The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-05-01
KNOCKOUT" BROWN WON
 ON POINTS
Al KetcheII Not Only Was There At The Final Bell Eut Put Up Fine Fight. Men May
 Meet Again
Special to The Farmer.)

| Especial to The Farmer) South Norwalk. May 1-Knockour
 Brown won over "Al" Ketchell of
 Bridgeport in this burg, last night, fin
 rattling 10 round go. But in win | ming he was compelled toward the | close of the battle to extend himself.
 He resorted in the final periods to all of his old time tricks and 1t was evil
 dent that in the final round he show 1 ed all that he possessed. That final round was Browns by a much greater | margin than were many Of the other ! rounds.
 | Ketchell fought a good fight but it was plainly discernible throughout I that the effect of meeting the boy who holds newspaper decision over Champion Ad Wolgast told on him and he was pa1pably nervous. Brown ters throughout. There was not a
 moment during the mill that the K. c. Kid was not the aggressor.
 There were many at the ring side l who thought that Brown was stailing in the early part of the engagement. Of course opinions will differ with re- | gard to this, but whether he did or did not there is little doubt that after | the sixth round he tried his level best | to put his less experienced adversary away. Then he found that he had his l work cut out, for Ketchell not only refused to be put away but made mat ters so nightly interesting for Mir K. ! O. that the latter found himself a bit distressed more than once.
 Browns lead in the early rounds were not so pronounced, though 1t was unquestioned. The fourth round, how ever, rather jared the proprietor of | the celebrated wallop and he found Ketchell willing when he had to, to exchange wallops; and in the exchange the Bridgeport lad acquitted himself so creditably that there was a wild
 shout of joy from his supporters in would not be stayed. On he came looking for more of that punishing brand the Yankee lad had. concealed behind the mitts.
 Some there are who say that if Ketchell could only put steam behind his blows he would have put. the yell low haired kid with the twisted eyes to sleep. This is nonsense. Ketchell has power in his punches; secondly he
 uses the effective jabs in the close range that hurt. Brown knows this.
 for his cranium was rocked several times by this stinging wallops. Heav- fer hitters than Ketchell have got to
 Brown more frequently than Al, and the man is yet to be found who has
 been able to get him off his pins or S(Op HIS quest TOT more gore. The fifth round opened after Ketch- ell had made such a fine spwt in the fourth with Brown going in for his
 man right off the reel. This round certainly did indicate at one time as though KetcheII was going to receive the quietus. A sudden change of tac- tics on the part of Brown proved most successful.
 He began an onslaught on Eetchelrs body and he landed with cruel force a number of damaging blows on the Park City lads heart and wind that plainly told, for Ketchell visibly slow ed and he was fast tiring when this round terminated. The sixth round was also characterized by Ketchell be- ing the receiving end for series of these body punches that landed and having landed left their impress. To
 many it was remarked that Ketchell appeared to have no guard to combat
 these blows.
 The seventh round showed KetchelI
 with a better knowledge of how to
 stop the body punches and that was
 by avoiding contact at close quarters.
 There were two or three pretty mix
 ups in this round and in each Ketch-
 ell held his own and even bit more.
 Ketchell repeatedly rocked the yellow
 head of his antagonist and it.was ap-
 parent that MT. Brown did not relish
 his treatment, for when the round ended he had slowed up and evidently
 realized that he had taken on more
 than he at first believed, for Ketch- ell was fast becoming more confident and was improving in his style also.
 The eighth and ninth rounds were not so fast and Ketchell did not al-
 ways succeed in getting out of the way of the body punches. Brown evil dently found that he could not dispose of Ketchell by the knockout route so he determined to leave no doubt in ths mil nf hn he the better man with respect to points.
 The final round showed him to be the master, for he carried the fight to Al at all times and had clearly the best of the argument. It was a mis- take to send iAetcheii out to mix 1t up with such an aggressive and experf- enced boy in the final period. Ketch- els best work was done when he was not mixing it. All in all despite the enthusiasm for young ketchell, who certainly demonstrated that he is com ing fast and promises to be a boy that must be reckoned with in the fu- ture, the fight last night was won points. So we'll did KetcheI show. however, that the fans will not be con
 tent with this contest and many will naturally cling to their own notion that Ketchell won the fight, and cling ing, will demand another contest. Dave Fitzgerald was referee. Prof. Atlas was timekeeper for Ketchell.
 The preliminarieS were more amusing than instructive The contests were very capably handled by the man agement. there being no waits, the hall was well policed and the gather ing was orderly. Young McAuiffe or Bridgeport was introduced and got a big hand. He is to bow in the same place the latter part of this month.