Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, December 18, 1912, Page 5

1 A “ILLINOIS THUNDERBOLT” RE Billy Papke of Kewanee. ‘When Billy Papke of Kewanee, I11., returns to America it will be to bat- tle for the middleweight boxing championship of the world. When he s to return is not known at present, but it is thought it will be within a few months. At present he is fighting in Frante and England with much suc- cess. He has been across the pond less than six months and in that period has won the championship of. his division in England and France. He has had three battles and won all three on knockouts. Papke is in the form displayed. when champion of the world and stood as a rival of Stanley Ketchel for the hon- ors. Then he was referred to as the *Tincis Thunderbolt,” and he was @eserving of the appellation. Defeats by Ketchel took most of the aggres- sive fighting spirit out of him and he has been some time in recuperat- jng. It is sald he has fully recovered and s a “Tipton Slasher.” He has his former knockout punch back and 18 as fast as ever. His condition, reports have it, could not be improved ppon and he 18 making the middle- weight limit without any trouble. There will be considerable action in the middleweight ranks when Papke comes back. Aside from Ketch- ¢l, no 158-pounder was more popular than the Kewanee lad since the days of Tommy Ryan. His style of milling was liked, as @as his willingness to “scrap” while in the ring. Papke, when struggling for the title a few years ago, never was known to stall. Getting into the ring and slashing toe to toe with his opponent was his chief hobby, and he made himself fa- | mous with his “loop-de-loop” punch, which he first used successfully against Hugo Kelly in Milwaukee, when he conquered the then crack middleweight fighter. He has not changed his style of boxing any, it is said. This means there is trouble ahead for Eddie Mc- Goorty and Mike Gibbons, who are striving to settle the middleweight championship of America among themselves. Nelither has met a fight- er of Papke’s type and will find the going a bit rough when they meet one. Neither can hit hard enough to stop Papke. Ketchel was known as the assassin in the ring when he knocked out thirty-three men in forty- six fights, and this included the best sluggers of his day. Papke, in his bouts with the late champion, staged a bitter and desperate fight and gave as good as he received until he was knocked out. He lost because Ketchel carried the stiffer punch. BAINS FORM | 'EVER NEED FOR HAPPINESS Therefore Is the Custodian ;of De- light So Welcome on His Rare Appearances.: But, to the custodian of delight, to him who can make us forget our age and’ our weight and our business, tp him who—disentangling ‘us. from-our offices and our marketing, our servant problem and our suburban time tables —can take us with him on the pagan and the lyric flight of charm, to the creature who comes before us with— simply!—happiness in his hands, we can only cry out, “Give it to us!” That is what we mean by all this uproar. “Give'it to us.” We need it #o badly. The dryness in our hearts {8 just as thirsty as if we were all beautiful and young. That fugitive and aerial thing, scattering light and mystery, perfume and freshness, that passes and yet haunts us in a tune, we desire it as keenly as ever some Mercutio did or Columbine, and for a little minute we are quickened with it now! Pour into us all that rap- ture, all that swiftness, all that glad and winged passion; that instinct for the liberty, the impulses, the motion of life, the color and wildness and sweetness of life, and, before all, that deep, deep agreement, that har- mony with life itself! Do not give it to us once, as the other and re- moter artists do, give it again and again and again; give it as if you could never be empty and never be weary; fashion it for us, here and now, out of your body and spirit: bring it up from the strength of your heart; weave with the last, last pulse of your vitality the spell that frees us, and—pouring your soul into ours—make us live!—Virginia Tracy in Scribner’s Magazine. Just Like Other Men. Most surgeons simply go way up in the air when one of the world’s great ones 18 stricken. When Sir Frederiq Treves was called to operate on King Edward he split him open as non. chalantly as if the king had been an apple or a watermelon—New York Press. Fault Finding. 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