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VOLUME ONE. NUMBER ONE HUNDRED AND TWO CORDOVA, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 5, 1015. PRICE TEN CENTS
^ _JR THE FIGHT
JOHNSON KNOCKED OUT IN THE 26th ROUND
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Special to The Times By Associated Press.
HAVANA, April, 5—Before an audience of
many thousands of spectators, under weather condi
tions ideal for the encounter, .lack Johnson, the
negro heavyweight champion of the world, today laid
down his pugilistic laurels and was relegated to the
class of has-beens by Jess W illard, the only survior
of the class of “White Hopes” that sprang into
public notice after the defeat of Jeffries tit Reno,
Nevada in 1910.
During the early stages of the conflict, in fact
almost to the end, Johnson demonstrated that in
boxing and ring tactics he far outgeneraled his op
ponent. As round'after round was fought each one
was clearly the negro’s, Willard making a poor
showing against the champion. But youth, strength,
reach and weight were on the side of the challenger,
and as the battle progressed Johnson’s sledge-ham
mer blows, which have put to sleep many ail opponent
and their aspirations for championship honors, were
seen to he lacking in steam. Age, high living and
other dissipations has sapped the champion of that
wonderful vitality which had kept him the undisput
ed champion of the heavy-weight class for nearly
seven years, and when the twenty-sixth round the
end came, it was apparent that Johnson, doughty
general of the squared circle, had passed the zenith
of his powers, and fallen before one far from his
equal in the science of pugilism, but possessed of
those qualities of youth and endurance which the
colored champion had squandered. The blow which
ended the battle was a right smash to the jaw, a
clean knockout that put the negro to sleep.
Following tin* counting out of the negro and the
rendering of the decision of tin- referee, the crowd
rushed to the ropes and threatened Johnson, but
soldiers dispersed the mob.
I'p to within a few days of the fight the odds
were strongly in favor of Johnson, three to one on
him being the general figure in the betting. As the
day tor the battle drew near, those near the champ
ion saw that he was not at his best. He was having
trouble getting rid of his surplus flesh, and his wind
was not all that could be desired'. As a consequence
the odds dropped to even money. Kven at this figure
comparative little money was wagered, for the back
ers of Willard were unwilling to place their money
on a new and comparatively untried man without
good odds.
Following is the fight by rounds:
FIGHT BY ROUNDS
Round 1—Johnson entered the ring
first. Five minutes later he was fol-'
lowed by Willard. Johnson appeared [
cool and confident, while the challen-^
ger appeared slightly nervous. After]
the customary instructions by the ref-1
over the failure to land. Johnson1
open the proceedings by feinting and
then landing his left on Willnrd’s jaw.
Willard’s nervousness was visibly in
creasing, and he was slow in counter
ing. He succeeded In driving two
lefts to the negro’s body, receiving in
return a heavy right to the body.
Johnson was laughing at his oppon
ent when the round ended.
Round 2—Both men came briskly to
the center. Willard swung, but was
neatly blocked by Johnson, who feint
ed Willard out of position and then
scored a right and left to the jaw.
Round 3—After much feinting Wil
lard swung heavily for the body, but
missed. Both contestants laughed
eree the fight commenced. Johnson
rushed and scored left to body and
right to head, following this with a
left to the body.
Round 4—Willard opened by an in
effectual lunge at Johnson, the latter
laughing at his clumsy efforts. After
much feinting Jonhson landed left to
ribs and swung right and left to body
and left to Willard's face, cutting his ;
lip and bringing first blood. Willard
scored left to Johnson’s nose.
Round 5—Johnson poked a light left
and right to Willard’s face, followed
by a hard smash to the ribs, and three
blows to the cowboy’s stomach. The
champion then rushed Willard to the
ropes, scoring punches to the head and
body. Willard was badly distressed
and rattled, and was boxing like an
amateur
Hound, t! The negro came up calm
and unsmiling, with determination
written in every line of his face. From
the stroke of the gong he took the ag
gressive and beat Willard to the ropes
with a fussillade of lefts. Willard
clinched. On the break Johnson land
ed a smash on Willard’s jaw and rub
bed Willard's cut lip at every oppor
tunity. He landed three crushing
blows to Willard's unprotected body
at the belt. The round ended with
Johnson hammering hard at Willard’s
body. Willard's cheek was cut.
