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Show KETCHEL PICKS JOHNSON TO WHIP JEFFRIES Stnnlev Krtehel will try his luck at picking winner.- in the prlxe ring. Here Koe .lack Johnston will whip .lames J. Jeffries in twelve rounds .My. hut that: an awful pill to swallow, according to the fans. Two monUiK ago Ketehel said that .Tef. files would have no trouble in whipping I ihe colored champion. Since that time, Ketehel had a dream in which he saw a his black hand which picked him up H id throw him to "Mar." Kciehel awoke nith a start and now tells why .Johnson will win. "You know." said Ketehel, "I'm no dub. I made gqod when 1 put It all over .hu-k O'Rrleti. "hut T waul to tell the fans t t this big. black nigger in the liest man 1 ever went up against. Hit him? AVhy. I could not have reached him had ir.y arm hern twice hk long when 1 met llm In "Frisco. Thai fellow Is das.. Ho"? ns speedy as a. shooting star and ho Vnx . kiok' like a mule Take It from i. e. .icff won't do much rushing after the tir't round. The old champion will bo satisfied Jo be allowed to take his lime. 1 nellev... Johnson Is too elGver to be hi: J effectively, while in turn he nan plant tnose. hip niitu anywhere ho pleases and j he's got the steam behind them, don't ou forget It:- |