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Story of How Johnson Defeated Jeffries in Fight in 15 Rounds ROUND ONE The men refused to shake linmls. John nun smiled and Jeffries calmly chewed Hum. After a long opening sesHlon of npiiri-iiiK ■loliiiNim shot his left to the face mill they clinched, Johnson push- Ing Jeffries t)tn k. Johnson swung his left to the Jiitv and as Jeffries roughed II at close quarters the big block shot his left again to the face. The men lucked nrniH nml on the break Jeffrie* clouted lii-t mini twice with two short arm let'iN to the face and the croud yelled: "Why don't you lauiell'.'" shout ed Corbett to Johnson aud the latter tvlnkad and smiled back at the former chuntplon. The men continued In a locked embrace and as I lie gong ter minated the round Johnson playfully tapped Jeffries on Uie shoulder nml ivent to his corner smiling. Jeffries then told his seconds to let him alone, he would fight bis battle. It was a tame round. ROUND TWO Johnson came up chattering like a magpie, but Jeffries only smiled. "He. wants to fight ■ Uttle bit, Jim," yelled Corbett. "You bet I do, Mistah Cor bett!" retorted the champion. As Jef fries held on Johnson clouted him with a wicked right to the Jaw. As the men separated from a clinch Jeffries swung his right to the stomach, to which Johnson retaliated with two ripping left uppercut* to the Jaw. The men closed together, Jeffrie* leaning against the champion with sheer weight of his ■ boulder*. It wa* a case of strength against cleverness, with the Nubian having tbe better of It. Johnson and C'orhett "kidded each other Inces santly dnrlng the minute's respite be tween the second and third round*. ROUND THREE, Both came np slowly. "Come In, Jim," shouted Johnson, saying which the champion swung hi* left to the stomach with much force. Johnson then Jabbed his left twice to tbe face and a* they closed In breast to breast John son whipped a left uppercut to the Jaw and neatly blocked Uie bollermaker's onslaughts. A* the men circled about the ring Johnson kept up a constant cross-fire of conversation. The men sep arated and Johnson Jabbed thrice with left to the face and whipped a short arm right to the face. A long clinch followed, daring which the black missed a wicked right uppercut. Jeffries rushed It, but Johnson blocked him neatly on a vicious right *wlng and again patted his antagonist on the shoulder as the round ended. Johnson, on points, had a good advantage, but there was not much power behind his sting*. ROUND FOUR Jeffrie* missed a left swing, Johnson rushing away, leaving a stab to the face. Johnson taunted Jeffrie* constant ly. "Don't rush, Jim; don't you hear what I'm telling you!" shouted Johnson, hacking It up with a right uppercut to the Jaw. Jeffries gut hi a good right to the mouth and the blood started flowing from the colored man's lips. "First blood fur Jeffries!" yelled the crowd. Johnson shot a hard left to tbe mouth and almost wrestled his man against the ropes. The "golden smile" had not faded from Johnson's face at this stage. Jeffries forced the cham pion against the ropes and a half dozen short arm body punches found their mark hi rapid succexlson. In response Johnson shot a right to tbe Jaw and the round ended. ROUND FIVE Johnson as usual rame np with a volley of words. ' Jeffries pnid no at tention to this, bnt rushed in close and they wrestled for a spell. At close quarters Jeffrie* shot two rights to the body, to which Johnson responded with a left uppercut, culling Jeffries' lips a bit. Johnson a moment later drove his right to the, Jaw and then followed It with two left uppercuts to the same, place. Johnson Jarred the white man with a straight left to the mouth and LEAVES PUGILIST, RETURNS FARMER Jeffries, with Bruised Face and Downcast Spirit, Seeks His Training Camp [Associated Press] JEFFRIES' TRAINING CAMP, RENO, July 4.