The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-05
(By Max BalthaSar.)

Reno, New, July 5-Perhaps 1t was
 case of youth being served. perhaps
 it was a piece of luck. At any rate
 Jack Johnson today stands forth as
 the greatest heavyweight in the world
 W ith none to dispute his title unless
 it is Sam Langfo1d. equally black as
 Johnson and fully as confident as Jeff
 ries was yesterday that he. can take
 the measure of Tommy Burns con-
 queror.
 There is no denying that Johnson showed the greater speed. strength,
 judgment and skill. But was it the superior fighting qualities of the negro pthat won the battle for him-or was II a lucky punch or was it @ strange pail that seemed to come over Jeffries the
 moment he stepped into the ring :? Fair minded critics will not take any thing away from Johnson for the vic tory or battle he fought He fought
 clean and with consummate skill.
 Blu. settling down to brass tacks Jeff lest everything he seemed to show while in training. the moment he step ped into the ring. He had absolutely nothing. Cold as a fish. his hands more like icicles than the great bone and grizzle maulers that had sent so many men to defeat, he was nothing like the Jeff whose training stunts made the great judges of condition marvel. Why he should have gone to pieces upon entering the ring, as Jim Corbett. Sam Berger. and Billy Mul- doom say he did. may come under the head of psychology. but sporting men just say Jack got Jeffries' "goat."
 The lucky punch" talk made it's de- but in the poolrooms. Johnson bounc- ed sizzling left to the white mans eye. Instantly the eye began to oh mt ries' head but his eye was in bad shape. The minute the punch landed. Jim looked dazed and stepped ipto the easiest punches to get away from. Jeff began to fight like washerwo- man. To the men in his corner the lad been sympathetically blind. The punch on the right eye had hit the sympathetic nerve and the left eye was as useless as it's mate.
 'I can see two Johnsons," said Jeff to Cornell who had been entrusted the task of taking care of cuts and bruises. when the big fellow took his chair at the end of the second round.
 T hit with one hand and miss" At the end of the round it was seen that Jeff was partly blind and when he lashed out it was merely by instinct He could not see In the very first round Jeff showed evidence of having lost everything save confidence and courage. He was slow of foot. hand and eye. and was blocked with ease. could not land a solid punch. He had the opportunity in the clinches but seemed as weak as a child. Some of his efforts in the early stages were pitifuI
 As early as the third round. in half clinches his attempts to prod Johnson in the stomach had every ear-mark of the fighter gone for good-whipped forever. hoping against hope and be- 1ieving that if he could land enough blows he was essaying he would work out the champion to put in the finish ing punch.
 Johnson is believed by many to be the greatest fighter the ring has ever known. With snappy uppercuts the negro did great damage and Jeff could not avoid them. In other battles. mo- tably his last with Corbett. Jeff show ed he could lay his head against hard punches in or out of clinch. With Johnson, Jeff showed the speed and Judgment of a truck horse. He could not get away from a slow hook and the uppercut generally found its mark.
 Only twice in the battle did Jeff show any sign of being dangerous, and that was when he sent in two consec- utive smashes which brought forth grunts from the negro. Any effect they might have had was quickly shaken off.
 The finish of the fight was most dra- matic. At the end of the 14th round Johnson had battered him unmerci- fully. The big fellow apparently could not see. Every lead the black man made found its fllet. When the one time grizzly man came out for the last round it was plain that he couldn't travel much further.
 He groped about, only to fall afoul of the fists of the negro. Rights and lefts from every angle found lodging place and the giant toppled to the floor. Only instinct brought him to his fet after the time keeper had eight
 Right into the teeth of the storm he waded. only to be buffeted with a be- wildering mass of punches until he rocked like ship in a storm. Then while utterly helpless. there crashed against his jaw a straight left and a right upDercut, both terrific and Jim once more toppled to the floor, this time half way outside the rope. His badgered mouth sourted forth streams of blood, from his nose emerged a crimson stream. his right eye was closed, his left eye was partly so, his left cheek bone was cut and there was 9 gash in his forehead He was a pitiful sight but with the little strength left in him he held himself together and refused to be counted out w K. courage helped him up but he could not regain his feet. The mob shriek- ed Get up. Jim.''
 His seconds from whom he was only few paces. tried to assist | him to his feet. The time keeper was tolling off the seconds. That Jeff could never have regained his feet save for the assistance from his sec- Onds cannot be denied. At any rate | he did regain his feet and staggered l towards Johnson, who apparently be- l;eving the battle was over, was nead- ing for his corner. His seconds sound | ed a warning when Jeff approached and Johnson returned to the fray. but | after lightly cuffing the white man a few times, again showed him to the floor. It was at this point that Rick 1 ard pushed Johnson to his corner and instructed Jeffries' seconds who had jumped into the ring, 10 carry him away.
 A few seconds after the battle. Rick ard declared that Jeff was out when l he was knocked down the second time, end Johnson was given the decision on fair knockout. Later in the ev- ening he stated that he had awarded | the battle to Johnson because Jeffries' seconds had attempted to assist him | to arise while the battle was in pro- gross.
 Some claim that the time keeper act ually counted "ten" after the big fel- | low was knocked down, but he claimed | he did not. Jeffries was whipped and | Johnson gets credit for a knockout | George Harting time keeper, | one or one million.
 By Tip Wright.)
 Reno New, July 5-I doubt very