The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-08

began to call to Richard to stop the
fight.
"Stop it, Stop ill., they shouted
from all sides. Don Z let him be knock.
ed out.
Richard gave no heed to these appeals.
Jctirics was helpless now and he stag
gercd to "a standing position, the negro
was waiting for him. \ left, a right
and another left, short, snappy, power
full blows, found their marks on JEFF
fries chm aud he went down tor the
third time. Again he sprawled over the
lower rope, hanging half out of the
ring. The time keeper raised and low
cred his arms, toilinR of the seconds.
lie reached the count of seven when
some Of Jcifrics seconds put foot in.
side the ropes and Rickard walked Ice.
tween the fallen man and the negro
champion. Placing his hand ON John
sou s chine he declared him the win
ner. While Jeffries was not counted
out. this was merely a technical evas
ION. 1t was evident he could never
have gotten up inside of ten seconds.
Corbett Begs for JET
johnson stood poised over his adver.
sary, when he had knoc ked him through
the ropes, his body ready for a left hook
If Jeffries regained his feet. Jim Cor.
bett who twice had gone down before
.Jeffries blows aud who had stood in
JefIries corner all during the fight. tell
ing Johnson what a fool he was, and
how he was in for the beating of his
life, ran forward with outstretched
arms, crying:
"Ob. don Z, Jack, don I hit him."
Jeffries painfully raised himself to his
feet. His jaw dropped. His eyes were
nearly shut and his face was covered
with blood. With trembling legs and
shielding arms, he tried TO put up a
defense, but he could not stop q ter.
rife right smash in the jaw followed
by the left hooks. lie went down again.
Jeffries' physician and other friends
Jumped into the ring.
"Stop it," they cried. Don I put the
old fellow out
Sam Berger, Jeffries' manager, ran
along the ring, calling 20 Bob Arm
strong:
Bring that towel-you know what !
mean-don' Z let him get hit.
From johnson IS corner his seconds
were calling to him to quit. Then the
referee stopped the timekseper and il
was all over.
Soothing liquids were applied 10 the
fallen champion y bruised face. but hi,
heart was something that could not ba
reached.
Ex-Slave's Son Champion
Thus John Arthur Johnson. a Texas
negro, son of an American slave, be.
came u%ndiSputed heavyweight champion
Of the world.
James J. %.Icfries NJ California. WI.
ner Of twenty-five championship fights.
the man who was never brought % tis
knees before by a blow, thus passed m.
10 history as n brook en- idol.
He met utter defea, at the hands of
the black champion.
While ,~leffries was not actually
counted out, he was only saved i,om
this GROWING shame by his friends
pleading with johnson not 10 hit the
fallen man again.
Jeffrie1 was drny2ei 10 his ccrr"I
bleeding from nose and mouth "ad vii.
a dozen cuts on his face. lie had d
black and closed eye and swollen fea
lures and he held his head in his hands
dazed and incoherent.
johnson walked out OF the ring with
out a mark on him. Except u slight
cut on his lip, which was the opening o.
a wound received In training. he wa,
unscathed.
Not A Championship Fight
Ring experts agree that it was no
even a championship fight. Jefrie
had a chance perhaps, in the secon,
round, but after the sixth, it was plair
that the undefeated one was weakening
and outclassed at every point, and at
tor the eleventh round it was hopeless
II wal the greatest demonstration tn
ring has ever seen Of the failure Of
fighter TO leone back" after years o
retirement. The youth and science o
the black man made Jefries look Xix