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Of KAYOS KAYO'S tt New ew Mark Breaks All AH Previous Pre Pre- ious riOUS Records Big B Boy By oy i t v. v Going Good T i By Robert Edgren Frank Carbone Car- Car topping Paul Berlenbach bone In the tho sixth r und at Madison scored hll hi core i juar a few nights ago 0 knockout and also a a. thO cord Berlenbach has now passe the e eb r figures for all other fight b b st et scored cored an nave llave ever boxers Few rc en me knockouts that c Come unbroken list lilt of comparing to Ber Berlen- Berlen en- en near b The feat lIt O of mock mock- b the great Stanley Stanle t oute owned wee was cham- cham middleweight Ketchel early days while workIng work work- lion non In his hie championship Ketchel to the log Ing up In a 11 row with won twenty round The dean clean knockout I at draw di-aw di with Uh Joe of knoCkouts At roke roke Ketchel's string tring Joe Thomas was generallY time that tl middleweight a as worlds world's and champion lie H. Has was as a game fighter wonderfully deliberate boxer bOXe I. I t muter master of his art Ketchel fought rh mas again In San Francisco and knocked him out In the thirty second round went right along doing fis stuff after knocking out Thomas out tour four more men won knocked ie 1 e wo decision and then Wa wa knocked jn twelve rounds at lapke oCt oot by Dilly Billy Los Los Angelu Angele Cal To show what an n unusual fighter he was Ketchel got a return match less leIS than three mon months hs later and knocked Pa ke for a a. loop inthe In Inthe the eleventh t. t Some of h his Ser K b O. O h record Sec victims victim t to In d date es establishing CS- CS have have been amateurs That makes lit littie little little lit lit- tle tie difference They were experienced light heavyweights and heavyweights and it takes as much of a punch to put ut out a a. good amateur a as a. to drop the average pro pro- Naturally Dan Hickey 5 s watching Berlenbach erlenbach along without go goInG going go- go ing log after the champions champion yet giving him experience The string tring of twenty- twenty one knockouts accumulated by Stanley Ketchel before Defore he met Joe Thomas didn't Il Include clude many names name known beyond be be- yond ond Montana One of the greatest records record of straight knockouts was made by Dixie Kid back 1901 to 19 1904 4 Dixie Kid was a wonder won- won 4 d der r in those In-those those days a Missouri born colored colored col- col ored ored boy brought up in California here he e began g fighting Later a he j i et l In the Eastin in England an In France where in 1911 he stopped Georges r In five rounds GIBBONS BROKE K n. 0 O. O Ll E. E Dixie Kid started his fighting with nineteen straight knockouts only knockouts only two under th the record of Ketchel and Ber Der lenbach The string was broken by a twenty-round twenty fight tight with Al Nelll Neill which Dixie won Then he won three more with with Ith knockout knockouts this time knocking out In a round took a twenty-round twenty decision n over oyer the great Joe Walcott and won oil two more nore with knockouts before he t went to Philadelphia and joined the no-decision no colony Dixie Kid In his first five years of fighting fighting- won twenty- twenty tour four our fights eights with knockouts and four j on decisions not to mention a aunch bunch of no decision affairs afterward atter I. I Marvin Hart who once claimed the A- A A Arld's heavyweight title and beat Jack Johnson to a twenty-round twenty d decision started with a long list of ot knockouts Marvin arvin began fighting in Louisville Ky I his home town and his feats were so Ce sensational th that thit t he was wa soon matched against the best but men Inen in his class Hart would have had fourteen straight but tov one fight ight he won on a a. foul his foul his fouling when on the verge of no u t his fifteenth nth fight Marvin ra ran Into one of ot Wild Dill Bill Hanrahan's wild wallops In the first round and was knocked out himself Later he re re- re his knockout habit and beat sev- sev le al more good men before sliding back backs I s the has beens been I the h molt O n knock knock- c I Moat soot record I in the J heavyweight c class a Is that of Jack Jaek Dempsey present cham- cham plon lIT In- his first year of fighting through Utah Colorado and