Bismarck daily tribune., 1908-11-27
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Big Crowd YellS With Joy
Over Delightfully."-
Brutal Fight
ketchelI Knocks Out Pdpke
in Eleven Beauti-
full Rounds
One Spectator So Pleased He
Gives Up the Ghost
....., Then and There

San Francisco, Cal, Nov 26.-s
Stanley Ketchell, of Grand Rapids,
Michigan, middleweight champion of
the world, won today and reversed
his defeat of last September when
he sent Billy Papxe, the 'sIllinois
Thunderbolt," crashing to the floor
before a well directed blow that
caught his opponent flush upon the
chin. l. "'5 s y. rs-.s x r..
The end came in the eleventh round
prior to which Ketche1l clearly show
ed that he was master of his opponent
at any kind of fighting. Round by
round Ketcheu forced his opponent
and when opportunity offered planted
rights to the head and body, general
ly escaping without damaging returns
Forcing the fight throughout every
minute, Ketchell was stronger up
to the moment of the knockout blow
than was his opponent. Once during
an aggressive moment they fell in
the ringside and toppled through
ropes wrapped in a close embrace.
1t was a left to the stomach that sent
Papke to the ropes at this juncture.
In falling Papke seized his opponent
and the, force of his rush carried
them clear off the platform and over
the heads of the spectators. A hun
dred willing hands assisted them to
the center and in a moment they
were graphing in clinch.
KetchelI was victor throughout.
His appearance during the early
rounds did not tend to encourage
those who had him at odds of 10 to
z and 10 to 6, but his awkward de-
livery of blows seemed to lull Papke
into false sense of security.
In the first round Ketchell drove.
Papke into a neutral corner, landing
right and left almost at will, and
thereafter the Illinois contender was
always at disadvantage. Stepping
aside at critical junctures, KetchelI
swung his right time and time again
flush upon his opponents jaw, now
and then with left drives to the body.
In the fifth round Ketchell drove
hard left to the stomach of Papke,
and had not Papke put up his hands,
he would have encountered hard
right to the jaw. Before this, in
the fourth round, a light tap on the
nose had brought blood from Papke
that set the crowd yelling for the
Michigander.
1t was in the seventh that Ketchell
used his right to the greatest advan-
tage. Papke's only hopes lay in his
disposition to clinch, but he was hit
twice and both blows tended to les
sen his recuperative powers.
From this time on the crowd await
ed the knockout punch that KetchelI
was apparently withholding. In the
ninth Papke was sent across the ring
and nearly went to his knees by pow
erful blow on the jaw. He arose to
meet Ketchell's right which twice
landed on the jaw. Papke went to
his corner bleeding freely from the
nose. This was the beginning of the
end.
In the following round Papke twice
turned his back on Ketchell's assaults
and deliberately ran away.
In the eleventh and final round
Ketchell came up as fresh and strong
as at any time during the fight. He
tapped Papke lightly on the jaw and
then rushed him half way across the
ring, planting two hard rights to the
stomach. A moment later as they
broke out of a clinch KetcheH swung
the left at three-quarters length land
ing squarely on the point Of the chin,
Papke struck at full length, his head
rapping the floor with terrible force
He had Just enough strength to re-
gain his feet and while he crouched
| In an attitude half protected, Ketehell
/ sent his right to the head four times
lin quick succession and almost push
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