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Show r i to let go nn overhand loft or right, a quick change t feet and his left glove tears Into tho ribs or acts against the jaw. Another favorite trick of Ket-chels Ket-chels is to let go nn overhand left or right, which Is r bluff, pure and simple. sim-ple. He does not Intend to land. From tho lor.k of it yon might think that all his weight was behind tho punch. But it Is lu the other fist that the danger lurks. The man on guard gets ready to block or dance away from the grand stand blow, only to find that It has been sidetracked somewhere and that (he other' hand Is coming jaw-ward with catapult force. : Johnson fflay Meet N the Montana Fighter The possibility that Stanley Ketchel, the present middleweight champion of the world, will be the next opponent of Jack Johnson has led many closo followers fol-lowers of pugilism to ask: Can Ketchel ever attain a point where ho will bo snytfcng like Johnson in the matter of weight, without taking into consideration' considera-tion' the difference in height and boxing box-ing skill, which is possessed by Johnson John-son to such a remarkable degree? At present Ketchel weighs about 170 pounds and will be 22 years of age ou September 14 next. lie will, at best, have but another year to get his full height, if ho has not already reached I it, and while advancing years may add j some weight, there is always a cor-1 cor-1 responding slowing down in speed. The fact that Ketchel, who has just placed himself under the management ; of Wlllus Britt, has expressed a wlll-' wlll-' ingness to meet Johnson makes the middleweight champion a subject ju3t now of more than ordinary interest. Ketchel, up to the time of his first fight with Joe Thomas at Marysvillo, Cal , on July 4. 1907, was unknown to j eastern followers of ring affairs. He was 'born at Grand Rapids, Mich., September Sep-tember 14, 1887, his father being German Ger-man and his mother Amerlcan of Pol-I Pol-I ish descent. When a lad of 1C he was ; employed for a time on one of the lake steamerB running between his home town and Duluth. This was rather tame for his venturesome spirit and he worked his way to Montana, then drifted to Alberta and the Pacific northwest. I Back to Montana. Afterward he returned to Montana, where Billy Nolan, later the manager , of Battling Nelson, was running a f fighting club. Nolan gave Ketchel a chance to get his start, and - the youngster was Bent against Maurice ' Thompson, an experienced pugilist, who gave Ketchel a sound trouncing. (Stanley was not discouraged, but on the contrary grow more ambitious than ever to shine In the ring. He was iven another chance, this time against f a local boy named Young Pecore, who ."possessed a terrific punch. Ketchel won the decision .by a good margin 'and thereafter was not lacking for ' matches. ; Referring to his early career, Ketchel tells the following: I j' "I didn't think, as a boy, that I'd I ever be a professional fighter. Indeed, I must thank adverst? circumstances for the fact that I gained some small j renown in the ring. You see, I got in-i in-i to Butte some seven years back, wheu the game was good out that way. I t knew something about boxing, and as ' I was a pretty lively little fellow they ', persuaded me to go on with Maurice Thompson, a lightweight. It was my first battle, and I honestly believe I those who talked me Into it thought that I was going to have my head i knocked off. But somehow I managed J n stay tne 20 rounds, even though 1 I did lose the decision, j "I got plenty of experience but lit-J lit-J tie reputation In Montana, though I gradually tOuk on weight and passed from the lightweight to tho welter class. Among the victims of my early ambition were Kid Fredericks and l" Jerry McCarthy, who had previously , fought Honey Mellody for the welter-; welter-; weight championship. I knocked out i McCarthy in 11 rounds. I then met I Jack Sullivan, with whom I drew in 20 rounds. Sulilvan I was a little leary of, for they told me all sorts of things as to what he was going to do to me. He had out-boxed Jack Monroe In a four-rotmd affair. Later I went to the coast, where I scored a succession of knockouts. I drifted Into Marysvllle, where I was matched to meet Joe Thcmias on July 4. 1907, The result was a druw in 20 rounds. Later I knocked him out In 32 rounds. My third fight with Thomas went 20 rounds, the decision coming to me. Then came my light with Mike (Twin) Sullivan, whom I knocked out in less than a round, and the next battle was with Jack (Twin), who was beaten in 20 rounds. Met Billy Papke. "I next met Billy Papke at Milwaukee Milwau-kee on June 4 last and secured the referee'6 decision in 10 rounds. Hugo Kelly was knocked out in three rounds at Los Angeles on July 31. and on August Aug-ust 18 I stopped Joe Thomas in two round at San Francisco. Then came my defeat at the hands of Papke on Labor day at Los .Angeles, when 1 went down in twelve rounds. I felt that this was a mistake and proved this, I think, when I got a return match with any conquerer, on whom I turned the tables In 11 rounds on November No-vember 2C." Ketchel gives the lie to tho old English prize ring tradition that it Is only stralgbt-from-the-ahoulder blows that produce results. He can hit from the hip from, the hpels, maybe. He can hit straight and deliver lifting punches. He Is so loose jointed that he can lash out from any position, and no matter what kind of a blow ho speeds It does its part toward shortening shorten-ing the length of the contest. The left shift Is probably the deadliest dead-liest assault the Michigander commits. com-mits. This was Fitzslmmons' favorite ruse, but whether the Ketchel shift is a copy of Fltz's blow or not it unust be admitted that Ketchel's decoy le neater and surer of success than that of the Cornishman. Fitz's shift was a pretentious affair and many often wondered won-dered that the other follow fell into the trap. Ketchel does It gracefully, a slight feint to the right, a quick change of feet and his left glove tears into the ribs or acts against the Jaw. Another favorite trick of Ketchel's Is |