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Show T Hess appeared to be making frlendsl .;'iiion;: mo fans not already; acquaint ' IcJ with bltn ami he was loudly chepr-d chepr-d fluiihe 'be in'ennlsssioh between the seventh and r-tgbtb. rovjnds. Both men land'Vl Imx(v blows jti the. opening of the eWitli. ' Tor ry reached Thomas' bead with a right hand puiroh. The local' boy rushed, his op' poncnt against the ropes."lut missed an opportunity to" land a knock-out punch by stumbling.' Thfcj throughout was a very open round and Keller j had the better of it. " i The ninth was nobody's round. Joe landed a hard right to tbe body and Terry returned a heavy left to the, ear. Polh men wen? 'punching vIciouBly at the gong, but shook hands before going go-ing to their corners. ' TThe tenili and elevcnth wero fast rotipris. in the tenth Keller's manager mana-ger accused Tborna-i of wins his ej-fco-svs.- but it is not thought that Thomas Thom-as made my attempt to foul Keller. Keller received son sever punish-Tiient punish-Tiient in "these rounds, but did not show ixr.y fatiie or gToggiaess at the end of t Vein 'JJhey could ttot be considered Thomas' rounds, aa KJeller aJso landed eoiVo hearty blows in both frames. 1tie twelfth started 4wfcth a rush and ellmVi in which. ihe ..flutters walked about tlie ring lneiidh 'other'a embrace. em-brace. Joxr appeared ' to bo slightly wlndedj in. thi3 ror?nd ad rested In. the caJly clinch. He' landed a hard awing oti Keller's had -when the round wus, about half spent and during dur-ing some in-fighting- a few Feconds hcfore thf-r close of foe round reached Terry's Jaw with thn Jab that fractured frac-tured the-lowcr maxillary. Terry went lo his corner as usuaJ, but as he sat down he put his hand- to his Jaw and said, "l can'tgo on. my Jaw i broke." Examination proved that this was truo and the fight was Ktoppjed. Terry arose, 'when Thomas came to- his corner and the two fighters shook hands. Keller's injuries, while it caused bim to lose the fight, will not force him to give up the fight game. KELLER'SMW BROKEN 8F THOMAS With bis Jaw broken at the. end of the twelfth round, after having fought as game a battle as ever Graced a ring, Terry Keller, the Ogden youth, was forced to relinquish bis chances of victory with Joe Thomas, the ex-middleweight ex-middleweight champion, last night at the fair grounds, and his manager, Charles Cleever. tossed up the spougo. The blow which put younj Keller hors de combat was a left band hook delivered de-livered about four seconds before the gong sounded at the end of the twelfth round. The battle, according to fight fan I who witnessed ihe rtcno match, say 5 that it was a much more interesting t fistic contest than that notable farce for world championship honors. Ter-: Ter-: ry'e work was a surprise to everybody .' but the few who have witnessed some ; of his more recent bouts on the coast, I It is almost the general opinion of : those who wero present that had Kel-i Kel-i lcr's Jaw not been, broken he would have stayed the limit, and the more sanrulne of his friends assert that he would have won the match before the twentv rounds bad been finished. I They base this erstwhile fantom hope" fon the fact that Thomas showed signs of weariness in the eleventh and twelfth rounds. The fight, which was1 for the mlddle-F mlddle-F weight championship, the winner to Knave an opportunity to meet Stanley Ketchel. was held under the auspices t of the Ogden Athletic Club, managod Pby Roy Shumway of Ogden. The v maUh was witnessed by a least twelve y hundred people, about one hundred Band fifty of this number coming from t'Salt Ivafce City on the fight special irun by the Denver & rtio Grande rail-f rail-f road. Tom Painter of Wyoming act- ed as referee. i The fight card started with two pre-, pre-, llminary bouts of six rounds each and in the second of these an unknown. Battling Holbrook. was put to sleep in ithe second round by Kid Rose of Salt "Lake. The first two fighters to don the i mitts were Eddie Weber of San Francisco Fran-cisco