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1 .11 M .-' I : W . V.-e..-.-'. .-. ,"-.(.. T'fSff'uiiit St J ' ( Copyright-1908 by KETCHEL WINS FROM TWN Had to Brin All His Kg .'Encompass Defeat of Hitting : r 1 i . - By. Stanley 4. . , . It wai 1 good fight but I think-r could have put Sullivan out sooner if; It hadn't been for the way he kept appealing to the referee In the ear lier rounds, claiming a foul. After that I made up my mind that I had to put him but with a blow to the Jaw, 'otherwise- there was a probability that I would be disqualified for fotillbg. : i did not . hit Sullivan low 'at any time intentionally. He made me mad during the middle of the fight and I didn't care whether it was a punfh tothe head or the -stomach that would put, him out and I.-told iny'seconfls' that Cl-'Wuld', get away with him before the twenty-first round was-oTer.1,! Vaw Jhe' opportunity and took it. Sullivan gave me a .tough fight and he' Is a hard fighter. I do not know whethej' L wlirtake 'oa Pap ke, right aWay. or rest a while. All arrangements of that nature aje 'in the hands of my manager. I am not a'juitter and dont want; to be considered such, I think that my fight today proves that 4m;'.not. The crowd occasionally called rae to get up andfightJ when I -was knocked'ddwn'but Ketchel's punches to the stomach "really k hurt me. After the first two 'or three rounds he had about taken-alt-the fight out of me. I think I fought him back and proved that I was game., I thought ! could finally get Ketchel by wear lag him down, but I was always .afraid 'ot.that body, punch and he fin ally got me. He is a strong-fellowr 0 '-. s t.. '.(- BriRelMM;Blllr'.IlcMW-';:;r' There was. talk', that :thkMojSJte$orat JBullivahj.out-was foalonv That is all nonsense.,V'It -wasiaa. talr,a,blow, as was ever struck and was well above the belt. Sullivan fought the best -he knew how, but to me it was only a-question'df tlae-before Ketchel finally put him down. The, Twin put op a game fight but he is not-as' eturdy' as he1 was, and no match for Ihe husky' Jrbiiiig3UclitgCftdr7It:3ripl fcjgood.tlght. : .:. . San FxancUco, JJay .-rX.oung.JCetthJ et dofeatd Jack: (Twin Sullivan in the v twentieth round of their ".fight at Coff- roth's arena today. ' He ' had to bring Into play all of his hitting if ore and his entire knowledge.tjf the ring gam in order-- to encempass ;the-. Boatonlap'S dowgfalL It waa as savage and at the tame time as Interesting boxing bout (Tiny ring follower could, wish jto wit ness. It was. superiority In more than f one hard blow that won for KetcheT. ' After a few rounds had been fought it could be seen that Ketcbel wes the utronger of the pair. As long as Sul livan s strength remained. InUct he baf fled Ketchel completely.. That Bulllvan felt his chances slipping away was shown by tricks he resorted to.?. .-Twice during the contest he fell' to the floor and gave an imitation of a man endur- ing the' agony resulting from i a foul " punch, v ' When he heard 4 the voice of Referee .Roche ' urging - him e get t up aid fight he did so. - Incldentailv It might be said that Ketchel- did strike . several unfair blows, t but whether by ; Intent or through Sullivan's changing . the direction of the punches with his guard ths writer is unable to say. 11 only know that Sullivan,. wasr' not r fouled when he- wished .the crowd . and ' the referee to believe that such was the ease. Just before the finish came In -the twentieth -round'. Ketchel used one punch that landed on Sullivan's thigh. .r. A second later be drove a hard- right Hart Schaffner & Marx Generalship Into Play to His Stubborn, Hard- Opponent;,' Ketcbrl., 1 . 1 a ' .. : , ' j ." v-. " lftto ittt pff-Of the Stomach. The blow caused the , Boetonlan to curl up and falt-v-f- v - . , , ; A niae siatraaa Blgaala, His ltps, were parted and his eyes were roll In. -and from the look of dls tress -he .bore he seemed as though he would be unable to gather himself to gether. . He was -up. . however, just as nine seconds were tolled off by the time keeper. He waited for Ketchel's ad vance and caught the Michigan middle weight; 6ne weak right-hander on the mouth.