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Corbett Disappointed Not Meeting JohnsonBy. James J. Cornett.Less than two weeks ago the hunting fans anil ring critics all over th* country were harping be cause the leaders in the pugilistic gamo were inclined to sidestep challenges of all sorts, rt0 matter from what aourcc they came.... Just when everybs»dy had about givt* up hope of -i world's championship of any sort in the near future, Jack John eon signed articles to light Stanley K»tchelStaredv had the echo of the announcement died away when Battling Nelson and Packey McFarland got to-gethsr and signed their namer. to a contract to fight on the coast before Coffrotn’s club on July 5 for the world's lightweight championship.With tbsse two contests on the date, the pugilistic pot ought to da-xle from now until the refemi counts tan over the prostrate body of the losers.Corbett Is Disappointed.1 am disappointed, oI course, in losing the opportunity of showing the bghting world that. .Johnson is not my superior, but, as I have dismissed this subject irotn my mind, I will devote what I have to lay in the Tribune to the probable outcome of the Johnson-Ketchel fight. o,nd at diflereot tlrr.es between now and the time the two enter the ring write whpt I may observe in the development of the two men for battle.There is a wide impression already throughout the sporting world that Kctchel in making n ficht with Johnson bagged a good tbrng- And so far as Ketehel’s reputaUw goes, be stands to lose nothing in beating4J 1 ■ W ’
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Brandon Weekly Sun
Brandon, Manitoba, CA
Thu, May 06, 1909
Page 27
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