The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1910-07-08
JEFFRIES LOST IN
FIFTEENTH ROUND
Black Champion Had Easy Time With
Jeffries--Had Failed to Regain
His Old Time Form.

Reno, New, July 6.--JohnsOn reach
ed Reno soon after the fight last night
and stands the first and undlsputed
black heavyweight champion Of the
world. The ring career of James ].
Jeffries Of California, winner OF %
championship fights, man who was
never brought to his knees before by
blow, yesterday passed into history
and he stands as a broken idol hay
ing suffered utter defeat at the hands
Of the black champion
While Jenries was not actually
counted out he was saved from this
crowniug shame only by friends plead
Ing with Johnson not to hit the fallen
man again, and a towel was brought
into the ring from his corner
At the end of the ffteenth round
Tex Riokard raised the blacks arm
and the great crowd knew the fight
was done. It 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 a black closed eve, his features
We're 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 II was not
even a 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.
Jefries 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 Jeffries was like log.
The reyiled Johnson was like black
panther, almost beautiful In alertness
and defensive tactics.
Jeffries fought by instinct, It seem.
ed, showing gameness and a great
fighting heart in every round. but he
was only the shell of his old self. The
old power to take terrible beating and
bore 1t until he landed the knockout
blow was asone.
After the third round Johnson treat.
ed his opponent almost as a joke. He
smiled and blocked playfully. warding
off the bear like rushes Of Jeffres
with marvellous science, now tuoking
blow under his arm, again plueklng
It out OF the air as a man stops
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 Jearies master
that experts such as Corbett. the
Australian sporting writer and ring
expert declared Burns put up a better
fight against Johnson and that the
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 Jenrles In all his weakness, he
determined to stop It quickly Jeffries
had lost bis power of defense. and
series Of right and left upper cuts de-
livered we'll sent him staggering to
the ropes He turned and fought back
by instinct though he was dying hard.
with the exception Of a few fast
rounds the fight was tame. Jeifries
did not have the power to hurt John.
son. After he received blow after
blow on the Jaw his vital power was
ebbing But even before that stage
came, Jenries could not reach the
black His blows almost all landed
with all the speed taken out of them.
Jehries' crouch was IN evidence at
times. but during the most Of the
fight he fought standing straight and
working with something of his old
aggressiveness.
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