The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-08

Felkner first entered the cycling
game in Leadville, and moved to Den
Yer to enter the game there. He soon
became the leading cycle dealer of the
city and picked up the automobile
business in its infancy. At the time Of
his death he was at the head of the au-
tOmobile business in the Colorado me-
tropolis. Dasey came west as a cycle
rider from Chicago, and was one of the
leading Colorado riders up to the time
the game died i'm that state. Since
that time he has been racing automo-
biles and, like Felkner, paid the pen
atty with death in the Labor day meet
at Overland park.
keteheII Once Beat Mccarthy.
That fight between Joe Thomas and
Young Ketchell of Butte at Frisco on
Labor day must have been a great bat
tie. 1t was. to say the least, a great
surprise Ketchell halls from Mon
tana. where he made a fair showing
In one of his battles he ended his taking
career of Jerry Mccarthy, by putting
the Walkerville pet where he should
have been at the time he was handing
Salt Lake bunch of lemons For this
Ketchell has the thanks of the Salt
Lake fight fans, who insisted on square
sport, and for this reason Salt Lake
ing toward the Montana slugger. BY
beating Thomas, Ketchell has as good
a claim to the welterweight title as
any man alive, and will probably from
now on be recognized as the head of
that division.
One of the features of the fight is
that neither man had a kick coming
after IT was over, and KetcheH very
manfully offered to give Thomas a re-
turn fight. This is a strange proceed
ure for modern-day fighters. and their
statements are therefore well worth
reading.
Ketchell said Immediately after the
battle: This fellow Thomas is hard
man TO beat, but / am perfectly will
ing TO give him a return match To
show how confident I was of winning.
I bet something like $500 on myself at
the prevailing odds of 10 to s. am
only 81 years old, and that's young
enough to leave me a few years to
fight in
Unlike most defeated men. Thomas
had no kick coming and gave his victor
full credit
I'm no cry-baby. and I will not
make any excuses for my defeat to-
day. | fought as well as I knew how
and Young Ketchell beat me- He beat
me fairly and squarely, and / think I
put up good fight. You can take it
from me that Ketchell is a good fight
er. I thought I was good. and when a
man beats me 1 am willing to acknowI-
edge it,
schreck Bubble Bursted.
The Mike Schreck bubble has burst
ed, and the way the sporting writer's
are handing it out to poor Mike these
DAYS Is caution. BY the way. did
the Salt Lake fight fans who saw Mike
quit before John Willie, stop to think
how much that Frisco fight resembled
the one at the Salt Palace? In the
fight here after Willie had Schreck
whipped to frazzel. Mike fell to the
ground and claimed a foul. Referee
Bean would not allow it, and In the
tenth round Mike tried the trick again.
He went down with a groan, looked as
If somebody had taken a stick of can
dy from him, and held up his hand
appealingly to the referee. The trick
worked and Schreck was given a de-
cision he was no more entitled to than
he was to decision over Kaufman at
Frisco. Schreck got away with IL
here in Salt Lake. but made a miser-
able failure Of it in Frisco.