- Ketchel then dealt him a sav age .right-smash lust under the. heart and there, was no doubt of the result this time. When Jack fell.", his legs were bent, but when half the count was over he straightened them out. a sure sign , that,, there . -was no . fight , left In hUB..?..-;...' ) Referee .noche -waited rnntll the ? 10 seconds bad expired : and then turning and -pointing dramatically at Ketchel. said:; TTou win!"' Ketchel tore around the ring.1 receiving congratulations from his seconds and friends, while poor Sul livan, 'limping,, wss borne tenderly to his corner. So far as the details of the rounds is concerned It may be said that the contest was. such-a -one .as waa promised it should be. , Ketchel eald-he would carry' the bat tie to. his man from the start and win iustias soon as he could. Sullivan told his friends that he would try and baffle Ketchel tor 10 rounds and then wear him down... Ketchel was, always the age-rtssor. - , - ' - v , . . - lie began in bis old ' style, namely. SULLIVAN THE OREGON SUNDAY ' JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING, MAY -10 in our "Varsi'' Suiti you'lli certainly: be worth seeing. Theres a sryle-distihctibn about HART, SCHAFFNER & MARX clothes thatiis wprhini V $ prodding at the stomach with a straight lert wnue croucnea. He nas disar ranged many, an opponent's defense by this method and has put In a knockout Sunen alter -bringing tils man s guard own. Jack' the Twin Is too old a bird to be caught - by chance. He covered carefully when' Ketchel pecked and stabbed, and between tlmee he sent in tantalllng-Jabs-with the left. Pretty soon' "Ketchel straightened up knur cut loose with full range punches And this was the style of fighting hf put up from first to last. Sullivan's defense was really marvelous and there were several rounds In which Ketchel must have missed vfour out of every five punches that he attempted. His best effort In the clinch fighting was a left rip lor tne siomacn ana nu missed oftener than he landed with this even. Until very near the end of the contest he did not catch Sullivan a right hand . PPdJ . punch that Inflicted a a mage. Walts for XetcasL Whenever Ketchel twisted. his right snoulder and diove in a hard eVelerbt rlsrht for the 'heart Jack's left elbow dropped to the guard position as natur ally as possible and Intercepted Stan ley's beat meant punches. As the fight went on It seemed to dawn upon the crowd that if Sullivan was to- be whipped Jt must be with one of the ter rifio rips that the Michigan man kept sending bodyward. The left and right swincs which - Ketchel landed on Joe Thomas' head -' were - harmless assaults so far as Bulllvan was concerned. Aa a rule he blocked these high swings and it one aid land it seemed to roll Harm lessly across the Twin's bald sconce. Sullivan In pursuance of his ante bellum statement, certalnjy confined his miienuuu to uaionflin worn xnwro were times when he engaged In short rallies and . he always scored cleanly. When the battle was about half over the Sullivan lefts had Ketchel's right y clesed. bis nose and mouth bleeding and bis face puffed generally. aucnigan Soy "altars. . Just once did Ketchel falter. That wast In the sixteenth round. Sullivan, who seemed to put all his strength iato the effort, clipped him with rights and lefts and the - Michigan boy's head jerked from side to side. He was com fused for a few seconds, but he soon struck his gait a gain and - kept up ' the forcing tactics he had employed from the beginning. The proof that Sulli van's punch was not to be feared was found in the Seventeenth round. , Jack waited for Ketchel's lead. ' It was a straight right for the head and as Ketchel's fist snot out Jack smashed his own right against the Michigan