Hound 7—Johnson again started in
to put his opponent out. He used
every artifice to force the fighting, and
rushed Willard to the ropes, slugging
with both hands. Willard landed his
left to face, temporarily blinding
Johnson’s left eye. Johnson came
back with a series of swings to Wil
lard's body.
Hound 8—Willard attempted to
force the pace. Johnson accepted the
challenge and the men battered each
other across the right, Johnson having
the best of the exchange. Willard
landed on Jonhson's mouth, and the
negro countered with an upper-cut
over the heart driving Willard to the
ropes. Willard bounced off the ropes
and landed a stiff left to Johnson’s
jaw. Round ends with negro swinging
blows to Willard’s head.
Round 9—Willard assumed the ag
gressive, sparring for nn opening
Johnson landed starting one of Wil
lard’s ears to bleeding. The chnmpion
landed frequently, but his blows seem
ed to lack their old-time power. John
son started a rally by driving three
hard hooks to Willard’s stomach.
Willard landed left, starting the
negro’s mouth bleeding. Johnson
slugged Willard to ropes.
Round 10—Willard scored two lefts
to face. Johnson swung left to ribs,
and sent half a dozen blows to Wil
lard's body and jaw. Negro knocked
Willard to the ropes with right and
left swings to stomach, and with a
right hand chop stampeded Willard.
Round. 11—Notwithstanding Wil
lard's poor showing the audience was
plainly with him. They derided
Johnson, who answered the sallies of
tile crowd as he continued tae fighting.
Willard drove a left to Johnson’s
mouth and took a right hook to the
body in return. Johnson smashed left
to Willard's jaw. Round slow.
Round 12-—'The negro opened with a
left to body and right to jaw. In the
clinch which followed Johnson smash
ed Willard three times with left.
Johnson drove right to bodyiand left
to head. Blows apparently without
effect on Willard. Johnson drove ^
Willard to corner with swing to head, j
Willard’s left ear and cheek bleeding.
Round 13—The negro continued to
ply for stomach. Willard drove i
Johnson to corner and landed straight
left to face, getting left hook to jaw in
return. Johnson hooked left to Wil
lard's body, repeating the blow later.
Johnson landed right and left to body
as the gong rang.
Round 14— Willard rushed, and
missed his right upper-cut. Johnson
slammed Willard on mouth with left.
Willard drove hard right to Johnson's
oar. Negro smashed hard left to body
at bell.
Round 15—Johnson rushed Willard
to ropes. Johnson scored five hard
swings.
Round 16—The negro rushed Wil
lard to the ropes, crossing two hard
blows to the body. Johnson drove a
terrific swing to Willard's side. Wil
lard was unsteady going to corner.
Round 17—Round was slow, both
boxers indulging in much feinting.
Johnson drove Willard to corner and
landed two swings to head.
Round 18—The negro drove Willard
to comer, smashing him on the jaw.!
Willard landed a straight left on John
son's face and a right swing to jaw.
Johnson landed punch to body and an
other to jaw.
Round 19—Johnson stood in cen
ter of ring and cleverly blocked all
Willard’s blows. Johnson then landed
two lefts to body and right to jaw.
Johnson plainly tiring.
Round 20—Round very slow, both
men sparring for opening. Crowd
getting impatient urging men to hurry.
Round 21—Continuation of tactics
»f last round, neither man making any
effort to land. Sparring for an open
ing. Johnson’s wind evidently bother
ing him and he is tired.
Round 22—The fight has degenerat
ed into a slow sparring and clinching
battle. Neither man is apparently in
iured, but Johnson tiring fast.
Round 23—Johnson clinched at
opening of round and held on until or
dered to break away by the referee.
