The San Francisco call., 1908-12-16

sixth. which was all i'm Kelly's favor
the Italian landing time and again
with that classy left and furnishing
right uppercut of his.
The seventh saw Papke there with
another haymaker, which all but fiat
tened Kelly. After fiddlinG around
bit Papke swung his right Hush on the
jaw again and Kelly gasped and all
but fell TO the floor Once more Papke
tried TO get on top OF his man and put
in the finishing wallop but Kelly did
the hold on stuff and managed TO beat
the gong.
During the next three rounds Papke
was the king of the arena He sud
denly managed TO get control of that
left rip TO the body and began to shoot
kelly's body with eA the force at his
command. which however was not
enough to take Hugo of his pins.
Many times. Kelly WINGED and when he
went to his corner he appeared to be
ready 10 quit. His face turned a
deathly Dale and nobody looked for
him to go more than three rounds after
the eleventh. Up to this time both
men were lighting at A nerve racking
pace. The crowd had never seen any
thing like IL before and nearly every
body in the house was speed mad
Papke. though badly cut up about the
face. was smiling with confidence, be-
HeNlng that a couple more of his body
blows would assure him the winners
cut OF the coin.
TAKES NEW LEASE
But Kelly took a new lease OF life
IN the eleventh and fought back game
ly. After taking a couple more of those
nasty body rips he got back on the
job with his old right uppereut to the
Jaw, which caused Papkeis smile to
vanish At the finish of the eleventh
Kelly had Papke near the ropes and
was shooting rights and lefts into his
jaw without effect.
The twelfth, thirteenth and four
Ieenth rounds saw the men resting up.
Both apparently realized that the pace
was TOO fast and both decided to limit
their speed at about the same mo-
ment. They would go from one clinch
INTO another and make weak and wild
leads. Papke managed TO get in a
couple more Of the rights to the body
and Kelly evened up by poking his
left TO the Jaw and VARYING the mo-
notony with left uppercuts.
But from the fourteenth to the twen-
ty-nftn rounds ii was all Kelly Papke's
alleged lack Of condition evidently be-
gan TO tell on him and he did not show
half the speed that was2his in the earlier
rounds de allowed Kelly to beat him
TO everything, and apparently pinned
The opportunity to land this never
came however, as Kelly was crafty
enough to watch his man closely and
stall him along.
BILLY'S EYES CLOSED
Papke suffered from lack of vision.
Both his eyes were closed as tightly as
drums. and any. time he started a lllnge
II was apparently wild, and he was so
slow that Kelly had all the time he
needed to get out of the way on
couple of occasions Papke did put one
over to the jaw. but these did not both
er Kelly to any extent. They also
served TO wise him up to look out for
the next one that Papke started.
At times Kelly had Papke going to
the ropes A more Courageous man
would surely have ended the battle via
the knockout route, but Kelly appar-
entity had a lot Of respect for Papke's
right haymaker and contented himself
with landing right and lefts to the jaw
and the body and then gracefully dan
cling away out of danger.
II was very easy to see that Kelly
believed he had won the battle on
points and that the best thipg he could
do was to keep up his game work with
out taking any chances of being slowed
away. for he was none too strong at
this stage of the game. He held on
whenever opportunity warranted and
cleverly played a safe game, at the
same time leading most of the specta-
tors to believe that he was trying for
the big wallop that would end the mill
VICIOUS TO THE LAST
. In the last round both men came IN
and fought as viciously as any two
gladiators ever did in any finishing pc
riod- Papke all but crushed Kelly
but Kelly came right on with another
that sent Papke reeling. Both of
them tried swing after swing. but
these blows to do any good When
the gong sounded they were mixing it
fiercely. both Of them barely able to
stand UP and take theAgaff.
After the fight Jeffrfes admitted that
Kelly displayed the most class, but he
argued that Papke was forcing the
lighting all the time and had more of
the telling blows to his credit The
majority of the spectators strung with
Papke and criticised the big fellows
decision on all sides.
Both OF the preliminaries furnished
plenty Of excitement and action. IN
the eyeopener Battling frankie, a light
weight, slowed Young d. Dempsey
away in three rounds. while Montana
Jack Sullivan. after taking an awful
lacing from Young Campbell. came on