—Jeffries, the pugilist, left camp early this afternoon. Jim Jeffries, farmer, returned. He will never enter the ring again. That was settled once for all today. The big man with the bruised face and downcast spirit was carried.swift ly back from the ringside to the cot tage where the last days of his train ing were carried through. He was still dazed and shaken when he climbed from the machine. He knew that he ihad been beaten, but of the way In which his defeat was accomplished he had no Idea. The story of the blows which sent him stumbling over the ropes, a beaten man, and brought the blood from his lips as he sat stupe fled, unable to locate his adversary in the glare of the sun, was told to him by Jim Corbett. Jeff knew nothing beyond the fact thnt he was beaten, that the object for which he had abandoned his quiet life, the defeat of Jack Johnson, had not been accomplished. WIFE RESTRAINS SOBS Mrs. Jeffries arrived at the camp half an hour before her husband. She was weeping, but endeavoring to re strain her sobs. When Jeffries' car stopped In front of the cottage she rushed out to him and together they passed from sight through the door. Them were few to witness the re turn of the vanquished. Two or three automobiles stood In the road where fifty had been crowded In the morn- Ing. Jeffries' personal friends were there, eager to do something to aid him, but unable to find words. Jeffries stepped from the house a few moments after he entered and went to the rubbing room. He walked a lit tle unsteadily and seemed a bit dazed. His trainers accompanied him and after a bath he was rubbed down and drnnk a glass or two of wine. It was then he made his first state ment after leaving the ring, and said he was sorry for his friend*. Jeffries' face was puffed from the blowi that had hit him, but the flow of blood had been stopped. His right eye, to the blinding of which hla traln prs attribute his defeat In so few rounds, wns swollen almost shut, but was not serlounly Injured. According? to Dr. Porter, Jeffries' physician, his injuries are not worthy of note. He Huffored far more serious damage In previous flffhts, the doctor said, not ably that with Fitzslmmona when his thry eased np In a clinch. Both men were bleeding from the mouth. Sud denly Jeffries tent the black's head back a foot with a straight left to the mouth and Johnson looked a bit serious ii» he took his seat, not, however, without giving the bollermaker the customary round-end love tap. No serious dam age. ROUND SIX "I'm going to mix with him now," said Jeffries to his seconds. Three lefts radiated from tbe champion's shoul der, catching Jeffries on the face in Mob Instance and the blood seeped from Jeffries' left cheek bone. A ringside fun asked Johnson If he would like a drink. "Too much on hand now," quickly rejoined the champion, and he ripped In three left nppercnts to the wlUte man's Jaw. Jeffries waded In, but was met with a nasty left uppercut that closed his right eye tight. Johnson fol lowed with two similar punches and the blood spouted from the retired cham pion's nose as he took his seat when the bell ended the round. Jeffries' sec onds worked heroically on bis damaged optics. Johnson's ronud. ROUND SEVEN Jeffries came np with a ferocious frown and they closed In. A long spar ring bee followed without a blow being struck, Johnson meanwhile carefully priming himself for an opening. Al though Jeffries' eye was badly braised, he never lost his poise. Johnson laughed sarcastically as Jeffrie* essayed a right swing at close quarters. With the men locked In an embrace Johnson Jolted his man three times over the damaged eye and followed this with a right up perrut to tbe Jaw. Jeffries stopped Johnson's bickering* with a straight Hcht to the Jaw. Johnson countered with left and right to Jeffries' sore face. The bell clanged with honors ot> John son's side and Jeffries looked badly cut up as he took his corner. ROUND EIGHT Jeffries rushed In and tbe black drove a left to the mouth and shortly after shot hi two straight lefts to tbe face that carired considerable force beliind them. "Hello, Jimmy!" shouted the black. "Did you see that one?' As they closed In without damage Jef fries shouted: "Break away, Johnson!" Ilut Johnson did not break and laughed as Jeffries missed a vicious left swing. Karller Jeffrie* at close range had worked In two right* to the body that failed to fe»/.e the negro. Johnson pushed his man about the ring and the bell rang, closing a rather featureless session. ROUND NINE Johnson kept up a constant conversa tion In his corner before coming up to the scratch In this round. He hooked his left to Jeffries' face with great force and continued to hurl tersely framed sentences at Jim Corbett. Johnson hooked another left to the Jaw that carried with It a world of power. Af ter Jeffries had butted with his head Johnson flung his left to the stomach and they went into a friendly clinch. Jeffrie* crouched low and Johnson drove home a wicked left full tilt fat the stomach. A moment later he sent In two left Jabs to the mouth and eye, but