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Show SHEPHERD LOSES TO WESKETCHELL State Welterweight Champ Fails to Put Three Men Away In Prescribed Limit, and KetcheU la Given Boat Wes KetcheU of Salt Lake City went twelve rounds acre Wednesday ; evening at the Princess theater in the headliner of Mark Clay's great boxing carnival, before a targe crowd of excited ex-cited fans... (. '.' ; - !, Z; - It was the greatest fight ever seen in Bingham Canyon ,and many fans, who journeyed from Salt Lake City to witness it, declared it to be the best boxing contest ever shown in the state of Utah. ., ..Vv; Mark Clays, promoter of the stellar card, is deserving of much credit for bringing together snch a galaxy of fistic stars. Every bout on the card was i good one, with plenty of action in every tilt. , The headliner of the evening, in which Ed Shepherd, welterweight champion of the state, promised to stoo three men. KetcheU. Caroenter and a lad by the name of Kloczko in twelve rounds, ended with KetcheU staying the entire twelve rounds ,and although he failed to dd much fighting fight-ing during the first four rounds, he showed enough fighting ability and ring generalship to warrant him another an-other match with the champion. A bonus to any man staying over four rounds with Shepherd, kept the wily KetcheU from showing his wares during the opening rounds of the bout but in the fifth he but let us start at round one and see what happened. Shepherd was forced to do all the leading in the opening canto, with KetcheU taking things easy, and keeping keep-ing out of the way of Shepherd's powerful right. In the second round KetcheU again forced Shepherd to do the leading, and only once in this round did he hit Shepherd. It was the only blow delivered by KetcheU in the two opening rounds. In the third fotj,AKeet;e!J dij considerabfe more fighting, although Shepherd worked hard to get in a hay maker. The fourth round brought out the fact that KetcheU is a much better ring general than he is usually given credit for, and managed to quit even in this canto with Shepherd. KetcheU received an ovation when the fourth ended, the entire house seeming to be with him. In the fifth both men started to open up, with many hard blows being delivered. It was a great round, with Shepherd still doing the leading, although al-though KetcheU managed to get in some telling blows. KetcheU went into the sixth with more courage than he had shown at any time thus far, and stood right up to Shepherd, and it was a question of give and take throughout this round. KetcheU again came to the front with his ring generalship, and smartness, and the crowd gave him a big hand when the canto ended. In the seventh, KetcheU managed to get his left working, and gave Shepherd Shep-herd several hard blows. It was easily eas-ily Ketchell's round. The eighth showed both men mixing mix-ing it with honors about even. In the ninth Shepherd gave KetcheU a couple of real jolts, but the left handed fighter fight-er came back strong, and ere ir,c i round ended, had won a slight shartl .: The tenth was Ketchell's grea. round. With the sound of the gong he went after Shepherd ,and after Shepherd had made a rush at him, he broke through Shepherd's guard, and gave him a jolt that lifted him from the floor. It looked as though Ket- (Continued from Page 1.) trying to surpass the exhibition of Wednesday evening. Kid Davis refcreed the preliminaries, prelimin-aries, with Dick Buttrey taking the third man's place in the ring for the main event. Shepherd Loses Fight v i ' ..... (Continued on Page 4) chcll was going to end the fight in this roundbut the jolt enraged Shepherd, Shep-herd, and he came back with real jolts, evening up the round. Ketchell worked up considerable lead in the eleventh frame, by sailing into Shepherd and giving him many real swats. Shepherd seemed to be slowing op considerable, probably the result of the jolt he received in the tenth. Ketchell took this round,. do. ing most of the leading in this canto. 1 Then came the twelfth . and last round. Shepherd realizing he was about to lose the bout, started after Ketchell, but Ketchell figured the same way and the round ended with both fighters standing up, each trying to put over a finishing touch. This round also belonged to Ketchell. ' It was a great fight, and Referee Dick Buttery, gave the decision to k . Ketchell because of the fact that Shepherd had failed to live up to his agreement of putting away three men in the twelve rounds. Taking away the fact that Shepherd was supposed to win from three men, Ketchell easily eas-ily earned a draw with him, more than evening up matters after the fourth round. It was the best exhibition of the manly art ever witnessed in Bingham Bing-ham Canyon. In the semi-windup, Sam Turks of Phoenix Arizona, won in the second round with a Kayo, against Mike Connors Con-nors of the Utah Copper. Tarks, the dark horse of the evening, allowed Connors to do the leading in the opening op-ening round, it looking for a few moments mo-ments as though Connors was going to be an easy winner, but Parks soon showed his stuff by giving Connors a severe jolt on the point of the chin with a wicked left, and the local scrapper scrap-per took the count of nine. In the second round, Parks started right after af-ter Connors, and after two minutes Connors went to the floor for the full count with a right to the chin. Both boxers showed considerable prowess, with Parks proving conclusively that Salt Lake City fans have a real treat i i in store for them when he tangles in the Utah metropolis. The four round " contest between Sam Wright of Bingham Canyon, and Koy McCarty of Salt Lake, ended with AfcCarty getting the decision, the local fighter taking severe punishment punish-ment during the four rounds. Only his ability to take the punishment and come back for more saved him from the K. O. route. The first round showed McCarty taking the lead, with plenty of hard hitting being put out by both contestants. con-testants. In the second McCarty showed his skill by pummeling Wright's physog severely. The third was easily McCarty's when he put Wright to the floor with a left to the stomach for the count of nine. Wright no sooner" got to his feet than he again kissed the canvas with a terrific ter-rific right to the head, the bell saving sav-ing him on the count of eight. McCarty Mc-Carty led all the way in the fourth, and received a justly deserved decision. decis-ion. Billy Meyers and Kid Sturgill tangled tan-gled in a supposed four round tilt, but Sturgill ended the clash in the third after a minute and a half of fighting I with a swat to the chin. The first round was exceptionally fast, with both scrappers trying to show enough stuff to be called to New York City. The round was about even. Sturgill took the lead in the second when he knocked Myers to the mat with a terrific ter-rific blow amidships. The bell saved Meyers on the count of seven. The third started with Sturgill having things his own way until the fateful blow. Shorty Peterson and Bill Bliefuss started the show card with some real fighting, Peterson taking a commanding command-ing lead in the initial round by punching pun-ching Bliefuss with a fusillade of body blows. The second round found Peterson after a knockout which be put over after one minute of fighting, with a left to the bo4y and a right to the jaw. The two Rowan Brothers gave a short exhibition before the firght card started. Too much credit cannot be given Mark Clays and "Bat" McConncll for their efforts in giving the fight fans of the camp by far the best exhibitions exhibi-tions ever sfen here. Every bout was a hcadliner and the large crowd went home well satisfied. Mr. Clays announced an-nounced that next month he would stage another fistic carnival, and is |