man's mouth. By the manner In which Sullivan's shoulder twitched,- It could be told that he had put all his strength Into the blow, but the effects so far as punishment waa concerned was literally nothing. In the eighteenth round Ketchel slowed up a bit and the Twin seemed to freshen. There was a bus- Slclon at all- times for that matter that ulUvan.was sftnply feigning weakness when he appeared distressed, but. the way his defense became Impaired to ward the end. showed that he was a very tired pugilist. In the nineteenth and twentieth rounds the Michigan mid dleweight fought at full speed and the pace rendered Sullivan a fit subject for the two finishing punches. ; The fight by rounds: ( " - monad 1. i , C -They "'shake.' Ketchel is aggressive, sends two hard left rips to body. He repeats, - coming into clinch, and they rough It about center of ring. Ketchel missed hard, right swing. Bulllvan laughed. ' V Sullivan put - light left to body. Clinch. Both landed right" uppercuts. They exchange left swats to body. Ketchel - misses . right cross, but - lands left uppercui oa nose, which starts the claret At the gong Sullivan . hooked hard left to Jaw. Ketchel's round. : ; moana t, i Ketchel lands right to head and left to body, and came back with right to head. Sully 'puts light left to body. Sully Is- against the ropes, and Ketchel lands two hard rights to body and a wicked left to Jaw. Sully raised Ketchel completely off his feet Witlv a terrlflB right uppercuC Clinch, la whlca Ketche! Saml IIP Iw'E)) The all-wool fabrics, quality in clothes Suits $18.00 IA il i me 1 ALL THE LATEST SHAPES, IN BOTH AND STRAW HATS Corner Third and Morrison fiounrls Jack's kidneys. They rough It n a prolonged clinch. Sully hooks Ketchel with a long left. Lefts for body exchanged. Jack clev erly blocks Ketchel's right and left. Sparring at the finish. Ketchel has a shade. Bound 3. Ketchel lands stiff right to face and erosses' hard Tight to jaw, and repeats It a moment Jater. Jack's not hurt. Ketchel ageln catches him with hard right and they clinch. Sullivan blocks Ketchel's right and left leads for Jaw. but Ketchel sinks terrific right into Jack's mid-section. Both miss left swings. Ketchel missed with right for head and they clinch. Sullivan Is blocking wonderfully. He hooked Ketchel on nose with hard left in clinch. Ketchel plants two wicked lefts upon body. LfCetch backs Sully around the ring, but rnilKn with both fists. .At gong JnoK misses wicaea leu swing. Again Ketchel. Sound 4. Jack misses two tries with lert and blocks Ketch's left to stomach. Ketch lands stiff left to stomach and crosses Jack hard with right swing. Ketch Is right on top of Sully. Did not k land. Still v Hnr Ketch with hard left. knocking him through the ropes. Crowd Cheering fiercely. . Ketch comes back with hard left to stomach. They clinch. Ketch catches Jack on jaw with right. Sully doing same with left wallop to stomach. Jack mvatlfled Ketch with complicated feint ing and footwork as . the Mlchlgander tried with Dotn nanas at gong, even round. ' 1 Bound 5. Sully catches Ketch with right left on body. Ketch misses with both hands. Lefts to faco exchanged. Ketch puts three, hard lefts In quick succession to body.' Both miss left for body. Clinch Jack fiddled Ketch out of position. Clinch, Sully puts hard left to kid bv TOtch--catches- .Jack . hard rlrht and left on body. Ketch lan da straight lert to race, out misses rigni swing io hndv. Sullv - lauffhs as Ketch misses another wicked left for the body. In tight 'Clinch at gong, javen nonors. Bound 6. Thev exchanre lefts for face. Jack chops Ketch with right and lelt to face. Jack catches Ketch with stiff right to jaw and left to body. Both miss right to face. Ketchel plants light left on body, Sully light left on Jaw. Sully Used his head ' In ' clinches and outgen erals Ketchel in the rough stuff. Sully plants left to nose. More claret. Sully jolts Ketcb with lightning upperout, catches -him with hard left on face as they' break. Sully lands left 'body punch as they clinch at gong. Sulli van's round. Ketchel sends - Jack back with straight to face. - They clinch. Ketchel misses hard right to body. They exchange lefts to face.