The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-04-09
LANGFORD AND
KE ETCAEL fight
fBy Z. ID. Burrows.)

San Francisco. April Bert IGoe.
formerly one of San Franclsco's lead
Ing sporting cartoonlSts and writers
who is now at the helm of the good
ship STANLEY Retchcl." declares that
tho fight critics OF the Pacific coast
are prone 10 overeStimate the fight
Ing ability OF "Beggar Sam" Langford
the Boston pirate, and says that Stan
will demonstrate this when the two
men como together for six rounds In
Philadelphia on the night of April
u. We are going TO Woodlawn Inn,
New York. TO train.' says the wire,
and you will get reports OF a reju.
venated Ketchel when he enters the
ring against Langford. Stan is feel
ing fine right now and says that
there is no man living who can get
the best of him in one OF those short
route contests The LangfordKe
el match is surely coming of this trip
and | would advise you TO string
your money on the white" On top Of
this came reports that Langford Is
preparing to depart for the cast. and
that he and Joe Woodman, who looks
after his business affairs. Will pass
through San Francisco early next
week en- route TO Boston, where Beg.
gar Sam" will train for the ketchel
bout While in the city Woodman
will discuss with Tom O'Day the de-
tails of the proposed LangfoTdTom-
my Burns quarrel, which the Mission
club man desires to stage on the 9th
OF next September-and ii should not
be hard to tie this up before the black
man and his manager leave town.
Cannot Believe II.
Well. Ketchel may be on the level
with this latest outburSt OF enthuS-
iasm In regard to the match with Beg
gar Sam"-but the writer, for one. Is
extremely doubtful about IT. Coming
so soon after his miserable exhibition
against Frank Klaus in Pittsburg. in
which engagement he suffered rath-
er painful injury 10 his left hand, II
is hard 10 figure out Just why ket-
chel should give his consent to n six
round bout with Langford-espeoially
when he absolutely refused to treat
with the San Francisco promoters who
offered him $50 001 purse To tangle
with "Beggar Sam In fact. nobody
knows better than Ketchel himself
that the Boston black man has not
been ovcrrated. and chat he viii also
surely flnttcn the aforesaid Michigan
der IL the latter essays even the short
est kind of journey with him This
Is the one man that Sam will not
LAY down" or %stall'' for. and once
thev get into the ring-lf that ever
happeus-Langford ia going TO do his
level best to stop Ketchel. no matter
what tho nroyi0uS arrauZNmcnta have
been. Even II the men agreed TO go
six tame rounds In Philadelphia and
afterwards to come TO San Francis
co for distance, 1t is doubtful II
"Beggar Sam" could resist the tempta-
ton to turn on full steam and flatten
the Assassin. He wants that middle
weight title aud would risk almost
anything to get IT.
This Is His "out"
To the writer it appears that this
is merely a publicity play on the part
OF the Michigan lad, calculated to COW
or up-In some deGree-thc rather ug-
ly stories which have been circulated
anont the Ketchel-klauS affair I'm Pitts
burc After that 'bloomcT." which
sent 5000 Smoky City fans out into
tho world cussiuS both the middle.
weight champion and the local favor.
Ite Ketchcl found himself sadly In
need of some startling newspaper an.
nounccmept. II only TO tako tho public
mind AWAY from his affair with Klaus
and an agreement 10 fight Lancford
uae easily his "o0e best hot" undor
rho circumstances. Twice before. I'M.
dor the guidance OF Willus Britt. stan.