and Eddie Mathewson of Ogden. ' In six rounds of fast fiuhting both men appeared to have about an even break, although Mathewson in the second round received a blow on the nose which started the blood The bout was refereed by. Artie Downing, the : Salt Lake City bicycle rider, and In deciding It he cave the fight to Weher. The decisions did not meet with Tavor from the fans and they loudly hooted their displeasure There was no ouestlon as to who won the . RoKC-Holbrook bout, as the latter made no showing whatexer. In the first round be was knocked down and io the second after fifteen seconds of fighting be again lost bis feet. The climax enme a fw seconds after this when Rose landed a short right hand Jab to tbo lower an;lc or HolbrooU 8 Jav and be wont down for tho count, lie was carried to his corner and did not recover consciousness for about thirty seconds. Before the bis bout started Sbum-T.ay Sbum-T.ay cllmb?d throuKh the ropes and introduced Young Peter Jackson, a colored boxer, wbo Issued a challenge to fight any middleweight boxer Iti the world. He next read a telegram from Jim Flynn of Pueblo. Colo., challeng- . ln the winner of tbe Keller-Thomas bout. The negro fighter announced that be would challenge Flynn to box bim for a thousand dollar side bet. Just before tbe fighters of the 20-round 20-round go entered the ring offers were made by Salt Lake fans to bet ten to ei?ht on Thomas. Keller entered the ring first. He was accompanied to his corner by his manager. Charles Cleever. and his seconds. sec-onds. Cub Culvert and Grant Evans. In Thomas' corner were Andy McLoy. ' Rawhide Kelly and Otto Downing. , Both the principals before enter.ng , the roped arena announced to friends that they were confident of winning. "Watch the kid do It ' was tbe way in which Manager Cleeer expressed himself him-self Just before Keller stretched apart tho ropes to climb into the ring. Both of tbe boxers appeared can tious at the start and there were few , rusbe6. und but little real fighting in the first round. It was used merely as an Introduction by the boxers and finished without either feeling any ef- feet of the other's fists. The second round was but little warmer than tbe first, although at the close of it the firMers seemed to be growing better acquainted and were mixing matters , as the bell brought them to their cor- ' nere. It was in the third that the first , real action was shown by the scrap-i scrap-i pers. Both men rushed In this open-1 open-1 ing and met in a clinch in the middle . of the ring. Terry showed bis prowess prow-ess in -this round by blocking some ugly swings and vicious Jabs. Boib men landed some pretty Ftlff books In this round, which ended jU8t as Thomas made a futile swing at tbe Ogden boy's jaw. The round belonged to neither man. The fourth started with a clinch which the referee broke. Thomas talked in this round., but Keller, oy-ster oy-ster like, only, smiled his replv. Both men miwsed some hard swings' in this round. In a clinch Thomas reached Keller's nose, starting the blood The men were locked In close embracp when the bell sounded. This was Thomas' round. - In the fifth Thomas reaches Keller's wind with a terrific Bwlng. but tbe blow did not appear to. afreet the younger fighter, who swung back and clinched. Both gave and received blows and both were pushed agaltiHt the ropes, in ihe In-figbtlnc of this round Keller seemed to get a frae-' t on the better of it, but the round llnl?hed a toss-up for honors. The sixth round was a round nf clinches. Thomas asked the rereree j to break the clinches from llie left i iti" reached Thomas' wind VuV0tl ,n thlfl round- h"t there as Uttlo damage done to either man. It was about an even break. a a whole. j ., TLe mpn started the sevenih as-L7?rTy as-L7?rTy raJchpd Thomas' wind acain El ? v,Un'1 .and Thoma retaliated by touching his opponent's nose with c Rht d a?a,n 8tartiDP the crimson crim-son flow The men wero clinching as the round ended. Twine Keller, by his adeptness In i avpidins rushes and hl fasaraJ alert. |