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Show Kive battle to tbc Utah wonder. Terry Ter-ry decided that he would go atter the. middleweight championship and fought Johnnie O'Keefc, who had defeated de-feated a cvro f top-not eher. In this fight Keller hul tho inMortuno to Injure his -hand In the st-rnnd round, yet he puutly taM the limit lim-it and the fight was called a draw. O'Kccfe outweighed Terry by flft-en ixjtjnd. Tbc Injury to KHIt'h hand caused him to take a rt of hcven month" and prevented him from winning the nlddle weight champlinhlp. Of courfio Keller expects to wMn hi n.atch with Thomas in this rlty. and he is hoping to tt Stanley Kctchcl's goat before the year Is out. Terry haa been growing- heavier and is now a full fled g d middleweight. middle-weight. He 1 but 2u years old and will put up the hardest fight of bU life with Thomas, as he la believed to he In better condition than ever before. TERRY KELLER HAS THE CLEAMEST RECORD CLEVER LOCAL BOY, WHO MEETS JOE THOMAS HAS MET SOME OF THE BIG ONES TRAINING QUARTERS CROWDED DAILY. ' ' l?' ' , w V SiHp 'Am j. J. r-v.'i v JOE THOMAS, WHO MEETS TERRY KELLER AT THE FAIR GROUNDS JULY 28. ville thunderbolt, Jimtnle Horn, on a foul, In the secoud round. Horn claimed the foul was accidental and Terry gavo him another match, putting put-ting him to sleep In less than one minute. Terry then went back to San Francisco and beat Jim Conkey, an eastern welterweight, who had made good In his home country and had ccmc west to clean up a fortune on the coast. He made but a poor showing show-ing against Terry and wnt home r.iiieh poorer and carrying with him scars that added to his wisdom. Terry Keller was looming up as the uireniost welterweight of the coast. A match was arranged for him end Pete 0'Shanghanesy and the fighter with the unearthly name threw up the sponge in the fifth. Terry then boxed tne toughest man on the roast, Joe McGurn. This wild Irishman, with a great string ot scalps at his belt, tell before the Cgdtn boy lu the sixth round. With but a short lapse of timo intervening, interven-ing, he was calli-d upon to battlo with Kid Kruntz, who had beaten Mike Twin S 11 1 1 1 v u 11 and other men of that class. Krantz was the undisputed champion of Seattle, Wash., and was 1'iokiog upon by many followers ot cf the ring as Invincible. Again Keller Kel-ler beat his man in tho sixth round. Ifc boxed the Northern Champion, Freddie Brooks, who had won tho welterweight, wel-terweight, middleweight and heavy-v heavy-v eight champions of the north, ami was flaunting them upon the coast. Ti one night this gladiator had defeated de-feated thro champions and he wore his laurels like n Spartan. It was leally a cae of Greek meet Greek when llrooks and Terry came together, to-gether, as the bout was called a draw. Terry was raid to have had a little Terry Keller, the Ogden youth who !s to box Joe Thomap, the ex-world uiliVr. weight champion, al the fair grounds next Thursday night, has one of the cleanest records of nny boxer now before the public and Is entitled tn a chance for a championship bout with Stanb-y Ketchel. Keller began lighting when but a boy of II. He took part In an ama-l-ur show in Salt Lake City, promoi-ed promoi-ed by Wlllard Bt-an. and boxed eight rounds with one of Bean's proteges, Artie Gardner by name. The Ogden boy was but 11 years old at the time and because of his showing in this battle was dubbed "Young Fitzslm-r Fitzslm-r ons." Soon after this he became ' Hie sparring partner of Cyclone Thompson, when this lighter fought llyland In Ogden. Ho boxed a number num-ber of exhibition bouts in this city with Cub Cleever and Kid Herrick. Cyclone Thompson decided that Kel-, Kel-, ler bad the making of a great pugll- ift In him and tooV the OMen youth with him to his home In Illinois. At the time ibi- light game was v.hiilng In the Sucker State and the two scrappers soon returned west, gi-I gi-I lug to l he roast. Maurice Thompson, j I n clever boxer at the time, was 1 matched to flcht the coming Pacific , coast lightweight champion. Dale Gardner, but by an unfortunate turn of fate had sprained his ankle while ' la training and could not go on. Ills I pvomoter appealed to Cyclone Thomp- 1 ' fcon, but Cyclone was not a believer '; In lighting on short notice. Young Terry, then but sixteen iars old, j ngreed to enter tho ring with Gard ner. It was up to the promoter to accept the Imy's services or call oif the fighL Terry vntered the ring and held Gardner to a draw. Tho light went Hxtcr-n rounds and was one of the hardtt lightweight battles bat-tles ever pulled off on tho caM. After a short layoff, clue to a damaged dam-aged ear, ho knocked out Joe Elliott la eight rounds. Terry was stll! growing and about this lime left the lightweight class for welterweight company. Ho went to Maysvllle, Cal., and won a battle from the Mays- the best ot It and this assertion of th fans who wltncs-ed the tight was subsequently borne out by Terry defeating de-feating Brooks lu a return match, after ten rounds of terrific pounding. Keller continued to fight, either in iorw.--i;it or the middle clasH. but It became hard for him to secure . t ij only man of his strip on the coast eeemcd to be Mike Twin Sullivan, and this fighter refused to |