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Show JOHNSON CANNOT WIN AND FIGHT ON THE DEFENSIVE Two or Three of Ketchel's Smashes Would Open Floodgates of Negro's Courage Tank and He Would Drown Himself. (By Charles J. Meegan.) New York, June 18. "Can Ketchel whip Johnson and will he do it when I they meet?" If I have been asked that once I have been asked it a hundred hun-dred times during the past few days. Being an Irishman I have reserved an Irishman's privilege and answered the question by asking the question, "What do you think about it ' It's n. human falling to prefer to air our opinion rather than listen to others, j bo I have heard fn.ni a hundred per-sons per-sons what they thought to ICeirhrl chances without uncovering my own hand. ; The consensus of opinion among my Inquiring friends appeared to favor Ketchel. They may have been carried i E away by Ketchel's splendid showing ' f against Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, ' L the other night in Philadelphia, as 1 each and every one of them referred ' to it when discussing the probable outcome 01 a Dattle between the Westerner and Johnson. I think it Is folly to pick either Ketchel or Johnson off hand as a "sure winner." There are. In my opinion, opin-ion, a dozen points to bo considered. The principal one is, how will Johnson John-son fisht? If he follows his usual lino of battle he is sure to be whipped. whip-ped. I mean by this, if he attempts to stand still, assume the defensive and try to stop Ketchel's rushes by Jabbing he's whipped sure.' His vel-low vel-low streak will beat him If nthlat else will in that sort of a fight. Two or three of Ketchel's terrltlc' smashes would open the floodgate of th b'-; I negro's courage tank and he would 1 drown himself. He is an arrant coward and could no more stand up and look an opponent oppon-ent like Ketchel in the eve and fight than he could fly. His crnve-i heart would stop beollng. h!s legs would refuse to support him. The masterful master-ful .determined expression that Ketchel Ket-chel assumes when he Is fi-htlng would make Johnson turn tail and run. He would see cer'a'n defett in Ketchel's clear, steady eve, and it would get hh coat. I repent. If Johnson fights Ketchel In th? sn'm manner h0 has fought mort of hU battles he's a "gone con" sure. Even with Johnson's forty pounds' advantage in weight, his only hop is to tear right into Ketchel and crush him by mere brute strength. Ketchel. I game and clevor. as ho undoubtedly I is. could not stand his ground if ?0i) I pounds' weight, with arms working ' like flails, was burlc against him. j He would have to bark up. It isn't reasonable to sup-0 0 tint Ketchel or any other mn of hi3 we?ht ciM got the better of n hen l-on colH.-fon with a man welgMng 200 or more pounds. Johnson has a long reach is clever and powerful. In a col- : j Hsion with a man of Ketchel's weight j I he would have ilecldedlv the ht of ' it that is, if the lighter man did not give way. , Ketchel's blows land with his arm extended full length. He does not I rely upon short arm work; in fact, 1 i he can't, because his opponent is t j usually backing away and he con I 1 only land on him at long range. I am ' not certain just what Ketchel can do f at Infighting. Dlliy Papko got to him r and knocked him out by rushing h'm . right off the reel In their msmoiable i battle in Los Angeles. Coul.l John t son do it? The negro can whip 1 Papke any old time thev step Into a t ring. What's the answer? j r A. Y. P. EXPOSITION RATES Via Oregon Short Line R. R. $37.50 h from Ogden to Seattle and return; on - sale daily commencing June 1st. Ask f agents for further particulars. |