The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-08
IF IT'S HERE
IT'S RIGHT
SAYS KETCHEL
CAN BEAT JACK
O'Brien Thinks Montana Cow
hoy Has a Better Shift
Than FitZSimmOnS.

Jack O.Brien was seated in the Met
ropole hotel. eating his dinner. He
talked as follows.
This is the first solid bit of food
I've tasted since the fight he offered
by way of greeting. Not Ill, mlna
you: no bad effects, but this and he
showed his tongue, which was badly
lacerated all along the right SIDE. This
is the result of those wicked little up
percuts he delivered i'm the Clinches. !
have been unable to chew, so l ellmi-
mated solid food.
L don't want to take anything away
from that boy and 1 am going TO say
nice things about his greatness SIMPLY
because il was Jack O'Brlen he Desteu-
L got a little careless in the tentn
round, though, Just as sure as an
sitting in this chair. l don't remember
the last part of it at all. / dldn I
realize what had taken place until !
felt the towel brushing over my race
and even then I had but a vague ldea
of the outcome of my fight Tor rem
statement. I want to fight him again.
and I have made my wishes known TO
Johnny White and Britt. i called at
Ketchel's hotel this morning 20 see II ]
couldn't get him to promise me a re-
turn bout. but was disappointed, mas
I
and returned to WoOdlawn inn to re-
main in training. Britt doesn't seem
anxious to have his man meet me
again. OF course, don't quote me as
saying thai they fear me. ] dom pc
lieve that. and they may poss bly, De
counting on easier game. That's bust
4 ness, of course, and 1 can't kick.
Has a Bully Chance.
What do you think Of KetcheI's
| chance Of beating Johnson
He's got a bully chance. I'm not
saying that because he got me. but
! that is my honest opinion. His courage
and punch would beat the black man.
| He can whip Langford, too. ] don
! suppose that many Will agree with me
when 7 say that Ketchel can whip
I johnson. but you wait and see. He's
/ the man to do it He's getting heavier
all the time. and that is what he needs
| He certainly is a great man. Besides
/ his shift. he has a splendid left Jab.
| Do YOU know that he hurt me more
with his straight left jabs than with
| his Justly celebrated shift punches He
/ didn't hurt me about the body. But
/ that shift is really wonderful and L
would say far superior to Bob Fitzsim-
| mons Not as deadly? Indeed II IS
! You must remember few men ever
| landed one on me. and he did. Many
/ of them were wild, but reCOllect / am
/ as fast a moving man as there is I'm
/ the ring. and this boy had that TO con-
/ tend with.
Something Will Drop.
Let him hit men who are not always
| going around, as ] do, and something
will drop. You know he has piled up
that wonderful record Of knockouts
I 1af hanH NJ inst harnTTE
he didn't always land it on me IS no
/ reason that it isn't as deadly as F1tz
/ It's a natural shift, and the greatest
| ever seen in a ring The beauty o. II
is that if he misses he comes out of one
shift into another. and what one hanC
has failed to accomplish the other has
THE thing that struck me mosi
| forcibIv about his work is that though
| he missed time and again, he never
/ was off his balance. That IS remark
able. Never once was his body out OF
numb It isn't necessary for him t.
get set. He doesn't hit with his body
as other fighters do. BY that I NEAR
he doesn't send his body along with tn
rest of the punch.
| TT comes from either hand. tie mt
with the full force Of his arms alone
He's the hardest puncher ever faced
and I've met them all. And don't thini
he isn't clever. He's clever IN his owl
way-homespun. if you will. Did yo'
notice the queer way he has Of turning
his shoulder away from you as
straight left comes at him? Like
flash he is shifting and bringing hi
right hand around to counter you H
made me miss repeatedly; and nov
many men have I ever missed with m,
left hand before
O'Brien Will Be Good.
Now. that is just where they ar
| going TO go wrong when they figUr
! I.angford to beat him. II won't be an
easier for sam to hit him than it wa
. for me. Wait and see now if the