Show SOME LIVE SPORTING GOSSIP LOCAL ANT AND TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS OP OF FIELD TRACK TRACE l RING RIM KETCHEL IS LIKED BY EASTERN FANS May Give Sign to Burns News News of Other OtherS S Pugs BY JEFF THOMPSON New York Aug 9 ThIs This man Ketchel Kotch- Kotch el looks tho the goods In pu pugilistic l- l listic way and md after the neat and workmanlike manner In which ho lie put away Hugo o Kelly Kel last week I am ani not nol at ot all certain that tho the claims of oC his hla friends that ho he Is the man who vho will get the Indian 81 sign n on Tommy Burns has has not a strong foundation In iii fact feeL Of course cours friends of ot the Italian pugilist pug pug- ili ilist Hlat claim that the tho blow which put Hugo to sleep sloop was a n. chance chanco blow They Thoy always do w when cn there thero Is a a. knockout knockout knock out after a a. hot fight But It Is to bo ho noticed that thal In nearly all of ot fights this same accidental punch 2 and It always s 's brings homo home tho the goods When a man constantly wins by good luck It would seem to a n aman man up a tree treo that this kind of goodluck good luck Is Ja a a. pretty close Indication of or orr r real a I ability t then When hen Tommy Burns Durns comes homo home from his trip around tho the world it would be bo a n good Idea iden to match him with and soo If the tio l 10 cowboys cowboy's cowboys cowboy's cowboys cow cow- boys boy's luck would still hold I I 1 see eo by bv tho the cables that Jack Johnson John John- son Bon has lies knocked out an Englishman of whom no one ono In this country countr ever over heard beard until ho was matched with the bl big dark darky and again announces that homo hoino and claim that nf ne 1 Is 11 coming championship am p I lp Whit What Johnson Johnon ought to do Is la to como come homo and light fight Blackburn or orLan Langford Lan ford for the colored champion champlon- ship hip If ho Is a able lo to win vii this and andI I It J it Is no cinch he will there thoro then will b be bi some sense In his claim to a fight t with the champion We Ve e soon are aro to know who ho Is Js the tho champion of Now New York Tommy Murphy Murph and Leach Cross Cros each c Are are re confident he lie Is ts tho man nan so 80 thyI thy they I have havo been heeti matched to 1 light ill It ft out be before he- he fore 1010 tho Navarre club Kom some ome time be between he- he tween August 25 and September 1 I. It n will l o a battle royal and If tue th-c j winner I has bee not carped the tho right to toR toft R ft fro go with Battling Battling- Nel Nelson on It would be hard to tell fell wh why why- Nelson on by tho U wa way Js Is to havo have an another another all an- other go with Joe Cans Gans on September If 0 9 One r I always alwa liked about Nelson Is h that he Is o al always willing willingto to ilif ht Tho The Dane janc IK III not pretty and his manners manner are arc not always full fully up to tin tho mark but ho J Is afraid of oC nothing nothing- and md andIn f In SI always ready to take takA on anybody who ho wants his tome Rome provided a lit lit- ting pur purse e eft ii ft JR offered Wh While 10 I believe tho the Battler will have havo an easier casler time with Gans Gene now no that tont ho he holias hrs hiss licked him It Is not to be ho lien denied led that the tho negro Is still a dangerous c customer stomer I J understand un hl his sojourn journ oct at Harbin Springs has dono done him a world 1 of good and that he hc Is confident conil- conil dent ho he will come corne back and regain his hh lost laurels Maybe Maybo so so but I very gravely doubt it Jim Stewart whose 1 championship hil as aspirations at as- received a rl sudden jolt Joll when no was knocked out by Barr Barry Is Js again in the tho game He lIe knocked out Morris Harris the big bl Philadelphia negro In four fout rounds recently Stewart has tho the makings of a n. great treat fighter but his last bout hout showed that ho he has a n lot to tol learn arn about ring generalship before he gets Into tho the ring with a real real-cham ain ain- pion with any my hope of success Another foreign boxer has blown up lip This time It Il Is Charlie th the Au Australian featherweight who was wan loudly touted to be the master m of Abe Abc AUell Atell He went against a t that thal hard hard- little little- New Englander Matty Math Baldwin the other day and was out out- pointed outgeneraled and outfought ht by bythe bythe bythe the American I Is Ig It necessary to say h he was soundly thumped Tom Jones manager of or Billy and Hu Hughey hc Gatena have A got ot together and agreed on a Frank Mant Mantel Mantell Jl match will fight Burko Burke If It tho the Coliseum club will put up a guarantee to hold the tho show hut but It will have to tobe tobe tobe be in tn a nurry hurry or not at all aU will 1 take on Mantel Mantell next week providing providing pro pro- viding one ono of the local clubs will bid for the match and give Ivo a a. reasonable percentage |