The Mena weekly star., 1910-07-07
JOHNSON DEFEATS
 JEFFRIES
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started ti0Wilg lioiii ny @osD'' i' ai S;ns n,a First blood for J Jsiiiies yelled '"J Johnson shot hard left to mouth nJ then wrestlcd his man against the ann aanas It was Jetfries rounl and the hest one so far.
 FOUND 5.-Jclf steps away rom a straight left and they come t3yether 7, . clinch. Johnson puts two leits m ,a face and Jeff lands on ribs, John @ oon hacks away but Jeff put a solid Jeff to mouth and they clinch. They are in clinch at the bell.
 Jeff is crouchins good deal and they are sparrins at the bell.
 ROUND 6.-Johnson gets to mid r;nd first and sends two straight to month then tries his right uppcrcut, h,t is blocked. Johnson seems in- clined to carry the fight to Jeff; now Ieff puts a left to mouth. Johnson unpercuts with left to face. He puts another left on chin and Jeff swung hard to stomach. Jeff rushed John con half way across the ring. John son steadies himself and cut loose hard right uppercut which missed by civ inches. Jeff blocks left and right drives at ribs. Johnson blocks right for the head and lands solid right uppercut on Jeti s eye almost closing it Jelf rubs his swollen eye and the hell rings. Johnson s round.
 ROUND 7.--Jef advanced in a erouching position and Johnson lands two left hooks on the face. He tries a third one but Jeff blocks and they go to a cIinch. They break clean then Jeff rushes Johnson to the ropes putting a hard left to the mouth. They clinched adain and they break away. Johnson whips left over to jaw and sends a ripht uppercut to face. Jeff puts q hard left to mouth; Johnson blocks rioht hook and throws Jeff back from another clinch. Jeff lands on face and Johnson does same to Jeff, bring inp blood. Jeff keeps Johnson backing I'D and lands left on chin but John son connects with right uppercur; Johnson sends two lefts to Jeff's s head and tries another uppercut as the bell rang.
 ROUND 8.-They work into clinch and Johnson whips a left over to Jeff S face as they break away. Jeff is short with left for body and follows Johnson up landing left on shoulder; both ex- chance to head. Johnson asks Corbett how he likes 1t so far. Johnson puts two efts on face. Jeff swings left for face but misses. Johnson is outbox- ing Jeff and apparently lands but his blows do not carry much punishment. They exchange light lefts to face as bell rings.
 ROUND 9.-Jeff comes up crouch ing and makes Johnson break ground Johnson misses a left for the head and puts right on ribs. Johnson tried again for the left: Jeff knocks it of with his shoulder and they clinch, as they break Johnson swings hard left around Jeffs neck and Jef lands good right to ribs. Jeff whipped left to stomach and Johnson grunted. They get into a hard clinch. the white man making the colored man break away. Johnson hooked left to mouth but gets right on ribs. Johnson S mouth is bleeding and the cheers go up for Jeffries.
 ROUND 10--Not much life marked the coming to the center of the ring. Johnson shot two lefts to the head and followed these with short-arm right to the ear. A leng clinch, mixed with wrestling followed. Jeffries then swung his right arm under the body The men confined themselves mostly to in-fghting and short streaks of wrestling. Johnson always on the alert to land punch.
 Johnson whipped two lefts to the jaw and right uppercut to the jaw. Jeffries yelled Oh audibIy. John son peppered away with his left and clearly outboxed his hurley opponent, It was johnson's round.
 ROUND 11.-A half minutes wrest- ling without damage opened the round and Johnson smashed Jeifries twice again with right and left to the jaw and the big boilermaker fought des perately Johnson swung a terrific nght, more of an uppercut, to the jaw followed win clean right uppercut {, the jaw and Jeffries almost weakened Johnson used right and left uppercuti again and again to the jaw and th' blood spurted from Jeffries mouth in { stream. Jeffries was a bad iookinI sight at this staees but he suddenl. electrified the crowd by making round-end rally, landing his right t the Jaw and hard left to the bod, that brought the crowd to it's feet Johnson, however. had good advant age.
 ROUND l2.-The men clinche, alter the black had missed a hard lei Tor the jaw, remaining in this position nall minute. As Jeffries came il johnson met him with straight lei ana a short arm uppercut on the jaw
 ihey fought breast to breast, the blac swung hard with d left to the body all the time keeping up a conversat!o
 with Jeffries. Johnson cleverl
 blocked blows intended for the bod
 ana sent home a straight left to tn
 sore mouth, drawing blood afresi
 me negro shot straight left to tn
 ,ace and then sent his man hea
 pack foot with similar blows. lief
 res went to his corner spilling bloc
 uiid with honors against him. Jei
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