Evening journal., 1909-06-10
PICK KETCHELL TO
BEAT JOHNSON
O'Brien Says Montana Cow
boy Will Make ShOrt Work
Of Champion
PHILADELPHIA JACK
SAVED BY THE GONG
By United Press Leased Special Wire

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
PHILADELPHIA. June 1O-Stanley
Ketchel. the Montana cowboy, is the
big factor in the puGlistic world to-
day His defeat of Philadelphia Jack
O'Brien in less than three rounds last
night has made him tile favorite hero
for the fight with Johnson. Both men
have been seen in action in the same
ring and to-day those who attended
the bouts declare that Ketchel has a
much harder punch than Johnson, that
he is very much faster, and that the
fiatfooted style of the negro champion
would make him a compal atively easy
mark for the Western man
"Ketchel will beat johnson to a pulp
when they meet in San Francisco"
declared O'Brien to-day. Il have
tried out both men and I want to say
right here no more Ketchel for mine.
He surprised me and has improved
wonderfully since I met him in New
York He is the hardest hitter 1 ever
met. thought had a chance to win
until he got TO me with those body
blows and then it was all off. Here
is what will beat johnson. He can
not stand stomach punishment and in
that he is not alone, as Wolcott,
boat. Now Ketchel fights with the
idea that one good punch to the stom-
ach is better than half a dozen to the
Jaw and 1 believe that he has the
right dope on the way to beat the
negro. Every punch he starts has the
knockout in It, but fortunately most
of them go wild. I am free to con-
fess now that / would sooner have
a roof fall on me than to act as the
receiver for many of Ketchel's blows.
was sorry last night that the referee
stopped the fight but 1 know better
now that I have had chance to feel
the effect of the punching I got"
O'BRIEN GAME TO LAST.
O'Brien put up game fight, but
he was outclassed from the start. For
the first time in any of his fights
Ketchel showed speed direct from the
go in. He was after O'Brien Ike
flash when the latter tried to get away
from him after the initial sparring
and he rained a fusilade of rights and
lefts TO the body of the Philadelphian.
AS a matter Of fact the bell saved
O'Brien in the second round, and
when he came up for the third he
was so dazed that he did not know
what he was doing. A stinging left
hook to the stomach had taken all the
ginger out of the local man, and he
was very pale while there was little
of the shifty fighter in his appearance
then.
] The third round lasted less than a
: minute. O'Brien reeled and foundered
about the ring and Ketchel sent him
down with a blow, the impact of
which could be heard all over sthe
house. O'Brien was all but out and
Referee NcGuigan waved Ketchal to
his corner as the victor. He explained
later that if he had permitted a knock
out there was every chance that
O'Brien would have been fatally hurt.
Sitting in his corner before going to
his dressing room Ketchel said:
Il knew I could whip OBrien in
| less than six rounds. I fought him
] Just as I planned. He could not with
stand my rushing tactics and was
beaten from the first gong. I am more
confident than ever that I can whip
johnson. The negros poor showing
against O'Brien convinced me of this"
The attendance was about $500, and
the receipts approximated between
$1,000 and $1,000.