Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1910-07-06
JOHNSON UNDISPUTED
CHAMPION OF WORLD
Black Fighter Defeated Jeff
ries in the 18th Round.
Many Thousands Saw the Winner of
Many Battles Laid Low at
Reno on July a.

JOuuSUul 46AdS u0SLO' IuO sui VI al
American slave, is the undisputed
heavyweight champion of the world.
James j. Jeffries of California,
winner Of twenty-five championship
fights, the man who never was brought
to his knees before by blow. has
passed into history as a broken idol.
He met utter defeat at the hands of
the black champion Monday after
noon.
While Jeffries was not actually
counted out. he was saved only from
this crowning shame by his friends
pleading with Johnson not to hit the
fallen man again. At the end of the
fifteenth round, Referee Tex Richard
raised the black arm and the great
crowd filed out glum and silent.
Jeffries was dragged to his corner,
bleeding from nose and mouth and a
dozen cuts on the face. He had a
black, closed eye and swollen features
and he held his head in his hands
dazed and incoherent.
johnson walked out of the ring with =
out a mark on his body except slight
cut on his lip, which was the opening
of a wound received in training.
JEFF WITHOUT CHANGE.
Experts agree that it was not even
championship fight. Jeffries had a
chance in the second round, perhaps.
but after the sixth, it was plain that
he was weakened and outclassed in
very point, and after the eleventh
round it was hopeless.
1t was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen of the failure of
a fighter to come back after years
of retirement The youth and science
Of the black man made Jeffries look
like a green man. The great Jeffries
was like log. The reviled Johnson
was like black panther in his alert
ness and defesnive tactics.
Jefries fought by instinct, it SEEM
ed. showing his gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round,
out he was only the she'll of his old
self. The old power to take a ter
rible beating and bore in until he
landed the knock out blow was gone.
After the third round, johnson
treated his opponent almost as joke.
He smiled and blocked playfully.
warding off the bearlike rushes of
Jeffries with a marvellous science,
now tucklng blow under his arm,
again plucking it out of the air, as a
man stops baseball.
FIGHT ON THE SQUARE.
Out of the sea of opinions and argu
ments that bolstered up this fight and
made it the talk of the world, these
pinnacles of fact have been cast up
The fight was on the square, Of
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 absolute
~ Jeffries' master that experts such
as w. -Corbett, the Australian sport
ing writer and ring expert, declared
that Tommy Burns had put up a
better fight against johnson and that
the black man was only playing with
the other man. &.
END IS TERRIBLE.
The end was swift and terrible.
1t looked as though Johnson had been
holding himself under cover ali the
rest of the time and now that he had
measured Jeffries in all his weak.
ness, he had determined to stop it
quickly. -.
Jeffries had lost the power of
defense A series of right and left
uppercuts delivered at will sent him
staggering to the ropes. He turned
aud fought back by instinct, as though
he was dying hard.
BATTLE is TAME.
With the exception of a few fast
rounds, the fight was tame. Jeffries
did not have the power in his punch
to hurt Johnson after he had received
blow after BLOW on the jaw, and his
vital power was ebbing. But even
before his stage came, Jeffries could
not reach the black. The blows.
almost all of them. landed with all
the speed taken out Of them.
The fifteenth round started with
clinch after Jetfries had failed to land
on the body. johnson then tore loose
and before the spectators were prepar-
ed for the finish he had sent Jeffries
down with lightning like left and
right blows to the jaw. Jetfries reeIed
and fell halfway through the ropes on