Arizona republican., 1915-04-06
SMOKE SENDS HIS
 WIFE FROM ARENA
But Not in Time to Prevent Her Seeing His Finish White Flags on Autos Tell of Jess Willard's Victory
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HAVANA, April 5.-Jack Johnson exiled from his own country, today lost his claim to fistic fame as the heavyweight champion of tEe world, the title being wrested from him by Jess Willard, the Kansas cowboy, the biggest man who ever entered the prize ing.
 The fight has probably no parallel in the story of ring battles. For twenty rounds Johnson punched and pounded Willard at will but his blows grew perceptibly less power fu: as the fight progressed until at last he seemed unable or unwilling to go on. Johnson stopped and for three or four rounds the battle be- tween the two big men, was little more than series of plastic poses of white or black gladiatOrs. So it was until the twenty fifth round when Willard got in enc of his vide ly swinging windmill riynthand smashes to Johnson's heart. This was .he beginning of the end. When the round closed Johnson sent word to lis wife that he was all iE. and told her to start for home. She was on her way out and was pass ing tte ring in the twentv-sixth iound when a singing left to the body and a cyclone right to the jaw caused Johnson to crumple up on the floor of the ring, where he lay partly outside the ropes until Re fierce Welch counted ten, and held up Willard's hand in token of his newly won laurels.
 There is much discussion tonight and will probably be for some time among followers of the fighting game as to whether Johnson was really knocked out.
 In the sense of being smashed into unconsciousness, he certainly was not put out. .. ... .... ....
 Johnson Quit
 The concensus of opinion is that Johnson expected, or knew there was no possibility of his winning; SC when he was knocked down, chose to take the count rather than rise and stand further punishment.
 Automobiles returning to the city from the fight flew white flags, sand thus the news was spread tar and wide that the white challenger had defeated the negro champion As Willard came along, crowds in the streets waved flags. and handker- chiefs tied to sticks. At one point a group of negro children, who had evidently hs;,rG Johnson was th, victor. waved black flag at the white champion, who was muci amused
 Willard Modest Champ
 Willard is probably the most moj- est champion who ever stepped ou of a prize ring. taking his victory as philosophically as he looked for ward to the fight. Neither he nol Johnson showed much evidence O having engaged in a heavyweight championship battle. Willard's liz right ear and left cheek shove. slight cuts, but at no time wer more than a drop or two of bloot in evidence.
 In this respect the fight was a grea contrast to the Johnson-J -Jeffries ffgh at Reno five years ago when Jeffrie was cut to pieces, so his blood splashet over the spectators at the ringside Evidently thinking this condition migh prevail again today. Johnson objected to the presence of white woman il the newspaper seats just outside tn ropes and she was relegated to a plac farther back. On the contrary. no figh between heavyweights that has gone t finish was cleaner or less brutal