Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 285, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1910 — MANY KNOCKOUTS TO CREDIT [ARTICLE]

MANY KNOCKOUTS TO CREDIT

St ’w?^h. Ke J Chel ’ Cham Plon Middleweight, Beaten Twice by Billy Papke and Thompson.

Ketche1 ’ th ® champion mldf ! PUr,llßt of the world - who on « BhOt ? nd k,l,ed recently while ?“ . ranch 1B Missouri, had many knockouts to his credit Ketchel, whose real name was thJJe’ve’ KleCal, W “ bora twentyXh « g ° at Grand Butte w 1S » flrßt fight occur red at Mont., on May 2, 1903, when he knocked out Kid’Tracey in one round LShT’ ? at<sr he lald ‘' Mose ” LaFontlse low in twenty-four rounds in the same city. The following year Ha fnft a t ed f ° urteen rln K battles. He lost to Maurice Thompson In two of these battles, the first in six and the second in ten rounds. He fought a twenty-round draw with Rudolph Hinz. In the other he scored knockouts. Since then and up to the beginning of the present year he participated in forty fights. In 1905 “Jack" Sullivan fought him twenty rounds to a draw and two years later Joe Thomas performed similarly. That same year however, he knocked out Thomas In thirty-two rounds and in a later fight secured the decision in twenty /bunds. “Billy" Papke in 1908 knocked him out at Los Angeles in twelve rounds, but three months later Ketchel turned the compliment in San Francisco In eleven rounds. Taut year he fought ten rounds without decision at New York with “Philadelphia Jack” O’Brien and six rounds at Pittsburg with “Kid" Hubert. On July 5, 1909, “Billy" Papke won from him in’twenty rounds at Colma, Cal.