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Show KETCHEL FAVORITE OVER BILLY PAPKE Two Best Fighters in World Will Box for Middleweight Championship. ! SAN FRANCISCO, July 3. Stanley Kotchel and Billy Papko, who will box twenty rounds for the world's middleweight middle-weight championship at. Coffroth's Mission street arena in San Mateo county next Monday afternoon, have practically ended their training, and only the lightest kind of gymnasium work will bo indulged in from now on. The usual atmosphere of pro-fight confidence con-fidence pervades the headquarters of tho fighters, but on this tho betting public differs. Kotchel is the favorite, with odds favoring him at 10 to while even money is .being wagered that tho Michigan champion will scoro a knock-nut knock-nut within twelve rounds. Despite the one sided price, . betting has been extremely ex-tremely heavy, the short.-enders in particular par-ticular rallying to Papko 's support. Tho fighters will weigh in at 11 o'clock Monday morning, and havo agreed to scale loS pounds or loss. It is estimated tho receipts will run betweon $2.1,000 and $.'50,000, of -which the fighters will divide (50 por cent betweon them, 75 and 25 per cent to winner and loser respectively. Mill' Roche will refereo tho battle, which will be preceded by a ten-round affair between local lightweights. Monday's fight wilT bo tho fourth time Kotchel and Papko havo met, TCet-chel TCet-chel having twice been victor. Should Papko win. it is generally understood that he will bo matched with .lack Johnson as a substitute for the Ket-chel-Johnson contest, which is scheduled to be pulled off next October. |