Montana he lie won eighteen fights with knockouts knockouts knockouts' but had five wins scattered through th the bunch and lost one decision In 1018 he- he hewon won seventeen fights with knockouts knockout knockouts knock- knock outs out ten of them In the first round She l' continuity of this bunch of 1 K 10 0 O. O l Wallops escallops was spoiled by two or three no- no decision affairs In the next year 1919 1910 ack Dempsey started his hla knockout s s again with five fhe straight one- one rt knockouts That's a record In Jn fifteen fifteen first round knockouts In t two o years After the five straight he out Champion Jess Tes Willard Ward In third round Actually he knocked put Out Willard in the first round but a a. v rn up with wills the b belt bell gave Willard about i tw t i minutes to recover reco and out for tOr or the second second- round y After ACter knocking out Willard Demp Demp- v t- I sey Y added to his knockout string string the names of 2 lIskE Brennan and CarpentI Carpen Carpen- tI tier ter r making eight In a row Then L Tommy Gibbons Gibbon stayed fifteen rounds I and broke that K O. O line Dempsey Dempley Started again by knocking out Firpo but Its It's Ir unlikely hell he'll ell ever make a S. S ts record now for consecutive 29 lEaving shoved l his price his price up ut S nearly early half halt to 4 a million dollars for S a a. L Ight fight Dempsey cant can't go barnstorming I a and million half al X II lion dollar lar fights fight 1 5 dont don't come e along along- n every month Ala WAS W A 00 FOX VOX X Toe Joe Gans Cans might have made a a. K IC 0 O. O record but Joe fought to to orders k Bob Dob had hart a wonderful wonderful I knockout record The h greatest number numbe r he e ever lined d up in an n unbroken broken ro row C JiS ring w was wa thirteen battles fi n- n and But aut his hia he knockout had hundred hundreds of of o f percent percent- was age K tre tremendous According to th the fio modern ern way of ot counting a knockout raj one obe m man Is ls not able to continue hd d nineteen in Vf Zt i a row v from hl hi his S l tart ar In Am America r a- a aHe He knocked out t ou rc McCarthy arthy upham Nonpareil Jack C middleweight cham champion Ion an exhibition with lilac It wear ear out Peter Far GOdrey Godfrey Zender Jin Hal I layo Warner i arner y boxed an c cx with Joe Choyn kl knocked o ou t tf t 1 eliar e f ar Creedon Allish Maher Tos To r y and Jim Corbett Officially h 51 yS h 0 to fOu S Sharkey r blow on n a wi foul but the xi al- al a fair I lexus tJ punch and FI m s sola ar r t fobbed b ed of a decision w 1 and 10 afterward a 5 an and nearly fought killed Torn Tom Tom 1 With th 5 e blow In th the e pIt It of f the he stomach White English 1 ng t champion some some lot of- of I a bad d a d eleven ven straight knockout u goo In England Englana where A which I s 5 regarded and aard awarded points are as e t. t tz Auretio III 1st dI dodging g a and the getting for away iy Y- Y Hd rId I I great wall Dakers- Dakers I. I knocking if t hem them all alt out years ago had a run of t twenty one knockouts punctuated with t three draws He te afterward collected knockouts in bunches of half a dozen at a time and might have made the string tring s longer but for a thirst and a habit of or taking a a- bottle to bed with him Ab Abe Attell started with sixteen straight knockouts but Able wa was too much of ot a diplomat to go farther He lie f found he could make more money by stalling along with them and taking t hem them on later in some come other town Terry McGovern scored stored twelve knock outs In a a. row He lie was the greatest featherweight of hi his hla time and there has las been none like him since then When McGovern was Wall winning the bantamweight ban- ban t and the featherweight titles knocking out nearl nearly all his 1115 opponents he wa was meeting the greatest lot of little fighting men ever known In the ring game ame They were developed In long distance decision bouts twenty and twenty rounds the common distance No such boxers have been developed In the no- no noh decision field or In In- Inthe the shorter bouts with Ith decisions that have come In since the war KIP HIll I PULLS CUTE TRICKS One o of the best middleweight Ive I've seen was Tommy R Ryan Eyan an He lie was' was extremely extremely ex ex- skillful