Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-07
FIGHTERS TURNED
TABLES ON V|CT0RS
Many Instances Where Loser
Subsequently Lowered COL
ors of Conquerors.

chel out in their mill at Los Angeles last
fall it was generally believed because of
the so-called mystic sign In puglism
that ketchel could not come back" when
he met Papke again in Frisco But when
Ketchel surprised everybody by putting
Papke to sleep the historians of the box
ing game began to unearth similar cases
in which pugilists once beaten or put to
sleep regained their lost laurels In mills
with the same antagonists.
Beginning with old Bob FftZsimmonS,
for instance. it is on record that he was
beaten In Australia In four rounds by
Jim Hail. but that when they met several
years later in New Orleans Hall was sent
into dreamland in the fourth round. Fftz
also lost on a foul to Sharkey In Califor-
MIA, but he turned around and knocked
the burly sailor dead In a quick fight at
Coney Island.
George Dixon while he held the feather
weight title was knocked out one night
in Philadelphia by the Kentucky Rose
bud. Walter Edgerton. but that did not
cut any ice with Dixon. who In another
bout beat Edgerton decisively. Dixon lost
decision to Frank Erne in a twenty
round bout in 1896 and then turned the
tables in a twenty f1ve-round fight which
took place five months later.
Pedlar Palmer and Dixon met four
times. The first battle was a six-round
draw. After that Palmer got decisions
over Dixon in fifteen and eight round
bouts. but in the fourth battle Dixon won
with something up his sleeve In twenty
five rounds.
Tommy Burns was beaten in a six
round bout by Philadelphia Jack OBrien
In Milwaukee several years ago, but
Burns squared accounts when he double
crossed O'Brien in q twentyround mill at
Los Angeles
Maher Came Back at Goddard.
Peter Maher who was twice knocked
out by Joe Goddard. once in three rounds
at Coney Island and again In one round
at Philadelphia. came back remarkably In
third encounter by putting the Barrier
champion away In eight slashing rounds
In New York.
Joe Cans suffered defeat at the hands
of Frank Erne in twelve rounds In the
old Broadway A. c., the colored man
quitting because he said Erne had butted
him over the eye. In another mill. how
ever. Cans stopped Erne in a round.
Then Dal Hawkins beat Cans In fifteen
rounds. but not long afterward Cans
treated Hawkins to the 'sleep potion In
two fights. one Of two and the other Of
three rounds
Tom Sharkey treated Gus Rubin to a
knock -out In a punch. SO to speak at
Coney Island, but two years later Rubin.
who had improved. stopped Sharkey In
| fifteen rounds In the same arena and then
repeated the trick in eleven rounds at the
| National Sporting Club of London.
Roosevelt Saw Battle.
| President Roosevelt. then police COM
missioner, saw Peter Maher knock out
Joe Choynski in a bloody six-round fight
, at the Broadway A. c. Later In another
| mill. pulled off In Chicago. Choynsh was
| a decisive winner In six rounds.
Johnny Griffin took the count In three
rounds in his first battle with Australian
Billy Murphy in California. but he re-
| versed ma tiers when he stopped Murphy
! in seven rounds at Coney Island. Frank
| Craig. the Harlem Coffee Cooler. got
punch on the jaw from Joe Butler, a
Philadelphia negro. which scored knock
| out In two rounds, but the next time they
| met Butler was a soft mark.
| Owen Zeigler knocked out Charley NC
| Keever In three rounds and TWO years
| later Mckeever squared accounts In a
six-round mill on a decision.
Battling Nelson is not an exception.
| When he was a novice Joe Percente beat
| him in six rounds. after which Nelson
turned the tide in eight. Nelson was
trimmed in twenty-round bout by
Jimmy Britt In a decision in Frisco and
later he knocked Britt out In eighteen
| rounds The Battler was defeated by
| Cans at Goldfield in forty-three rounds,
| but Cans was knocked out in two battles
by Nelson. who thereby won the light
weight championship of the world.
Jack Root was put to sleep by George
Gardner in two fights. once In seventeen
| rounds and again in twelve, after when
Root won In a six-round affair In the
Windy city. Jack (Twin) sullivan low
| cred his colors to Hugo Kelly In SIX
| rounds and then trimmed Kelly cleanly
| in a twenty-round battle.
! Even the great Jeffries comes under this
head, for he lost the decision In a four
round bout with Jack Munroe the coun-
| terfeit, at Butte. but when he tackled the
miner again in Frisco the latter was
punched into a helpless state in two
| rounds.
| Joe Walcott defeated George Gardner
in thirty rounds on the coast in 1901. but
| the next year Gardner had no trouble In
| taking the measure of the Giant Killer
| in twenty rounds. also In California.
| These cases are used as a conclusive
| argument that there is little truth In the
| assertion that one boxer beating another
parar reyerSe the odds in a SubSe-