Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-05

hooks to the head started the round,
and Johnson was so encouraged that
he began to play as he boxed
SLAPPED JEFF IN FACE
He slapped Jeff in the face with open
glove and Immediately uppercut. In
the clinch he used right uppercuts and
left hooks to the head so effectively
that betting Immediately switched by
announcements of bettors at ringside
from to 1 on Jeff to even money.
In the ninth Johnson continued his
aggressive tactics, opening with double
play of his left to the jaw and head,
and then slammed it hard to the ribs.
He swung his left twice to the wind
and almost Immediately followed with
two more lefts to the face. He had
Jeff on the defensive in this round and
took a big lead. Jeffries' friends be-
came silent in this round, and even
Corbett quit his kidding tactics.
Jefries spurted encouragtngly for a
few seconds in the tenth, but only got
an even break with the clever and
crafty negro, whose blocking was per-
feet and constituted a most effective
defense. Johnson used his left almost
exclusively in this round, hooking fire.
quently to the head, jaw and wind; but
Jeff also showed good left in leads
to the wind and ribs. Johnson al
most smothered Jeff with left hooks
and uppercuts in the eleventh, starting
off with a right uppercut and follow
ing quickly with a left uppercut. He
put his right to the jaw with telling
effect.
In the final half of this round jeff
again went after Johnson in an en-
couraging manner, sinking hard left to
the wind, following with left hook to
jaw and then rushing with rights and
lefts to the wind in efforts at slugging
it out with Johnson.
INCREASES LEAD
Johnson increased his already good
lead in the twelfth by hooking his fast
working left to the Jaw again and
uppercutting with a right as they
came in close. After exchanging wal
lops with even honors Johnson hooked
a hard right to the jaw at the gong.
Jeff could make no effective defense
against the negro's savage assault in
the thirteenth, when Johnson slammed
his left to the jaw several times and
then put short-arm right to the jaw
as they went into a Clinch. In the
final seconds Of the round Johnson
put two hard rights to the jaw that
made the jingle of the gong quite re-
lieying to the friends of the big boy.
The fourteenth round was very tame,
both slowing up and doing little or no
damage. passing most Of the sparring
in and out Of the clinches.
At the beginning OF the nrteenth
Johnson backed Jeffries to a neutral
corner and hooked a hard short right
to the jaw that hurt, and Jeff cllnched
AS they came together Johnson swung
a left to the wind and broke away
with right uppercut and left smash
to the end of the jaw, both blows
landing almost at the same time.
DOWN FOR GOOD
Jeff fell against ropes. He got I'D
right to jaw. He again arose, after
Johnson had been forced away from
him by Referee Rickard, and staggered
across the ring, but johnson caught
him with another right, the final blow
of the fight, and Berger and Corbett
ended the battle by jumping into the
ring.
Jeffries friends We're disappointed in
his weak showing in face of his long
and seemingly effective training pc
riod. Their fears that his six years
retirement had seriously affected his
stamina, speed, cleverness and general
ship were more than realized, and as
the painful truth of his condition be-
came clear as the fight progressed, the
majority Of them would have left the
pavilion had 1t been possible to do so.
But they clung desperately to the hope
that he might land one lucky punch
and save his great ring record and
enable him to retire permanently in
full possession of his ring laurels.
This is Jeffries' last fight, as he made