I S p o ijis I sir,-it Is almost im sslble to veil the complete story 0 - Stanislaus iliccal. better knqwn as the "Mich- igiii Assassin" Stanley Ketchel. ilcre was a man who never weigh- -d more than. 150 pounds and met ...”-yone from mtddleweights tel in-avywelghts. Ha knocked out my (rwlni Sullivan and almost killed my Papke. They failed him ihe "Michigan Assassin' and the nickname hardly did him full lust- Ice for in battle there never jvas. A more inhuman. snarllns. v' "us. lighting animal in the ring. Hei knew no mercy and no pity bl" always fought to destroy or be dest royed. ' :
Old-timers said that Ketchel I never had a heart. 1
Ketchel's parents were Russlany on his mother's side and polish oni his father's. Mrs. Klecal was only 14 when Stanley was born and when I smiley hit the road be was hardly that age himself.
After three years in hobo Jungle he became a boxer at seventeen! He was active in the ring from 1903 to 1910. 4
Ketchel survived his first tighti of record with a minimum of ef-v fort... I-lis victim was Jack (Kidi Tracy hailed throughout Butte. Montana as the man who had kayo- ed everyone of his toes for a month.
Tracy accomplished some of his Iistic miracles with the help of his manager and a stout sandbagu Tracy would manouver his gulle loss opponents over a curtain at the rear of the stage ithese fights here always held in theatres and beer emporlumsi and the manager would than hit him on the head with me sandbag. ' s
Ketchel was no mastermind but he had followed the meteoric rise of Tracy and smelled a rat. He switched the script by backing Tracy against the curtain. Tracy's manager did the rest within a short pcrlod.
Kctrliel became a tremendous drawing card in Montana. with plenty of easy money coming in. On one occasion he picked up a 31.000 reward for capturing a half- raste Mexican killer who had stall the wife of a rancher.
Ketchel's reputation reached Cal Ifornla hi 1907 when he hopped a fast freight to Sacramento and knocked out a promising negro George Brown in three rounds.
When Tommy Ryan resigned the middleweight crown in 1907. Joe Thomas. known as the pride of California. loomed with Billy Papke. Hugo Kelly and the Sulli- van twins Jack and Mike. as his most likely successor.
In three straight bouts Ketchel promptly belted Thomas out of the middleweight picture and on Feb. 22. 1909 Ketchel won the middle- weight championship by stopping Mike Sullivan in one minute of the first round.
Jack (Twin! Sullivan was the first to challenge Ketchel for the title. Jack always had a feeling he could whip Ketchcl for In 1906 he had battled to a 20-round draw with the "Michigan Assassin". How ever. when the title was on the line it was a different story. Sull- Iran was battered to the canvas in the 20th round.
After four successful defenses of his title Ketch was finally stopped by Billy Paplg. September 7. 1908. But two months later Ketchel re- gained the title by giving Papke one of the worst beatings ever handed out in a San Francisco fink.
On October i6. 1909. Kctchel en-
. staged the great Jack Johnson. The fight chatter had it that the flight was to be nothing more than a sparring exhibition between a good his man and a good little man.
At the end of the llth round Kcichcl was ahead on points. In the 12th Johnson rusiicd at his op- ponent and Ketchel drove a hard right at Jack's lowered head. John- son instinctively ducked but the punch caught him on the car and he went down. When Johnson arose at the count of eight he was a froihing beast and quickly clipped Ketchcl with a right to the law. a left to the stomach and as Ket-
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chel rdeled backwards another , right bounced off his jaw and he: went down in a heap. i , The usually lively Ketchel had been knocked dead to the world. Two of his front teeth were em-. bedded in Johnson's blood acked' rlvzlit glove. -
Johnson had only kind things to! say about his fallen rival. "He's mi good punchcr and a strongman.- He can take a heavy blow. And: I must say he has given me ai sorer chin than I ever had before." '
After the Johnson fight Ketchcl took it long rest from the ring, the first in his career. He returnedyto the ring. March 28. 1910 and fought to a ii-round no-decision bout with Frank Klaus. Then followed up by doing likewise with Sam Langford.
Ketcliel stopped .off at Cleveland one St. Patrick's Day to put on I show for the amusement of the local Irishmen. The feared "Mich igan Assassin” offered 3100 to any- one who could go three rounds with him. A musician named Ernest Bali immediately took. up the challenge and. of course. took a severe beating from the champ. But he was still on his feet at the end of three rounds to collect his money. with it he bough a train ticket to New York and e entually won fame and fortune as a song writer.
For the man who fought the "Michigan Assassin" to earn money to start his career wrote the evor-popular song ”When Irish Eyes Are Smiling". '
On a crisp fall morning of Oct- ober I5, 1910 Ketchel was at break-, fast at his ranch in Conway. Miss- ouri. when a Iarmhand named Walter Dlpley fired a load of buck- shot into the chaitip's back. Three hours later Ketchel was dead at the age of 24.
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N. Y. tAPI-Gover-I uor Avereil Harrunan Saturday invited niiiple syrup producersi around the world to compete for at "Governor's Cup" at the state su-- gar festival in Cooperstown next April. I Harrimau is spousiiruig a taste-i lost coinpeiitioii at the maple fes-i tlval principally to settle rival) claims over the quality of iiiaplel syrup produced in New York, Ver-p mont. Maine. New Hampshire and- the province of Quebec”
The governor's office said the- compctition would be open also to producers in all other states and "friendly nations."'The festival is scheduled for April 6-7.
New York has been embroiled in a tongue-in-cheek hassle with the other states and Quebec over the quality of respective home-pi'od- uced syrups.
The debate was touched off last Monday when Vermont's Governor Joseph B. Johnson took exception to a hill in the New York legisla lure that would designate the sugar maple as the official tree at New York.
Hat-riman's office said a panel of food editors would be selected! to taste-test syrups entered. Harri-I man will attend the festival April 6 to crown a state maple queen.
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