The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-15
WALKER TELLS
HOW PAPkE WON
Well Known Sporting Writer
Describes Papke's Aston
ishing Victory.

The following account of the wonder
full Papke victory over Ketchel is writ
ten by Beanie Walker, sporting edi-
tor of the Los Angeles Examiner, and
one of the greatest slang-slingers on the
Coast. He not only is apt with the
Rialto lingo, but has pretty knaek
of describing sporting events, and his
account of the greatest surprise of this
century is well worth reading:
Los ANGELES, September IA
new mlddleweight star wrinkles bright
ly in the pugilistic sky and dazed and
bewildered public is rubbing its head
and trying in vague sort of way to
realize what has happened. Billy Papke,
Kewanee' great little fighting man,
shot his famous thunderbolto in the
sun-scorched area of the Jeffries Ath-
letic Club at Vernon this afternoon.
For eleven rounds and part of the
twelfth he administered a terrible beat
ling to Stanley Ketehel. At the end of
this period of desperate fighting the
hitherto unconquerable Ketchel lay in
the middle of the ring thoroughly
whipped, but not disgraced.
nc SA-CndHl prom pIeotALtu
appearance He was totally blind, both
his eyes had been beaten by Papke IS
cruel lefts and rights until they had
swollen completely shut. Blood gushed
from his battered nose and mouth, and
his body had been all but pounded to a
pulp.
Standing above the beaten man who
had just yielded up all his hard-earned
honors was the victor, Billy Papke. Not
mark was there on the Illinois man
to show that he had just passed through
battle that will live in pugilistic his
tory for a century to come. With a sar-
castle sneer on his unshaven face the
new worlds champion watched Ketch-
ell IS seconds drag the all but unrecog-
nizable youth to his corner. One hour
previous this man had climbed into this
same corner in the full bloom of health
and vigor. He had considered himself
invincible; so had the public, and 1000
Threats had cheered his entrance. Now
these same people eheered the new
champion and all but forgot the exist
ence of the defeated man.
Not since Jim Corbett stopped John
l.. Sullivan at New Orleans in 1892 has
the Queensberry world received such an
unexpected jolt of surprise as today
when Papke, repudiated 2 to shot
in the betting, whipped Ketchel in each
and every one of the twelve rounds.
Papke's victory was clean-cut, decisive
and won without a speck of suspicion.
He met Ketchel at the latter's own
game of smuggling, and never for the
space of ten seconds during the entire
fight did the then champion look like
a winner.
Papke knocked Ketchel down eight
times during the twelve rounds of
heart breaking milling. Each time that
he went to the floor poor Ketchel was
badly hurt and was each time forced to
take portion of the count.
Such an exhibition of desperate game
ness as was given by the dethroned
champion was seldom, if ever, seen in
a ring before. Five times in the open
ing round he was knocked to the bis
tering hot canvas floor. The first knock
down was the result of left drive to
the chin. Ketchel dropped as though
heavy weight had struck him. He
Topped over on his hands and knees,
and with an open mouth and stony eyes
glared into the faces of the newspaper