KETCHELL SHOT DEAD

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 949, 17 October 1910, Page 7

KETCHELL SHOT DEAD

•BOXING CHAMPION KILLED IN r A QUARREL. j ' > I By Iteleffraph—Ercss Association—Copyrig&t.' ; ..(Rec, October: 17, ,0.35>'a.m.)- ' • New York, October I<3. . .Stanley Kotchell, middle-weight chany * pion of.the. world, lias been fatally shot a- v. by a ranch hand at Conway, Missouri, as the result of- a quarrel.' / ■ ' a ' All operation, to remove the bullet : ' from N hiß- back failed. s-' - — , [Ketclicll, in form, was a remarkably ■ 1 fine, pugilist. For a tunc he earned all before him, and, though on' the light - ; side, was at one stage looted to as a pos-- . i feible world's champion. He,- however,' . < succumbed .to Papke, and although he i afterwards. _ wrested. ■'■ t}io *' championship ilrom that boxer - his mana * < i was broken. After Johnson's defeat of 1 -3 Burns for the: heavy-weight champion-'-ship, Itetchell strove hard to secure a : I match with the champion, : repeatedly: stated ■ that / Johnson have to beat :Ketchell before he (Jcf- '■ ■ a fries) would return to the. ring to at--' teupt. to wrest, the. championship from- ' th(i negro. Eventually, a match was ar- : I '- 1 ranged, and Johnson won in convincing *' style.- The pictures of this contest'were ; ' -: shown in Wellington rocentjy. ;'Accord- ■ injtto recent American .advices, KetcheU, : v i't ; ; who:led a very fast life, had broken dowam. health, and had goiio: to the back--country to recuperate.] .