Salt Lake Tribune | 1912-02-19 | Page 6 | Amateur Pugilist at Point of Death

fKIBR PUGILIST AT POINTJF DEATH Bout at Naval Training- Station Sta-tion Likely to Cost Life of Untrained Boxer. By International News Service. CHICAGO. Feb. IS. Knocked out by a terrific blow on the point of his jaw In a scheduled six-round bout at tho naval training- station at North Chicago this afternoon, 'Joe" ICctchel, a local middleweight middle-weight pugilist, is lying: unconscious at the point of death in the naval hospital. Ills opponent was "Billy" Walters one of the bakers at tho training station,' and the bout was witnessed bv a number num-ber or officers and scores of sailors connected con-nected with the station. t,,l,lors -0'1- Ketchel j believed to be suffering from a hemorrhage of the bra In and. ari-ord-Insr to physicians at tho station, an operation op-eration may be necessary to save his