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MANY KNOCKOUTS TO CREDIT iStanley Ketchel, Champion Middle 1 weight, Beaten Twice by Billy Papke and Thompson,Stanley Ketchel, the champion mid- ; dlcwHght pugilist of the world, who was shot and killed recently while ! on a raw )i In Missouri, had many i knorkoufH to his credit, !Ketchel, whose real name was ; Stanislaus Klecai, was horn twenty- ! three years ago at Grand Rapids, ! Mich. His first fight orcurretl at ! Hutto. Mont., on May 2. tDO.'i, when he knocked out Kid Tracey in one round. A few months later ho laid “Mose ! La Font I ko low In twenty-four rounds j In the same city. The following year he engaged in fourteen ring battles. He lost to Maurice Thompson In two of these bat ties, the first in six and the second In ten rounds. He fought a twenty-round draw with Rudolph Hinz. In the other he scored knock- ; outs. ISince then and up to the beginning of the present year be participated in forty fight* In 190'. Mack Sullivan fought him twenty rounds to a draw j and two years later .loe Thomas performed similarly. That ratnc* year, however, he knocked out Thomas in thirty-two rounds am! in a later fight secured the decision in twenty rounds. “Billy Papke In 1908 knocked him out at Los Angeles in twelvu rounds, but three months later Ketchel re turned the compliment in San Fran- j cisco In eleven rounds. I^ast year he fought ten rounds without derision at New York with “Philadelphia Jack O’Brien and six rounds at Pittsburg with “Kid Hubert. On July 5, 1909. ••Billy Papke won from him In twenty rounds at Colma. Cal.
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New Albany Public Press
New Albany, Indiana, US
Tue, Nov 01, 1910
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