Willard landed two lefts to Johnson's
face without return.
Round 24—Men continue clinching,
Willard laying weight on Johnson and
adding to his fatigue. Willard smash
ed Johnson on face as the gong struck.
Round 25—Johnson has apparently
abandoned all hope of knocking Wil
lard out. and is conserving his energy
for a favorable opening. Johnson
weakening, while Willard is still
strong and seemingly little effected by
:he punishment he has received. Wil
lard lands repeatedly without return.
Round 26—Willard opened the
round with a smash to Johnson’s body.
Johnson clinched and held until the
referee was forced to break them
ipart. Willard rushed and slammed
right and left to Johnson's body.
Willard, with a terrific right smash
)n the jaw knocked Johnson down and
5Ut.
PEOPLES' TICKET
GIVEN BIG
The municipal election takes place
tomorrow. The polls open at 8
o'clock in the morning and close at 7
o'clock in the evening. Ail residents
of Cordova, over the age of 2) years
of age, who are citizens of the L'nited
States, are entitled to vote Seven
councilmen and a clerk of the school
board are to be elected. For the form
er offices there are two tickets in the
field, the Peoples' and the Citizens’
The Peoples’ ticket is composed of
Geo. C. Hazelet, Edgar J. Davis, Henry
A. Slater, Wm. L. Smith, Bartley
Howard, Thomas C. Price and V. A.
Schmitz. Th®y are all welT-known
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to the voters and if elected promise a
a business-like administration of the
affairs of the city, thus eliminating
the rule or ruin policy of the past
year, which has resulted in so much
dissention and factional feeling.
For clerk of the school board a
separate ballot is used, the candidates
for this office being Duard Mosser and
Frank Jones.
* The councilmanc campaign has been
conducted along most abusive lines
by some of the supporters of the
Citizens' ticket, realizing as they evi
dently did, that their fight was a los
ing one, and needed bolstering up.
The many silly and false accusations
made against the Peoples' party and
its candidates have proven a boom
erang, and these “holier than thou ’
parties are resorting to the most
despicable means to catch a stray
vote. But the defeat of the entire
Citizens’ ticket seems certain, and
the loud talk now being indulged in is
only a case of “whistling to keep up
courage.”
Early in the campaign the opposi
tion paper proclaimed that it was will
ing to bet $25 that four of the Peoples’
ticket would not elected. This was
taken as soon as the offer became
public, and was the first and practi
cally the last wager of the kind made
until last Saturday. Then the monied
interests behind the Citizens ticket
felt that something must be done
and renewed the offer to bet that four
of the Peoples’ ticket would not win.
This easy money was covered so
quickly that today it was impossible
of a single person who had enough
confidence in the Citizens’ ticket to bet
on its winning out.
At the Empress theatre, last night
the Peoples’ ticket was flashed on the
screen and if the enthusiastic spon
taneous applause it received was any
criterion of sentiment the entire tic
ket will be elected by an overwhelming
majority.
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Abe Simson, a Fairbanks merchant,
is spending a few days in town, en
route to the states.
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WASHINGTON, April 5—The administration has dis
patched' to Berlin a note covering the sinking of the American
ship William P. Frye by the German cruiser Prinz Eitel Fred
erick. The note is very brief and suggests politely that Ger
many make reparation to the owners for the loss of the vessel.
HUNDRED LIVES LOST THROUGH STORM
NEW YORK, April 5—More than one hundred
lives was the toll takea by the great storm which
raged along the Atlantic^-onst on Friday and Satur
day, from Canada to the Dutch West Indies, and as
the complete record of the devastation caused by
the terrific gale comes in this list of the dead may be
largely increased.
Vessels of all sorts and sizes are strewn along
the coast, victims to the fury of the storm, and the
life saving crews performed many heroic rescue as
the vessels, helpless in tin* grip of the storm, piled
themselves up on the shore.
On Saturday the steamer Prinz Mauritz went
ashore off Cape llatteras and forty-nine of the pas
• sengi rs and crew perished. The remainder were
I taken ashore by the life saving crews.
