Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 3 | Dempsey to Box Fred Fulton July 4?

w DEMPSEY T TH TO H X fRD f FULTON l T N. N J li Blowup of Title Match L Lea Leaves e a v e s 5 S 'S Submarine Jack Only Plausible Opponent for Fred By Ray Pearson CHICAGO C May 25 With With the VJ big blowup of the proposed heavyweight hea championship battle between Champion Jess Willard Villard and Fred Fulton Futon dated for July 4 it looks as if Independence day of 1918 in III wartime would faU faH far below the standard as a u fight day July 4 1 always has been a big day for the boys who fl fling ng the gloves but with public sentiment averse to championship champion champion- ship bouts as wa was was indicated by bJ the effort to land lami a spot on which Willard and Fult Fulton n could fight it is evident there will win be bc nothing ing doing this his year in the way of a title scrap The action of Colonel Joseph Carson Carson Carson Car Car- son Miller in calling rolling off oft the bout he had clinched for tor the Fourth seems to have met with the approval val of or al almost almost almost al- al most everybody who has the affairs of the nation at heart for tor conditions everybody c realizes arc are far Car from what they are ii in iq normal times It Jt might be stated here that Colonel Miller expected criticism from somo some quarters as the result of ot his decision not to hold the thc contest He looked forward to comment cornmeal that he lie was waa calling off oC the bout bC because sentiment opposed it and he could not find tind a t place to state it ft I i I i J f I fi J HAD U SITE KOK KOKIn In that the Oklahoma man was not correct In the thc first place the maJority majority majority ma ma- sided with him In the second he did not call It off because he could not noi find rind a location When hen he canceled the tho contest he did tilt not do so because no one would allow it for COl ho lie had found COUIll a place and was waa perfectly willing to accept the stipulations Imposed when he reached reache the conclusion ion that the best thing ho could do would be to call It off Colonel Miller was waa wise in his statement In which he announced that he ho was through to to state his position clearly He lie did lil not say that It was wu patriotism or fn of that sort that prompted his action lie merely stated that he had found Cound public opinIon opinion opinion ion a against hol holding the fight and that he hc canceled it u because e he did not want to work against public opinion One thing results from this blowup o of Colonel Millers Miller's show and that is 15 that Fred Fulton will have havo to pay considerably considerably considerably con con- more attention to this young Pacific coast heavyweight Jack Dempe Demp- Demp sey e It would woul not be he surprising If It should happen that the bi big doings doings do do- O- O ings ing's of or the Fourth arc are furnished by this pair pall of heavies For Fot a good man many months oven even before Willard and atul Fulton Fulton Ful Fiji ton were m matched Dempsey and manager Jack Kearns had hall been hounding the Ho Rochester hestor giant g for for- nia fora ni- ni a H match but Lul with no success Fulton wanted a crack nt at the title not at al Dempsey and anti would have had hall it but for 01 wartime conditions But now that Fulton hasn't an anybody bod that might ht b bo b. considered worthy worth of Dr his steel except this Dempsey person he will vil have to 10 come out plainly and show cause for declining such sueh a n. meet meet- in jog or go o ahead and meet Utah Jack Jacle How flow Fulton can show cause and duck the Issue I lx is hard to figure ure out for or Dempsey has made good on everything e that has been asked of or him His most recent bout boul that with Billy Dilly At nl St. St Paul laul gave evidence e a plenty that thal he heIs heIs heis Is the man for Fulton to meet He handed It a i mart mort artistic trimming to the Minnesota Wildcat than I Fulton was waa able to dole dolo out Cf Ion rou IU lu Jt lt sure uro would b bo be a great bout for or some somo wise promoter to hook hoole up for or Jul July 4 no now that there Isn't going to tobe tobe tobo be bo a n championship scrap bet between Wll- Wll VIllard lard and Fulton Judging by the performances per per- of or the two to date dale It would be bo a betting proposition of or great ma mag Dempsey would be outweighed out out- weighed vei gli ed so something rn o I h ii g like I I k c twenty pounds but not for or a moment would he he lie let Jet that thai bother him for tOI he lie figures that tha t ho more than 5 up for that handicap b by his hitting power with both hands and his speed It looks as I If he ho is right In iii that way of or figur- figur I In n g Then too there Is that other little matter concerning gameness which must be he given Riven consideration I Fred red never has full fully cleared close followers follow tollow- ers era of or pugilism of the tho suspicion that he ho Isn't courageous under punishing tire Ire and f if he meets Dempsey it Is me surest thing thing- In the tho world th that t ho will have ha to stand for or real punishment On tho the other hand Dempsey D a also o has to show that he is courageous un under er fir firs The on only I reason he has yet to show It ItIs ItIs Itis Is because lJ he never er has been forced to been tho the winner by hy display it il having safe margins In all his battles JI SS THROUGH Just a line hue or two about Jess Villard Wil Wil- lard It looks hooks like one ono of tho the safest bets in the tIme world that the n never nevet will enter tho the ring again as Ho lie doc doesn't nt care for fol fighting and antI would not have ha agreed l' l c l to tight fight Fulton were weme It t not for fr the Ute gentle prodding 0 of his hili friend Colonel Colon l Now ow that this is s off oft the th thina that mn may 1 bo ho 0 looked eu Cor or some somo of these bright sunshiny da dais daa is s an announcement from Willard that he has retired from pugilism 1 1