Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-07-08

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in a clinch.
Jeffries put his shoulder against
Johnson's body and showed him back
At close range Johnson sent left
uppercut to the mouth and as they
broke and missed right for the jaw.
Jeffries struck two lefts to the face
from a clinch and he got one of the
same in return. Johnson took two
lefts in the face when they broke.
Johnson stepped in quickly and shot
left to the body just as the gong
rang.
Eleventh Round.
They walked up carefully, Jeffries
finally trying his left once, only to
find it blocked. He took left on the
face three times, but smiled and talk
ed to Johnson in the clinches. They
broke away and Johnson sent stiff
left uppercut tos the face and right
to the body. He kept Jeffries bobbing
his head to escape the right uppercut
whenever they got together.
Just before the call of time Jeffries
sent his left and right to the body, but
Johnson was going away and was
not hurt. 1t was decidedly Johnson's
round.
Round Thirteen.
Putting his right glove before his
face Jeff walked into clinch without
blow. When they broke Johnson
sent a left to the body and a right
upper cut touched the chin. Then he
took two lefts and right upper-cut
to the face. Johnson sent in three
lefts to the face in quick succession,
and then uppercut to the face. John
son stood back and swung left to the
face, then calmly clinched. Jeff con-
tinued to come in in spite of the pun
ishment This round was all John
sons.
Round Fourteen.
Jeff walked straight into a left and
they hung on to each other. Johnson
tapped the big fellow on the face with
left twice and blocked Jeff's attempt
at close fighting. Shambling forward
JEFF took three straight lefts to the
face and got in a left to the face,
lightly Jeff's lefts were simply picked
out of the air by the clever negro be-
fore they could get within six inches
o. his face. He walked into three
lefts in quick succession.
Fifteenth Round.
When the men faced each other, it
was plain to all that Jeffries was in
distress. His face was puffed and
bleeding from the Furnishing lefts and
rights he had received, and his move
ments were languid He shambled
afer the elusive negro, sometimes
crouching low with his left hand
struck out in front, and sometimes
standing erect. STOPPING or erect, he
was a mark for Tohnson's accurately
driven blows. They came into clinch
after feeble attempt by Jeffries, to
as they broke away, Johnson shot his
left and right to the jaw in a flash.
Jeffries staggered back against the
ropes His defensive power seemed
to desert him in an instant.
Johnson went at him like tiger.
| A rain of left and rights delivered
close quorters sent Jeffries Keeling
blindly Another series of short, snap
Ply punches, and the big white giant
| went down for the first time in his
| ring career. He fell under the top
rope over the lower one and onto the
overhanding of the platform. Resting
on his launches and right elbow.
Jeffries looked around in dazed way,
| and got up at the count of nine. While
! he was down Johnson stood almost
over him until Richard waved him
back. He stood ready to strike, and
when Jeffries arose from his knees
| he dashed in again. JeffrieS reeled
about, and tried to clinch, but Johnson
eluded him and as the champion swung
around to the south side of the ring,
he jolted him twice on the jaw. Jeff
ries sank to his knees, weak and tired.
| but got up again at the count OF nine
1t was then that Jeffries' friends be-
gan to call to Richard to stop the
fight
stop it! Stop it! they shouted
from all sides. Don't let him be
| knocked out"
Richard gave no heed to these ap-
peals. Jeffries was helpless now and
as he staggered to standing position,
the negro was waiting for him. A left,
right, and another left, short, snap
py. powerful blows, found their way
to Jeffries chin and he went down for
the third time. Again he sprawled
over the lower rope, hanging half out
side the ring The timekeeper raised
and lowered him arm, tolling off the
seconds. He had reached the count
of seven when some of Jeffries' sec
onds put foot inside the ropes and
Richard walked between the fallen
man and the negro champion. Placing
his hand on Johnson's shoulder, he
declared him the winner. While JEFF
fries was not counted out, this was a
merely technical evasion. 1t was evil
dent that he could never have got UP
inside 10 seconds.