The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1905-1910, 1910-07-05
JEFFRIES FAILS TO
COME EACK"
coLoRED FIGHTER MAKES CHOP
o.. PING BLOCK OF HIM IN 18th
ROUND.

JOCK JOnnSOn tne COlOleu champion,
clinched his title to the worlds cham
pionship of the pugilistic arena when
he decisively defeated the great re-
tired champion James J. Jeffries in
is rounds at Reno, Nevada on the
Fourth OF July.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out he was saved only from
this browning humiliation by his
friends pleading with johnson not to
hit the fallen man again. and the tow
cl was brought into the ring from his
corner. At the end of the fifteenth
round Referee Tex Richard raised the
black arm and the great crowd filed
out glum and silent.
Jeffries was dragged to his corner,
bleeding from nose and mouth and a
cozen cuts on his face. He had a
black closed eye and swollen features
and he held his head in his hands
dazed and incoherent.
johnson walked out Of the ring
without mark on his body, except
a slight cut on his Lip. which was the
opening of a wound received in train
ing.
Ring experts agree that it was not
even a championship fight. Jeffries
Ind a chance in the second round
perhaps, but after the sixth it was
plain that he was weakened and out
classed in every point, and, after the
eleventh round. it was hopeless.
1t was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen of the failure
OF Fighter to come back" after years
of retirement The youth and science
of the black man made Jeffries look
like a green man. The great Jeffries
was like a log. The reviled Johnson
was like a black panther. beautiful in
his alertness and defensive tactics.
The fifteenth round started with
clinch after Jeffries had failed to land
on the body. Johnson then tore loose
and before the spectators were pre-
pared for the finish he had sent JET
fries down with lightning-like left and
right blows to the jaw. Jeffries reel
ed and fell half way through the ropes
on the West side of the ring. Those
near him saw that he had lost sense
of his surroundings and that the faces
at the ringside were blur to him
His time had come. He was feeling
what he had caused others TO feel
n the days of his youth and power.
Johnson came over To the spot and
stood poised over his adversary. his
body ready for left hook if Jeffries
regained his feet.
Jim Corbett, who twice had gone
down before Jeffries' blows, and wpo
had stood in Jeffries' corner all dur
ing the fight, telling Johnson what
fool he was and how he was in for the
greatest beating of his life now ran for
ward with outstretched arms, crying
"Oh go back don't hit him" I
Jeffries painfully raised himself to
his feet His Jaws had dropped. his
eyes were nearly shut and his face
was covered with blood. With tremb-
ling legs and yielding arms he tried
to put up a defense. But he could not
stop a terrific right smash in the
Jaw, followed by two left hooks. He
went down again.
Jeffries physician and other friends
jumped into the ring.
stop it," they cried. Don't put
the old fellow out"
Sam Berger. Jeffries, manager ran
along the ring calling to Bob Arm
strong Bring that towel you know
what | mean-don't let him get b.
From Johnsons corner his seconds
we're calling to him TO quit. Then the
referee stopped the time-keeper, and
it was all over