The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1908-09-08
KEICnEL GETS HIS IN
The TWELFTH ROUND
IPapke Wins in One Of the BIoodiest Battles
in Prize Ring History.

Vernon Arena, Los Angeles, Sept. z
Stanley Ketchel, Of Michigan, for
mer middleweight champion Of thu
world, was knocked out In the tweltl
round ct Jeffries' Vernon arena at
o'clock this afternoon by Billy Papks
Of Illinois, who Is now middleweigha
champion Of the world.
Both men entered the ring In ap.
parent perfect condition and neither
had ever been knocked out. Ketchel
had . decision over Papke in q pre-.
vious 10-round bout.
Both men are as clean taken prize
lighters as anyone would wish to see
but the bout ended as one Of the
bloodiest In ring history.
Kstchel came in wearing a tattered
dressing gown and q worn hunting
cap an dtrunks Of green gauze. He
had q feline stride, the smile Of ar
unspoiled boy, q fine brow, wide,
clear eyes and a shrewd look Of pur-
pose.
When Papke came In he also wore
an old dressing gown and a boy,sh
smile.
Ketchel wore the air Of an undefeat-
cd oonqueror and was plainly the
{avorHe OF the crowd, which had
done betting on him at Q to l. Whom
Papke entered he walked bltthely to
Ketchels corner and greeted him
with . handshake and a cordial smile,
but when James ]. Jeffries, the ref
cree, called time and Ketchel walked
% the center extending his hand for
~ shake Papka Ignored the hand
and sailed into the Michigan man with
the fiery i~mpetuousity which entitled
him to be called the thunder bolt"
Papke's Fight from the Start.
The fight was practically over a
minute and twenty seconds after the
gong sounded. From that time on it
Was merely q question as to how long
Ketchel would last. Papke tore into
Ketchel with such fury that the Ia
defeated champion was simply lifted
OH his feet four times within the nexs
minute. Papke knocked Ketchel to
the mat for the count and from his
first knock down Ketchel never really
recovered his form. He was a de-
feated man, dazed, bleeding, strug-
Cling from twenty blows in the face,
and vet he came back and stayed with
a terrible determination. And for at
least three rounds held his own with
the challenger.
When Ketchel stepped ito the cor
ner for the second round it was seen
that his right eye was closed.
At the next intermission his sec
onds lanced eye, and sucked the
blood, but Ketchel never regained the
sight of his eye.
Before the finish the other eye was
all but closed and for the last three
rounds he staggered about the ring
dizzily, like a drunken man, practi-
cally blinded.
In the third Papke showed his best
form, when he forced Ketchel through
the ropes. The gong saved Ketchel
just as he was knocked through the
ropes. Another minute would have
finished him, with Papke almost as
strong as when he entered the ring.
Ketchel vas carried to his dressing
room. Both eyes were swollen into
great black puffs and completely
closed. His lips were cut and swol-
len to several times their normal size.
Following Is the account Of the
fight by rounds:
The Fight by Rounds.
Round 1.-Papke led with left and
rushed Ketchell into a corner, land
ing four blows on the head. He then
steppedSin but Ketchell caught him on
the chin with his left. Papke knocked
Ketchel down with a right and left
to the face and he got up groggy.
Papke knocked him down again with
= right and left to mouth and Ketcheli
came up again and the gong rang. He
was groggy and bleeding freely from
the mouth. Ketchell was standing as
the gong sounded and his seconds
took him to his corner.
Round 2.-Ketchel came up groggy
a1d Papke went at him like a tiger,
sending him staggering around the
ring. Papke landed repeatedly on
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