The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-06-28
Jack johnson Defeats Frank Moran Twenty Round
Detailed Account Of Fight Given
Round by Round
Given

~ Round
i ROUND 9-Jack chopped Franks
nose with over hand rights three
times. Moran still hooked and swung
to the stomach in the clinches which
followed each land by Johnson. They
1 fought hard in clinch. Carpenter
broke them and they exchanged
light leads in the center.
Sparring continued for a moment,
both. apparently trying to lure each
other into a lead. Finally Moran
rushed again. Johnson hooked with
! the left as Moran came in. He Ianor
ed but got two hard hooks to the
stomach The negro was still shifting
but he grew visibly weak as the
| gong rang. Even round.
ROUND Moran jabbed with the
left. Johnson blocked, hooking his
right Moran again put a right to
the stomach IN cfinch. Johnson led
/ snappily and seemed to be taking the
Head. Moran seemed tired. Johnson's
right to head and face badly dam
aged Moran and he held on In the
clinches. johnson put half a dozen
upper cuts to Moran's bruised face in
the mix-ups. but Moran held In close
and though the blows stung, they
did not carry a heavy wallop. They
were clinched at the bell. -Johnson's
round.
ROUND 11Moran seemed hypno-
TIED Jacks right hand time and
again Landed with force in his dam
aged face Moran swung to the
head but was blocked. Johnson
again put both hands to the face. He
forced the fighting. Moran hung on
They struggled across the ring. Mo-
ran ducking but was unable to es-
cape the jabs and upper cuts which
came like storm. At the bell Moran
was In q neutral corner, Johnson
standing off and pecking him to
pieces with long rights. Jonnson's
! round.
| Up to the end Of the eleventh round,
johnson showed little sign that his
condition was bad. Several times he
puffed from Moran's hooks to the
stomach, but he seemed to recover
easily. His old snappy jabs were on
tap and they landed hard. Moran
seemed to be weakening.
/ ROUND 12-Both stalled with the
opening Of the twelfth. Moran made
the first lead, landing with a straight
jab to the face. Johnson game back
with right hook. Both smiled as
they bumped their heads In ducking a
clinch. johnson hooked left to the
! head again. Moran replied with q
light jab in the face and again the
NEGRO smiled. Moran seemed to be
resting up and Johnson was willing
too. None Of the blows landed in the
round were hard and they were fid-
ding in the middle of the ring when
the time was up. Johnson had a
shade.
Moran's friends plucked up heart
when the twelfth round passed with
dicted Moran, while marked up
somewhat, was not in serious trouble.
His nose had stopped bleeding and
he came to the center again with his
smile still undimmed.
| ROUND 13-Johnson lead with the
left. Moran rushed and Jack caught
his arms fast and held in the clinch
smothering Franks face. Moran
swung hard to the head. Johnson
rocked with the blow but turned to
the audience and grinned. Jack put
over two left jabs in the next rally,
Moran hooking a left to the face.
Frank swung again but the negro
stepped back. Both played cautious
ly. The work in this round was
| light Johnson had q shade on the
blows landed.
| ROUND 14-Johnson forced the
fighting in the fourteenth. landing
nearly at will with right and left jabs
to Moran's bloody face. Moran was
driven across the ring with a shower
of blows, but still put right hooks
and lefts to the head when his chance
came. Johnson hooked and swung
to Moran's face freely, Moran getting
few blows home. Near the finish Of
/ the round, Moran jabbed Johnson in
the nose but caught hard right hook
| in return Jchnson's round.
| ROUND 15-Moran rushed but
| Jack met him with a left to the face
which stopped him. They clinched.
Moran tried left for the head. 1t
landed high and Jack jabbed his face
again. They fiddled in the center.
Moran kept trying to bore in, but
Jacks forearms were there and in
every clinch, the white man was held.
Johnson twice sent an upper-cut in a
break and put Moran's bloody face
back with a snap. The end of the
round found both sparring in the GEN.
ter, apparently willing to rest it out
Jobnson's round.
ROUND 16-Side-stepping cbntin
ued when the sixteenth round opened.