Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-12-04
KETCHELL WAS
ONCE RESIDENT
OF THIS CITY
Man Who Licked Papke Work
ed In Copper Queen Mines
and Was Whipped Many
Times While Here.

Stanley Ketchell, who recently re-
gained the middleweight champion
ship of the world by defeating Papke
in San Francisco, was at one time
on the pay roll OF the Copper Queen
company and resident of Bisbee. He
was car>man in the Gar shaft. and
according to the statement of his as
sociates he was good worker ana
could muck dirt with the best of them.
He was a pleasant fellow generally
and one of the companionable boys.
He could take his mornings morn
ing with coed grace and smaclzed his
lips as one who enjoyed it thoroughly.
He seemed to be interested in his
work and at one time thought that he
would like to follow the life of hard
rock miner and work on the lowest
level at $3.50 per day.
He had the rigid idea of thrift, also,
and was anxious to get as much of this
worlds goods together as possible,
and he also had vague dreams thai he
would some day become a prize fight
er. Il would like to make a success
full prize fighter" said he to one of
his friends while talking upon this
subject, If for no other reason than
the money there is in 1t. ] want the
money"
But although !. Ketchel dreamed
dreams of the ring and of the CON
quests of the former champions who
had passed IN one long panorama be-
fore the eyes of the admiring multi
tude. the results of his engagements
in Bisbee did not point to a line OF
conquests. He bumped into Joe StTink-
er in the change room at the Gar
and was trimmed TO 'fare-you-well.' .
In several of the friendly bouts in the
pugilist-c circles of this camp ne was
several times wolloped and continual
ly found those who could place the
gloves on all sides of him.
But the former carman developed
rapidly, and along with his Drawn and
science his confidence came. He
would tackle a buzz-saw. He was
soon appearing in the arena on Mex
lean soil and met several of the local
serappers in the bull ring at Naco,
Sonora. KID Barney, McClung, Jack
Gray and others went down before MS
prowess, clearing the field for new
worlds to conquer.
He next appeared before the lime
light in Los Angeles, where he found
faster company than he ever expected,
but he was game. The history of his
series of fights with Papke in Mil
waukee, Los Angeles and San Francis
co, in which he won two out of three
are all fresh in the minds of the read
er. He showed himself TO be a "goer"
OF the first water and man of re
markable vitality. He also dragged
down liberal competence, which Is
placed to his credit in several of the
banks in California. He has won the
much coveted prize of champion"
fighter than all the gold which it
brings
But Ketchel mas been guilty of sew
era1 breaches of the manly art which
will never be told by his friends with
any great degree of gusto. The coast
papers were all full of how he beat
into insensibility green boy who had
requested that Ketcaeil put on the
gloves with him and give him a few
pointers In handling them. He turn
ed himself loose upon the farmer lad
with the same yisciousness he did a
veteran antagonist, and left him
bleeding and entirely out For some
time the unfortunate youth was given
up as an imbecile.
The manner in which he swiped
Papke when the latter reached out TO
shake in the first fight will always be
spoken of with a blush and as some
thing that is quite unbecoming to one
of the old carmen of the Copper
Queen mine.
But possibly he considers that alPs
fair in love and war, and a finished
fight is bordering very close to war
It's a certainty that the principals in
a prize fight are going to be hurt, and
several have gone through real war
without scratch. What his next
move will be has not been made pub
lie, but If he has accumulated all the
cash that he needs and is wen pro-
vided in this worlds goods he will,
according to his former statements,
not be very ayerse to leaving the
ring.