Show FULTON CRIES FAKE FIGHT AT HARRISON PARK Told It VI Was Wag as au an on Exhibition and Dud Dempsey Double Double- crossed ONLY TRAINED FOR FOi FORTNIGHT HOURS DC Dempsey Out of Town Tom but 14 Friends ri en Laugh at Story San Francisco Fob 1 l. Admitting that hiM fight tight with ej at Harrison Park N X J. J July 27 1918 wa waIt was wasa a n. up frame nm and that he was wan In on the tho take fake Prod Fre l Pillion Fulton aspirant for the worlds world's heavyweight championship to today today to- to day dllY issued a n signed statement here baring tho the whole affair an and appealing to tho the hoving loving lo public for a chance to prove prevo that he lie can whip either sc sey or Willard mar Fulton Fulon says sas tho the bout was arran arranged od while lie was in Minnesota 1 on a fishing fish Ush- In lag ing trip and that he lie trained but forty forty- eight hours for the fight although ho lie protested to his manager manager Mike jike ColI Collins Collins Col Col- I lins that ho was In no condition to fight tight Collins Collin so Fulton says san told him not to v worry otry but Lut to go into the ring and put on a boxing exhibition That would them give o a ten round go JO goIn goin In Minneapolis 1 that would net them themI 1 oooo I n 1 c. c M 1 S' S 7 1 i crossed him when thc they stepped Into the ring b by landing a hard right that caught caugh t him off ocr balance and followed that with a left lert that put him down for forthe forthe the tho count Ho lie says he ho does docs not know what was sal said between Kearns and Dempsey with Collins before or after aner ho he arrived from Minnesota but he says he does docs know that Collins tol told him tho fight was fixed to be a boxing exhibition exhibition exhibition that Is what ho went Into the ring expecting expecting- to do not o-not not fight Fulton Pulton says sas I 1 have ha remained silent all this time because of tho fear I would bo be called a I squealer Ono thing I thing I was In on the i thing thing thing-In in on tho the fake if you wish ti to call it such such but but I did what m my manager manager manager man man- ager told mo me to because to-because because I 1 was afraid to protest and tell him I would not en engage engage en- en gage In his exhibition I Now with Villard wanting to fight and with Dempsey picked b by most critics crit ics as the thc man to meet him I do not propose to keep still an any longer I know Imo I can whip either Dempsey or 01 I Willard I I have broken awn away from tram Collins despite tho the fact tact that ho still holds a contract as os m my m manager and b by malInA making mal mak ing InA a clean breast of at the tho Harrison Park affair I hope th the public will forgive e mo me and grant me mo the privilege to fight for the worlds world's championship I Jack Dempsey could coult not b to last night and his friends declared that ho was out of ot the tho city and that it was vaa impossible to reach him It was waa further declared that Dempsey would return Monday Jonda His brother J. J I B. B Dempsey said sait last night that ho knew knott where where- Jack was but that it would bo be Impossible to communicate with him before tonight Friends of ot Dempsey were Inclined Incline to laugh over Fulton's statement declaring eclar- eclar ing that there might have been a pos pos- of ot Fulton Fullon being drawn Into Inlo the tho affair through a pretended frame up as being the only wa way in which Jack Jalk could coul get the tho big plasterer into the ring It IR is declared that there is no doubt of or Dempsey's ability as compared com coin pared paret with Fulton com I |