The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-09-28
KETCHEL WILL
GAIN KNOCKOUT
He Is Confident He Can Defeat
johnson on October IL.

Wnen passing through chicago, en-
route to San Francisco. Stanley Kct
chel gave out the following interview
Stanley Ketchcl. l.middleweight cham
pion of the world. and his manager,
Willus Britt. passed through this city
yesterday on their way to California,
where on October IL Ketchel meets
Jack johnson for the heavyweight
championship. Ketchel looks to be in
grand condition. and says he never
felt better than he does at the pres
ent time.
The Michigan middleweight is great
ly disappointed over his failure TO get
Langford in the ring. and declares that
had the fight gone through he would
have stopped Sam before five rounds
had been over Il was in grand trim
when / landed in New York. having
spent much time in the mountains In
the west Then / got down to hard
work and fitted myself for a fierce
battle. ] was in splendid shape, as
You can see now, and 1t would have
been Langford's finish" said Ketchel.
"Langford WAS planning on getting
me into the ring and permitting me
to swing at him, so that he could step
In and cop me. l trained for an en-
tirely different fight. i worked only 10
perfect uppercuts, short arm jolts and
such work as is needed for close fight
ing / did not intend to stand off and
box with him, but / would have bat
tered him down with in'fghting. I'm
sorry I lost the chance, but 1t may
come again.
LAS for Johnson. why, he's meat for
me. I'll trim him sure For Johnson
Will use my regular style, the style
that dropped O'Brlen TO the floor In
three rounds
Il Will rush and swing at Johnson,
and | believe / can block any of his
leads. Johnson proved in the O'Brlen
fight that he is no great mixer. and
that's where III get him l know his
weak points and will play for them.
Taking the time / trained In the cast
and the three weeks / will get in the
west. / will have had five weeks of
tho greatest kind of training. Tho
rest In between Is tho greatest thing
a fighter could have.
'Had I started training three weeks
ago and gone through five solid weeks
of work l would have gone stale. AS
II is, trained two hard weeks In the
east and put myself in grand shape.
Now I Will hurry west and begin the
work again and the three weeks left
will put me IN better shape than ever
before. I only weigh IT'S pounds now
and | will not weigh any more when I
fight Johnson. I'll knock him out as
sure as ! am foot high.
Johnson must do better with me
than he did with Burns or O'Brien or
he won't last long. l know | can hit
him and you know Ketchel's kicks
hurt don't think Johnson can hit
hard enough TO hurt me"
Britt is as confident OF victory over
Johnson as his fighter why. the
dope Will show that Ketchel is equal
TO anything Johnson can do Stanley
dropped O'Brien and johnson had all
be could do to best him. 1t Is true
Johnson dropped O'Brien. but he per-
mltted him to get Up and weather the
storm.
mot so with Steve He put O'BrIeu
down and as soon as he got up put
him down again. I'll watch Ketchel
work and we Will get that haymaker
working like clock. jeff will never
need to fight Johnson-we'll turn the
trick. Plenty OF road work Will be
given Ketch and he Will work for
speed principally. We plan to carry
Johnson of his feet