Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1910-07-07

Reno, New, July T.--Jim Jsffriss, the
wealthy farmer, will leave fer his
home in southern California on his
special car Grayment tonight. AS a
result of the fight he 10 probably $780,
900 richer. and the damage 70 his body
and the humiliation of his spirit will
be healed by time.
The talk among the sporting autheri-
ties who still remain here deals with
the amazing superiority Of Johnson IN
yesterdays battle, II is agreed that
johnson could have put his man much
sooner and il is suspected that he
wished to give the moving picture men
films of proper length. Stories are
told of attaches of Jeffries' camp, who
hedued at the last moment. being dis.
satisfied with their mans condition and
temper. and placed bets on Johnson.
Reno. New. July Reno is as busy
disgorging the fight crowds today as
1T was ON Saturday and Sunday well
coming them. The getaway began with
in three quarters OF an hour after
JefTries went through the ropes yes
terday afternoon and trains have fol-
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quick succession. with every car packed
to capacity, All the evening and into
the early hours today, automobiles
swept out, bound for the coast and the
California valley cities, for the mining
camps far out in the Nevada desert,
and places more remote and today
Reno begins to look normal as far as
population is concerned.
Where there were groups of fight ex-
perts on the shady side OF the principal
streets and In the cafes and hotel lob
hieS. the big battle il the one topic
discussed The big mans decisive. un-s
qualified and thorough whipping seems
a personal sorrow to men of the sport
ing world. There IL no animosity
| against Johnson, rather keen admira-
| ton of his ability az fighter and his
| beautiful sparring, but apparently most
| OF these men had persuaded themselves
| into the belief that the Jeffries who
motored to the ringside yesterday was
| the Jeffries of six years ago The fight
| had not gone tive rounds before they
| began to doubt that belief and I'm the
| eighth they felt sure that they had
been self deluded,
Johnson Stands Supreme.
With Johnson the undisputed worlds
champion, the next question liz: Who
will wrest 1t from him2 Ring follow
ers agree that no man now In the game
measures up to the job. Very little at.
tention is paid to Sam Langford's
| challenge. and the black champion him.
self regards IL as "a joke, He said
last night he would disregard "A chal.
ienge from that source.
No one knows just how many peo-
Pile saw the big fight or what the gate
receipts were, The lowest estimate of
the gate money liz $3.50, 900 and the
highest S2T01aA. Guessers among the
promoters stan place the attendance
from $4,000 to 10000 At all events II
wns the biggest crowd that ever saw
prize fight, and the rates were so
far ahead OF any other engagement that
the record disappears
In all the fight talk one thing stands
out sharply-~there IL no more mention
OF Johnsons yellow streak, the thing
that has been written and talked about
ever since he came into ring promi-
hence. The experts agree In saying
that not once did he give any indi-
cations of fear. His nervousness In the
first round was apparent, but no one
who watched him In that period of
the fight could fairly attribute IL 10
anything else than natural nervous
Mesa kind of stage fright. He was
not afraid of the big man who faced
him from the other corner. but rather
afraid from the knowledge that his all
was at stake
Jeffries His inferior.
While his friends and the newspa-
per men crowded about him while he
lay back In the hands OF his seconds, he
said
Jeffries never could hit me. He
couldn't penetrate my defense 1 have
always known this. and he has lust
found Ii out. When he crouched made
MIN straighten up, and then | picked
him to pieces. / used everything there
is I'm pugilism on Jeffries and he could
not stand the strain
Jeffries' people had little TO say. Jim
Corbett, who was Jeffries' chief adviser,
said last night:
II was simply the old story of the
pitcher and the well-once too often IL
has happened to whole lot OF us and
that II must happen to Jeffries was
just as sure as fate.
"Jeffrtes did not box often enough
TO give US a line on him. We ali knew
him to be In great shape insofar as
running niles on the road was con-
cerned. but he did not spar enough for
any of us TO guess how he. would show
UP on the firing line. As soon as he
had boxed two rounds today | knew
he had nothing. He was all right
enough In spots where he did not need
20 De sood, put the muscles used most
ly in actual fighting, because OF lack OF
practice during the training, failed to
respond when called on"
Out at Moana springs an air of
gloom hung over the defeated cham
pion's quarters, but q morbidly curious
crowd shifted hither and thither about |
the hotel and baths. WOrkmen We're |
busy tearing down the useless boxing |
platform and gymnasium equipment
and 1t promised TO DO but q short time
until every sign OF the brief habltatior
of the resort by the center OF attrac- |
ton for the whole sporting world win |
be obliterated.
True to his character, the yanuuiahea /
fighter remained hidden from the raze |
to chance visitors. A few of hie ala |
friends faithful In the face OF dishearf. /
ening defeat. remained around him.