The evening world. Newspaper, March 27, 1909, Page 6

STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS O'BRIEN A FIERCE © Hest IN BOUT out Punch Just Four Second Before Fight Ends. Stanley Ketchel gave Jack O'Brien a terrible beating at the giltedged | lub last night, and knocked him cold at the end of the tenth round. Al- though O'Brien was out for a minute or more he 1s saved the pain of having K. O. opposite his name on the record books by a strange plece of luck. The last knockdown came just four seconds before the end of the tenth and last round, and while Tim Hurst was counting the bell rang. The timing was correct. Tt was a thrilling fight from the start, a see-saw, up-and-down scrap. / O'Brien fought desperately, and there were times when he seemed to be hay: ing the best of it. Ketchel was the class from start to finish, heavily in the middle of the fight Ketchel walked into him stead with utter contempt for his blows, didn’t even try to block or avoid them. | Ketchel was evidently looking for a chance to end things with a single punch, | The fight began with all the frills of & championship. Britt, Johnny Frayne and Jimmy John- gon In his corner. the tricky McC Philadelphia Drexel Biddle. O'Brien was first In the ring. clambered through he walked straight across to O'Brien's) corner and held out his hand. paid no attention to him, refusing to rise from his seat. Ph Ketchel and hooted the fight BY ROBERT EDGREN. But youth and strength and the Ketchel had Billy Behind O'Brien were Jack Egan and the bug, Anthony J. Jack O'Br When the ropes|f He dropped four I bell. t the O'Brien | DUTY rules a man onds was prac nically ou The crowd hissed Ketchel| out, niladelphian. smas' bo powerful t and Ket walked back to his own angle of the] given credit fora knockout ring with no more expression on his face than a wooden Indian, Ketchel Cool, O'Brien Nervous, O’Brien Was Not Knocked Out len was not knocked out secon farqu riven ten Alth O'B: it he ee not cannot rlows int He was a fine, manly-looking fellow.! whenever he could. Ketchol didn't this Ketchel. He was cool and {ndiffer-) apie to land cir t rigl ent, O'Brien, looking across the way] 5 goore 1, wi Us his shaggy brows, seemed ner-| ing it over to Ke Soon the formalities were over and) iY an eure on the bell rang, O'Brien came out and) vo i. danced lightly around, Ketche! rushed) Gans Jabbea at him suddenly and, missing, got a) aaltine eater hard right on the jaw. He never) | ers t blinked, Again he rushed. O'Brien | he blew out the blo time he bi dd, dodged him and, turning again, clinched and began talking with a vicious look on his face. chel he was disappointed. boy yas fighting along now with a dreamy look on his face—a look of en: | Joyment such as a musician might wear while composing boy certainly does love the game. Several times in the first round Ket-| Yiclous little upperct chel missed, and O'Brien countered him hard before he could recover. O'Brien's round, and for the moment It seemed that he might make good his/ ferce right to K boast and at lease outpoint the cham- pion. KETCHEL IS A WONDER, DECLARES KID M’COY. "That fellov Kid McCoy. y that he can ¢ O'Brien gz to st the padding of were badly cut, If he meant to rattle Ket- | f Australia, leantr ‘The Montana | Said: "My word! Austra Wetchel, always { steadily as O'Brien ht =O th the tchel’s. unprot of the his pins, but through the hand n od ina spr O'Brien's nw over towar¢ fe ch, forcing, tried to cl a masterpiece. This atl quarters he had it all his O'Brien couldn't avoid s. Ketchel Ketchel is one greatest fighters I ever sa H He Is O'Brien's seconds worked hard forcing ©! toward the wrist. O'Brien had practically ered with a single thickness of leat At once he tried to jab at Ketch eyes and mouth with this ugly weapon evident Quaker intended to make a and it was drawing blood. showed bruises, round. Instead, the ropes and eyes with a that blackened them both and nearly It was ¢ O'Brien caught Ketchel about th waist with both arms closed the left, , out. his life while Ri pull him away. “Ooh!” every blow, Blaug! ter, In the third opened a big cut over It was luck the flow of blood ke eye. He con’ ‘ closing. «hugged Toward the end of the roun lled and caught Kete right-hand on changed his expression time and smiled a@ sizzling left O'Brien's righ eyebrow ered with blooc was a pitiful sig the round lie sta bv b nashed him between the K and whaled him with rig exclaimed