The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-07-05
aocks Out Jeffries With Series of
Terrific Jolts on the Jaw,
Sending Him Down
Three Times
HI1t MANS OLD TIME SKILL
WAS NOT AT ALL IN EVIDENCE
Rason in Danger at No Stage of the Game; Too
Clever to Receive Any Real
Punishment

. VI.
a nersous. banked tier on tier,
a for heart beat S time ut a
" white figure prostrate on a
n Of pink canvas this afternoon
f, tld TO realize that what may be
La chapter in American prize ring
N had been written before them.
hig man whose bulk sagged low
vbits rope over which he lay was
Joifries. And over him, smiling.
his smooth black body glisten-
u me brilliant desert sunshine:
A a Jack Johnson, the new king of
. I;rp. No ring contest ever drew
a. attendance and never before
i % many thousands of dollars
IA for OF naid by the sport loving
.t 10 see fight.
Worth the Cost.
"a men, aud for that matter. the
L a more women scattered through
. sast audience, are tonight dispers-
4 tas! and west and north and south.
~ uf them iourneyed thousands or
y 10 Reno; many have gone hungry,
y Eany without beds, but the picture
. sy this afternoon was worth II;
Fss The greatest collection Of men OF
pfzc ring and those associated with
L part. OF sporting writer's and
.ter whose names are known In
||;on, politics and travel that has
q been drawn together in this coun-
4 except at a national political con
|.ipu. From noon until the curtain
Ia down on this battle of the Fourth
+ kG thousands of persons swcltcred
L baked under the direct rays of a
a sun to see the trial of skill,
<stb and endurance promised by
combat OF the two recognized peers
,e prize ring.
l1d after f0rty-nine minutes of con-
'nsed and intense interest the thing
had looked forward 70 for year
oger, something between q sigh
grcsn went up TO the blue sky,
nere wns little complaint.
Blow to the Sports
'nse keen sporting men from every
Pa Of the world realized they had
q great and game man die. and
past master of of ring science
\ the championship belt. IL was not
=at fight as fights 90, but they had
ihcs moneys worth. AL ques-
seye answered and now for the
walks Of the daily life again.
hour by hour the thousands of
H,ntatlve sporting men filed
lgh the gates and took their seats
H heated pit, there was one com
ihought-ip few minutes more
'he light Of fights-probably the
Eeat fight in the country
,lef The battle.scarred veterans of
ing, three Of whom had fallen be
Jetirles-Sbarkcy, FitzsImmons
noibett-passed again across the
lsat' again one thought thrilling
Eating hearts.
20 The dream came true when fat
meg Billy Jordan barred his bald
and cried, "Let 'cr go,'i
se'e Vas not blur in tho arrange.
= Inc recording eyes of the NOV.
Ee'uies took in a scene unrivaled
nrR history.
Historic in Sport World.
,nst the age has produced in the
Innnman fighting machinery was
re'e az It's best-past and present
s ol the art. Tho eye OF tn,
esV man grew weary at the sight
many faces that he had rcaC
aor twenty years. There wa,
Il. calling OF "Bring on the biz
ne nave seen cnouUb. =
vIsn The fifteen rounds there wal
'Ierlng. And when the enc
aau Jeffrles dropped. dazcd ant
,hultitudc.. ''' '
n fsod $4,000 on their hot pine benches
n. us s tense and drawn, waiting
Eot ,lpht to be resumed.
even when Sam Berger. JEFF
amanager, accompanied by th'
kiani' . seconds and a number o
'pggb 8, newspaper men, jumpc'
7s,o 'us ropes and surrounded tn
l|rd ;ra ilghter, did the watchin;
heIea by word or action thn
y3s,D. y3o was over. No heed was pai'
r;ns';fI except bv his friends "A
ainsS sSe-lho eyes OF the onlooker
II;ea On Jeffries.
4 lssoh equally came when, aft
ned g1,ny NY interval, Jeffries wa
,pa and rubbed into consciousness
:" MS feet and led away.
Back To the Grind.
al ne minutes later the frs
a., uain pulled out WESTWARD
a tLs coach specials were draw
ssro pgmtform, and as fast as tn
ihron,h, h,liled, started east and Yves
d di"ssnont the night at whatcvc
|scd pa'ehcrs could arrange other
! .D Na,co n were opened at l2 o'cloc
q The esusands were then througe
'our entrances, the maiorit