The evening world., 1911-03-25
Montana SullipanS
Fighting Sid by Side
To Capture the Title

championship hetween ourselves. There's
only Klaus, Kelly. Papke and Cyclone
Thompson who are considered to have
n chance at the title now. I injured my
hand In the fight with Mantell the other
night. so turned over to brother Jack
my date with Klaus for next Tuesday
evening at the F'airmont A. {. He in
turn gave me his date with Hugo Kelly
for the following week BY that time
my hand will be O. X.
'Oh. yes; we'll nave that champion
ship In tho family ooner or later, and
we won't fight over which one gets g."
remarked Jack.
Won ~1oo From Munroe.
Montana Jack was Just gaining local
renown as "A boxer when big Jack Nun
roe managed 10 stay four rounds with
JerrIes. Munroe offered 500 10 the
boxer who would stay that length of
time with him. and Sullivan, who
weighed only some li5 pounds, took up
tho offer. He stayed. too.
In 1903 Jack sullivan won both the
middle-weight and the weigh
amateur championships Of Montana,
and early the next year he was
matched to fight Stanley KetchcI.
ketchel had cleaned up all OF tho
pro lighters In Montana, and the
match was looked upon as a god one.
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tine early part of the fight Ketchel used
the left shift that he afterward made
famous. and put JacN down.. In tho
seventeenth round Sullivan caught
ketchel with q vicious nook TO the Jaw.
and Stanley fell forward against him.
After the battle keirh-. said II he'd
fallen backward that time he would
have probably gone nut.
Everybody around Frisco wanted
m son the aha N, nfap TY,Na1 eaua Nav
but when they talke, 70 me about II
! always said I'd like to see Jack have
the title, but II he Couldn't have II
then Ketchel woul be my choice.
"kctchel was one or me finest fell
lows / ever met" says Montana Jack.
81 met him at the big light at Reno
last year., and he then told me he would
give me the next chance AZ his title II
We could get "A fair purse for tho battle.
At the time Kotch' was shot TO dean
I was training FOR a rgut In Kansas.
Tho sad new Of his death was a
severe blow 10 me-"
Hardest Fight with Negro Soldier.
The toughest fight Jack ever engaged
IN, he says. was with a colored soldier
named Nat Dewey, at Crawford, Nab
!, For over a year u a half after tho
engagement with Ketchel he had don,
no lighting. This Dewey person had
done a lot OF boxing around Los An
gelcs, and was consider-o very good 10y
Jack Johnson. The regiment stationed
o in the Nebraska town had sent for hin
% with the idea Of cleaning up a lo.' o
r easy money. They took him aroun 4
@ the COW towns and gathered in every
10 thing in sight. They rcard there wa
@ a 'farmer'-Jack Sulllvau-up In Mon
tlna who could get big backing. an
a match was made.
There was a show n the Oper
House that ni-h', SO We had To wal
Iu.til the audience was dismissed befor
we could get busy" SAYS Jack. 1T wa
. \. VI. when we got INTO the ring
) Say. boss. how long do o wan
me to let this here boy stay?' asked IN
Icoon Of his manager. Hurry up; "
don't want to stay here a minute NOR
than We can help replied the manage
wei, 1t was daybrcak when the
}. i-toppci tIat bout, and the decision wa
ia draw. That coon outweighed me fun
lnfty pounds. and II had been a might
hard fight, too"
Dan sullivan has had but twelve pre-
rcss.onal bouts NJ 20 date, and he Ia
won all % them. lie says he has ucv'
been knocked down and does not eve
know what IL feels Ike 20 hccon
daZed. lite was a corllnS wrestler Z
one time, hut gave Il up and devote
1 all OF his time 10 boxing after old TOT
| Tracy. tho Australian expert, had see
\ him with the gloves on.
\ Jack is known as a fancy. flrst-cIa'
y boxer. Dnn is there with u knockol
lin either hand.
"With a little more experience ia
VIII prove q world hcatcr, or I'm great
lmistak,n,' says his brother.
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