Show EDGREN SAYS KETCHELL WILL WILLBE WILLBE WILLBE BE ANOTHER JIM JEFFRIES Stanley Ketchell will soon be in n the position occupied by Jim Jeffries There will be no one for him to fight Jeffs opponents gave out because the boiler boilermaker boilermaker boilermaker maker besides being one of the great greatest greatest est fighters in the world was too big bis bigfor bigfor for the other heavyweights It scared them Into a palsied state to see him coming out of his corner like a great grizzly bear says Robert Hobert Edgren of ot New York Size cuts no Ice with Ketchell etchell I It is fighting ability alone that Is making him feared as much as Terry McGovern loGo ern was a few years ago Ketchell seems to be a split between McGovern and Fitzsimmons In fighting style He uses both hands equally well like Fitzsimmons Fitz Fitzsimmons simmons and like Fitz he lie punches so unexpectedly that the other fellows are caught napping He dropped Mike Twin Sullivan with the first punch He Ho did the same thing to who hit bit the floor as soon as he got within range of Ketchell recovered enough to make a fight of or it for the theten theten theten ten rounds Ketchell knocked Joe Thom Thomas as down the same way in their first fight Looking over Oer his hia record it t is easy to figure that within a few months at atthe atthe atthe the most there will Viti be none but heavy heavyweights heavyweights heavyweights weights for tor him to fight And there is no reason why Ketchell etchell I should fail fall to tomake tomake tomake make good In n the heavyweight class His HI best fighting weight just now is the same as that of Bob Fitzsimmons when he knocked out big and clever Jim Corbett for the championship of the world w Fitzsimmons in all his bat battles battles battles was only a middleweight Weight does not make so IiO much m ch dif difference difference difference ference to a clever fighter tighter says Edgren Ed Edgren Edgren gren with a good punch as it does to toa toa toa a plain slugger Terry McGovern at athis athis athis his best beat beat down Joe Gans Joe Gans fights welterweights as successfully as a lightweights He can hold the welter title if he wants to He proved that when he knocked ed out Mike Twin Sullivan so 50 easily and when he fought Joe Walcott a draw in San Francisco Walcott was known as the Giant Killer because he could fight big men even better than little men He knocked out Joe the clever heavyweight although he had been de defeated defeated defeated himself by Kid Lavigne light lightweight lightweight lightweight weight and Mysterious Billy Smith welterweight Walcott never kicked on weight One of his favorite amuse amusements amusements amusements ments was fighting Sandy Ferguson Sandy was one of the toughest rough roughhouse roughhouse roughhouse house fighters In the ring He never was a good heavyweight but buthe he would bite kick and run the gamut of ot foul foulIng foulIng fouling Ing when he met Walcott and get getaway getaway away awa with it Also he weighed well above pounds Kid McCoy never neTer scaled very much but I believe he would have hae taken a chance with Jeffries If It It had been of offered offered offered him He made a great fight tIght against Sharkey when the sailor was at athis athis athis his best knocking him down twice He faked with Corbett but there Is little doubt that he might have won on the level If IC he had not chosen to lie He down downA A big bl dub like pounds was pie for him He knocked out Pe Peter Peter Peter ter Maher Joe and a lot of ot other good heavies If It Ketchell keeps up his pace he will probably fight Tommy Burns for the heavyweight title within a year a s 3 a N PETE SULLIVAN Who is matched to fight Cyclone Thompson at Ogden next Monday night This Is the latest photo of Sullivan taken at Los Angeles |