Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-07-05
Tenth Round.

responded with left to the body. Jack
again missed lightning right for the
Jaw and they clinched At close range
Johnson sent left uppercut to the
mouth and as they broke missed a
right for the jaw. JEFF seemed to want
to wear Jack out by bearing down his
weight and showing him. Jeffries
struck two lefts to the face and got
one Of the same kind Jeffries took two
lefts and shot a left to the body. JEFF
fries appeared fresh and Johnson was
also fresh, but appeared i'll at ease.
Eleventh Round.
Jeffries took a left on the face three
times, bat smiled and talked to Jack
in the clinch. Johnson sent stiff
left uppercut to the face and right
to the body. He kept JEFF bobbing his
head to escape right uppercut. In a
cllnch Jack sent three uppercuts to
the face. Jeffries appeared to be tired.
There was more showing. When they
broke Jack hooked left hard to the
nose. The blood flowed from Jeff's
lips and nose and he appeared to be
slow as compared with Jacks snappy
blows. It was decidedly Johnson's
round.
Twelfth Round.
Jim looked for chance to get in
side the negros impregnable defense.
Jack waited and then sent left to the
face. Thought you said you were go
Ing to have me Wild" said Johnson to.
Corbett's taunts. Jeffries butted in till
his head rested on the negros Shout
der and then he tried to rip In body
blows. They were blocked almost be-
fore they We're started. The negroes
boxing drew cheer from the crowd,
Jeffries was forced into close quar-
ters, but he got q left on his sore nose.
His nose bled freely and as he turned
to take his seat at the gong he spat
out mass Of blood. JEFF was not wor-
ried apparently and looked fresh.
johnson seemed to gain confidence
Thirteenth Round.
Putting his right glove before his
face jeff walked into clinch without
q blow. When they broke, Johnson sent
left to the body and right upper
cut to the chin. stick there. Jim
shouted Corbett and jeff stuck until
he was forced away. Then he took two
lefts and right uppercut to the face.
Holding him with right on the shout
der, Johnson sent in three lefts to the
1 face In succession and then an upper
cut to the face. Jeffries seemed to be
tired and slow. He could not solve the
negro's defense and took all the blows
that came along. Jack swung left to
the face. and then calmly clinched
Jeffries continued to come on in spite
| of the punishment. The round was all
Johnson's. Jeffries' eye was almost
closed.
Fourteenth Round.
JEFF walked straight into a left and
they clinched. Jack tapped the big fell
low on the face with d left twice, and
at OF ~ f1er1, yoy
Jeffries took three straight lefts to the
face and got in a left to face lightly.
Jeff's lefts were simply in the air, the
clever negro knocking them all up be-
fore they got within six inches of his
face. How do you feel?" said Jack.
Jeffries was sober and made no re-
Spouse. but walked into three lefts In
said Jeffries. Il, will give you some Of
them now" said Johnson and sent in
two lefts to the face.
Fifteenth and Final Round.
When the men faced each other 1t
was plain to all that Jeffries was in
distress His face was puffed and
bleeding from the Furnishing lefts and
rights. His movements were languid.
He shambled after the elusive negro,
sometimes crouching low with his left
hand stuck out in front, sometimes
standing erect. STOPPING or erect. he
was q mark for Johnson's accurately
driven blows. Johnson simply waited
for the big white man to come in, and
chopped his face to pieces. They came
into a clinch after feebl attempt by
Jeffries to land left hand blow on the
body and as they broke away, Johnson
shot his left and right to the jaw in a
flash. Jeffries staggered back against
the ropes. HiS defensive power seemed
to have deserted him. Johnson went at
him like a tiger.
jeff Down for First Time.
A rain Of lefts and rights delivered
at close quarters. sent JEFF Keeling
blindly. Another series Of short snappy
punches, and the white giant went
down for the first time In his ring ca
reer. He fell under the top rope, over
the lower one and onto the overhang-
ing OF the platform, resting on his
launches and his right elbow. JEFF
fries looked around In dazed way
and got up at the count Of nine.
Goes Down 4 Second Time.
Johnson stood ready to strike and
when Jeffries rose from his knees he
dashed In again. jeff reeled about and
tried to clinch. but Johnson elnded him
and as the old champion swung around
to the south side Of the ring, he jolted
him twice on the jaw. Jeffries sank to
his knees, weak and tired. but got up
that Jeffries' friends began to call to
Richard to stop the fight. stop It:
stop It," they shouted from all sides.
Don't let him be knocked out"
Jeffres Down and Out.
Richard gave no heed to these ap-
peals. Jeffries was helpless now, and
as he staggered to standing position
the negro waited for him. A left, a
right and another left, short. snappy
and powerful blows, found their way to
the mark on Teff's chin. He went down
for the third time. Again he sprawled
over the lower rope, hanging half out
side of the ring The timekeeper raised
and lowered his arm, tolling off the
seconds. He had reached the count Of
seven when some of Jeffries' seconds
put foot inside the ropes and Richard
walked between the fallen man and the
negro, and placing his hand on john
sons shoulder. he declared him the
winner. While Jeffries was not counted
ou,. this was merely technical evas-
ion It was evident he could never have
gotten up inside of ten seconds.
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