Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-17

side. and the last time when he endef
| the fight
Throughout the fight Johnson's COLDER
smile flashed out at intervals over Ketch
J ellis shoulder i'm the midst of their wrest
| ling bouts. This happened whenever M
| picked the smaller man off the grounG
| and set him down again in another place
| He did it frequently and apparently with
out effort.
KetcRell Fought Warily.
Ketchel fought warily from the start
He kept at long range, avoiding many
blows by clever ducking. but johnson
| jabbed his left into Ketchells face time
after time. When they clinched johnson
| lowered inches above Ketchell.
| Twice ketchell was thrown to the floor
by the rush of JohnsOn's attack. Neither
time did a blow land At other times
ketchell avoided the charges by skipping
ly away. They SPARED for openings fol
long periods, and there was little rea
| fighting through the earlier rounds. Fol
| reasons known only to himself. Johnson
felt the force of ketchell's left hook he
seemed more than ever ready to go slow
about his work.
In his dressing room after the fight
Johnson said:
He is good puncher and a strong
man. 1 must say that he has given me
a sOrer chin than l ever had before,
and he rubbed his swollen jaws re-
hectively
He can take some heavy blows con-
tinued the negro. See here and he
showed me one of his gloves, sodden with
Ketchell's blood. There were several cuts
on the leather. That's where l upper
cut him in the mouth said Johnson
ketchell said after he recovered that a
chance blow had finished him. II am in
better condition than johnson now" he
said. Look at him; he is dazed. But
for that one blow I would have beaten
him.
The fight attracted the greatest crowd
ranked around the walls and overflowed
the seats. Fully 5000 were turned away
Promoter Coffroth stated after the fight
that $4,000 had been taken in.
Fight by Rounds.
Round 1.-The men did not shake
hands. Johnson lowered above his ad
versary by several inches. The cham.
pion scored almost Immediately with a
hard left to the stomach. Make him
| lead,' yelled the spectators to Ketchell
ketchell apparently was determined to
make the black lead and spared for al
most half minute johnson. at long
with Ightning-like rapidity. Ketchel
forced the black against the ropes, but
the latter wriggled away without re-
ceiving blow
The bell rang with the men in the
center of the ring. 1t was an utterly
tame round. both men fighting with ex-
IRENE caution.
Ketchell looked nervous throughout
while Johnson wore his golden SMILE y
Round 2-They ran to a clinch an6
Referee Welch pried them apart. Or
the break Johnson shot a straight left
to the nose and soon thereafter repeat
ed it. At every clinch Ketchell was
playing with his short-arm blows fol-
the stomach. In a clinch Ketchell up.
percut hard to the jaw with his left
This angered the champion. who rush
ed in, landing left and right on the
body. and Ketchell slipped to the floor
with considerable force. He was ur
quickly and rushed in, but had great
difficulty in getting under Johnson's
| long reach. Johnson merely toyed with
Ketchell until the bell ended the round
Ketchelps face showed grim determi-
nation as he took his corner.
Round 3-They spared perfunctorily fol
full thirty seconds and then closed In
swinging right and left at close range
Ketchell landing on the body once with
his right. Ketchell drove his right high