The evening world. Newspaper, June 23, 1911, Page 13

ee ee en a ae Se 2 $er~ Axme EEF | Ketchel Was a Product of the Mining Camps, Worked at Anything and Everything, but Developed His Punching Pow- ers. Tossing Ore on Flat Cars. 98—Stantey Ketchel. wee © iay’y article the date of fight which Ketchel won the middie wiight championship of the world wes ‘aniotentionally given as fept. 7, ‘Pha is a mistake for which the @pologises, and hastens to sub- the correct one—Nov. %, 1008 Gomer Gate is thet of the battle erchel and Papke at Los An tm which Papke was returned the bile the championship com father was a Pole who had America some years before Perth, His mother was an ‘The father worked for @ ea @ farmer and was also em fm_the wagon works in Grand Ketchel was extremely fond of ta, and in his years of efflu- bought them a fine farm in Michi stocked it with blooded cattle, Ye boyhood wag very elmilar hat of the average American coun- boy, He went to school and gained gudiments of a good education, He apoke the Polish language fluently, History was his study and George Washington sclusko, the Polish patriot his and Was unusually well informed the subject. Young Ketchel's vorite game was baseball, fa. and it is sald that he was a good player of the na- tional game. Ketchel a Wanderer Too. the wandertust great West. At TI Lake McCoy, he ha and wanted to so the age of thi by stages de There he w ed in mines, cattle on the ranges, worked !n dance baflg and restaurants, and did all sorte of things, Ketchel's lacor among the mimes wae responsible for the terrific | hitting power that he displayed in hie patties. For a long time the boy worked at loading ore. This required throwing the ore from the ground up gato a flat car, a distance of probably five or six feet. The boy had to keep they show. $25 Service Guarantee can afford to. cally two sui $3 Wash Suits MY OULY STORE Inside theRing Bt pide, | having disposed of the bouncer, eterted Moe Levy Values Always Beat Competition‘ yrs going some when competitors acknowledge they are beaten and drop their prices to meet my com- etition. 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As the cars were run in on two tracks, one on elther side of the ore dump, the work developed both of Ketohel's arma And all through bis Sighting & blow delivered Sy those same inuscles was @ ticket to dreamland for his opponei ‘The dance halle of the Montana min- ing camps had an almoet irresistible attraction for Ketchel, and the greater part of lls small earnings was equan- there. He admired very much the who played the piano, ana ai- made friends with every one of them that he met. - fought Morris Thompson. too clever for the untrained boy and fot the decision in six rounds. was on May ll. waa out of 1 to stop Ketchel. Ddattles that On June 2 he knocked out Jim King fo three rounds; on July 2 Kid Mc- Guire was sent to slumberland in one TA 00719"TA How “ve Gay one t @rain him o! joints to give him any the fistic art other than what @ was able to pick up’in his various battle A these were few, for the majority of the men he fought knew as little or leas about boxing as he did. The boy simply smashed his way to victory or escaped defeat by means of his youth and strength and terrible blows. Butte, Ketchel Morris was Jumping back to This But after Thompson way there was nothing He began a series of 11 ended in knockouts. uly 15 saw Kid Leroy go the route in one round; two days Young Gilsey stopped a hay- maker in the fourth round. On Sept. 6 Bob Merriwell was the victim, going down in four rounds. Sept. 15 brought defeat to Jimmy Murray in three rounds, and on Oct. 15 Ketchel again whipped Bob Merriwell in three rounds. Ketohel's olf hoodoo, Morris Thomp- @on, again bobbed up, and for the sec- ond time Stanley went down to defeat @t his hands, this time on Oct. 21, in three rounds. All of these fights were held in Butte for very emall purse most of them being held in dance halls. Oct. 9 found Ketchel down at Miles City again, where he knocked out Jimmy Kelly in one round. This. was Oven in later years | the kid's first fight for gate recetpts, this attraction was strong, and during| but how large they were we de not his sojourn in New York Ketchel would prefer the company of a little, weas- ened, hatchet faced pianist to that of big, husky men like himself, Stanley's fighting career started of these dance halls in Butte. come in from a ranch, months’ pay in his pocket, had fallen Into bad company and been thoroughty trimmed. He managed to get @ job ia a restaurant and at night would hang around the danco hall, One night @ gang of tough customers came in, and, to clean up the place. Whereupon the tall, lanky youngster came to the rescue of the proprietor like a whirlwind, an@ when the smoke of le had cleared away his terrible swings had laid low several members of the disturbing party and put the others to !gnominious fight, This incident aroused the admiration of know. After the Miles City victory Ketchel travelled to Lewiston, Mont., and there defeated Kid Lee on Nov. 8 in eight rounds. He then came back to Butte again, and during November and December fought and whipped Joe Mudro and Jack Gumes, the first being disposed of in four rounds and the sec- ond in eleven. Worked at Everything. While Ketchel picked up quite a Ittle change in these fights, he did lots of other things to earn his daily bread. He worked in the mines again, went out on the range, labored in restau- rants or did the bouncer act for dance halls, and his money vanished just about as fast as he made ft. But he was young and vigorous, and the loss of money didnt bother him much so jong as he had a good time while it the dance hall proprietor. The defeated | was going. bouncer fost his Job and young Ketchel | crhe Next Chapter Also Deals With hecame his successor, For a long time ‘ot ee he bounced and fought, the fights being hastily staged affairs on the floor of the dance hall, and the boy's fame as @ serapper soon spread around the coun- try, These fights brought him tn Iittle or nothing in the way of money. Quick Knocker Out. His first real fight was with @ plag ugly named Kid Tracy on May 2 1908, and was held tn this dance hall. “Young Ketchel,” as he called himself, disposed of Tracy jn one round. The next ring fight that Stanley had was with a man named Mose LaFontise, on Aug. 8 LaFontise, a clever fighter, was travelling around ‘the country as a “ringer.” He was the first man with any real knowledge of boxing that the boy had tackled, ‘but nevertheless Ketchel's wicked swings knocked him Stanley went back to ranching after this and stayed out of the ring for bout six months, At the end of that e he wandered Into Butte again and induced to go down to Miles City, Montana, to meet Rudolph Hing, a big miner, The men fought on Apri 19, 19, Ketchel weighing 140 pounds and Hinz 185. A terrific twenty-round @raw the result. Young Stanley had no RHEUMATISH SCIATICA or NEURITIS Write fo nas Malate trom browninse le tor Tagalicited 1.00 2.4 rt it by mail on IAGISTRAL CHEMICAL CO. Bulte yet Flatiron ue. Mee Penk. established, and this fashionable fabrics. Style, quality of fabric and tailoring guaranteed equal to the best. One-third saved on every garment you buy—often more. 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