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Excerpt from The Buffalo Evening Courier Tuesday April 25, 1899...Jim Jeffries is in top fighting form entering the ring and tries his level best to take the fight to champion Jack Johnson but proves ineffective against the brilliant defence of his ever-smiling opponent and the underrated force of his stiff left jab....For his part Johnson is unimpressed with the strength and footwork of Jeffries remarking "...Jeff really only has one weapon. His right hand is no great threat. He relies on his left hook to the body and head. I rendered it almost useless in close and he had no answer to my straight left..."....Johnson then stated he planned on taking a long break from the ring after two hard battles pending approval from the IBU...Standing at ringside Al Kaufman congratulated Johnson and challenged Jack to defend against him before year's end....Referee Harry Stuart's scorecard was released to The Courier and showed Johnson winning ten rounds and Jeff only five.....As for Jeffries only a handful of friends and family accompanied him back to his dressing room where an IBU-supplied physician tended to his injuries....His trainer Bill Delaney told reporters Jeffries would talk to them tomorrow morning but bundled his charge up into a carriage and drove him to the Jeffries home near Burbank ....