Show DEMPSEY DECLARES DECLARE DECLARES S FULTON IS A BUM SPORT AND DENIES FR CHARGE I Local Boxer Says He Does Not Box Exhibitions and I I r. r Hell He'll Fulton That Drop I S First Time He Sees Him I KEARNS EARNS AlSO REPliES S By Associated Press NEW YORK Feb 3 Jack 3 Jack Kearns manager of Jack Dempsey Dempsey Dempsey Demp- Demp sey has issued a signed statement denying the charge made by FredS Fred t Fulton that the result of Fulton's S bout with Dempsey was a prearranged prearranged ranged affair Kearns states My instructions to the referee of the Fulton Dempsey bout were to tell the men to tp shake shako hands be before before before be- be fore the bell and to come out fighting If Tex Rickard Ruckard who is is isS S expected to select Dempsey as asS S Willards Willard's opponent says say the word S we will meet Fulton any time for any number of rounds to prove proveS that the bout was not a fluke S I me some money an and andS V SHO 1 Ill I'll 11 knock him over again S sai said Jack Dempsey this morning I I when shown a dispatch in which'S which I S 'S Fred Fulton declared that their theirS I Ima S ma match ch at Harrison N. 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J last I July was a Dempsey has been in in n the city for the past I few v days to visit his mother who j I I is ill with influenza S So he says I double-crossed double him and that the match was a S asked Dempsey Well Vell If it was and andS S h ho let a boob as he used to call me double cross him he should have i shown himself a good sport and kept his mouth shut It was not a frame frame- up though and Im I'm going to knock knockS I S him for another goal the next time I Isee see him Its indeed strange how some people peo peo- I pIe change their minds Att After r that fight didn't he tell the newspaper men Dlen menS I S J that he was beaten by a better man and that he w was was s through with the fight game as a result S There was waa no agreement to box an exhibition because I couldn't box an exhibition if I tried He was a card and I Iwas was a boob as he called me Why he offered to lick and me meIn meIn meIn In the same ring at Denver Yet he is bum sport enough to say that he fought a boob and let the boob hang one on him Can you ou imagine a champion taking a chance like that with a boob S SS SORRY FOR FULTON S The best evidence that there was no agreement is the fact that he and andI I and his manager and I almost came cameto cameto cameto to blows before re we went into the ring S We e had a long argument over tape tare i A dozen prominent Eastern sportsmen n i saw it and heard it I never spoke to toS S him after that Denver affair until that night when he insisted that I 1 use less tape I told him then that I was go goin going going go- go I in ing to knock him for a goal and to put on as as much tape as he chose If If after all that fuss he expected to box an exhibition Im I'm indeed sorry I do don't dont t box exhibitions They hey all look alike to me and I never take tace chances S when I am boxing a boob S Here Is the thing that counts counts I I S knocked Fulton out in eighteen seconds seconds seconds sec sec- didn't I I am the man picked d t to box the champion as a result and if its it's all alt right with Tex Rickard Ill I'll knock Mr Ir Fulton Pulton over again for them S providing of course that someone shows m. m me m enough money to make my efforts efferts worth while Fulton admitted that he had been beenS S beaten and said he was through with the game but now he has a decision over Willie Meehan a fellow who got me rue when I was not serious or in condition and while we were boxing an exhibition E for the soldiers and gained a verdict over me I can can beat Meehan leenan a verdict over me I can can beat Meehan leenan I every night In the week and no one oneS S knows that any better be than Meehan's Meehan friends Fulton n is peeved because he i sees fecs that I am going to get the Willard fi fight ht an and he figures that that Meehan affair and this latest test belch might get getS S him into the limelight Personally I believe he should be run out Wf f the fight game instead HOPES ITS IT'S TRUE S In speaking of his chances for a bout with Jess Willard Villard Dempsey expressed the belief that it is too good to be true lIe He Is bubbling over with glee at the thO thought of finally getting a chance at the big but he ai also o expresses a fear that the match will never come of off as he has a hunch that It wilt will prove another Fulton Fulton- Fulton Willard affair and II after fter all it will wIIl serve to 1 Continued on p io e 3 I DEMPSEY DECLARES I I Continued from page 2 2 no purpose but to provide some mere ad advertising for Jess Willards Willard's oil all business busi bust ness All AU I can say is that I hope well we'll get together said me Salt Lake boy I Im simply itching to get at Willard and when I knock Mr Willard over Ill I'll be only tO tot too 1 glad lad to attend to Fulton in such a m m as to make him announce announce an an- flounce hi hb for keeps Dempsey's s nother is greatly Improved Improved improved Im im- Im- Im proved toda tod and it Is highly probable that after he has refereed a main event at the tho local Manhattan club where he ho fought ought his first battle for flears fl five years ears ago go he will board a train for Chicago and Pittsburg |