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Show Kelly and Papke Who Meet on Saturday (By W. W. Naughton.) In privato life Hugo Kelly and Billy Bil-ly Papke are well groomed, presentable present-able fellows. They certainly do their Bharo toward upholding the claim that the breed of prize fighters has improved since the passing of the bare-knuckle days. When they stepped into the ring at Dreamland some nights ago to bo introduced to the Hudson-Murphy crowd, they gripped hands heartily and smiled like a brace of Chesterfields. Chester-fields. Befora leaving the ring they shook and smiled a second time. Just courtesy, or chivalry, or whatever what-ever you please to term, it for down in their hearts Billy and Hugo detest each other a3 bitterly as any two broken-nose rivals did in the palmy days of the turf and tho "raw uns." The feeling between them is so intense in-tense that it will surely add determination determin-ation to their milling when they Tfcet in Cotfroth's arena on the afternoon of May 15. Tho Kelly-Papke feud is an old one, and Young Ketchel is mixed up in it in a way that increases tho hard fecl- ings. Papke and Kelly had two bouts in the oast, ono a draw and tho other a decision in Papke's favor. Thoy were ten round affairs, and, while Kelly Kel-ly claimed that the circumstances of the second meeting didn't warrant the glIng of tho credit to Papke, the latter lat-ter figured in the record as the winner, win-ner, and that's what counts. Losers may go on explaining things year in and year out, but little notice is taken tak-en of them. The PapkeKelly vendetta was lost sight of temporarily when Young Ketchel came into Papkc's life. Ketchel Ketch-el gained a decision over Papke at Milwaukee, and the bout was of such a character that it meant a return meeting. The second event took placo at I.r08 Angeles, and the sporting world experienced quite a shock when it was learned that Papke had battered batter-ed Ketchel round after round and finally fin-ally knocked him out. Papke was a big man 'when he visited vis-ited San Francisco soon afterward. He was at the ringside of the second Joe Gans-Battling Nelson fighi, and you could hear fight fans on every side whispering "That's hlra with the green hat." It looked about that time as if anything any-thing further Papke might do would be largely in tho way of repetition, but tho priza ring always did spring surprises. Ketchel faced Papke a third time, in San Francisco, and defeated him so decisely that people were at a loss to explain the Los Angeles happening. hap-pening. Instead of being looked upon as a sterling performer, Papke came to be regarded as an accident. Then Hugo Kelly took up the running run-ning again. In a 20-round hout with Papke at Los Angeles Hugo did the better work, in the opinion of the writ-ter writ-ter and many others, but Big Jim JhT-fries, JhT-fries, who always was sensitive about hurting men's feelings in cases of that kind, proclaimed the bout a draw. Kelly was chagrined and Papke went a rung or two lower still in public opinion. |