New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-07-06
JEFF TRYING TO FORGET
Shrinks from Public Gaze on His
Way to Train.
JOHNSON SPEEDING EAST
Hundreds, Unable to Get Out OF
Reno, Stay to Buck the
Tiger"

whose ring career came 10 a pitiful end
when he went down before Jack johnson
yesterday, left the scene of his defeat to-
( California There in the quiet Of his fields
he will try to forget. In the mean time he
will spend few days in San Francisco on
the way. Strengthening out his business af-
fairs.
/ The Jeffries car was attached to the reg
uIar evening train. He drove into Reno
from his camp at Moana Springs with Sam
Berger and other members of his party an
' hour before train time and hid himself as
soon as possible from the curious gaze
+ o. the crowd that still thronged the streets
OF the worlds prize fight capital.
In his every stumbling movement, in his
bowed head in the depths OF his sombre
eyes. in the nervous rubbing Of his swollen
face and Dlackened eyes. IN his almost
timid shrinking from the public, Je1ries
showed that his defeat had dealt him a ter
rible blow
There was silence as he passed through
the streets. Men rushed from the gam
bling tables 10 gaze. but no word Of taunt
CeTlSlOE was IEToWIt al IlIII- 14iOsC VIM
saw the fight. and that includes everybody
in Reno feel that Jefries did his hest
/ As the train started west, somewhere IN
the desert 10 the east, Jack Johnson and
2 hilarious hand of negroes were journey
ing 10 Chicago with the banner of the
vorld-s championship floating from the car
window.
sDecisl trains left Reno all last night,
and all to-day, trying 10 get the ten thou
sand visitors home. Hundreds stood for
hours. grips in hand. waiting 10 clamoer
into the first available train, and hundreds
gave il I'D and decided to wait for lighter
traffic.
/ As a consequence, the gambling houses
were running full blast tonight and the
main street presented the aspect OF
frontier mining camp at the height OF
/, gold strike
a determined effor. was made by losers
in the fight betting 10 recoup losses. Al
/ last accounts there were many who VIII
have 70 wire home for money. The f1nan-
/ ciaI condition Of hundreds, hit by the hght
and the games. is desperate.
An air Of great WEAKNESS pervaded the
! crowds to-day. The restaurants were re-
covering from the famine Freight trains
were alive with cltnging hoboes, sent out
Of town by the state police The par
rooms were filled with listless. thirsty
groups The poolroom men We're settling
I'D their bets.
The betting al Tom Corbetts official
pooIroorn was not as heavy as had been
expected. Corbett. however, declared HIM
self satisfied The lack OF Johnson money
was a surprise.
The largest individual loss on record in
the poolroon was that suffered by Clar-
ence Berry. q California oil operator. He
bet SIS, goo on Jefries
Among the sporting men left there IS
not a dissenting opinion as to the justice
OF the fights end Many have nothing but
their return tickets 10 show for their
Judgment on the outcome, but no one says
that Jeffries ever had Z chance with the
negro after the second round.
Johnson's repartee and GOODNESS in the
ring, the terrible power OF his punches, his
1 marvellous judgment Of distance ana MS
almost uncanny quickness and boxing skill
are the talk OF the town. Men are talking
/ the fgnt over round by round So long as
they live. they never will forget the pitiful
aspect OF Jefries al the mercy Of the black
parther in the fifteenth roNnd-
What was the matter with JeffTies? "
some asked 4 well known sporting
( morning. answered this question
He was whipped before he left Moana
/ Strings for the ringside," said this man
He felt that he was 10 fall before the
4 negro. and Il was too much for him TO
/ face. As the hour approached his nervous
/ condition became such that his mind lost
all control over his body. It began on Sat
l,rdav, and indicated itself in various ways.
on Sunday night ne did not sleep q
wink but walked about his room and
looked out of the windows. Yesterday
morning he ate little breakfast When he
sat in the corner in the ring, Choynski, as
he wrapped his hands, exclaimed: Why.
! Jim. your hands are cold as ice and
clamny' His seconds thought even then
that ne was only little nervous and that
he would get over II in the fight.
When I asked him to-day what he re-
rnenbered from the time he entered the
ring he replied: Well, I remember sitting
in rile corner and getting up and not being
able TO get my arms up right. really
don't. remember much about what I did "
a New Yor4 man who came to see the
fight was taken I'll and operated on while
the fight was going on When he came 10
his senses his first words were: Who
WON"