The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-13

CNote-This is the sixth of series of seven articles which MT. Corbett is writ ing concerning the career of the late Stanley Ketchel, one of the most mar vicious ring warriors of all time The final installment will appear tomorrow.)
 The greatest battle that Stanley ketchel ever fought was the one he lost to Jack Johnson. But the courage ous white warrior didn't lower his colors in defeat until he had doled out to the huge negro beating such as no other man had ever given to him before
 As the men squared off in Coima, Cal, October 16, 1909, the 10,000 spectators gasped at the disparity in sizes between
 the two men It was giant against a pigny; negro weighing well beyond 200 against white boy of 160 A wave of pity swept, through the crowd for lit- tie Stanley Ketchel, who, with the rare courage that had made him famous, elected to tackle a fighter who just then was regarded as the greatest human fighting machine in the world.
 Through the first round of that fight both men spared cautiously, each try ing to feel out the other; each trying to get the other to open up and show what he had But in the second round impatieEce oyermastered Ketchel. The waiting game was not to his liking. All though Johnson was bigger in every way, INetchel had the confidence that he was the negros master. And he wens on to prove it to the crowd.
 From then on through many rounds of wnfriwind fighting the little white man carried the battle to his massive foe. Ketchel aimed his attack at the negros stomach. figuring that it was his weak spot, anG time and again Johnson winced under the impact of the short, jerky punches that Stanley sent crush. ing into his amidships section.
 Johnson purposely fell into clinches as often as possible, hoping he could work his famous icoming-out uppercut" on the white man. The first time Johnson triea It, as they were coming out of a clinch the blow missed Ketchefs jaw by tht. barest fraction. That taught Ketehel lesson in caution and from then on he protected his jaw very carefully when the referee was breaking them.
 In the eighth Johnson elected to slug with ketchel and the two men stood in the center or the ring, SlaShing away at each other while the crowd went into frenzy of excitement ketchel showed himself JoEnson's equal at toe-to-roa mauling and after about a minute o1 slugging Johnson decided that long range fighting was whole lot safer for him.
 In the ninth Ketchel came out of his corner as though tired. Johnson, failing into the trap, rushed Ketchel But be- fore the negro could land, Ketchel leaped at him like a tiger and sent three solid blows to the body and another to the negro's head before he could get away. Johnson backed to the ropes with ISetchel after him. Ketchel swung for Johnson's jaw and the negro tucked just in time The momentum of the swing turned Ketchel completely around and almost sent him spinning through the ropes
 Toward the end of the ninth, Johnson clinched ketchel and began wrestling him. Then he spun him away, and as he did so. he put all the power of nls huge body in a blow for ketchels stom- ach. It struck it's target-and Ketcnel doubled over. Those who saw the fight always have felt that the punch whicl Johnson delivered then was the one that ultimately whipped the white man, for from that moment on Stanley Ketchei no longer fought with the same speed and the fury that he had shown in the earlier rounds.
 Johnson wrestled Ketchel whenever he had a chance in the tenth and once sue ceeded in upsetting him and sending him to the floor. As Ketchel came to Ei. feet, Johnson smashed him twice in the mouth There was no return Then the negro volleyed Ketchels face, splitting