Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-19
JOHNSON PUTS
kETCHEL TO SLEEP
BIG NEGRO PuGlLlsT ouTWITs
WHITE BOY AND WINS IN
TWELFTH ROUND.
FIGHT ENDS SUDDENLY
Knockout Punch is Delivered After
Black Falls and Catches Michi-
gan Man OF His Guard by
the Ruse.

San Francisco, Oct. 1s.-Under.
storm of blows rained down upon him
by Champion Jack Johnson, Stanley
Ketchel fell in defeat here Saturday
afternoon after twelve rounds of fierce
fighting, in which he. never had a
chance to win.
The $4,000 spectators packed about
the ringside never gave Ketchel a look
every stage of the fight Johnson stood
up over Ketche as a black mountain
above an insignificant molehil. The
one thing that Ketchel showed was
gameness and Willingness to carry the
fight into the camp of the enemy.
II went along round after round,
with Johnson showing his glittering,
and walloped the doughty middle
weight, and occasionally Ketchel
would get in with swing that would
bring Tending grin to take the place
of the set smile on the big negroes
face. 1t might have gone on and on
and on to the limit Of twenty rounds.
with Johnson Furnishing Ketchel and
twelfth the black champion missed his
footing and went sprawling to the
floor.
When he regained his feet, the smile
had gone from his face and in its
place was look that BODIED no good
for Ketchell. Rushing upon his man
like an enraged bulldog, Johnson
showered q succession of blows to the
body and the head.
And before this mighty rush no such
man as Ketchel could stand. He fell
rolled over gasped and lay still as the
referee rolled off the count CT ten that
ended 1t ALL
End Comes Suddenly.
The end came so suddenly that when
Ketchel rolled onto the floor and Ref
cree Welsh counted him out the 10,-t
900 persons crowding the arena were
absolutely quiet for a full minute. Even
johnson, who leaned, against the ropes
half dazed by his own fall a moment
before, did not seem to know what had
happened.
The climax of the fight was crowded
into thirty-four seconds. At the begin
ming Of the last round there was little
to judge from in preceding rounds to
pick the winner. The men in the CEN
ter of the ring clinched and wrestled
to Johnson's corner. The negro broke
away and, posing himself, dashed at
Ketchel who sprang to meet him.
Ketchel drove his right at the blacks
lowered head. Johnson ducked and the
blow landed behind his ear He STUMBLE
landing heavily.
Ketchel backed toward the ropes
with smile glimmering in his batter
ed, blood-streaked face. Johnson rose
slowly,.as if dazed. AS he Strengthened
to his knees his eyes encountered
ketchePs and with the fury of wild
beast he leaped across the ten feet that
separated them. His right fist shot to
the white man't jaw. His left crashed
to the stomach and the right swung
again with the speed of lightning,
catching Ketchel's head as he reeled
back from the onslaught.
Fight by Rounds.
Time called at $40 p. m.
Found THE men did not shake
hands. The champion scored almost
Immediately with a hard left to the
stomach. Johnson, at long range,
shot his left to the face twice with
lightning like rapidty. Ketchel fore
ed the black against the ropes, but
the latter wriggled away without re-
ceiving a blow. Ketchel looked ner-
vous throughout while Johnson wore
his golden smile
Round 2-They ran to 6 clinch and
Referee Walsh pried them apart On
the break Johnson shot a straight
left to the nose and soon thereafter
repeated it. At every clinch Ketchel
was playing with his short arm
blows for the stomach. In a clinch
Ketchel uppercut hard to the jaw
with his left. This angered the
champion, who rushed in, landing
left and right on the body KetcheHs
face showed grim determination as
he took his seat.
| Round 3-They spared perfunctorily
for full thirty seconds and then
closed in, swinging right and left at
close range, Ketchel landing on the
body once with his right Just before
| the round ended Johnson swung his
| right to the Jaw.
johnson Rushes.
| Round AFTER a sparring fest John
son rushed in forcing his man to
| the ropes and placing his arms
| around Ketchell, fairly carried him
to the center of the ring. Ketchel
missed a terrific right swing intend
! ed for the jaw. II was tame round.
characterized by few bursts of
| speed
| Round 5-Ketchel opened with left
to the body, to which the champion
replied with two weak lefts to the
| face. Johnson then sent Ketchers
| head back with two straight lefts
| to the nose. Ketchel showed unex-
| pected cleverness at blocking the
| negro's leads whenever eJohnson
chose to lead. Neither man showed
I damage as the round ended.
Round each missed left swing,
and then Ketchel landed a left to the
body and followed with another left
| to the jaw. Johnson countered with a
left to the stomach. johnson shot
/ out his left, catching Ketchel on both
hands as the latter threw up his
| guard and Ketchel was sent to the
floor. He was I'D smiling however.
/ Ketchel continued to force the pace,
but was met with two lefts on the
nose that started blood flowing.
ketcheI Lands.
Round johnson swooped in with
two lefts on the nose, Ketchel count
ering with hard left hook to the
| body. Johnson shot another straight
| left to the nose and Ketchel missed a
terrific swing for the jaw. Suddenly
| Ketchel swung his left with terrific