Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-07-06
jim JEFFR|ES
PASSES into
HISTORY
BEATEN CHAMPION BEATS
IT BACK TO ALFALFA FARM
Whipped Before He Started for
Ring Is Explanation Of Sport
ing Authority for Big Boiler
makers Defeat.
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Reno, Nevada, July 5--James j
Jeffres. whose great ring career came
to a pitiful end when he fell before
Champion Jack johnson here in the
arena yesterday, left the scene of his
defeat at 1880 o'clock tonight. He is
headed toward his alfalfa ranch in
southern California, and there in the
quiet of his nelds surrounded by the
hills that he loves, he will try to for
geta In the meantime, he VIII spend
few days in San Francisco. straight
ening up his business affairs.
The Jeffries car was hitched to the
regular evening train. He motored
into the city from his camp at Moana
Springs with Sam Berger and other
members of his party an hour before
train time and hid himself as soon as
possible from the curious gaze of the
crowd that still thronged the streets
of the worlds fight capital.
In his every stumbling movement,
in his bowed head, in the depths of
his sombre eyes, in his lcryous rub
bing of his swollen face and blackened
eye, in his almost timid shrinking
from the public, the great Jeffries
showed that his defeat had dealt him
vital blow and that he never again
would be the man that he WAS a few
hours ago.
There was silence as he passed
through the streets. Men rushed forth
fro fI,a no fol hInc n ero
but no word of taunt or derision was
thrown at him. Those who saw that
fight and that includes nearly every
body in Reno, know that Jeffries did
his best,
The train was lost in the red glow
that the sun shed over the Sierras.
. oefffies wass~goHe into history In
the other direction, somewhere in the
desert to the east, a hilarious band of
negroes was journeying with the BAN
ner of the worlds champion floating
from the car window.
Special trains have been pulling out
of Reno all last night and all day to-
day, trying to get 10000 visitors back
home. Thousands stood all day, grips
in their hands, waiting to Chamber
into the next train.
Thousands gave it up and decided
to wait over for lighter traffic. AS a
the gambling houses
were running full blast and the main
street had the aspect of a frontier
camp at the height of a gold
strike. A determined effort was
made by the losers in the fight betting
to recoup their losses and at last ac-
counts there were many who will |
have to wire home for money. The |
financial condition of hundreds, hit |
by the fight and the game, is des- |
perate
There was an air of great WEAKNESS
pervading the crowds.
The restaurants were recovering |
from the famine and the freight trains |
were alive with clinging hoboes and |
sent out of town by the ever
vigilant state police. The barrooms |
were filled with nstless, thirst quench-
ing groups the poolroom men were |
settling up their bets.
The betting at Tom Corbett's Off
cial poolroom was not as heavy as had |
been expected. Corbett. however. de-
clared himself satisfied. The lack of
johnson money was q surprise. The
largest individual loss on record in
the poolroom was that suffered by
Clarence Berry, the California oil op-
orator. He bet 1000 on Jeffries
Among the sporting men left here
here is not a dissenting opinion as to
he justice of the fights end. Many
have nothing but their return tickets
10 show for their judgment on the
outcome. but that Jeffries ever had
'hance with the wonderful negro no
me can be found now who is willing
% admit.
Johnsons repartee. his GOODNESS in
he ring, the terrible power of his
punches, his marvellous Judgment Of
distance and his almost uncanny
thickness and boxing skill, is the talk
1f the town. Men are living the fight
over round by round AS long as they
i've they never Will forget the pitiful
lspect OF Jeffries at the mercy OF the
black panther in the fifteenth round.
What was the matter with JEFF
'ries?" some asked. A well known
sporting authority who talked with
Teffries this morning, answered this
question.
He was whipped before he left
Hoana Springs for the ringside," said
his man. He felt that he was to fall
before the colored fellow and it was
90 much for him To face. As the hour
approached his nervous condition be-
anne such that his mind lost all con-
rol over his body. 1t began saturday
md indicated itself in various ways.
sunday night he did not sleep a wink.
,ut walked about his room and looked |
e q rrf1 n I
ng he ate little breakfast. When he
at i'm the corner in the ring, Choynski
IS he wrapped his hands exclaimed;
Why. Jim, your hands are as cold
IS ice and clammy His seconds
hought even then that he was nerv-
,us and that he would get over it in
he fight.
When I asked him today what he
from the time he entered
he ring. he replied:
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