the The ‘the lead again. It was, O'Brien opened t was no fake | fighting for his p K el, wh rather wea rush and a fusilla from all angle He ran. He oO in Ketchel into the Quaker’s h a to his hat en and | short distance e has more ¥ he did his left back When the bell rang a bare fist, coy t the tricky showing by Ketchel's face soon ut Wasn't cut in this he chased O'Brien to, | overhand ri, jost a knock- rin bell etopped the a left for pt the ¢ ver in WHITE STAK REPUTATI t d a pea nin for the he ral a of Ketche a He ik ne ba: he from Ketchel Fights Carelessly ‘As soon as the fourth and O'Br wa sa mixup, smeared with blood agaly tehe with contempt for O'Brien's ¢ es written his fa walk r etantly with his a as evidently w the punch « tage of jis | Buckles of his Retehe! time and agaty | Began to bleed from aose a» ‘yet “he walked in left fis Ke 4 mouth! aiter a ra carelessly and back and 2 out Ketchel Lands Hard eae . O'Bri ite been this, istte had igi! of lefts and r Brien tried to as he a short and tried to rien Reaches Jaw. dO at , holdd > crowd Was ripping th wild) Tt surel recuperative eD HIS ON ON THE wallop were served Even when O'Brien was scoring | O'Brien's y, or whipped them over to his jaw vegan , send- ound found sull | ii 70 Af son j up against one another with their stomachs Mr. Stanley Ketchel, of the fifth, | Can Hit Hé rd, and Has Says Reteree Will Go After Johnson st, met Mr, John O'Brien (nee Hagan), of Sleepamadelphia, Pa, for ten| pniiadeiphia J Great Stamina at Once. rounds, Among those present Nd } € es too, and Mr. MeIntosh 1 me, They'd stop this in At own his | took opened up with a savage | ights stall came t left hs of the spectatc thought ad been pushed down, O'Br His face was tw back Brier a OUTCOME OF BATLE. and | wish= THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 190% BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YO | INTERESTING MOMENTS IN THE BIG FIGHT UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN | 2 ty oP. | LG | How O'BRIENTCUT WE TCHELS. OUTH y= THE ‘PADDING IN 19 LEFT GLOVE WAS PusueD BACK FROMTHE KNUCKLES. ult th Ml; mt y Whi eu Ul Y u// anew Wid ANTHONY J DREXEL BIDDLE “9 TRE PHILADELPHIA MILLIONAIRE, SECONOING O'BRIEN GREATEST FIGHT IN MANY YEARS, ARE FANS ey BY JOHN POLLOCK, discussed Ketchele battle is over and three things resulted from est was one of the this vicinitys 1 he cap the contest é KeTcHEUT NEVER, ATTEMPTED BLocmN IN THE" 2ND. O BRIEN Ger, a PEACH OF WHO'S WHO AROUND RING AND FUNNY SIDE OF THE FIGHT Common Herd Handled the Winner, but Phila-| delphia’s Social Leader Was Behind O’Brien. NEAR THE END JACK HUGGED FoR WIS LIFE, CATCHING THEW CHAMPION AROUND THE WAIST? CBRN WAS WNocnep oO a> \N THE 6TH RoUND- SOLAR PLEenus ae BY IRVIN S. COBB. | O be sure, there is a section of the sporting public in New York de- | lighting in scientific, antiseptic sparring with nothing unpleasant, \§ take such as knockouts, But he was not at the National A. C. last night. | i E> <ore WITH BOTH. ARMS. He was up at the Horace Mann School taking part in the tourney for the | t! ; interstate progressive carome champlonship. Those who went to the) ine first “HE'S A MARVEL,” SAYS O'BRIEN; “MY TO UGHEST ‘EOm KE TCHEL National Club, and there were upward of 3,000 of them, desired above all gor their member aise things to see a gentleman hand another gentleman one of those eighty: ’ . Champion |O’Brien Game, ” ome off si to hold bis | > pound sleeping potions in the blue print and alter his plans aud specifica. Winner of Battle Declares He | "°"* And they certainly had their wish, After three teams of piano movers had Philadelphian S 1 8 one of the best I sed," sald Referee had trouble sepa- ott by fa Yelled. deck, "Young Corbet Many Notables at Ringside. Senator Patrick McCarren, Charles Ross, comedian, In comedy velvet hat and Bunday comedian; Corse Work Payton, supplement clothes, with four would give Johnson a hard fight for six xe JOHN POLLOCK. : but after @ few 7 or eight rounds, but after that I think arate color sections; Ered Houseman; Gene Walter, playwright; Paul Arm-| qyreq poxes were thrown f Wa 9 know wnat I Johnson would finally get him. strong, playwright also, all except "Soclety and the Bulldog’, Majah Burke, of | which neginied “the love, em, and would break “He ung fellow, an the Bill Show, point lace and diamonds; Willie Willis, Mayor's secretary; Frank | an r wwnich hy ae McCoy. then tool Loule, the newsboy; Herby Swope (all