- Ketchel blocks Sully's-two lefts to body. Ketch pounds Jack over kidneys In clinch. Jack stings Ketcn oa nose witn leit, but taxes hard left In body. Mora claret. Jack stag- Jrered Ketcb with two lefts on faoa and ater put hard right to jaw. Sully puts, light left to- ear and repeats a moment later.. Ketch roughs. Jack about in a cuncn ana tanas rignt and lert. Buiiys round. . . Bound T. Sullv cuts light left to body, left to head. Later .makes Ketch mUs stiff up percut Ketch puts hard left to body, but misses right, for-head. Later he crosses - Jack - with right and wallops him hard with left. Ketch swings him self off his feet with try at rtsht swing. " Sully lands right to faoa. Clinch. BUiiy -misses , 'en ior ooay. ennon. Ketch misses with right but gets to body with left. Rough- it In clinch. Ketch misses. hard rignt to jaw. : Ketch chases Sully about rlnsr. Both .seem strong at bell. 'Ketch's round. i 'Vx;rSi'ljioaa4.BV:, . YM Bulllvan swuns- a left" en the cheek. Ketchel got In a left on the 'stomach. nu rfBua cmv wiu irmijMii ten on the mouth. Ketchel pinned Sullivan against the ropes and let go both hands at the head. Sullivan's head rolled and made glancing punches of thom. Sulli van backed around the ropes and sud denly steDced in and dealt his opponent a choppy right on the Jaw, Ketchel. try ing every, kind of a punch, but the only nuw ne scored were lert nr.nciers on the body La uia eilhcnea. ..Ketcuel S1& the perfect tailoring, the general effect of you get these things when you come here to tooiiali i3. The "Leader of Style and Quality" pressed Jack around the ropes and put in a fierce shift on the stomach. 'Bound . They exchanged lefts to face. Ketch chases Jack about ring, trying with lefts and rights with little success. Ketch catches Jack with hard right to Jaw and wicked left to body. Ketcb lands -hard with both hands and keep Jack retreating about ring. Sully laughs. In a corner Ketch wallops Jack with bard left but Jack comes back with same old punch. Bully puts two light lefts to Jaw. Ketch raps Jack with hard left to Jaw. They exchange lefts to face. Ketch lands two wicked left hooks. Sully swings wildly. Ketch slips to the floor. Jack staggers Ketch with hard left at bell. It is Ketchel's round. Bound 10. Opens with prolonged clinch. Ketchel lands vleloua right swing, upon point of Jaw and puts hard lefto body. Both miss right crosses. Ketchel puts right to Jaw and two straight lefts to face; Sully lands three hard lefts to face Ketch puts three wicked lefts to body. Sully bleeds like a stuck pig from snoot. Jack appears groggy. Both miss hard lefts to- body. They exchange light lefts to Jaw. Ketch1 lands hard left on body, making Sully gasp for breath. Jack makes a hurricane finish and outslugs Ketchel at end of round. Ketch, however, has a shade, . Bound 11. Jack mlssea twice with left, to face. Ketchel hooks hard right to Jaw. Sullv fights back fiercely but gets Jiard right to aose. More claret He stings Ketch with straight lefts but Is ; forced to back away. In a clinch Ketch plants hard left on body and wIckeH rlrht to faoe. Jack went to knees from body puncn ana ciumea roui. Referee Roche laughs at Jack, how ever. Ketch peppers him with hard rights and lefts to jaw. Jack comes back with series of hard right and left uppercuts. At gong Jack lands three wicaso ierxs to Ketchel's jaw. . Bound 18. ' Sully nuts left to law. and Imt f1t to body. Sully comes back with two hard right crosses but can't hurt itetcnei. in a rurlous rally Ketch pounds Sullivan with the hardest right and left swings but can't faxe.the twin. Sully comes back with hard -right and left uppercut. Both boys are bleeding profusely. Ketch puts two t hard lefts 10 