The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-07-06
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RENO, New, July 5.-Perhaps 1t
was A cnse OF youth being served, per
hats II was something else, perhaps
4 was a piece, OF luck. At any rate
Jack Johnson today stands forth as
the greatest heavyweight In the wori1,
none to dispute his title unless u Is
Sam Langford, equally black as john
son and fully as confident as Jeff was
yesterday that he can take the meas
ura OF Tommy Burns conQueror.
There is no denying that Johnson
showed, the greater speed, strength,
Judgment and skill. But 1t was the
superior lighting qualities OF the negro
that won the battle for him-or was
Il q lucky punch, or was IL a strange
pail that seemed to come over Jed
the moment he stepped into the rins?
Fair-minded critics will not take any-
thing away from Johnson for the VIC
torious hattie he fought. He fought
cleanly, cleverly and with consum-
mate skin. ~ $500,
But settling down to brass tacks.
Jeh lost everything he seemed to
show while In training from the mo.
ment he stepped into the ring. He
had absolutely nothing. Cold as n
hsh, his hands more like icicles than
the great bone and gr,stle maulers
that had sent so many men to de-
feat, he was nothing like the Jeffr,cs
whose training stunts made the great
Judges OF condition marvel. Why he
SHOULD have gone to pieces upon en-
tering the ring, as Sam Berger, Jim
Cofbett 0fld Billy Muldoon say he die,
may come under the head OF psych-
ol0gy, but sporting men just say Jack
got Jeff's goat"
The lucky punch" talk made 90
debut In. the second round. Johnson
bounced sizzling straight left of the
white mans eye. Instantly the eye
began TO swell The punch did not
rock jeff's head, but his eye was Ia
bad shape. The minute the punch
landed, Jim looked d3ze3 and stepped
into the easiest sort o. punches 10
get away from. HIS judgment OF dis
lance went to pieces and he began TO
light like washerwoman. He had
been alphabetically blinded. The
punch ON the right eye had hit the
sympathetic nerve and the left eye
was as useless as its mate.
III can see two Johnson's," said
Jen TO Cornell, 10 whom had been
entrusted the task of taking care OF
cuts and bruises. ......I
Conceded by many to be the great
est fighter the ring ever knew. John.
son confined his best efforts to the
clinches, whipping up nasty uppercuts
with his right or crossing snappy half
hooks with his left. With these blows
ne did great damage when Jeff could
not avoid them. At other battles,
notably his last with Corbett, Jeff
showed he could lay his head against
hard punches In or out OF action.
With Johnson, JEFF showed the speed
and judgment OF truck horse. lie
could not get away from a slow hook
and the uppercut generally found It's
mark.
The finish Of the fight was most
dramatic. At the end of the four
teenth round the crowd murmured
~Jeff'so gone" Johnson had battered
him numerically. Tho big fellow ap-
parently could not see. Every lead
the black man made found its billet
The one time grizzly found his chair
with difficulty and when he came out
for the fifteenth and final round II
was plain that he could not travel
much. farther.
he CROPPED about. only to fall afoul
OF the lists Of the Negro. Rights and
let's from every angle found a lods.
ing place and tho giant toppled TO the
hoor. Only instinct brought him TO