1960-06-10 — Page 9

hate in their fists

By REX LOPEZ

Thrashed-because he wouldn't shake hands

Only the few tense seconds between the announcement and

the first gong remained.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1960.

Cleveland Indians wrest AL baseball lead from Baltimore Orioles

New York, June 9.

The Cleveland Indians took the American League lead by .010 percentage points with 8-7 and 5-2 victories at Boston, while the Detroit Tigers, shut out on one hit for eight inn ings, dropped Baltimore to second place by beating the Orioles 2-0.

Charlie Maxwell's two-out two-run single in the ninth did it last night for

Detroit.

New York, 31⁄2 games behind,

two-run

single, did it for

Bob Trowbridge (1-2).

On the left-handsome Stanley Ketchel, middleweight

champion of the world, cool, confident, relaxed, On the right Billy Papke, his persistent, determined rival-hit four home runs in support Washington against relief pitcher

bent on avenging a previous defeat, his sights focussed on the coveted crown.

The date: September 7, 1908. The place: Vernon, California.

The bell signalling the start. of the Bght had hardly

Med down when the vast crowd rose to its feet in a deafening rear.

In the flood-lit ring the un- believable WES happening. Ketchel, the Michigan Asassin, staggering about like a drunkeu sailor with Papke chasing him. throwing every punch in book and landing them.

the

Kelchel, practically out on his feet, fought back instinctively. Three times he went down in never-to-be- forgotten those three minules of ruthless slaughter.

The crowd was stunned,

the past tense.

Kelchel had won his fame and fortune the hard way-and he was going to prove that he was not finished.

a

And at the same me he would teach Lits usurper

on he would never forget,

Born of Polish-American parents, he had started box, ing at the age of 17 to pull himself out of the subsistence- level existence on his father's small Michigan farm.

Glamorous

In five short years he had reached the top of his profession This was the great Kelchel, by winning the middleweight The world's best middle-crown in a first round knockout weight-getting the biggest from Mike "Twin" Sullivan, lacing of his life from a man

Handsome, gay and tough, the mosl he had already decisively Ketch became beaten once,

Not until the und ended did the majority of the fans present learn what had hap pened.

Half blinded

glamorous and most popular fighter of his time. The idol af millions,

True, his exvagant taste. for wine, womery and gambling had sometimes got him into At that first bell, Kelchelt spots. But it all added to the larger than life picture of had sprung out of his corner with arm stretched out to shake him his fans loved.

November 20, 1908 in San Francisco.

fully decided to massacre.

end

the

Like a whirlwind he launched into Papke and knocked him st with 'a left swing.

of Bob Turley's three-hit plich- ing for a 8-0 victory over Chi- cago Washington defeated Kansas City 8-0.

In the National League, Pillsburgh ended its losing streak at three and retained a one-garne lead with a 5-3 victory over Chicazo's Cubs. Second place San Francisco scored two unearned runs in the Completely dazed. Papko ninth for a 2-1 decision over automatically staggered upright Cincinnati behind a joint three-a as the count started. But a de-hilter by Mike McCormick and vastating. succession of righ Sam Jones, the winner in redet, and lefts showering on him from all angles, smashed him to the canves agai.

The timekeeper count.

began to

Papke made another feeble attempt to resume the fight,

But he was out. He protested bitterly that he could have gone on. But he had been fairly and squarely defeated.

Even if he had been allowed to continue he could have lasted at the only one more round outside.

Made history

In fact, his face was so bat tered that his own family, failed to recognise him when he re turned home.

Kelchell had made history, Moreover, he had established himself as the greatest mid- dleweight champion ever, They mot again in July the following year. But Papke was From the first bell the Michi- not the same man. And Kelchel Assassin get into his op-won on points, in a calm, almost

This time there was no hand-

shake.

hands with his opponent as was then the custom in America.

Ignoring the gesture, Papke swung from his heels and con- nected a perfect left hook on the champion's unprotected gan jaw.

Kelchel's knees ponent with hate-charged fists. buckled, Papke again landed, Ketchel, fighting in cold fury, vicious straight battered Papke from center to right that caught Ketchel be- corner, tween the eyės.

