ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 4, 5 July 1910, Page 6

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

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(Received July 5. 2.20 p.m.) RENO, .4th July. Jeffries, with his seconds — Corbett, Attel, Choynski, Bob Armstrong, Eugene Vancourt, Farmer, and Burns, took up positions in the south-east corner. Johnson was attended by his seconds — Bill Delaney, Al Kaufman, George Cotton, Don Drury, Dave Mills, and Harry J?oley. The timekeeper was Stanley Ketchell. FIRST ROUND. The men refused to shake hands. After much sparring Johnson shot his left to the face. The pair clinched and roughed it at close quarters, the negro hitting in the face. It was a tame round, honours being even. SECOND ROUND. Jeffries held on to Johnson, clouting -a light to the face. Jeffries hit a right to the stomach,- Johnson retaliating with two upper, cuts. Jeffries leaned in and jfche pair clinched. JOHNSON HITS THRICE. In the third round Johnson landed his right to the stomach, and his left twice to the face. The fighters closed in. Johnson upper-cut Jeffries, and blocked the latter's return. After the pair had been separated, Johnson hit thrice with his left to the face. There 'was a long clinch before time sounded. Johnson won the found on points. '' JEFFRIES GETS HOME. Johnston rushed away in the fourth round, and then hit Jeffries in th© face. Jeffries's mouth wait showing blood. By a right to the mouth the white forced the negro to the ropes, and several of his punches landed. Johnson then hit with his right to the jaw. This was Jeffries's round 1 . INFIGHTING. In the fifth, there was a good deal of wrestling and fighting at close quaTters. Jeffries hit twice to the body. Both men were bleeding from the mouth. Jeffries then sent the negro's head back > a foot with a straight left. Johnson was looking serious. ' JOHNSON'S ROUND. The sixth round saw Johnson land %bxee lefts drawing blood from Jeffries's cheek. He was fighting cautiously. He ! followed his previous effort with three upper-cuts. Jeffries then waded in, but met with a nasty upper-cut, which closed his right eye. Two more blows drew blood from Jeffries's nose. This was Johnson's round. SPARRING. The men when they faced each other -in the seventh round sparred for some time. Johnson then hit Jeffries thrice, and further damaged his eye. He uppercut to the jaw, and followed Jeffries, who, hit him on the jaw. Johnson again hit left and right to Jeffries's face. "HONOURS EVEN." Jeffries rushed Johnson when ,the eighth round opened, and landed him twice on the face. The negro was not damaged. Jeffries then landed two on the body. Honours were even in this .round. A WICKED LEFT. In the ninth, Johnson was talkative. He hit a powerful left on the jaw. Jeffries butted, and the pair clinched. Jeffries crouched. The negro drove a wicked left to the stomach, two jabs following to the jnouth and eye respectively. Jeffries was unmindful of Johnson. JEFFRIES YELLS. In round ten, Johnson landed .twice on the head. A clinch followed. There was much infighting, and wrestling. Johnson landed two lefts to the jaw, and Jeffries yelled. Johnson peppered the white's body, outboxing Jeffries. BLACK HITS OFTEN. • In the eleventh round Johnson hit often, Jeffries fighting wildly. The negro uppercut him frequently. Jeffries was showing signs of punishment and looking badly. He electrified the crowd by rallying, hitting to the jaw and body. A MISSED SWING. Johnson, in the twelfth round, clinched. After the negro had missed a swing to the jaw. Jeffries rushed, but was met with, a straight left. The negro swung hard lefts to the body and face. He was still talkative. Johnson blocked body blows, and sent his right to the mouth, starting Jeffries's face bleeding ' afresh. The negro shot several lefts to the face, sending Jeffries head back a foot. Jeffries' went tci his corner spitting blood. CLINCH AND WRESTLE. The thirteenth round saw a little damage done. c The men got in a clinch, and were wrestling in the centre for some time. Johnson broke, and with rights and lefts got to Jeffries's face and nioul-h. He cleverly ■ evaded Jeffries's clumsy attempts, and cut 'oose many lefts and rights to the jaw and body. Jeffries weakened. A right uppercut almost lifted Jeffries from the floor. He seemed at sea. "CLEVER AS YOU, JIM !" In the fourteenth round Johnson landed a straight, left as they met, and followed this with a jab to the mouth, at the same time taunting Jeffries, asking him to come close in. Corbett was yelling, ''Jeffries, beware of his uppercuts." Jeffries's eye was now almost closed i Johnson hit often to the mouth, and Jeffries shook his head. "Clever as you, Jim !'' shouted the negro to CorbeU,' asr he landed repeatedly. The round ended tamely. THE END. l Johnson had all the honours in the fifteenth round. A clinch opened the round, and the negro then rushed j Jeffries to the ropes. Jeffries hung over the ropes, and the seconds rushed into the ring before the timekeeper could finish counting. Johnson was stiU the world's heavyweight champion, having knocked out Jeffries in the fifteenth round. EXPERT VIEWS. At the • beginning of the thirteenth rotiud experts at the ringside passed the verdict that Jeffries must simply stay »n rl not fight if he hoppd to have a chaise to sta\ to the limit. ONE-SIDED. T'.ic fight was one-sided from the start. The negro blocked the old champion's blows at every stage of the game, and punished him severely. In the last five rounds Johnson went at him savagely. In the fifteenth, in quick succession, he delivered three knock-downs, Jeffries

each time falling against or into the .ropes. As Jeffries staggered to a foothold after the third time he had been sent to the floor, Johnson sprang at him like a tiger with a succession of lefts on the jaw, and sent Jeffries' 1 down and out. • • ■ • "I AM NOT A GOOD FIGHTER ' ANY LONGER." As Jeffries was helped to his corner he said : "I am not a gooß fighter any longer. I couldn't come back, boys — could not como back. Ask Johnson it he will give me his gloves." As Jeffries hung over the ropes hun* dreds of friends rushed up to him, crying, "Don't let the old man get knocked out," but the timekeeper was inexorable. The count went on. When he . had counted seven it was evident Jeffries was finished. Large numbers of persons broke through the ropes. Jeffries was picked up by his brother and Corbett, and was carried to the corner in a dazed condition. Johnson stood in tho centre and received the cheers.