dressed up in a lawn tle and white gloves like a Gear departed), Sheriff Tom Foley, Vincent Bryan, songster; Davie Johnson, with real moss agate Young Corbett; his brother, much younger Mr, Young cx New York high hat and Butte, Mont., short coat), is ist him and f hope O'Brien, Mayor's other secretary; friends who wit were satisfied with rien held on a se he a | land Hodse yin the 1 ves for O'Brien, the Liack « O'Brien's 1 so second, Mr. Mp Phelan; studs; young Mr, bett; F. J s Helnze After iniiiionaire J h my show Biddle with O'Brien. bs O'Brien remained at the hotel all ni \ : and wil siitepshead Bay eatiy Magistrate Corrigan, ex-Asgemblyman Dick Butler, and Mason Peters, president | giipred big tur this morn s her, Mite of Forty-second street, yelled ao eo Mata eae from I do not recall a great deal regarding the preliminaries preceding the main | Wrappe ui vemembered that there was one young seali¢rnan ina n. O'Brien's mot event of the ever Mary Garden Sa i like a Herkimer © y souvenir cheese, but after he got binged once't or twis't; Sean on it it looked as if they were serving bar le duc Jelly with the cheese. And [yii4.0",3\4 there was a dense haze of cigar smoke rising toward the vaulted roof so that | © pany OKA looked like one huge bed of slaking lime with cigar lights twinkling | Ings e cant get to the middie-weight bout was fi and aafter the to join his Wis ‘Britt, and to re Nard you more. the house un te whieh nugh it like lightning bugs in a fog, and oye enthusiastic gent up tn the! 3y1) ui . z sta land Hou th for, wt the § : ee 8 ihe was hustled into the club's bath? j rt ren stisaae the hot. water | first balcony who kept crying out, “Oh, you kid," with a touch of rare original. |#t,in¢' nae sw ity, and all that sort of thing Hat the fi le I must s several t him | 7 t, | that he Then Came Piece de Resistance. But, as you may well know, those were merely preliminaries. cab, which whirled him and his se down to the Lafayette Baths. What have you to say | Along about} kK about your 1 to John- asked an Evening World re-/ 19.20 o'clock we reached the real plece de resistance (pronounced in the French | 4 Jack rub viciously at ud F ; vee way with the aeoent at this end), \1 Hd “What do el? he! ¢ Gives O'Brien Credit. Joe Humphreys, the Human Cave of the Winds, steps Into the ring | (uti Wasneaied eis (| “Tt nyaeiene of the Berea ‘ Found and Introduces Mr. Jack Twin Sullivan, Mr, Johnny Frayne and Mistah Sam | Ketchel i 1 pun 1 son's seiera sac Soa better man’ tha rd, Mistah Langford looks something Ilka an old-fashioned sideboard | s he was,” 1 oh walnut finish and tue mirror missing. Mr. Jack Twin Bullivan has | troii eH le O'Brien's Millionaire Second 1 and TNA Oren Haas $ w like the beginning of « Mystic Maxe puazle and one of those side-door, JO irien a wove, and hes Keferey him, O'Brien's footwor me | famil trance ears, No distinguishing marks for Mr. Frayne. ‘ Ct EMTS Uae A ie have | Enter Mr, Ketchel. Loud cheers. He creates a distinct Impression by i} ty trunks and wearing Instead a pair of knee length red described in Gen. the customary an ting en O'Brien had Says Ketchel ds a Wonder O'Brien was ne as we instinctively assoctate with those Lew] oe a Wh) an of Pr Me was ethaptt het tae great chapter, "The Charlot Race of Ben Hirsch." He is simply) * Conia ee 132) them. O'Brien |attended by representatives of the Great Common People, ‘elling, UE t i zi fae even im ten|| not so with Mr, Philadelphia Jack O'Brlen, from Sleepsylvania, All he Ksck nl « i wo get bin after U 1d ee ha Dyer jr, with a silver whletle and a bunch of cotillion favors |” the fourth . arm, to be a complete social function. For he !s attended (first) by Mr. Kid McCoy, smiling the smile that reminds you of a man drawing a knife; (second) by a ntleman with Lombardy poplar whiskers, who is instantly halled by the assemblage as Battling Van Dykes; (third) by Mr. Tony Biddle, of the reigning family of his native city, sometimes called the Scrapping During onde is sixth for knew that he, “I mea had no wind left to answer ought the ‘he put up a battle d be admire ed for ‘ fine, J * shou — Sw'that I hage beaten O'Drien 1] Serapple, and (fourth) by eeveral members of the common herd, armed with | coy" Fra teasa icbTInGAU eee will go after Jack Johnson. nk | fans, towels, restoratives In bottles and first-ald packages. enth found. Keep Jabning b and crows ing hin to the T have an excellent chance with him, as hit peatedly