung about the neck of the
bruised bsttier Are you hurt, babe.
are you hurt2"
Never mind, sweetheart. never mind.
7 did the best L could but it was not
in me. I could not come back.
And then the little woman led the
battered hulk into a sitting room and
placed him in Fan easy chair. Doctors
worked over him. admiring friends
called on him, only to be turned away
for the one time mammoth of the prize
ring. the greatest battler of his day
wanted to be alone with his sorrow and
his wife They left him.
Today a special car was arranged for
and at 7:sO O'Clock the Jefsries outfit
broke camp and departed for Oakland.
Jeff will remain some few days in Oak
land. and then it viii be case of back
10 the alfalfa farm for all time.
No. there viii be no worlds tour for
tho hear man. HTe seeks the old farm
and is very sorry he came out Of re-
tirement. ~
If will take the railroads out OF this
city at least three days more TO dispose
~ the crowds And then Reno can go
on the even tenor of its way 1t Is
doubtful whether another big battle
will ever be held in this state. for adj
verse legislation is even now being
pressed. and it looks if the end has
come.
The end of the pugilistic game In this
country is apparently in sight.