The Only Game in Town by David Remnick

Author:David Remnick [Remnick, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-679-60366-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2010-06-08T04:00:00+00:00

In September 1910, Ketchel went to a farm near Springfield, Missouri, to live the simple life for a while. A dispatch from Springfield to the New York Sun said that his doctor had told him that he could not last out the year at the pace he was traveling. Ketchel had been living at the Bartholdi Hotel in New York; the Morning Telegraph said that his bill for his last two weeks there had been $593—whirlwind spending at a time when highballs were ten cents apiece. Ketchel was only twenty-four and hoped to get back into fighting trim. By then Mizner’s first successful play, The Deep Purple, had opened in Chicago and he had lost interest in the prize ring. According to Bat Masterson, Mizner planned a stage career for Ketchel and was working on a vaudeville monologue for him. Out in Missouri, the middleweight champion behaved like a model boy at first, but there was a woman on the farm. Dispatches bluntly described her as ugly, but she possessed the irresistible magic of propinquity. She was known as Goldie Hurtz, and one morning Mr. Hurtz, a farmhand, shot and killed Ketchel with a .22 rifle. It looked for a time as if Hurtz would be saved by the plea that he only did what any honest farmhand would do under the circumstances. But it turned out that the honest farmhand was really a dishonest barber named Walter Dipley, a city slicker hiding out from the Kansas City police. The unwritten-law defense collapsed when it was found that Mr. and Mrs. Hurtz had never been married. Tried as accomplices in the crime, they were both convicted and sent up for long terms.

1950

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