The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1910-07-08
JEFF EASY VICTIM
FOR JOHNSON
GoIOred Champion TOyed with
4 White Opponent
FIGHT LASTED IS ROUNDS
eoilermaker Was outpointed From the
start and Was Knocked Repeatedly
Through the Ropes.

Start and Was knoeNeo n'PSS''
e Through the Ropes.
Jack Johnson, the negro heaVy'
weight champion has turned over the
.r-rr,-.rting world. He knocked out James
J. ienrles IN the htsssntn roun' AZ
Reno, New.
-.l il wss eudden, this defeating Oh q
hitherto unbeaten man. It came Vei!
ywffflv like the dropping of some DOH
.thot wrecks a 10000 horse power dy-
nafho.
Hardly had the bell sounded for the
afteenth round when the lightning
movement of the negro's right arm in
mn nnpercut ended in thud. The ire
mepdous head of the white hghtlng
P>foan swung back . the glove ianueu
on his jaw just to the right Oh mlu'
chin 49,. .~ar,.
II Ills torso relaxed, bis knees tIem'
blea then crooked Down he went
sixteen thousand people leaped 10
,hsir feet and the great dish OF the !
aroma was so still that those SUING
nsx, o.the ring could hear the chcK
ha
-~of the black champions teeth as nc
1Se,ned his Jaw shut and stood WSlF
inc over the fallen fighter
The t,mekeeper had codnted nine;
1enries his head swinging from sioe
to side on his thick heck struggled 10
his knees. to his feet Hardly mad ne
straightened when two terrific blows
shot over his feebly rising guard
right and LEFT uppercut TO the chin iol-
lowed Down the white man luIlDieu'
Tbis time his body was outside the
zones and his legs were crooked over
4be white strands. He sat launched in
this squat. eyes closed, hands uIoOp
ing over knees.
The spell was broken. The arena
reared.
Referee Was Ratified.
Richard. the referee, was ratified lie
stood hv the side of the beaten pu'
gilist. counting in dazed sort OF way,
Nobodv watched him. Everybody had
his eyes on Jeffries.
In the uproar Timekeeper Haruhs
counted Jeffries out. Nobody near.
him. Abe Atten ran over from Jei
fries corner and lifted up the ropes
u1ne the fighter clambered blindl
through.
Tbs man stood, half crouchine
knowing nothing Then came the blacl
man. not knowing that his antagonls
was counted out
He came lightly, stepping swift
like a cat stalking. He jumped up u
the side of the bloodied. half consciou
man and with his arms jerking Dac
and forth with the thrust OF an Ell
gine's piston he pounded and pounde
the dropping head OF the former cnSn
pion. NJ.
Uppercuts each one Of them. FITS
with the right. then with the lei
Johnson swung back the lolling hea'
Again the tremendous bulk OF IN
white man tottered.
Sam Berger Jeffries' manager no
Jumped into the ring and rusned
Jeffries' side. Richard understood an
he waved the tigerish Johnson bae
a. his corner. At the same time
held no his hand and motiOned towal
the black. retreating. That was u
END. Inc UkUl was WIN - '@-%
beaten and thought to be unbeatao
had been pounded into defeat II
championship remains with the neg
and $40. 900. so per cent of the purs
Of s1O1 900. had been won
Was a Clean Knockout.
II was what the followers Of pug
ism call a clean Knockout The bic
that the black man sent up from
waist to the point of Jeffries' chin
that quarter minute OF the finish roul
wa sthe blow that finished the battle
Jeffries was outclassed. outpointt
He didn't lose because of a luc
blow. He lost because he was an old
man than when he last fought. becau
he had not come back from his yea
Of physical and nervous fabbiness.
A surprise they call this sort
thing in the sporting world, a surpr
because the results were not foreca
ed by the weigbtiest opinion of
perts. Here is what one who was
an expert in pugilism might have sc
in the ring: A white man whose eve
nerve was tensed to fiddle string ia
ness. who kept his power of co-ordi
ton between mind and muscle at 81
q working pitch that mental fats
threatened each instant Opposed
him was a negro who was not afrs
who was vain in his skill of self
lection, but not TO the point of re
lessness. who approached the task
stunning an antagonist with an e
and battling confidence.
No such spectacle as the one ms
the graded tiers Of humanity has e
- coor. nrnlla hlr In this cnnnf ~