Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1910 — JACK JOHNSON [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JACK JOHNSON

Wearing the Smile of Victory Over of Big Fight.

stored a light left to the jaw and the bell rang. Round even. Round 2.—Jeff assumed the crouch and led with a left. Johnson jumped back and laughed. Johnson scored with left to the chin. They clinch. Johnson says ‘Don't you rough me," and both laughed. Jeff scored left to the jaw Jeff landed left to jaw. Clinch followed Jim scoring three lefts to Jack's, body and a blow to the mouth which drew blood.' Jack missed right uppercut clinch. Jeff scored hard left to the body and men clinched laughingly. Johnson drove a stiff left to Jeff’s face and a light uppercut to the chin. Clinch. Fighting slowly and carefully. Round 3.—Jack missed a right swing and took left to the body. In the break the negro scored the left to Jim’s eye. In the fighting that followed light blows landed. Jack landed a right uppercut, which he missed, and shook his bead in perplexed fashion. Jim forced the pace and the men clinched as the bell rang. Jack patted Jim on the back as they went to their corners. . Round 4. —Jack clinches and hoots Jeff. Johnson’s lip puffed and the negro is puffing hard. Johnson returns with left jab to the head, men wrestling in clinch, joking with each other. Jeff scores left to the body. Jack lands left uppercut to the chin. Jim brings blood on Jack's mouth again; Johnson laughes at the footwork. Negro lands /right and left to the head. He then used the kidney punch and Jeff asks him what he is doing. Johnson drives left to the face. Jim lands left to the body and ear. Jeff lands. The negro is grinning. Jack gets pretty right to the jaw as the bell rings. Between rounds Jeff in corner joking with seconds while Jack nurses cut lip. Bell. Round s.—Men started light sparring. Jeff goes to clinch. Finally breaks. Jack rips hard left to body. Jeff laughs. In clinch Jack lands two right uppercuts. Jeff's lip bleeding Savage left hook to jaw brings blood in streams and Jeff goes, to clinch in which Jeff hooks Johnson with left and both land lefts. Jeff forces Jack to give ground. Jeff lands light left to Jack’s mouth, bring more blood. Clinch. Walking around as bell rang. At this point neither has scored decisive blow. Round 6. —Jack opens with left to the face and they clinch. Both missed swings and clinched. Jeff was inclined to force the fighting. Johnson caught him with a right that cut his cheek. Jack scored left to body. They clinch. Jeff rushed Johnson and Jack landed right to stomach. Negro broke from a clinch and scored hard blow on the nose, repeated it a second later. Jim’s nose bleeding, blow on eye causes it to swell. At the bell they clinch. Jack’s round.

Round 7—Jeff for opening Jim’s right eye partly closed; bothers him; rubbing with his glove. Jack missed left and they clinch. Jim tried left hoofc. Jack blocks it. Jack laughs. They clinch. Negro sends hook to the nose: blow brought blood flowing from Jeff’s nostrils. Negro landed three left hooks in a clinch and pushed Jim away with an angry scowl. Jim crouches. Johnson blocks his left lead. As they broke from a clinch Johnson scored left hook to Jim’s bad eye. and the bell rang. Round B.—Jeffries rushed Johnson, saying come in. In clinch negro sliped left hook to the head. He was outboxing Jim and caught him a hard right to the jaw. Jack missed left jab Jim scored light right to body. Jim ducked in to a left hook which caught him on the chest. In a clinch Jack lands two rights to the stomach Clinching. Jack lands left to mouth and left to kidneys Jim tried left hook which missed Jack by six inches. The men seemed friendly and talk constantly. Jack blocks blow and looks to the crowd for applause. Bell. Round 9.—They clinch. Jack says come on and Jim drove a stiff left to the body and the crowd heard him grunt Clinch In the clinches Jim lands right on body and the negro grunts He then put in two lefts to Jeff’s face and bicod came from the white man. Bell found them sparring Johnson appeared puzzled that his blows had so little effect and is studying him from his corner Up to this point. Rickard had nothing to do except walk around the ring. Round 10.—After light sparring Jim hooks left to ribs. Jack placed right on the- jaw, both laugh. They clinch and break repeatedly. No blows. John son slips' over left to Jim’s ear and re ceived one in return that crimsoned his mouth. Clinch. It was a series of half blocked falkws landed in clinches. Both blccjjing. Jack stood away and landed two swift lefts to the face and was winking over Jim’s shoulder v hex the bell rang. \ Round 11.—Johnson blocks left. Jeff

