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Show KE1CHELHA8 BREAKDOWN The Fight With Johnson i Seems to Have Sapped His Vitality New York, August 18. It wa.s news In sporting circles today thai Stanley Krtchel, the middleweight tltleholder, has suffered a pevere breakdown, and has been ordered to go to his home In Michigan for a long rest According Accord-ing to some of the well Informed. bl3 condition Is so serious that It Is doubtful whether be will ever be able to Indulge In a championship battle again. 'Ketcbel has not been In good form since Johnson stopped him In Call-1 fornia last fall," sold a friend of tho j pugilist, "Although he has taken part hi Severn 1 minor bouts, he ban done so revardless of Ills physical condition. He was compelled to call j off his bout w ith Bill Lang lost week, j . because of a breakdown He had I worked a fpw days down on Staten Iclaed. but he lost weight and strength so rapidly that his friends became alarmed. A slight Injury to his ankle finally convinced hlr.i that he was totally tot-ally unfit to enter the ring." Ketchel Is only 22 jeara old, l;t he 1 has trken part In nearly 200 fights. He has made and spent a small fortune for-tune since he firm came into the limelight, by whipping Joe Thomas, In California. He received S15.000 for , , his bottles with Jack O'Brien: $12.-1 1 nun for his two scraps with PapUe; I $$.000 for his affair with Johnson and about $30,u00 for other bouts of lesser importance. |