Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-27
MANY BOXERS TURN TABLE
Defeat Does Not Necessarily Prevent
Reversal in Form.
WHIPPED MAN OFTEN GETS BACK
Instances Numerous I'm which PuEi-
lists Knocked out or Beaten ON
Decision Save subsequently
Beat Thei ConauerOrs.

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fall II was generally believed because Of
the so-called mystic sign In pugilism that
Ketchel could not ''come back when he
met Papke again in Frisco. But when
Ketchel surprised everybody by putting
Papke to sleep the historians of the boxing
game began to unearth similar cases In
which pugilists once beaten or put to sleep
regained their lost laurels In mills with
the same antagonists.
Beginning with old Bob F1tzsimmons, for
instance, It is on record that he was beaten
iE Australia In four rounds by Jim Hall,
but that when they met several years
later in New Orleans Hall was sent Into
dreamland in the fourth round. F1tz also
lost on a foul to sharkey in California.
but he turned around and knocked the
bury sailor dead In a quick fight at Coney
Island.
George Dixon, while he held the feather
weight title, was knocked out one night
in Philadelphia by the Kentucky Rosebud,
Walter Edgerton, but that did not cut any
ice with Dixon. who in another bout beat
Edgerton decislvely. Dixon lost a decision
to Frank Erne in a twenty-round bout in
1896 and then turned the tables in a TWEEN
ty-five-round fight which took place five
mcnths later. Dixon also defeated Eddie
Lenny in a twenty-five-round affair. only
to be defeated by the same pugilist in nine
rounds not long afterward. Pedlar Palmer
and Dixon met tour times. The first bat
tie was a six-round draw. After that
Palmer got decisions over Dixon in fifteen
and eight-round bouts, but in the fourth
battle Dixon won with something UP his
sleeve in twenty-five rounds.
Tommy Burns was beaten in q six
round bout by Philadelphia Jack o'Brien
in Milwaukee several years ago. but Burns
squared accounts when he double crossed
O'Brien in a twenty-rouhd mill at Los
Angeles. O'Brien, by the way, was put
away by Young Peter Jackson In thirteen
rounds at Frisco, but after that the Phila-
delphia boxer beat jackson twice. In two
rounds and again in ten.
Pete Maher, who was twice knocked out by
Joe Goddard, once In three rounds at Coney
Island, and again In one round at Phf1a-
delphia, came back remarkably in a third
encounter by putting the Barrier Champion
away in eight slashing rounds in this city.
Young Corbett is another example. Dur
ing his early ring career he was sent to
the Land of Nod by a green boxer named
Jack Dempsey in two rounds at Pueblo.
but two weeks later Dempsey was ham
mered down and out by the Denver boy in
three rounds. 1t was in 1901 that Young
Corbett was put to sleep by Kid Broad In
four rounds in Denver. but later Broad
was twice beaten on decisions in ten round
bouts.
Jimmy Handler knocked out George Gard
ner. once the Electromagnetic champion,
in eighteen rounds in 1899, but the next
year Gardner beat Handler to the floor
for the count in three rounds. Oscar
Gardner, the Omaha Kid. twice redeemed
himself. Tommy Dixon beat him in thirty
six rounds at Kansas City. but later Card
ner reversed matters in a twenty-round
bout at Rochester. Billy O'Donnell also
beat the Omaha Kid at Memphis in eight
cen rounds, but a~fterward Gardner was
victorious in six rounds.
Joe Sans suffered a defeat at the hands
of Frank Erne In twelve rounds in the old
Broadway Athletic club. the colored man
quitting because he said Erne had butted
him over the eye. In another mill how
ever. Cans stopped Erne In a round. Then
Dali Hawkins beat Cans in fifteen rounds.
but not long afterward Cans treated Hawk
ms to the sleep potion in two fights, one
of two and the other of three rounds.
Tom Sharkey treated Gus Rubin to a
knockout in a punch. so to speak, at Coney
Island. but two years later Rubin, who
had improved. stopped Sharkey In fifteen
rounds in the same arena and then re-
peated the trick in eleven rounds at the
National Sporting club of London. Tank
Kenny once beat Rubin in sixteen rounds,
but the latter recovered his lost laurels In
a slx-round bout at Hartford.
President Roosevelt, then police commits
sioner. saw Peter Maher knock out Joe
Choynski in a bloody six-round fight at
the Broadway Athletic club. Later in
another mill. pulled off in Chicago, Choyn-
ski was a decisive winner in six rounds.
r-tRNt. AAaL tho Nn7Inf In fhFaa
rounds in his first battle with Australian
Billy Murphy In California, but he reversed
matters when he stopped Murphy in seven
rounds at Coney Island. Frank Craig, the
Harlem Coffee Cooler. got a punch on the
law from Joe Butler, a Philadelphia
/. negro, which scored a knockout In two
rounds. but the next time they met Butler
was a soft mark.
, lack Dempsey, the Nonpariel. put George
, La Blanche, the Marine, away in thirteen
= rounds at Larchmont in their first en-
: counter. but when they fought again on
the coast Dempsey was stopped in thirty
two rounds.
owen Zeigler knocked out Charley Nc
I, Keever in three rounds and two years
: later McKeever squared accounts In a siN
round mill. on a decision. Martin F1aherty
the Lowell boxer, was beaten in eight
, rounds by Danny Mcbride in this city. but
in another mill Mcbride went to sleep In
J the eighth round. George siddons defeated
Tommy White in forty-one rounds. Ther
: White turned the tables in six.
: Jimmy Walsh. the clever bantam. lost t.
AL Demont in a ten round bout and de
feated the later in twelve rounds later on
. walsh suffered defeat at the hands o.
Digger Stanley in fifteen rounds II
London and then beat Stanley in twent!
rounds at Boston.
Battling Nelson is not an exception. WheI
he wal a novice. Joe Pereente beat him II
; six rounds after which Nelson turned tn
q tide in eight. Nelson then trimmed In
twenty round bout by Jimmy Britt. OF
a decision in Frisco and later he knocke'
Britt out in eighteen rounds. The Battle
was defeated by Cans at Goldfield II
forty-three rounds. but Cans was knocke'
m out in two battles by Nelson, who thereb.
lie won the lightweight championship Of tn
le world.
Jack Root was put to sleep by Georg
y Gardner in two fights, once in seventies
rounds and again in twelve, after whicl