moves forward, drove right to Jack'll neck and took two cuts to the jaw, a right to the head and vicious lefts to the chin. Again Jack scored right and i left uppercut Jim spitting blood. Slow* ly the negro pounded the face with right and left.- Jim seemed dazed. Again and again Jack drove right and left to the mouth. Jim holding him. Blood flowed from his face over those at the ring side Round 12.—At the bell, Jim scored to left to the head. Light sparring. Johnson jollying Jim. Clinch. Jim held hard. Jack drove hard left to Jim’s body as they broke. Jack drove two smashes to jaw. Jim blocked, negro laughings Clinch. Jim’s mouth and pose bleeding. Jack shot in right Which shook him badly. Negro forces the fighting. Jim stays gamely. This was Johnson’s round. His left jabs and wings puzzled Jim and he could, not seem to avoid them. Round 13. —Clinch. Johnson lands left to head in clinch, Jack speaks to friends at ringside as they broke, he drove two left hooks to Jim’s damaged mouth. Again he repeats the blow, driving Jim to the ropes. Jim spitting blood. Seems to be unable to use his arms in the usual way. Tried body punch in clinch, Johnson blocks and lands on body and right to face which staggers Jim. Jims takes more rights and lefts, but he could not see them and staggers Jim. Jim takes more punishment. Jim’s left eye closed and Jack finds it easy to swing from that direction. Jack was Simply making a mark of Jim’s face as the bell rang. Round 14. —Both came quickly to the centre of the ring and they clinch. Jeff appeard lightly on his feet. Jack laughs as Jim tries to score a right in clinch. Johnson watched Jeff’s right and shot in two lefts over it Jim gets hard right to Jack’s body and he sends right to the jaw. Jack grins. In the clinch Jack says, “Don’t bleed all over me,” and proceeded to land two more left hooks. Jeff replies with a right and left to body and the negro gave ground. Again he shot a right and left to the jaw. Jack talks to Jeff in clinch that follows. As bell rang, Johnson was exchanging repartee with Corbett in Jim’s corner. Johnson had slightly the best of it. Round 15. —They rushed straight into a clinch. Johnson wriggled out of it and hooked a left to the jaw, Jeff clinching promptly. Getting clear of his man again Johnson whipped the left to the jaw and the boilermaker reeled. The negro realizing that the end was near rushed his man to a point near the ropes and with a right on the jaw followed by a left uppercut he knocked Jeff down flat upon his back. The white man on one knee and took a count of nine. As he struggled up Johnson was on top of him, piling in blow after blow, again knocking Jim down. This time the referee’s count was slower and Jeff managed to crawJ to his feet In a dazed and helpless condition. With a chance for a knockout presenting itself Johnson rushed him across the ring, swinging right and left for the head. A hook on the jaw finally tumbled Jeff in a heap in the corner. Jeff, game to the end. tried to get his bearings and had managed to get upon his feet before the count, of ten had been tolled, when Berger jumped into the ring and ordered Rickard to stop the fight for the purpose of saving Jeff from a knockout. Jeff was hanging over the ropes with his face toward the crowd, apparently oblivious to his surroundings, when Berger made this move and as Rickard seemed to hestitate the crowd, satisfied that Johnson was the better man, erfed “stop the fight.” Then Rickard orered the negro to his corner and declared him the winner.

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