and and was a a. real raI knockout knockout knock knock- out artist Yet Yet in all aU his his his' l long pg career Ryan never bunched snore more than five knockouts in ina a a row He had a a. different I fighting style for every man he fought and sometimes sometimes- It wasn't good business t to try to win with a knockout Not counting his theatrical tour meeting all comers corners John L L. Sullivan's Sullivans Sulli vans van's best run of knockouts totaled twelve John L. L was a a- a wallo per and often his men didn't come com up for a second sec sec- ond or a third round In In the theold old ld days he was credited merely with a win where hed he'd be given a a. K 0 O. O in the record record rec rec- ord books today But Dut most of his fighting was waa under inder London prize ring rules rules rules-a. a different game geme Kid McCoy another real K O. O ar artist didn't pile up any long lists of con consecutive I knockouts The foxy Kid sometimes sometimes some times preferred to win decisions lIe He I had one record however that was unique in the knockout line On On one quick trip to England he lie matched himself himself him him- self to meet Jack Scales English heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champion and two other English English En En- En- En glish gush heavyweights In the same seme ring on the same night at the Wonderland In London with ten minutes' minutes rest between veen bouts bout McCoy knocked out Dave Barry in I two rounds round Jack Scales in one round and Jack Madden in four rounds all on the evening of December 2 1901 McCoy McCoy Mc Mc- Coy pulled one of hl his famous tricks Inthe in inthe the thern fight tight with Scales lIe He wanted to finish the champion In a hurry and take takeno takeno takeno no chances As they stepped toward each other In the first round MCCoy dropped his hands and looking down at Scales' Scales feet with a II critical expression said Why dont don't they lace your your- shoes before they send you out to fight 7 3 Scales looked down at his sho shoes lIe He knew what hit never him DE HOLDS OlD ODD KINO RECORD Peter Jacksons Jackson fighting fighting n record Is nUll tili remembered in Australia but in America Peter is little more than a name connected distantly with some ancient tradition of cleverness Peter Deter Jackson was a better fighter than Jack Johnson for tor with speed and skill he I combined Sam Langfords Langford's aggressiveness and punch ne Cie had bar haca a record of seventeen seventeen seven seven- teen straight knockouts If It Peter Jackson Jack Jarl son had been given a chance before dissipation wrecked hi his marvelous body h he might have become worlds world's cham cham- pion He lie had heart and everything else in the world a a. fighter needs Jimmy Dime Is Is' as' as asa a manager He was waa once onca a fighter When a a. boy in Ireland Irelan Dime won a a. great number of knockouts and knockouts and seventeen seventeen seventeen seven teen of them in a string Valentine Braun famous' famous for a few years year as Knockout Brown Drown of New York nearly shoved into the lightweight light light- weight championship by hi his energetic manager Dan Morgan Morgen had a great knockout string In hla first two years Cars of fighting Kayo won thirty fights witS with knockouts f few w going more snore than two rounds and would have been able to claim the record but for five no- no decision short bouts bouta scattered down the list lilt Ad Wolgast one of the most desperate desper desper- ate little fighters who ever held a a. worlds world's championship the man who was first to beat Battling Nelson to a state of helplessness if it not submission piled plied up five knockouts In succession two or three times but never passed that figure Just by way of comparison let me sue quote one record of a different sort Willie Beecher a a. very rugged fighter of ten years year ago made nade a a. worlds world's record that probably never neer will wilt be Beecher in four busy years fought fifty fifty- I one ring battles without losing or wInning win wIn- ning a II decision Forty-eight Forty went to the limit with no decision attached all being no decisIon fights The other three he happened j to win with knockouts Copyright 11 1011 I J. 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