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Show KETCHEL MADE AND jy, SPENT A FORTUNE. r Stanloy Ketchel won at least ?100,- $ 000 in the last five years of his career ' ' ' as a prize fighter. The final settle- ; , ment of his estate, of which an ac- , ' h' count was Tiled In probate court at '!. Grand Rapids recently, shows him Ho f ev haVe been worth about $500 at the fai time of hlB death. ; f;n Fortunes -were won by Kelchel in :: '., the ring. He held a championship, de- ': raanded big purses and received them. , , Among other bills there waB one from a hotel whore tho champion "" stayed a few weeks. This bill amount- : ed to $2,000. Included was cost of ; ) champagne and other luxuries. Pj All that TomainB of KetcheKs for- i tune is a little farm at Pine Island ' ev lake. It is worth 7,000, and mortgag- , m ed for more than $6,000. ' Ketchel left jewelry worth $1,000. It Is mortgaged for ?500 This in- y eludes a diamond stickpin and ring. Tho middleweight championship belt ; was located In the St. Francis hotel i in San Francisco. It was sold to R, P. -: Dickerson, on whose farm the cham- g pion mot his death. The belt brought Ji t ?300. fi His personal property amounted to k in $3,729.92, but nearly all of it was con- Jj sumed in expense of administration i nnd debts. ? Ketchel loaned large sums of money to "friends." He never took notes or i "I. O. U." slips for these loans. Not J? I one of these "friends" went to his j. badly marked grave to pay ti'ibute to one whom all the fight world icnev. as ) H a "goad fellow." ' JI |