Enter Mr. Tim Hurst, the referee. (Hapeclally loud cheers and cries of “Oh, “danced about: you Tinj We pasa lightly over the first nine rounds, which was the way Mr, O'Brien passed over most of them, except during those rounds when he mistook the occasion for a Walta-quadriile, and Insisted on hugging Mr. Ketchel up close as his partner. And thus we come to the tenth round, which we would describe briefly as Mows: t Blank, dash, exclamation point, asterisk, long biank, fiock of glow worms fore Mr. Phila, John O'Brien's eyes, semicolon, full stop. er particulars read what Edgren hag to say about It. ud owill get him ye than to O'Brien’ as Jai LY think is easier to he | O'Brien.’ * Ketchel followed fast f the Svanberg Hurls Hot Chailenge at Marathon Siars Ernie HJ air, and a ashed on O'Brien's fo! rT NASSAU ST. rainer and manager erg, still on th Was Thriller founted {of John Svan Swedish Mara-| | sae se: ‘ ee a TAT, ti erritirt Donlin, Kling, Jones, Willis— 29:33 WEST 42p ST. can beat the world at the Marathon | distance, “L have engaged C 18," sald Hiertberg j to matel vanberg How to Train for Y MARATHON RUNNING That's the Big Four Hold-Out Club Itc Park for April “Tam ready h any mun on} are four names that thre: Fielder ir the manager of the ERE wit Al 5 e Forward Pass Rule earth to run @ race of twenty'-sixemiles H en to go down In baseball his-| Chicago White Sox, is doing some- ng I ; and 385 yards on that dat anvers Is tory as the only simon-pure| thing no other ball player ever did Groupt2,No.3t7 |y | May Cause Mix-up | s.eramonand wit stow je i¢ ne &4n | voriginal Hotd-Out” ciub—Doalln | before. No other ever had a chance SPALOING'S Jones is turning down @ @alary of $20,000 In order to attend to his lumber business In Oregon, Comiskey had a Kling, Jones and Willis, Hans Wag- ner and Lew Wiltse looked like char- members for time, but they the| to run at the Polo Svanberg was enter Marathon Derby to t ounds next Saturday, LIBRARY Correo ey James €. SULLIVAN | In Football Rules. but his entry { aa : was not accepted owing to certain r ter a | vk awed) 2 : | strictions made by Longboat, ‘ob |} proved quitters and Joined thelr clubs, | conference with Jones in Portland on [| || How to train; History of Marathon Raw cralaeg ) 2 (aia UO ah stars. dt says pe] Of the four, New Yorkers are more| Thuraday, and made him tho $2,000 J] || ning; Articles by Mike Murphy, and alt t 1 | will endeavor fo ket a chance at the) F cocormed in Doniin than in any one| offer, Jones would not consider the the famous Marathon Runners dato “|| goatee aan }f else. Donlin’s reasons for holding out | offer unless Comiskey also gave him Pictures of Dorando, Longboat, Hayes, A hrubdb, Maloney, Crowley, Hatch and ls are well known. an interest In the White Sox, which Bhrudb, ye Te cunts ; ; ( TO-NIGHT’S FIGHTS. Johnny Kling, conceded to be the] clud 1s owned outright by Comiskey. Gulia Price Ten ? best catcher In the business, refuses | Phe latter wouldn't think of parting to join the Chicago Cubs. Kilng’s | With even a small portion of his Chi- ey ae to lence big kick He is the pillar of | him there is nothing doing in the OS AITALITIONEIALL PO mon \$ i I k 1 e oy (MT | 0 -5/ Quaker stags pre nivail/the ag ant ane the Bo ee ere |} kick {8 not #0 much over salary, | cago gold mine; so Mr. Jones told bim ; trying ij will méet Young O'Brien, of New } || though that 1s what he Is basing it on, | to look for another manager. at (t t t without d Jersey, in the main bout of six} |f 49 the fact that he wants to get away Vie Willls, the lengthy pitcher of e rounds. Beside {s bout there will ¢ | from Chicago and Join the Cincinnatl | the Pittsburg team, {8 holding out Py ting others and a battle { |] team. Kling is one of the best pool | slmply for more money. The contract raat royal between colored fighters. |] plavers in the country, and has a| offered him by Barney Dreyfuss 1s an At th 4. C. stag, South chance to open @ large room In Cin- | sald to be Just $1.59 lesa than Willis uarsaueed Bri Kell He wants to take that| wants. Dreyfuss says the tgure he WoFiresis coriaaiea, OF pn 60! mis \ i the wath: b ‘ t, rder to do so, he|{s willing to pay Willls ts all he Is ANrwctvins OxtwcatCa, Fart oe wad dited f ten © other good § |i ® ave to play in Cineinnatl | worth, and as Vic doesn't agree with nnn jles. bouts between evenly matched boys led, it was will VN Ts. eeeercee it the Cubs, and wil! be missed. signing line, ot Princeton. |