Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-25
STANLEY KETCHEl
LEAVES $4,000
FOR RELATIVES
Tommy Houck Defeats Willie
Carroll - Knockout Brown
Scores Another VictOry-Jim
Smith and Mantell Meet To-
~night-Murphy Signs With
Brown.
A RAPIDS. Oct. rs,

IA - - 1880 ~ 49,
Ketchel. mother of Stanley Ketchel,
champion middleweight pugilist,
who recently was killed in Missouri.
filed an application for the appointment
of James A. Lombard. of this city. as
special administrator of her dead sons
estate, According to the petition the
estate is valued at $4,000. of which
$S, 600 is in real estate and 800 0 III
personal property. Ketchel is said to
have earned about 500, 600 in the ring.
old ring methods were resorted to at
the West End Athletic Club, of Phila-
delphia, last night in order to win a
bout. The seconds. who took care of
Frank Loughrey between the rounds
rubbed oil on his body at the begin
ming Of the sixth round, and which so
affected Terry Fitzgerald's eyes the
latter was Obliged to protest to the
referee. 1t was a draw.
Frank Floyd, the third man in the
ring, removed some of the oil by rub
bling from Loughrey's shoulders. and
the round continued despite the fact
that water trickied from F~itzgerald's
eyes, so strong were the fumes.
The crowd declined to leave the
building at the end of the contest. and
Manager O'Brien announced that
Loughrey's attendants had carelessly
used wintergreen m their man. but
the concoction which made Fitzgerald
vince and protest possessed the odor
OF oil mixed With ammonia.
A match was arranged today between
Tommy Alurphy, the Harlem light
weight, and Knockout Brown. the east
side fighter with the terrific wallop,
Who has been fighting in such winning
form for some time. They will battle
for ten rounds at a special stag of the
Olympic A.. C., of Harlem, on Thursday
evening. November 10. This bout ought
to pack the clubhouse to the %rafters.
one of the best bouts between little
men that has taken place at any of the
New York hub will be the ten-round
go between Tommy Houck, of Philadel-
phia, and frankie Burns, of Jersey
city, at the Olympic A. C. stag on Mon
day night. Both boys have been win
ming all their battles for some time
To save their charge from further
punishment, the seconds OF Willie Car
roll tossed a towel into the ring. ac-
knowledging defeat. in the third round
of his bout with Tommy Houck, the
Philadelphia bantamweight. at the
Olympic A. c., last night.
Jim Smith and Frank Mantell me~t
in the star bout OF ten rounds at the
Fairmont Club tonight.
Johnny Kilbane. OF Cleveland, showed
in his fight with Abe Attell at Kansas
City last night that he is a better
Marathon runner than a boxer. He
raced around the ring from start to
finish and would not try to box. Attell
received the decision after ten rounds.
Knockout Brown won his fight with
Bubbles Robinson at Schenectady last
night before a crowd of 5000 spectators
before the American A. c.. The
Schenectady negro was winded by low
body blows. but stayed to the finish of
the tenth round and surprised all by
turning two successful handsprings in
the ring. Brown was repeatedly eau
toned by the referee IN his low left
swings. Neither fighter touched the
mat during the bout
frankie Burns, the crack Jersey City
fighter. who will be matched within a
few weeks to fight Johnny Coulon, of
Chicago. for the bantamweight cham
pionship of the world, will next tackle
Tommy Houck, of Philadelphia, the
fast little boxer of that city, for ten
rounds at the Olympic A. c.. Harlem,
on Monday evening. October 81.