Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-07-07

Johnson walked out of the ring
without a mark on his body, except a
slight cut on his lip, which was the
opening of wound received in tram
ing
Jeffries Outciassed.
Ring experts agree that it was not
even championship fight. Jeffrles
had a chance in the second round, per-
haps. but after the sixth it was plain
that he was weakened and outclasseo
in every point, and after the eleventh
round it was hopeless
It was the greatest demonstration
the ring has ever seen OF the failure
of 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 Jeffrles
was like log. The reviled Johnson
was like black panther, beautiful III
mis- alertness and defensive tactics.
Jeffries fought by instinct, II
seemed, showing his gameness and his
great fighting heart in every round
hut he was only the shell of his OLD
self. The old power to take terrible
beating and bore in until he landed the
knockout blow was gone.
Easy for Johnson.
After the third round Johnson
treated his opponent almost as
Joke He smiled and blocked play
FULLY. warding of the bearllke rusnes
of Jeffries with marvellous science
now tucking a blow under his arm
again plucking it out of the air as
man stops baseball.
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 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 abso-
lutely Jeffries' master that experts
such as W. Corbett. the Australian
sporting writer and ring expert, de-
clared that Tommy Burns had 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. 1t
looked as if Johnson had been holding
himself under cover all the rest of the
time. and now that he had measured
Jeffries in all his weakness he had
determined to stop it quickly
Jeffries had lost the power of de
Tense. A series of right and left up
per cuts delivered at will sent him
staggering to the ropes. He turned
and fought back by instinct, is if he
was dying hard.
With the exception Of few 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
this stage came Jeffries could not
reach the black. The blows, almost
all of them landed with all the speed
taken out OF them. 1t was like hit
ting punching bag
The Decisive Fifteenth Round.
When the men faced each other it
was plain to all that Jeffries was In
distress. His face was pulled and
bleeding from the Furnishing lefts and
rights he had received, and his move.
ments We're languid. He shambled
after the elusive negro. sometimes
crouching low with his left hand
struck out in front and sometimes
standing erect. STOPPING or erect.
he was mark for Johnson's accur-1
ately driven blows. Johnson simply
waited for the big white man to come
IN and chopped his face to pieces.
They came into clinch after feeble