The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-06
Defeated Fighter Refuses to
Receive Friends at Frisco.
Bears ON Face Marks of His En-.
counter With johnson.
WASNOT COUNTED OUT.
Rickard Being Pressed For Rul.
ing ON Knock Gut.
Promoter Says Picture Agita.
tiOn Will Subside.

Oakland, Cal, July e.-James ]. JEFF
fries arrived in Oakland at $50 O'Clock
this morning in a private car. He was
accompanied by his wife, brother and
a number of intimate friends. He was
taken in an automobiIe to a hotel and
Immediately secluded himself.
He refused to see any visitors, even
declining to see old personal friends
who arrived to extend their personal
condolences
Jeffries will leave for Los Angeles
tomorrow evening and go at once to
his ranch.
The big prize fighter bears the scars
Of his encounter with Johnson His
face is still badly marred, h1s lips be-
ing swollen and cut and his eye al
most closed. Patches OF plaster adorn
his features and he walks with his
head low, indicating in every line Of his
big body a feeling of sadness. His
spirit seem to be gore.
Jeffries refused to answer assertions
of Muldoon and others that he was ''all
in" before he ever entered the ring
Surly and tacturn, the big fighter
maintains an absolute silence which
his brother Jack and his wife are un-
able to break.
1T is what we might have expected, -
declared Mrs.. Jeffries in response to a
request for some statement of the
cTlI1C1SIn 01eLeQ out 10 her nuSDduQ.
She apparently feels the former cham
pion's position keenlyNhnd though she
refused to discuss the interviews print
ed in the morning papers, in which
Jeffries' trainers and friends declared
that he was to all seeming a nervous
wreck before he entered his dressing
room, it is evident that she has read
them all.
Jeffries, on the other hand, refuses to
look at a paper, it is said. and snaps
angrily at any one who offers a word
of criticism of his tactics during the
fight.
my steam was gone. I knew it in
the fourth round. Istried to fight, but
I couldn't he has said once or twice
since his defeat, but of the reasons
which led UP to his condition he refuses
to talk.
was Not Counted Out.
Reno, New, July S.-"was Jeffries
is the point Tex Rickard is being asked
by telegraph from several eastern
cities to decide. Rickard finds it diff
ficult to make an official ruling on the
technical point involved, but is dlspos-
ed to rule that the interference of JEFF
fries seconds in helping him to get
up after the second knock down con-
stitutes disqualification. He had this
to say on the subject today:
'-Jeffries was not counted out. al
though l am Sat1S1ed he could never
have got up within the 10 seconds
when he went down the second time if
his seconds had not put their hands
on him and pushed him up. This as
sistance disqualified Jeffries and 1 was
trying to get between the fighters to
stop the fight on that account when
johnson sent him down for the third
time with a left and right on the
jaw.
1.-THE pictures will show that l got
between them when this third knock
down cana and gave the fight to John
son before the t5mekeeper could count
10. Therefore 1 believe it should stand
as a disqualification, although as have
said, Jeffries would have been counted
out had the disqualification not oc-
Cured
Richards attention was called to the
agitation against the pic
lures of the fight being shown, par
ticularly in the southern states.
IT still hold a sixth interest in the
pictures and am naturally interested;
but 1 don't think this agitation will
to anything except to advertise
the pictures. The feeling will die out
in a few days"
Reno is like deserted village to-
day.