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Show NOT DOING MUCH I TO IT JEFF" I Tdok Johnson Ten Rounds to jttt Find Out Jim Was Helpless. JEFFRIES'S DEFEAT DUE H TO LACK OF MENTALITY jH Negro Must Take Care of Him- self, if He Wishes to H Keep Title. H BY BAT MASTERSON. NEW YORK, July 24. Johnson's vie tory over Jeffries at Reno on the Fourth of July has ln no way affected his pop- jl ularity. It would seem. fkkl immm There never was any reason for .be- iH coming hysterical because Johnson is jH a negro and that he defeated Jeffries jH In a fair, stand-up fight, according to the jH ethics of the prize ring, and I doubt very jH much if the American peoplo generally arc disposed to drop the curtain on John- kkfl son simply because lie happens to be a IH negro. Johnson met Jeffries In manly iifl fashion, according to the 'recognized rule3 iH for prize fighting, and demonstrated his jjppj superiority in the most decided muuner, jH for which he should be given credit In mmm It Is true he did not perform a. wonder- AH ful feat by whipping Jeffries. He. never- 1 theless, whipped him and that Is more !H than any other fighter had done before. 'H To he nlaln about it. Jeffrlex was little SMUlm belter than nothing when Johnson beat t iH him. Every one ;knows that now. aud H I might add, that so far as Johnson's " abilities as a fighter aro concerned, we know no more about them now than we iH did beforo he sent Jeffries to the scrap 'll heap. lH He was as much of a dead one, men- ;BH tally at any rate, when he faced John- jl son ns Dcmpsey was when he faced 'H Tommy Ryan at Coney Island fifteen j'ears ago, and Dempsey was shortly 'jl afterward sent to a sanitarium in Brook- JH Time Will Toll. What brought about this staid of af- fairs time alone will tell. Lack of physl- 'H , cal condition was not what Induced Jef- Nl frles's defeat. It was lack of mentality. 'H It may be a hard thing to say. but I am I'mWm (Irmly of the opinion that Jeff's mental ;-H condition will grow worse with time I SmmW may be wrong. I hopo 1 am. But that ilH Is my opinion now. In my judgment, no , man who was of normal strength men- i tally could have acted as Jeffries did in front of Johnson. i t ' And while Jeff was to all intents and f " purposes as helpless as an old woman i :IH from the boglnnlng of the contest un- ' SH til ho was knocked out, It look Johnson t rH ten rounds to And it out. So what are i' IH we to think of Johnson's fighting quail- ' ties? It certainly docs not speak well . 'H for a man who Is now looked upon as being Invincible in the ring to moon JM along for ten rounds with an opponent I r before he discovers that the man he Is Hunting is as helpless as n decrepit old man. Of course when Johnson realized the sort of man ho hnd In front of him ' 1 W ho promptlv decided to hammer the day- mtiiM lights out of him. But all this happened MtiM In tho last three or four rounds. If Johnson behaves himself, and I mean , m by that if ho takes care of himself, it , iMM w-lll be some time before he loses his k mM title. But If he persists in carrying on as he has since he acquired the title. , jH about one vcar more will be about all that , will bo required to-land him In .Teffrles's clnss. No athlete can go lo the pace f k , mm Johnson has been going for the hist two ft i M years and remain the winner. V m |