Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1908 — PAPKE KNOCKED HIM OUT [ARTICLE]

PAPKE KNOCKED HIM OUT

Ketchel Defeated by the Illinois Fighter—Moran and Attell Fight a Draw. ' ■ < Los Angeles. Sept 8. —Stanley Ketch el. of Michigan, ex middleweight champion of the world, was knocked out In the twelfth round at Jeffries’ Vernon Arena by Billy Papke, of Illinois, who is now middleweight champion of the world. It was a case of the Illinois “thun derbult” against a Michigan killer, and the thunderbolt won. Papke at the end was almost as strong as when he entered the ring. Ketchel had to be carried out. San Francisco. Sept B.—Abe Attell. the champion featherweight of the United States, and Owen Moran, England’s premier boxer in the same division, fought a draw battle at the arena. The battle lasted twenty-three rounds and at its conclusion Referee Jack Welch called it a draw and the crow d indorsed the decision. Moran said he broke his right hand in the second round, and Attell disjointed the knuckle of the middle fir.ger of his right hand.