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Show BEGIN TO BOOST FRED FULTOfT nnn nnn nnn nnn nnn BEN KAUFF ON M'GRAW'S CLUB By DAMON BUNTON THE1 are comnjejicin to do a b t of presB work for TreJ Fulton who meets Jess WiUard at New Orleans on March 4 So far the ballyhoo is little more than a faint far off whisper but ere the ides Of March roll around it will haie gradually swelled to a" deep bass typograph cal roar Fred s boosters are go ne to ba e a hard job but we never yet saw a real game press agent who ould shrink from any task no matter how diiiieuit n may appear The publicitv accelerators of the Mardi Grat match have no sues fertile t eld for the r endeavors as lay before the promoters Of nearly every oWer big fistic e ent held in this country in reent 3 ears but they 11 probably man age to work up a semblance of interest anvway The first cry for attention consists of a large peter bearing the photographs photo-graphs of Fulton and his manager Mike Collins and carrying Fred t record ot ring achievements In the poster at hand much stress is la d upon the gentlemanlv qual ties ot Fred and i s manager. Mr Coll ns It s stated that thev are both a redit to the bosing game, which we do not doubt tor a minute but then Je s w llard al 0 is a gent and there are even times when Tom Jones can horn into that class for Tom sleeps from eight to ten hours out of even twent four One incident connected with the career of F rulton is of nterest to te baseball pla ng common tv That 13 his buth It transp red at the little town I of Blue Rapids which is in Kansas and is the place that turned out the biggeet crowd to see a ball game ever produced ov a town of the ame population n the I countrj That was on the occasion of the cross countn leap of the o called I Giants and the 'White Sox when thev were tartwe on the r tou of the world I The crowd which attended the game played at Bl e Rapids numbered around 500 wh ch s considerably more than the populat on of the town The people came for miles and miles around and it was some event for that part of Kansas. Chris Mathewson will alwavs remember Blue Rapids for t was there that he I was lion zed more than ever before in h s career and L-hris has been something of a 1 on in h s time THE WOLGAST CASE W'ITHOlT entering into a liscnss on ot the merits ot the boxing eomn.is sion s decision uspendmg Vd Wolga't for sis months it seems to us that the commission can ea 1 guard against a repetition ot that case It can adopt a rule prohibiting a boxer from taking part in anv bont with n ten davs of a New York match In this wav the commission would guarantee the boxing fans that a man would enter the ring with bis hands in good cond tioo and n no part c lar dan ger of being stopped on account of njunes rece ed n a pre ous bout of recent date Man anagers are mak ng their borers work too m ch a t is and even though a n an ma be in gool pli s al trim he ma be unable to do b s best hro gh 0 erwork Wc ha e no s mpath for W olga t He is said to be worth a rea deal of mone and ho was boxing here for a omparat e sn all amount at a t me when be n st have real ne 1 that he was in no share for the str ggle He ould have ret red long ago on h cam ngs aud he 9 d spla ne m ght poo udgment f noth g worse b ont n ng n he ring THE STATUS OF KAUFF WHEN Jack Hendricks manager of the Indianapohh team of the mcr an asso tation was in New "Vork reccntlv he stated that his club had old whate er claim t had in Benny Ka ff to th New York Giants on eond Hon that Ka ff had no contract with the Feieral league This was at the time M Graw tool Ka ff from the Brooklm Fed anl as t t rned out that Benu did ba e a Federal league contra t the deal 0 far a t i concerned Indianapolis and the bisnts was presumably nulhf ed bv the ondi tion imposed The Indianapolis club did not recei e anv of the monev tirolatod and besides that Uendncka savs the contra t was altered bv the New 'iork club after it was assigned He aid however that if the Indianapolis club hss anthinn to tav about the matter James McGill the owner is anxioia that Ka ff 00 to MtfinV , account of fr endshj for the G ant chief and it is Ukely that Mctnll Tnah wVn be (ratified since Tauff has alresds s gned a Giant contract Outside of his ball pla ng ah it Kanff would be a tremendous draw 1 card in either league He 1 ne ot the most picturesque characters tb ' over broke nto baseball ind one of the most widel advertised He would raaiv I be worth $1 00 the amo nt New vorK w to hae paid Indianapolis for on. 1 swing am od the h g r g r ur j Kauff i more spocta lr than Tv ; Lobb though he mv not ha e all f obb s re arkable ab ht On the f eld and off the field Beniamf,. . V hf ketch a d f ho shows as n ch ) rowes n the National league as h. v.. j pla ed n the Federal he s go g to c a powerful attra tion at the old rurnst e I Tribme Want A Is ar searching eTtl n ma espeet b t ttv Uv IM 1 0 t as F n' 1 p , |