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Show I JV JOE JEANNETTE WINS ON POINTS New York, July 16. So eager was "Battling" Jim Johnson, the negro heavyweight, to make short work of Joe Jeannette at the Stadium A. C here tonight and make It possible for himself to wrest the championship laurels from the hrow of Jack Johnson John-son that he overstepped the bounds of pugilistic ethics, according to Jean-nett.. Jean-nett.. Anyway, when the first round was nearly over and the two black sluggers slug-gers were gasping for breath. Jim began be-gan a series of right body blows to Jeannette's sideB that made Joe crumple up on the floor. Joe claimed a foul, but the referee said he did not se it and sent the men back to their corners, declaring the round null and void Later he changed his views and the period was allowed to count. Jeannette won the bout -on points, he having the better of the latter periods pe-riods of fighting, Johnson tiring after gamely attacking and holding his own in the fifth and sixth, when he punished pun-ished Jeannette severely. oo Sir Francis Powell, 81. noted English painter, recently married a servant girl, aged 23. rvn |