Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-28
THE PUGILISTS
Stanley Ketehel May Becume Tbe Next Heavyweight Boxer
 Of Country.

If Stanley Ketchell will consent to live the simple life in future it Is the opinion of ring experts that he will eventually become the heavy weight champion of the world. Ketchell's signal victory over Bill Papke in Frisco on Thanksgiving day has caused the general belief that when he met Papke last September and was put away he was simply a victim of overconfdence. Ketchell beat Papke so easily the first time they met in a ten round bout at Mil waukee that he evidently believed the Illinois man would prove an easy mark in second bout. For that reason it is a matter of fact that Ketchell did not train properly for that mill He admits now that he did not refrain from intoxicants. stayed up late nights with boon com panions. and then a week before the mill he indulged in perfunctory training. As result Papke, who was fit, caught Ketchell practically unawares and stopped him in twelve rounds.
 For this last fight. which turned the tables, on ~ Thursday, Ketchell trained long and faithfully in, spite of reports to the contrary. He took off thirty pounds and yet was as strong as bull when he entered the ring Papke was perhaps too sure of success, but at any rate Ketchell proceeded to fight in the same won- derful style that made ring experts last summer hail him as the great est pugilist of the present day. ketchell will probably fight Papks again after the latter has met Hugo Kelly, the Chicago middleweight. If a new match is made the men will meet at Los Angeles, maybe, on De- cember 15. If Ketchell wins again his handlers say that it will be pfob- ably his last fight at the middle- weight limit, and that he will be ready to make a match with Al kauf-l man. Billy Delaney's heavyweight. Tn case Ketehell should beat Kauf- man, who is good man, he would then be in time to challenge the win ner of the coming Burns-Johnson match In Australia on December 26. Ketchell is growing rapidly, though still merely boy, and in another year or less he may tip the beam at 200 pounds. Competent judges on the coast say that he is a natural born fighter, a wonderful puncher and at the same time scientific. In spite of the fact that Papke had the "Indian sign on him Ketehell has
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 Joe Cans says he will post $1,000 to bind match with Packey Nc Farland, the Chicago lightweight. Cans declares he can trim Packey III a six round bout and many ring ex- perts believe that the 'Old Master speaks by the card.
 Battling Nelson has made plain the terms upon which Mcfarland or Freddy Welsh can get match with him for the lightweight champion ship. He says that the fight must be to finish at 1SS pounds, ringside, | with a $5,000 forfeit for weight and appearance. Nelson declares that he will never run chances of losing his lightweight title in limited round bout with any first class boxer The Dane is strictly long distance fight CT and probably the best of his weight and inches in the world. Joe i Cans says so and Sir Joseph ought to know.
 Fred Bradley, the Boston heavy-l weight, may not fight again for some | time to come. He was so terribly | beaten by Al Kubiak at Philadelphia | the other night that he was taken D | the hospital in supposedly danger | ous condition. But he is on the road | to recovery and says that he will take a long vacation. Bradley, it will be took terrible lacing | from Al Kaufman several weeks ago and was finally knocked out cleanly. | His gameness was remarkable on that occasion. A pugilist cannot be q human punching bag all the time and survive, and for that reason Bradley's friends intend to try to make him quit the ring.