Jeffries apparently paid little at tention to these blows. The round end ed hi Johnson's favor and with Jeffries' face bledlng from several place*. ROUND TEN Not mnch life marked the coming to the center of the ring. Johnson shot two lefts to the head and followed this with a short arm right to the ear. A long clinch, mixed with wrestling, fol lowed. Jeffrie* swung hi* right around the body. The men confined themselves mostly to Infighting and short streaks of wrestling, Johnson always on the alert to land a punch. Johnson whip ped two left* to the Jaw and a right uppercut to (lie Jaw made Jeffrie* yell "Oh!" audibly. Johnson peppered away with hi* left and clearly ontboxed his face was cut and bruised almost be yond recognition. Roger Cornell, Jeffries' trainer, de clared that the blinded right eye was the main cause of his hero's defeat. The blow which swelled the lids until sight was all but gone landed in the second round. "It was not bad enough to cut," said the trainer, "but Jeffries told me when I began rubbing It and working with it that he could see double as he looked around. He could not see a blow com ing from that side. Johnson hammered him with the left almost at will and Jeff could not block the blows. He did not see them. There are four lumps along his right Jaw where Johnson's fists landed. Those were the blowe that beat him." Jeffries was Invisible to all comers throughout the evening. He ordered that friends be supplied with cham pagne, but did not leave the house himself. There has been no change in Jeffries' plans. He purposes to re turn to his home In Los Angeles at once. He will leave with his wife and a few friends tomorrow, but the time at which his train will start has not beon fixed. CROWDS CALL ON JOHNSON'S MOTHER FOR INFORMATION CHICAGO, July 4.—Mrs. Tiny John son, mother of Jack Johnson, was the center of attraction among the colored folk of Chicago Sunday and Monday. Several ljundred persons called at the Johnson residence at 3334 Wabash ave nue to ascertain the correct "dope" on his condition and his chances of suc cessfully defending his title. Theso persons were assured by Jack's mother and sisters that an early victory was expected, as they had received two tele grams from Jack, in which he stated he was in perfect condition and ex pected to win. In a recent letter to his mother the negro stated ha would leave Reno tonight, arriving in Chicago Thursday, and leaving for New York Friday to open a week's engagement at a roof garden. Dozens of colored church members called Mrs. Johnson by the telephone and assured her they were praying for her son's victory. Pastors of most of the colored churches condemned the prize fight. The Rev. A. C. Carey, pastor of the Institutional church, said: "I look upon the fight as a manifesta tion of the brutal part of both men. The fight Is Interesting merely from a sociological point of view, inasmuch as it Is charged by many that the negro nii't! Is degenerating physically: I will watch the outcome of the fight from that point of view and will be glad for Johnson to win if It demonstrates the fact that our race Is getting stronger. "I condemn prize fights and all mani festations of brute force." ALMOST*OVER "I've a few more points to touch upon," said the professor of horticul ture as he awkwardly climbed over the barbed-wire fence at the foot of the orchard. —University of Wisconsin Sphinx. LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1010. hnrly opponent. It was Johnson's round. D«lanry asked Klrkard to watch tbe gloves when tlie mm were holding, to see that tlirj- were not broken. ROUND ELEVEN A half-minute wrestling bee wltbont damage opened the round and JobjiKon smashed Jeffries time and again with left and right to the jaw and tbe big bollennakcr fought back wildly. John son swung a terrific right, more of an uppercut, to the Jaw and followed this with a clean right uppercut to the Jaw and Jeffries almost weakened. Johnson employed left and right uppercut again and again to the Jaw and varied tbls with left and right swings to the Jaw and the blood spouted from Jeffries' mouth In a stream. Jeffries was a bad looking sight at this stage, but he sud denly electrified tbe crowd by making a round end rally, landing his right to the Jaw and a hard left to the body that brought the crowd to Its feet. Johnson, however, had a good advan tage. ROUND TWELVE The men clinched after the black had missed a bard left for the Jaw, re maining In this