| Show jeffres his arm new york aug 5 jim the much heralded heavyweight heavy weight pugilist from california was to have fought bob armstrong and steve odonnell for ten rounds each before the lenox athletic dab tonight but ho was only able to carry out half of his proposed task he met armstrong and defeated him but in doing EO be shattered his left arm and was unable to meet odonnell this was an unfortunate thing both for jeffries and the club as the former felt perfectly confident of defeating both men and the managers of the club were sorry to be compelled to disappoint their patrons many shrewd judges of boxers are satisfied that jeffries is a promising and coming pugilist and they hope that the injury to his arm will not be serious armstrong went at it very carefully at first there was considerable sparring and some blows were exchanged armstrong received some hard jabs by the beginning of the sixth round bob was aware that he was up against a stiff game and went at it accordingly the result was that in the ninth round bob was weakening but game he jabbed left on the face and jefries booked his right on the ribs jim then uppercut him with the left on face and jab bed the same glove to the face jeffries continued this line of attack all through the round and bob did not land a blow round 10 they shook hands at the referees bidding and jefries hooked his right on the ribs they exchanged lefis on the face and after a great deal of footwork foot work jeffries put bob on his back with a left swing on the bead bob took eight seconds to rest and when be came up jeffries booked right and left on the jaw these blows dazed bob but leffrieg kept pounding him and armstrong ran to the ropes without making an attempt to strike back it was all one sided now and although bob stayed the limit be did eo by running away from the big fellow the referee declared jeffries the winner while armstrongs friends were telling the colored man that be had done well armstrong certainly stood the gaff fairly well butha was way outclassed out classed those who were at the ringside looked at henries Jen ries injured band and it was certainly in very bad shape odonwell ODo noell entered tha ring and said that be would box armstrong to pacify the audience but armstrong bad had enough and refused to go on |
