Papke Now Confident He Can Defeat Ketchel morning from Vcnice-by-the-Sea. where he. has been rusticating since his battle bat-tle with Hugo Kelly a month or moro ago. When he walked or rather, sprang into tho office of The Bulletin Bulle-tin sporting editor, the picture of health and good spirits, it seemed hard to realize that this was tho crumpled figuro which lay sprawled upon the padded floor of tho arena last November and listened to tho tolling toll-ing off of tho seconds, which spelled his defeat. Papke now looks to be the very essence of ruggedness and strength. His face, though tanned by the southern sun. has lost its haggard expression, which has been supplanted supplant-ed by one of ruddy contentment. His eyes aro clear and bright, while tho muscles of his body are as hard and I San Francisco, June 25. When Bil-ly Bil-ly Pnpke steps into the ring at Colma on the fifth of next month, -to try for the fourth time to batter down Stanley Ketchel middleweight champion of the world, he will not be tho same Papke who lowered his colors to the Michl-gander.on Michl-gander.on last Thanksgiving day. Since that fateful occasion tho middleweight middle-weight from Kowaneo has picked up several valuable pointers about the pugilistic game, besides have made two or thi;ee splendid battles against other topnotchers. and he Is now supremely su-premely confident of his ability to whip Ketchel or any other man who tips the beam at 1GS pounds or thereabouts. there-abouts. e Papke arrived in the city Monday seemingly impenetrable as the steel drivers of a mogul locomotive. - In fact Billy reXcrs , to his huge biceps and forearms as "drivers," and expects that they will force Stanley Ketchel over the ten-second grade If" they ever land In a vulnerable part of the Mlch-igander's Mlch-igander's anatomy. All In all, Papke looks better than ever before which means that he probably stands a better bet-ter chance of beating Ketchel than he has on any previous occasion; even the one when he whipped the latter in 12 rounds at Los Angeles. That was largely due to a fortunate wallop which Papke got over early in the fight, whereas he now looks as the champion cham-pion and deliver just as many pile-driving pile-driving wallops on the way. There is no doubt that Papke's recent re-cent victory over Hugo Kelly has had a remarkable psychological effect upon up-on his spirits. After the last Ketchel battle Billy was a thousand miles down in the dumps and was almost ready to quit the prize-fighting game and seely 6ome less strenuous occupation. Billy had sort of figured the thing out in a pessimistic way and had halfway half-way convinced himself that his days of usefulness as a mitt-swinger were oer. After a good rest at home, however, how-ever, he began to take heart again and came back for more. All he needed need-ed to completely restore his confidence confi-dence was a quick victory over some first-class boxer, and when Hugo Kelly's Kel-ly's head hit the floor of the Mission street arena after less than two minutes min-utes of actual fighting Billy Papke wra3 himself again. He is now ready, for all of them and it behooves every man, who signs articles for an engagement with Billy Papke, to go Into the ting prepared to meet a smashing, rushing bull-dog, whose every muscle is trained train-ed and instructed to aid in the work of battering his opponents to earth.