Much anxiety is felt for the safety of the fleet of
fishing vessels off the Grand Banks.
NOTICE
Our attention has been called to
the fact that a number of people
who have no right to vote tomor
row have been allowed to register.
It is our intention to challenge all
such illegal voters and if they per
sist in voting they will be promptly
arrested and prosecuted to the full
extent of the law.
THE PEOPLES’ PARTY.
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RDMEREPOBTSTUUKtrANDAUSTRIA
ROME, April 5—Respite various official denials from
some of the belligerent nations that preliminary steps toward
peace have been taken, especially by Austria and Turkey
without consulting Germany, present indications point
stronglv to such being the case. It is reported here,
and on excellent authority, that Djavid Pasha, the Turkish
minister of finance, who is now in Switzerland is engaged in
a peace mission, and this report finds credence here, as it was
this same minister who, in a roundabout way, concluded the
peace preliminaries between Italy and Turkey following the
war in Tripoli.
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IERIC1 NOTE TO GERMANY
SUGGESTS PAYMENT FOR FRYE
ATHENS, April .”)—Advices received here state that
thirty thousand Anglo-French troops have been successfully
landed from the transports on the Island of Lemnos, near the
entrance to the Dardnelles.
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LONDON, April 5 The Glasgow steamer Olivine and the
Russian bark Hermes have been sunk by a German submarine
off the Isle of Wight, in the English channel. The crews of
these vessels took to their small boats and were picked up by a
British destroyer.
f HERE
TOMORROW
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The steamer Mariposa left Juneau
at 0 o'clock Sunday morning and Is
due to reach Cordova about 2 o'clock
tomorrow afternoor. Her passengers
for here and the westward are as fol
io tvs:
Cordova: V. A. Schmitz, E. J. Ives,
J. N. Barnhart, Mary Dlffley, Thomas
Fitzgerald, Thomas Hyde, (! H. Birch,
Mrs. M. C. Smith, Clifford Smith H.
H. Ross, F. M. Pore, T. B. McCroskv,
M. Edgren, E. D. Stroecker, J. L.
Sjolseth, A. J. McCall, (Jus! Neison.
John Peterson, James Mulcoin, Alfred
Anderson, Wtn. Hull, John Han3ert, E.
L. Soden, Carl Sunderberg and six
steerage.
Valdez: W. B. Morgan, Mrs. N.
Morgan, P. Guirad, W. Beloin. J. B.
Eschilimen, and 11 steerage.
Seward: F. Tiffany, E. Greenband,
W. J. McLeod, A. G. Ainsbury, F.
Anderson, W. H. Gorman, Eugene Vcl
ger, R. E. Chastein, Frank Scully, M.
E. Morse, F. F. Meloche, J. C. Tolman,
H. T. Schultz, T. H. Schuster, P. K.
McGuire, A. F. Peterson, Fred Luub
ner and 16 steerage.
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WATSON SAILED
TODAY AT
SEATTLE, April 5—The steamer
Watson sailed at noon today with a
hundred and eleven passengers for
Alaska. Those for Cordova , were
Herman Aragel, Jess Slagle, Joseph
Waldis and two steerage.
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The steamer Evans is due from the
westward at 2 o'clock tomorrow morn
ing and will sail south an hour later.
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BIRTHDAY DINNER
TENDERED YESTERDAY
Yesterday Mrs. F. M. Fuller gave a
very dilghtful dinner, in commemora
tion of the birthdays of her husband
and Kenneth Holden. The table was
beautifully decorated, white, green and
gold being the predominating colors.
Those who enjoyed the excellent menu
served were Dr. C. L. Hale. H. J.
Brandt, Kenneth Holden and P, M.
Fuller.
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A fresh supply of Augustine & Key
er’s Candiee received on the las'
steamer. S. BLUM & CO.
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Some cooking at the Windsor grill.
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Vote For
Duard Mosser
For
School Director
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