position for half a min ute. As Jeffries rushed In Johnson met him with a straight left and a right uppercut on the Jaw. With the men breast to breast the black swung bard with left to the body and face, all the time keeping up a conversation with Oorbett. Johnson cleverly blocked blows Intended for the body and sent home a straight rlislit to the sore mouth, start ing the blood afresh. The negro shot a straight left to the face and then sent his man's head back a foot with a simi lar blow. Jeffrie* went to his corner spitting blood and the honors against him. Jeffries' seconds were ominously quiet at this stage. On the other band, the Johnson corner fairly hummed with " life- and bustle. ROUND THIRTEEN The men fought without damage to a clinch and wrestled about the center of the ring, Johnson breaking It up with a volley of rights and lefts to the face and mouth. Be cleverly evaded Jeffries' clumsy attempts to land on the body and cutting loose landed left and right In quick succession on the Jaw and the body. Jeffries weakened at this stage, a right oppercut almost lifting him from the floor. He seemed all at sea In locating the black, who waded hi like a merciless Juggernaut, dealing out se vere punishment with every tap. The round ended with Corbett advising Jef fries to cover up and stay away. Jef fries stared rather blankly into the middle of the ring and appeared to be in bad shape. ROUND FOURTEEN Jeffries was met with a straight left as he got up and a moment later another spiteful Jab went to the mouth. John s«n placed his stomach within Jeffries' reach and tauntingly cried, "Ain't that a nice belly, Jim? Why don't you hit It?" Jim did not. They closed In, Cor bett Importuning his man to beware of the dangerous uppercut. Jeffries' right eye was almost totally closed at this stage. Johnson sent In some rapid lire left Jabs to the mouth and the big white shook his head. "I'm as clever as you are, Jim!" shouted Johnson to Corbett, and immediately an exchange of rep artee followed. ROUND FIFTEEN A* the men came up Johnson went at his man savagely. In quick succession he delivered three knockdowns, Jeffries each time falling against or Into the ropes. As Jeffries staggered to a foot hold after the third time he had been sent to the floor Johnson sprang at him like a tiger and with a quick sac cession of lefts to the Jaw sent Jeffries down and out. Jeffries was not counted out. As the timekeeper's hand moved np and down a towel was thrown Into the,, ring from Jeffries' corner. Whether or not. It probably will be counted as a knockout. JEFF LOST BEFORE LAST KNOCKDOWN Referee Rickard Says He Had Given Fight to Negro Before Last Punch TEX RICKARD, Referee and Promoter RENO, July 4.—Jack Johnson Is the most wonderful fighter that ever pulled on a glove. He won as he pleased from Jeffries and was never in danger. I could not help but feel sorry for the big white man as he fell beneath the champion's blows. It was the most pitiable sight I ever saw. As' a matter of fact, I thought way down In my heart that Jeffries would be the winner of the fight. The fight was won and lost when Jeffries went through the ropes the first time. This Is official. The other knockdown doesn't count. It was this way: Jeffries was brought to his knees and as he arose, dazed, Johnson hit him a succession of lefts that sent him through the ropes. As he lay there several of his seconds caught hold of him and helped him to his feet. Under the rules of the game, which I have read thoroughly while certain people were saying that I couldn't referee a fight, this disqualified Jeffries and Johnson was the winner. I thought the seconds were going to carry Jeff to his corner. Instead, they shoved him into the ring again to be beaten further, while I was doing all I could during the confusion to stop the fight. Jeffries couldn't hit Johnson, but John son could hit Jeffries whenever ho pleased. Jeffries was not as good as the last time he fought. WOULD STOP EXHIBITION OF MOVING FIGHT PICTURES WASHINGTON, July 4.—A move ment against the exhibition of the Reno fight pictures in the District of Colum bia has been started. Rev. John Comp tom Ball, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist church, declared from his pul pit yesterday that every possible effort would be made to have the district commissioners prohibit the exhibition of the fight pictures and all other moving pictures of prize fights. 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