As

this time a

But always he held back that little extra spark that would have smashed his op- ponent senseless.

and dazed, Half blinded Ketchel bad staggered round the ring guarding himself like Only a novice.

For ten rounds he continued his superb condition and fighting instinct this cold-blooded slaughter. kept him going.

Papke's face became a bloody Those two

stolen balloon. His eyes were vicious, blows won the fight for Papke.gishticks slits. For Kelehel never recovered.

Then in the eleventh round,

twe

sedate contest,

Ketchel went from strength to strength. But his career was 10 last only another few months.

Los Angelos defeated third place Milwaukee 4-1 on two- run home runs by Wally Moon and Duke Snider in the eighth inning.

Philadelphia defeated St Louis 5-4 in the other NL game.

home Dick Stuart's two-run run in the fifth, and shutout re- les pitching by Elroy Face after he came on with the bases load- ed in a three-run seventh, won it for the Pirates.

The Glants, shut out on four hits for eight innings, beat left- hander Jim O'Toole (4-5) with Ed Bressoud's two-out single,

Last place Philadelphia made it two straight over the Cards on tie-breaking two-run pinch double by rookie Tony Curry in the eighth.

Results

Results of last night's and today's games included:

AMERICAN LEAGUE (Ist game)

Grand-slam homer and Sadowski, H. Sullivan (0)

Woody Held won both games for the Indians, capping a four- run th in the opener with n two-out single, and then hitting a grand-slam (four runs) home run in the sixth inning of the game. The Indians, night

row with winning four in a their ninth victory in 12 games, took a 4-0 lead in the first gume whien Pumpsie Green hit his first Major League alam.

The Yankees got all their runs on the home runs by Mickey Mantle, who belted two; Roger Maris, who increased his Major League leading total to 16, and

A three-run eighth inning, Hector Lopez.... triggered by Julio Becquer's

Burnley beat Hearts 2-1

Ironically, the fabulous Michi- gan Assassin of the ring was himself the victim of an assassin. On October 15, 1910, while having breakfast alone on a lonely farm in Missouri, he was

Toronto, June 10. shot in the back by a jealous Burnley Football Club defzal- farmhand named Walter A. Dip-ed Heart of Midlothian of the ley, who thought-wrongly as it Scottish Football League 2-1 in turned out-that the champton an exhibition soccer game hero

nt Varsity

Stadium. had been playing around with tonight

He remained standing for eleven the Michigan Assassin merci- his girl. more bloody, merciless rounds,

swinging at an opponent he could hardly see.

Then in the twelfth round Papke dropped him with a The shattering - right cross. referee had reached "eight" when Ketchel got to his feel only to be floored again with another right.

This time the referee didn't even bother Wo complete the count. He waved Ketchel's seconds to come and take their

man away.

It was one of the biggest sur- prisc wins in boxing history. The first time the Michigan battler had been knocked off his feel.

Papke, the Illinois Thunder- bok, was no glass-chinned mug. He was a strong, Berce fighter. But no match for Ketchel, the herculean middleweight with the shoulders of a heavyweight.

Venom and hate

In his previous encounter with Ketchel, he had gone down like & wet glove after

punishing rounds.

Len

In his dressing room after the fight, Ketchel made no excuses.

"I should have been on my guerd," he said. "But I would

like to get my hande on Papke again."

In print these words can never express the venom and hate that charged them. As he utteredi them, Ketchel clenched his teeth and his face was white with hote.

Kelchel was not bitter about having lost his crown. He could take the rough with the smooth. It was not the first fight he had lost. And it would not be the laat.

But the thought of how Papice hed fouled him sent him into a rage...

No one expected that Papke would agree to fight Ketchel again.

But the Imois Thunderbolt showed no hesitation.

He agreed to a match for his newly won middleweight tille on November 26, at San Francisco Just two and a half months after winning it. He was confident that what he had done once he could do nzain. -

the fun started And then

As the fighters prepared for their encounter, newspaper writers and gossips fed the hate that burned between them.

"Papke was a dirty fighter," they quoted Ketchel as saying.

And they carried back from Papke's training camp the often quoted ring maxim: "They never come back.”-

Indeed, until then no middle- weight ever had

But perhaps what incensed Ketchel most was, the fact that everyone was talking about him

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