The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-10-18
JOHNSON
WON FIGHT

San Francisco Oct. I6.-Jack John
son vindicated his right TO the heavy
weight title today by knocking out
Stanley Ketchel in the twelfth round.
The end came SO suddenly that when
Ketchel rolled on 10 the floor and
Referee Welsh counted him out. th,
10000 persons crowding the arena
were absolutely quiet for a fIll min
l.te. Even Johnson. VINO leaned a
gainst the ropes. half daZed by his
own fail a moment before. did not
seen to know what had happened.
The climax of the fight was crowd
ed into thirty-four seconds. At the
beginning of the last round there was
little TO Judge from in the preceding
rounds 10 pick the winner.
The men met in the center of the
ring. clinched and wrestled 20 John
sons corner. The negro broke away
and poising himself gazed at Ketchel
who sprang TO meet him. Ketchel
drove his right at the blacks lowered
head. Johnson ducked and the blow
leanded behind his ear. He stumbled.
fell and stretched out on the floor.
landing heavily.
Ketchel backed toward the ropes
with smile glimmering on his bat
tered blood-streaked face. Johnson
rose slowly as though dazed. As he
encountered Ketchel's and with the
fury of a wild beast, he leaped across
the ten feet of space that separated
them. His right fist shot to the white
mans jaw. His left rushed to the
stomach and the right swung again
with the speed of lightning. catching
Ketchers head as he reeled back from
the onslaught Ketchel dopped in a
heap and Johnson unable to stop his
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ais legs and fell full length himself.
He was on his feet in a flash. Ketchel
was out.
Once as the seconds were counting
over him. he feebly moved his arms
and rolled his head. He gave not a
sign of life and his seconds picked him
from the floor. barely conscious.
Johnson was still dazed. He clung
TO the ropes and looked about him in
a bewildered way. The crowd broke
into snurmuring and seemed to real
ize that the fight was over.
Ketchel won many friends by his
showing today. From the time he en-
tered the ring until he was carried
out. he was game to the core. Out
weighed. overreached and in every
way the physical inferior of his gi-
gantic opponent, he fought n cool.
we'll planned fight His face was puff
ed and he was bleeding at the nose
and mouth before three rounds had
passed. but he kept 70 lowing the ne
gro about the ring. undaunted.
Johnson appeared to he holding
himself back all the time. Three
times only did Il look as though he
went in 10 knock his man out; once
when Ketchel landed a clean left hook
on the jaw that broke the skin: once
when a similar blow caught him on
the other side. and the last time as
he ended the fifth.
Throughout the fight Johnson 8
golden smile" flashed out at inter
walls over Ketche s shoulder in the
midst of their wrestling bouts. This
happened whenever he picked the
smaller man off the ground and set
him down again in another place. He
did 1t frequently and apparently with
out effort Ketchel fought warily from
the start. He kept at long range. a
voiding many blows by clever duck
ing. but johnson jabbed his left into
the white mans face time after time.
When they clinched the black mans
head lowered inches above Ketchers
hair and il looked as though a strip