WHEN STANLEY KETCHELL ALMOST
CHANGED HEAVYWEIGHT HISTORY
' By NO KM AN E. BROWN
The oustanding* fighter of the early part of the 1900’s
was Stanley Ketchell, without a doubt.
He ranks as one of the greatest fighters of modern
sport era. A middleweight himself he all but carved
himself a niche in the heavyweight hall of fame. For a few
fleeting moments in the ring on a fall day in 1909 Ketchel
the Lion Heart all but became heavyweight champion of
the world. Had he beaten Jack1 Johnson, negro heavy, in
that battle the Jeffries-Johnson tragedy would not have
happened. Johnson would not have had the opportunity
to write a chapter of disappation and disgrace in the fight
game. The long search for a white hope would not have
been necessary. Johnson would not have climbed into
the ring in Havana nine years hece to take a beating for
money to entertain a white wife.
Ketchel’s untimely death a year after his fleeting date
with fame was one of the tragedies of the early part of
the century.
The battle with Johnson will live in history as one of
the bitterest of the game. Johnson’s adherents figured
that with his weight, his speed, his body punches and his
cleverness he would lower the little man’s colors in a fewT
rounds. Some even called the battle a “murder” and ar
gued against a good little man throwing his life away in
the fight with the big black.
Ketcneii weignea just ioo pouuus—
an ideal weight for a middleweight.
Johnson, in perfect trim, just 205 anil
had it on him by inches in the reach.
Imagine the amazement of the ring
siders when, for eleven rounds, he
outgeneraled, outboxed and outgameil
Johnson. The negro’s rapier-like left
struck at Ketchell like an adder's head
only to find the mark missing.
There was talk before the fight that
Johnson was to string it out for the
benefit of the fight pictures. If this
was true he proved a good actor. The
opening of the twelfth round found
him seeing red—one of the few times
he ever lost his head. He rushed at
Ketchell, head down, with murder in
his heart. Ketchell neatly sidestepped
him and hit him a glancing blow on
the head, which knocked Jack off his
balance. He fell all over the ring.
He came up fighting like a lion at bay.
Three blows any one of wrhich would
have ended the ordinary man, landed
on Ketchell’s jaw, stomach and head.
The last two blow's came as he was
falling from the first. Johnson could
not stop himself, so fierce had been
his attack. The two fell almost togeth
er. Ketchell did not get up.
The battle with Johnson was but
one of several heroic ones Stanley
had. His fights with Papke, which
cost him and then regained him, the
middleweight title, were spectacular
affairs.
Ketchell had outpointed Papke once
in a ten-round bout when the pair met
in Los Angeles in a title go. Ketchell
was always courteous and sportsman
like, and started to go through the
usual formula of shaking hands when
the first bell sounded. Papke ignor
ed the offered courtesy and sent a
shower of blows to Ketcliel’s head and
body. Ketchell wras on the floor be
fore the fans really knew the fight
was on. He had been knocked down
three times before the round ended.
Despite this trickery and the calamity
it brought on he fought gamely for
12 rounds. From the second round on
was blinded from blows to his eyes
and blood wras oozing from them in the
eleventh he wras knocked out of the
ring. But when the end of the 12th
came it was Ketchell and not Papke
who drew' the cheers.
A few' months later Ketchell got an
other chance at Papke, and oh, what
sweet revenge. He fairly toyed with
Papke. Wary of Papke’s tricks and
rushes Ketchell was contented to pep
per away at him. As the fight pro
gressed Ketchell played for Papke’s
head. Pulled Papke’s guard up. Then
in the eleventh he w'alked from his
corner, watching his chance and put
three blow's in the pit of Papke’s
stomach. Papke doubled up. As he
covered his stomach Ketchell drove
a rain of blow's at his head.
Ketchell fought Frankie Klaus, Sam
Langford, Porky Flynn, Willie Lewis,
and Jim Smith after his great battle
with Johnson. He felt the need of
a rest and sought it on a farm in Mis
souri. It W'as there that a farm hand,
becoming temporarily deranged, shot
and killed Ketchell.
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MEAT DEALERS ANGRY
AS LONDON TURNS TO
APPLES AND ORANGES
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Mar. 13.—An “eat more
fruit” campaign throughout England
has recently brought the American
apple into more prominence than
it ever has enjoyed heretofore. The
fruit is now being sold in the gro
ceries and the luxury shops, and
from push carts in the streets of
London.
The campaign has brought to the
fore also the American apple’s neigh
bor, the Canadian apple, but in most
cases the products of Oregon and
Washington appear to be the favor
ite. American apples retail here at
a few cents a pound more than they
do in cities of the United States.
In addition to American cranber
ries, Florida and California grape
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