The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-10-11
SPOR IS
SMALLER MAN HAS
WON MANY FIGHTS
San Francisco Sport Writers
Compare Ketchel and
Johnson.

San Francisco, Oct. 11.-"Has Stan.
ley ketchel any possibly chance OF
beating Johnson" is the all-absorblns
question of the hour, Few can be
found who are willing 10 venture an
Affirmative reply. still almost every
one declares taat it viii be a great
battle. and that the Michigan Lion
Will hand the Galveston Gorilla some
good. old-iashioncd slapS on the llis-
kus before II Is over. The big black
will have no such easy mark to pun.
mel as he had with FLYNN, Burns and
Kaufman-nc Will not he able TO COAX
the Michigander within range of his
long left swing and deadly right up
percut. nor to stand set and ready for
The Michigander's rushes That is,
not If ketchcl carries out the cam.
paign which he and Willis Britt nave
mapped out I'VE arc going to make
the big smoke do just as much leading
as We do" declared the IrrepressIbie
One recently There is an imprcs.
sion that Stanley intends TO wade into
Johnson the way these other boobS
did; well. only hope the dinge thinks
so, for then he will get the surprise OF
his life. There is a point just between
Johnson'S long swing and his short
upperc1t which might properly he
called neutral zone, and there you
will find Mr. Ketcnol most Of the
time, plugging Lii Arthurs mid-riff
with those pile-driying smashes of
his. Believe me, this is not going TO
be runaway for the chamDion-at
least not for the heavyweight cham
pion."
Lighter Man Wins.
Then another member OF the party
pointed out the number Of champion
ship contests in which the lighter man
has won. go as far back as Tom
Sayers and John G. Keenan, ne said.
and YOU will find constantly recur-
ring instances of this. The Heenan-
Sayers fight was called a draw, in
spite of the fact that Heenan out
weighed the BritiSher by almost forty
pounds. FitZsimmonS. a midlewelght.
defeated Corbett when the latter
weighed 100 pounds; McGoyern
knocked out Ernc; Cans secured
decision over Walcott, and so on down
the line until you come 10 Ketclel
himself. who trounced Jack O'Brlen
With the latter weighing several more
pounds than himse1. OF course. there
have been exceptions. but the lighter
men of the ring nave been by far the
most consistent performers of the
two.
Ozark Horses" Too,
at Is the same with so-called dark
horses Many and many time has
the chap who was not conceded
chance come through and sDrawled
his opponent on the mat One of tae
most notable instances Of this was
the couplet Of victories which Nelson
scored over Cans. The first one found
Bat on the short end of 10 TO
proposition; in the second he was IA
vorite McGovern. when he toppled
Harlem Tommy Murphy 10 the mat.
provided another illustration OF the
dark horse proposition and got
dose of his own medicine when Young
Corbett came out of the West and
foored him in two rounds AT Hart
ford frankie Neil was despised
short-end when he tangled up with
Harry Forbes-but he delivered the
goods all right. OBrien beat Fitz"
simmons under the same conditions:
Corbett was not conceded a chance
against John l.. Sullivan George
Dixon, Joe Walcottt, Jack Root. Tom
my Ryan, Frank Erne and the ever
great Jack Dempsey went the same
route, losing to the dark horse. who
fooled all the wise ones. Ketchel has
done It himself, licking Papke after
the latter had tTounced MIN In Los
Angeles-so it is not safe to say that
he hasn't a chance with Johnson. or
any OF them, for that matter