Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-04-09
|i[LIRD WINS FIGHT
.,oy FROM KANSAS KNOCKS
sF'' a- Johnson IN 26TH
ROUND.
Aft 70 JAW WINS BATTLE
Had Better of Argument to
J" .,i..h But Rapidly Lost Ground
.,ft.r Before Cowboys Fierce
....,.s-staged at Havana.

',.n.isth. But Rapidly LOST erouno
....ftsr Before Cowboys Fierce
.,'n.,.s-stased at Havana.
n.r,ra. April Jack Johnson. ex-
', .'r his own country, lost his
p' ~ fstic fame as the heavy
w. W. champion of the world. The
l u r,s wrested from him by Jess
sp,,,d the Kansas cowboy, the big
'n-', man who ever entered a prize
~ and white hope" who at last
d made good.
,hnson returned to his rooms al
.' 's' Immediately after the fight.
lido from a cut lip he was un-
srted ~,
the history of ring battles. For
a rouuds Johnson punched and
: nr,ded Willard at will, but his
mvs grew perceptibly less powerful
!, me fight progressed, until at last
!, ,pemed unable or unwilling to go
co.
bbDson stopped leading and for
a,pa or four rounds the battle be-
vepn the two huge men was little
MIRO than a series of plastic poses of
,bite and black gladiators.
50 it was until the twenty-f1fth
mDd when Willard got one of his
Fjely swinging, Windmill, right-hand
msshes at Johnson's heart. This was
he beginning of the end.
When the round closed Johnson
ant word to his wife that he was "all
h" and told her to start for home.
yhe was on the way out and was
asSing the ring in the twenty-sixth
ound when singing left to the body
nd cyclonic right to the jaw caused
ohn8on to crumble on the floor of the
Ing, where he lay partly outside the
1pes until the referee counted ten
nd held up Wizards hand in token OF
Is newly-won laurels.
No fight between heavyweights that
IS gone to a finish was cleaner or
IS brutal. Johnson's left eye was
Irtly closed in the early rounds, but
It sufficiently to interfere with his
hitting. His lip also was cut inside,
ID his famous golden smile flashed
ON red setting.
The end of the fight came with a
ddenness that dazed the spectators.
followed two or three rounds of al
)St complete idleness on the part of
contestants, and the crowd set
d down to a long-drawn-out strug-
! believing that it would go the
| limit of the 45 rounds without
her being able to register a
OCk-out.
The early rounds we're filled with
she's Of Johnson's former wonderful
led, when he would rain rights and
IS to Wizards body and face, de-
aring ten blows to one from the big
tie challenger. Through all this
lie Willard was strictly on the de-
SlVe and On occasions Johnson
yed with him, once standing with
nd down and letting Willard swing
him, only to dodge and laugh at
aWkwardness of his opponent.
these rounds Willard took a beat
which would have put an ordinary
tier down and out. The crowd got
d to seeing him throw off these
hing blows, and expected to see
nson do the same thing when Will
swung his right to the negro's
IN the fatal twenty-sixth round.
y expected to see Johnson jump
and continue fighting, just as Will
had come back, but the old cham
knew that he had fought his last
mpionship fight.
rom the twentieth round to the
the fight looked slow and the
Va began to boot and ask that
ebody do something.
uring the early part of the fight
nson carried all his old-time con-
nee and self-assertiveness. He
'tantly banded words with the
'tators about the ring and talked
oily at Willard, who needed the
'os chatter about as little as he
his blows.
lllard's seconds we're after John
all the time. warning him to keep
from Wizards terrific right.
trough the twenty-first, twenty
nd, twenty-third and twenty
IN rounds Johnson hardly struck
ow. He kept feinting at Willard,
was ever ready to break ground.
n Johnson finally went down in
twenty-sixth round he rolled over
lis back. The sun was beating
with torrid intensity, and his
drew up as if to shield his eyes
the glare while the referee count
i'm out.