The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1910-07-07
JIM JEFFRIES TOO old
and stale TO come BACK
Fight was Easy for Johnson
End Indicated Early
JEfFUIES SAVED FROM KNOCK -OUT
Riots Between Whites and Negroes
Throughout the Country Follow
the Announcing of the Re-
suit. jeff HeartbrOken.

SUI, texas negro, Inc son OI al
American slave is the undisputed
heavy weight champion of the world.
James ]. Jeffries of California, the
winner of twenty-five championship
fights, the man who never before
was brought to his knees passed into
the broken idol class.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out he was saved from this
humiliation by his friends pleading
with Johnson not to hit the fallen
into the ring from his corner. At
the end of the fifteenth round Ref
ereee Tex Richard raised Johnson
black arm and the crowd yelled.
Jeffries was dragged to his corner,
bleeding from nose and mouth and
black, closed eye and swollen fea-
lures and he held his head in his
hands, dazed and incoherent.
Johnson walked off the ring with
out mark, except a slight cut on
his lip, which was the opening of a
WOunu ICCcIN6u III
Ring experts agree that it was
not even a championship fight. jeff
had a chance in the second round,
but after the sixth it was evident
that he was weakening and after the
eleventh it was hopeless.
1t was the greatest demonstration
ever seen of the failure of a fighter
to come back"
The youth and science of the col
ored boxer made Jeff look like d
green hand at the game.
Jeffries fought by instinct, it seem
ed, showed his gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round,
but he was only the shell of his old
self
The old power to take a terrible
beating was gone and his ability to
bore in" also had waned.
After the third round Johnson
treated his opponent almost as a
joke. He smiled and blocked playful
ly, warding off the bear-like rushes
of Jeffries with a marvellous science
now ducking a blow under his arm
again plucking it out of the air as
man stops a baseball.
Out of the sea of opinions and ar
guments, these pinnacles of fact
have been cast up:
The fight was on the square. Oh
that there was no doubt after the
first round.
There was no evidence of the IA
nous yellow streak" on the part O
the negro. At every turn he proved
himself master of the white man.
Jim Corbett said that Tomm.
Burns MT nm q hettnr -Rcrht n % i-4si
The negro and that the black mar
was only playing with the white man
The enl was swift and terrible. Ii
looked as though Johnson had been
holding himself under cover all the
rest of the time and now that he
had measured Jeff he had determ1n-
ed to stop it quick. Jeffries had lost
the power of defense. A series of
right and left uppercuts, delivered
at will, sent Jeff staggering to the
ropes. He turned and fought back
by instinct, though he was dying
hard With the exception of the three
last roundsthe fight was tame. Before
the final round was reached JEFF
seemed unable to hit back and all
his blows landed without his old
time speed.
The Jeffries crouch was in evil
dence at times but during most of
the fight Jefries fought standing
straight and working with something
of his aggression.
The fifteenth round started with
clinch after Jeff had failed to land
on the body. Johnson then tore
loose and before the spectators were
prepared for the finish he had sent
Jeffries down with lightning-like
left and right blow to the jaw.
Jeff reeled and fell half way
through the ropes on the west side
Of the ring. Those who saw him
surroundings and the faces were a
blur to him. His time was come. He
felt what he had caused others to feel
in days gone by.
With trembling legs and yielding
arms he tried to put up defense.
Johnson landed a right to jaw fol-
lowed by two left hooks. jeff went
down again. Jeff's seconds and ply
stefan jumped into the ring.
stop it," they cried; don't put
the old boy out!"
Bring that towel-You know
what / mean" said Corbett.
Then the referee stopped the
time keeper and it was all over.
Soothing liquids were applied to the
fallen champions face nut his heart
was something that could not be