ooay. ouuj puis two nara to jaw. uuncn. jcsotn put lens w body. .: Bully lands two upperoata In clinch. With rour nara lens to DOdy Ketch, sends Jack to his corner weak at the end of me rouno. nei.cn a rouna. , , ( Bound 19. '. -- ;.' They fight into a clinch. Ketchel forces the fighting. After a prolonged clinch Ketch rets there strong- with right and lefts to body. Sully stalls and blocks and plants two light ..lefts' on jaw. Sully goes dowa coming out of a clinch and grabs his groin, as though fouled. Just as the timekeeper called t-e-n" be waa up, fighting hard. Ketch roughs him about the ring aed they exchange lefts to face. Jack' is pal pably stalling whea he claims foul, for he Is fighting back strong at the gong. - Bound 14. " , , . ' Sully lands hard left to jaw.' Clinch and repeat Ketch roughs Jack around ring, landing series of lefts pot cannot fease the Boston lad. who fights -as though he wera unhurt. ... In a mild rally Jack outboxes Ketch el. Sully tapped Ketch upon jaw with right upperout . in clinch. - They swap rights to head. "Sully hops around with a great show of ginger and puts hard left on Ketch's nose, - They fight for, body In a clinch. Three' times Jack caught the Mlchlgander with straight lefts on nose. Even honors. - s i , Boa4 1. z; Sully blocks three left leads and hooks Ketch with hard left. Ketch catches Jack with left to body. Ketch lands stiff body punch and Sully again goes down, claimlnr foul. He sot un. at the count of nine, fighting as though- unnurc iney riougni into- a cuncn. Ketch beats Jack over the kidneys. Clinch -longer, now. Jack slams two hard lefts tQ Jaw. .Sully misses vicious right swing,' but. catches Stanley with fierce) right ad left upon Jaw. Fight- ' ; , . '- - . 1908. - ' 1 MOJO SOFT, DERBY Streets tng hard as round ends. Ketchel's round. Bound 16. Both teach with hard lefts and wres tle in long clinch. Ketohel lands hard right on eye. They exchange stiff right crosses. Sully shows his class In another long clinch. Ketchel pep pers mm witn rignt ana leit to ja and body but Jack seems good as ever, Sully hits Ketch hard right cross and outboxes Stanley easily at long range work, xney slug in mm ring ana rin iMh the round in a clinch, Ketchel's by a shade. Bound 17. Ketchel started the round aa though he meant to win, lands right on body, but Jack avoids the most vicious ones. Sully slyly hooks Ketch with left. Clinch. Ketch misses with both hands. Sully catches Stanley on Jaw with hard left. They clinch and again Ketch misses with both hands. They are fighting mors slowly now. Sully puts light left to Jaw and low left to body. Both get to Jaw with right crosses. Ketch clinched Jack when cell rang. . Bound 18. They exchange rights to face. Clinch Sully holding hard. Ketch misses right and left swings for head Ketchel sends in haru ri'ht cross to face. He puts two hard body blows to Jack s mid-sec-tlon a moment later. Both miss lefts for body. They spar Into a clinch. Ketch puts hard left to body in clinch. Sully has a bit the better of the light-hitting rally. Both miss rights Tor body as the round ends. Even honors. Bound IS. Ketchel forces Sully around the ring. Roche stops fight for a moment to wino resin off SuUy's glove. They fight Into a clinch. They break and clinch again. During the clinch Ketch pounds Jack over kidneys. Ketch misses with both hands. Jack grinning as he dances away. Coming out of a clinch Ketchel reached Jack with two hard lefta to Jaw. Ketchel's round. Bound! SO. ' They fiddle about In the ring. Clinch. Sully puts light left to body and they exohange lefts for face. Ketch puts stiff right to body and Jack holds on. Clinch twice no damage. Ketch puts light right on body, catching Jack witn stiff left in mid-section. Jack - went down and took the limit. Again Sully goes down, after a series of swift rights and lefts. A fierce left to body Zinisnea toe jtsosion ooy. jv.et.caei wins. JACK TAES EAGERLY FLOCK TO EINGSIDE (United Press LMd Wire.) Ringside, Ocean View, Cal.. May Graced by the presence of t many offi cers and enlisted men from the fleet. Stanley " Ketchel. the sturdy Michigan boy, and Jack (Twin) Sullivan, the hair less wonder from classic Boston, met in Jim Coffroth's arena this afternoon to decide who shall be one of the contest ants in the next battle for tha world's middleweight championship. - ine slty was ciouaiess oui a sxrong aorthwest -wind, with auite a chill to' it. blew, making overcoats desirable. - :" - A Dig waa or jveicnei moner wwe poured Into the arena an hour before the fight began and as a result tha odds tumbled to 18 to (. with Sullivan on tne short end. - Several private bets were made at I to 1. but the commissioners stuck out for 10 to 4. The suspiciously Inclined. as usual, saw something sinister In the odds and not without Justification. On the dope. Sullivan looked to be as good as - an aven - money preposition, if not better. The men were almost evenly matched,- with Ketchel slightly the stronger, an advantage offset by. Bul ly's superior cleverness and ring gen eralship. , , The festival 6f fists was opened' with a six-round collision between Jim Hay- wards, an excessively smoay person, with a pugnacious jaw and low brow. and Frank Burgess. decennial Bane Bobs Up. Bat. Nelson's usual sefk. to flans to fight 4& rounds or to a finish was flung out. Guns accepted the vjaallttite 3 but insistedthat Kelson must bet 11,900 real money on the side. Nelson retorted that his 5,000 la up already and the crowd went wild.. The bronsa champion said little but smiled grimly. - i MILLETT TIELDA.T. . ; CHEHALIS OPENED -. - (Special Dispatch te The' JaoratL) ' i Chehalls, Or.. May; With the larg est crowd that ever attended a baseball game in this city's . history. Millett field, Chehalls' new athletlo park , waa dedicated to public . uaea today. The grounds are located In the south end of tha city about 7 blocks i from the business . center. V By - the expenditure of between $1,600, and 13.000 fin base-; ball ground has been donated to tha public by the Chehalls Land A Lumber company and by Mr; '" and ' Mrs. D. C: Millett. -The ' ball - game opened at 3 o'clock between Chehalls and Centrallnr At 2 o'clock there was a public paradn In which a large number participated and on proclamation of Mayor West annY an understanding -all around that tha occasion was to be-a publlo holiday,' al most every business-house and factory In Chehalls waa closed from to I. Chehalls. Waa hi May ' t The hjt. ball score at the opening gameron-Mil lett field today wasj Chehalls -4: Cen- tralla Z. The batteries Tor Chehalia were Quick and Ruff; for' Centralis, Soldier Thomas and Hanson. - the; great question By James J.; Montague. The baseball reporter , waa slowly and surely . 1 . . .. - Directing his steps through the gath ering gloam, . , Intending thereafter to slumber se- curely . ' ' 1 "- ' And dream pleasant dreams In hi far Harlem home. , v ; A beetle-browed footpad . crept softly benina mm And tapped, with a sandbag, the back of his hair. , And, M-the-iiibarraased -reporter re-.-' signed him . To pillage and mUrder , and death Chen and there! Fear not, gentle reader, there flowed not a gore -Tha footpad said gently: "Say, cull, wot s da score?" So Joyously onward ;.- the baseball re- porter ' : " - ' His course toward the nlght-ridlngr subway addressed; Ha passed up the cabmen, preferring a , shorter - And uglier route to his haven of rest. Tha local he took made a frantic en deavor - (To pass an express that was swltche l - on Its track; The motorman, though he was gtftel - and clever,. Succeeded but poorly, and perlshe I. Jack! ' But aa he succumbed, he was heard tn - exclaim- , To the baseball reporter ."gay, wh. Tomorrow, the 11th. rns!Mvi, t... day for discount on west bui i,i , Remittances must be recelvn.j ,r'nr.'t discount period expires. 1'ortln n 1 f; r L. WHITE, Ohtmf f Zftr aw-v , - s Coo 4 '
