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Show KETCH EL AS SEEN IN EVERY-DA? LIFE Tribune Special Sporting Service. NEW YORK. June 27. Ketchel, tho new middleweight champion. Is today the most talked-of lighter In the world. He Is far more popular than Tommy Burns will ever be because ho has not declined to meet any boxer who had a chance with him. It is probable that he will soon enter the heavyweight division and compel com-pel Burns to fight him. When ho does there will likely be a new champion, and Burns will retire with the money he has made during his career. "Conceded universally uni-versally to be the greatest middleweight lighting machine ever known, Ketchel Is withal a gentleman." says a prominent sporting writer. "The son of a prosperous prosper-ous Michigan furniture manufacturer, the new champion has all the manners and Instincts of good breeding without the vulgar traits of the average boxing recruit re-cruit from tho lower walks of life. It was the determination of his parents to havo him avail himself of all the intellectual intel-lectual advantages that Indirectly brought young Ketchel beforo lhi public as a pugilist. Seven years ago the future fighter tired of his surroundings, followed Horace Greeley's advice, and went -West to 'work out his fame and fortune on a Montana .ranch. Tho cowpunclicrs soon came to realize that Ketchel was a youngster to be respected, and so easily did he disposo of all who attempted to Impose upon him that he was soon persuaded per-suaded to enter the ring. Since then Kotchel's star has been In the ascendant. He has earned a clear title to thw middleweight middle-weight championship, and seems destined to some day stanil the undisputed champion cham-pion of champions, a credltablo successor to Jim Jeffries." |