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Left Eye closed Early in the Game.
Reno, Nev.-Jack Johnson over.
whelmed 'the hope of the white race"
for the worlds championship in round
No. Is.
johnson won with a knockout by a
series of rights n lefts to jaw.
The announcement that the purse had
been increased to 1921, 900 from $1O1,-
600 created surprise. But the greatest
surprise was the statement that 1t was
to be split on a 60 and 40 per cent
basis.
They shook hands with their Sec
onds. 1t was agreed that the men
would not shake hands.
Billy Muldoon, the famous wrestler.
climbed through the ropes as soon as
the ring had been cleared of the pic
ture machines, and, calling for atten-
ton, which he Immediately got, paid
a glowing tribute to Nevada, as the
"one free state in the Union"
Calling on every person in the arena
to rise and give three cheers for the
people, the state and his excellency
the governor of Nevada, he got a roar
that was tremendous.
During the cheering Jack Johnson's
wife, accompanied by Mrs. Sig. Hart,
wife of Johnson's friend, slipped into
the arena and took a seat Immediately
in front of the moving pictures. The
two m were attractively gowned.
The fight by rounds:
Round 1.-They advanced cautiously,
JEFF feinting with left. Jeffries again
feints with left. johnson lands left to
eye. Jeffries clinches. Johnson appears
the stronger in the clinches. forcing jeff
ries back. Jeffries sends left to head and
they clinched. pounding shortribs. Jeff
hooks left to head, cleverly ducking John
sons left. Clinch. Jeff slipped into a
straight left, but was patted on the cheek
a second later. Clinched at the bell.
Round johnson swings light left and
Jeffries catches it in ribs. Jeffries as
sumes the crouch. then leads left to head.
jeff tries to feint, but Johnson is wary.
Jack sends left to chin. Jack lands up
percut with left.
Round 3.-Johnson fell into a short left
to stomach. Jack dashes left to nose.
Johnson sends two light rights to head.
Johnson tries with another uppercut, but
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Round 4.-Johnson sent left to the head.
Jefries sends three hard rights to the
stomach: Johnson puts left to head.
Johnson's nose is bleeding. Johnson sends
right to Kidneys in the clinch. He sent a
straight left to the head and took one in
return, johnson took three jabs to the
stomach. johnson sends long right to
the ear, without much damage.
Round 5.-Jeffries rushes in with light
left to short ribs. Johnson sent long left
70 stomach, They clinch and Jack worked
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slightly cut. He dashed in and sent two
lefts to face. Johnson worked uppercut to
the face. Jeff sent straight left to mouth
and another to nose.
Round 6.-Johnson sent three left labs
to the face and avoided a return. Johnson
sent left to the face. Jeffries' face is cut
under the eye. Jack swings heavy left to
chest. Jim sent left hook hard to the
body and Jack replied by hammering face.
Jack sent terrific left to Jeffries' right
eye. Almost completely closed. Jim is
Round Jim sent light left to short
ribs. Jack PUSHES and sends left to the
face. Jeffries sent hard left to chin.
: Round Slack hooked to the ear with
a left. Jack sends two light rights to
the head and repeats. In a half clinch
Jeffries pounds the stomach. Jack sent
left to stomach. johnson sent left to the
head.
Round 9.-Jack rushes into a hard right
to the stomach. Jeffries repeating a mo-
ment later. Jeffries hooked left to head.
johnson took right hard on the ribs and
grunted as the blow landed. Jack receives
q hard right to the body.
Round 1O.-Jack prodded Jeff's nose
with left and repeated twice. Jim sent
left to short ribs. jeff sent left to stom-
ach. Jack took two jolts to the jaw.
Jack turned and winked at the crowd.
JEFF prods stomach with left.
Round 11.--Johnson sent right to ear
and Jim laughs. jeff took a hard left to
the jaw. Jim sent light left to face.
johnson sent hard right to head and Jim
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johnson sent Jim's head back twice with
right uppercuts, He prods twice to the
face. Jim is bleeding badly at the nose
and mouth. Jack hooked to head with
left. jeff sent hard left to jaw.
Round 12.-Jeffries' right eye is almost
closed. johnson sent three hard rights
right and hooked eye with left. He re-
peated left to the jaw without return.
Johnson sent hard right to the left eye.
johnson sent straight left to the mouth.
Jeffries is bleeding badly and taking con
siderable punishment.
Round 13.-Jack hooks left to ear. He
hooked left to Jim's swollen mouth. He
straight lefts to the mouth. Jim sent three
lefts to stomach. Johnson sent three left
3abs to the face, repeating a moment
later. He then sent left uppercut to the
jaw and hooked the ear. Jeffries is
wobbly. He can hardly see. Jack sent
left to right eye and repeats with a cross
to the head.
Round 14.-Jeffries sends left to head
and crowd cheers. Johnson only smiled
and replied with right hook to the ear. In
a half clinch Jim jabbed stomach. They
break and Jack sent two lefts to nose.
Round 15,-They came to a clinch. john
son sent left to face. Johnson jabs nose
with a left five times without return and
knocks Jeff down with a series OF rights
and lefts to jaw. Jeffries went through
the ropes. A series of lefts and rights In
the jaw puts Jeffries out.
Mounds, Illinois.-One dead and
one MORALLY wounded is the result OF