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Show WAS NOT A KNOCKOUT Jeffries Was Disqualified by His Seconds Helping Help-ing Him Reno. July C Was Jeffries disqualified disquali-fied or was he knocked out, is the point Tex Kickard Is being asked to settle by eastern cities. Rlekard finds it difficult to make a ruling oa the points involved, but Is disposed to rule that the Interference of Jeffries' Jef-fries' seconds In helping him to get up after the second knockdown constitutes con-stitutes a disqualification. He had this to say on tne subject today: "Jeffries wns not - counted out. although al-though 1 am satisfied he could never 1 have gotten up within the ten sec- onJ3 when he went down the second time if his seconds 'pad not put their bands on him and pushed him up. This assistance disqualified Jeffries and I wns trylDg to get between tho fighters to stop the fight on that account ac-count when Johnson sent him down the third time with a left and right to the jaw. The pictures will show that I got between them when this third knockdown came and gave the fight to Johnson before the timekeeper could count ten. Therefore. I believes it should stand as a disqualification, although, as I have said. Jeffries would have beeu counted out had the disqualification Dot occurred." Rickard's attention was called t.j Ihe widespread agitation against the pictures pic-tures of the fight being shown, particularly par-ticularly in the Southern states. "I still hold a sixth Interest lu the pictures and am naturally Interested, but I don't think this aVitatlon will amount to anything except' to advertise adver-tise the pictures. The feeling will die out In a few days." Reno Is like a deserted village today. |