The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-07-05
LOST IN
FIFTEENTH ROUND
Black Champion Had Easy Time With
Jeffries-Had Failed to Regain
His Old Time Form.

Reno, New July 5.--Johnson reach
ed Reno soon after the fight last night
and stands the first and undisputed
black heavyweight champion Of the
world The ring career Of James j.
Jeffries Of California, winner Of %
championship fights. a man who was
never brought to his knees before by
a blow, yesterday passed into history
and he stands as broken idol, hay-
ing suffered utter defeat at the hands
of the black champion.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out, he was saved from this
crowning shame only BY friends plead
ing with Johnson not to hit the fallen
man again, and towel was brought
into the ring from his corner.
At the end of the ffteeath round
Tex Rickard raised the blacks arm
and the great crowd knew the fight
was done. 1t took It glum and silent
Jeffries was dragged to his corner
bleeding from the nose and mouth
and a dozen cuts on his face. He
had black, closed eye, his features
were swollen, and he held his head
in his hands, dazed and incoherent.
Johnson walked about the ring
without a mark on his body except
a slight cut on the lip. which was the
opening Of wound received in his
training.
Ring experts agree that it was not
even championship fight Jeffries
had chance in the second round, per.
|haps, but after the sixth It was plain
he was weakened and outclassed in
every point, and after the eleventh
round it was hopeless with him.
Jeffries could not come back" af-
ter the years OF retirement. The
youth and science of the black man
made Jeffries look like a green man.
The great Jeifries was like log.
The reviled Johnson was like a black
lpanther, almost beautiful IN aIertness
and defensive tactics.
Jeffries fought by instinct, 1t seem
ed, showing gameness and great
lighting heart In every round. but he
was only the shell Of his old self. The
old power to take terrible beating and
bore it until he landed the knockout
blow was gone.
After the third round Johnson treat.
ed his opponent almost as a joke. He
smiled and blocked playfnlly. warding
off the bear like rushes Of Jeffries
with marvellous science, now tuclxing
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 that bolstered up the fight
and made it the talk of the world,
these pinnacled facts have been cast
up:
The fight was on the square or
that there was no doubt after the first
round There was no evidence or hint
of the famous yellow streak on the
| part Of Johnson. Johnson proved
himself so absolutely Jeffries' master
that experts such as corbett, the
Australian sporting writer and ring
expert declared Burns put up a better
\ fight against Johnson and that tile
black man was only playing with the
other man.
The end was swift and terrible. It
looked as though Johnson had been
holding himself under cover all the
rest of the time and now as he meas.
ured Jeffries in all his weakness. he
determined to stop it quickly. Jeffries
had lost his power Of defense, and a
series Of right and left upper cuts de.
livered wen, sent him staggering to
the ropes He turned and fought back
by instinct though he was dying hard.
With the exception of few fast
rounds the fight was tame. Jeffries
did not have the power to hurt John
son. After he received blow after
blow on the jaw bis vital power was
ebbing But even before that stage
came. Jeffries could not reach the
black. His blows almost all landed
with all the speed taken out Of them.
Jeffries' crouch was in evidence at
times, but during the most of the
flight be fought standing straight and
working with something of his old
aggressiveness.