Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1910-07-07

piVh Oh thc Woilu.
James j Jenries, Of California.
winner OF 22 championship fights. the
man who never was brought to his
knees before by blow, tonight
passed into history as a broken idol.
He suffered defeat at the hands OF
the black champion
While Jenries was not actually
counted out, he was saved only from
the crowning shame by his friends
pleading with Johnson not to hit the
fallen man again. and the towel 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
dozen cuts on the 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 a mark on his body except
slight cut on his upper lip, which was
the opening Of wound received in
training
Ring experts say that it was not
even championship fght-Jeffries
had chance in the second round.
perhaps, but after the sixth it was
plain that he was outclassed in every
point. and after the eleventh round it
was hopeless.
II was the greatest demonstration
ever seen Of the failure of fighter
to come back after years Of re-
tirement. The science of the black
man made Jenries look like a green
man. The big Jenries was like a log.
The reviled Johnson was like black
panther. beautiful in his alertness
and defensive tactics
Jenries fought By instinct, it seem-
ed showing his gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round,
but he was only shell of his old
self. The old ability to take ter
rible beating and bore in until he
landed the knockout blow was gone
After the third round, Johnson
, treated his opponent almost as a joke
+, He smiled and blocked playfully,
r. warding Off The bear-llke rushes Of
+ Jeffries with a marvellous science,
{ now tucking blow under his arm,
again plucking it out Of the air as a
a man stops a baseball
Out of the sea of opinions and
y arguments that bolstered up this
n fight and made It the talk of the
5 world, these pinnacles of fact have
been cast up. The fight was on the
/ square, Of that there was no doubt
e after the first round There was no
Il evidence OF the famous yellow
d streak on the part Of Johnson.
s johnson proved himself so abb
l. solutely Jeffries' master that experts
such as w. Corbett the Australian
n writer and sporting expert, declared
IS that Tommy Burns had put up a
" better fight against Johnson and that
,r the black man was only playing with
the other man.
,e The end was sudden and terrible.
II looked as though johnson had been
ic holding himself under cover all the
rest of the time and when he hal
measured Jeifries in all his weakness
n, he had determined to stop it quick
Jeffries had lost the power Of de.
- fense. A series Of right and left up
I percuts. delivered at viii, sent him
staggering to the ropes lie turnef
. and fought back instinctively and be
cause he was dying hard
~ With the exception Of few fas
4, rounds. the fight was tame. Jeffriei
n, did not have the power in his puncl
!, to hurt Johnson after he had received
=, blow after blow on the jaw and hi
4, vital power was ebbing- But even be
+ fore this stage came, Jeffries couh
a+ not reach the black They So nearl
Al always landed with nearly an th
4, speed taken out Of them II was lik
hitting a punching bag.
,i The Jenries crouch was in evldenc
i. at times but during most of the nsh
10 Jenries fought standing straight ana
~, working with something Of his old ae
gressiveness.
Ii, The fifteenth round started WITH
,,s clinch after Jenries had failed to lam
,a on the body johnson then tore loos'
bo and before the spectators were prs
- pared for thehnishhe hdas cmfvm'
pared for the finish be had sent JET
10, fries down with lightning left an
~ right blows 60 the jaw. Jeffries rec
* ed and fell half way through the rops
hs. on lAe "es' 9'"e ~ ."