Stanley Ketchel vs Joe Thomas Championship Fight Worn Boxing Gloves 9/2/1907

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Stanley Ketchel vs Joe Thomas  Championship Fight Worn Boxing Gloves 9/2/1907
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Up for sale today is this rare chance to own something from Stanley Ketchel AKA “The Michigan Assassin” one of the hardest hitting fighters to ever step in the ring. Some say he was the best Welter Weight and Middle Weight fighter of all time. Gloves come from the September 2, 1907 fight at Mission Street Arena in Colma, California. Welterweights Stanley Ketchel and Joe Thomas squared off in a featured match. Ketchel knocked Thomas out in the 32nd round. Ketchel claimed the World Welterweight Title after this bout, although bout was held at 150 pounds. Ketchel’s glove split and was replaced in the 13th with the gloves offered up for sale. The gloves were on display at the old Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame for years. These come directly from the Stanley Weston Ring Magazine Collection with letter of authenticity form Mr Weston’s Grandson who is the President of the Stanley Weston Archives.  Do not pass this opportunity up.
History of Stanley Ketchel’s untimely murder
– 1910 Hoping for a rematch with Jack Johnson, Ketchel moved to the ranch of his friend, R.P. Dickerson, near (on what is now referred to as Dickerson Ranch Road) Conway, Missouri, where he had hoped to regain his strength. Dickerson had just hired a cook, Goldie Smith, and a ranch hand, whom Smith said was her husband, Walter Kurtz.  Walter Kurtz turned out to be Walter Dipley. Walter Dipley and Goldie Smith were not married, and in fact, had just met each other a month before Dickerson had hired them.  After being upbraided by the “Michigan Assassin” for beating a horse on the morning of October 14, Dipley decided to get even with Ketchel by robbing him. The following morning, Smith seated Ketchel at the breakfast table with his back to the door and Dipley, armed with a .22 caliber rifle, came up behind him and shouted, “Get your hands up!” Ketchel stood up, and as he turned around, Dipley shot him. The bullet traveled from his shoulder into his lung and Ketchel fell to the floor mortally wounded. Dipley then took Ketchel’s handgun and smashed Ketchel in the face with it. At the same time, Smith rifled Ketchel’s pockets for his money.  After promising to meet Goldie Smith later that night, Dipley ran from the ranch.  Unaware that, as he lay dying, Ketchel told the former ranch foreman, C.E. Bailey, that Goldie Smith had robbed him, she told police officers that Ketchel had raped her and that that was the reason why Dipley had shot him. Her story fell apart and she admitted her complicity in the robbery, but stated she did not know Dipley was going to kill the former champion.  In an effort to save the young fighter’s life, R.P. Dickerson chartered a special train to take Stanley Ketchel to a hospital in Springfield, Missouri, but Ketchel died around 7 o’clock that night. His last words were: “I’m so tired. Take me home to mother.”  Dickerson also offered a $5,000 dead or alive reward (preferably dead) for Dipley, who was captured at a neighboring farmhouse the next day.  Upon being informed of Ketchel’s death, his manager Wilson Mizner reportedly said, “Tell them to start counting ten over him. He’ll get up.”
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