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Show Willard Should Either Agree to Meet Fulton or Surrender His Title Showing of Rochester Man Gives Him Right to Championship Match; Is Ready to Put Up $10,000 for Bout; Plan to Bar Morris From Ring for Foul Tactics; Kiibane May Raise Feather Limit to 12b Pounds to Get Matches. By T. S. ANDREWS. Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, Bept. 15. Tt will be up to Joss Willard now to-dcclare to-dcclare himself as to whether or not ho intends to defend his title of heavyweight champion of the world. Mike Collins, man:ior ot i red Fulton, the. Minnesota giant who defeated de-feated Carl Morris of Oklahoma 10 their Labor (lav bout at. Canton, Ohio, is out. with a statement to the cttcct that Willard will bave either to tight Fulton or forfeit, his title. Rollins announces an-nounces that he will deposit $10,0UU within a short time, $.1000 to po as a forfeit to bind a match and the other $5000 to go as a side bet, if W illard desires it; or he can have the entire $10,000 as a side wager after the forfeit for-feit money is disposed of. I niton agrees to 'this proposition and is also willing to put up half the money himself, him-self, so that there will be no reason for the match to fall through, providing provid-ing Willard is willing to detend his title. , ... Too Minnesota man has proved without with-out a doubt that he is the logical contender con-tender for a championship match, and there is no good roasou why Willard should not accept the challenge immediately. imme-diately. He has had more than two :..: years' time in which to make money without defending his crown. -1'ulton was matched with AVillard for a championship cham-pionship event more than a year ago, but. it fell through at. that time because be-cause a great many objected to the pro-. pro-. posed match at New Orleans, claiming that Fulton had not prove,) himself a worthv contender. Since that time Fulton Ful-ton has knocked out almost all the heavyweights of class in the country, with the exception of Frank Moran and Gunboat Smith, and if that, does not, give him the right to challenge Willard for the title, then there is no such thing as a logical contender in any class. Superior to Morris. Fulton in his match with Carl Morris proved that, he was far superior as a boxer and a fighter over the Oklahoma giant. Claims have been made that " Fulton nearly disqualified himself by stepping out of the riug when Morris was violating all the rules known to .- boxing. That is not correct. Fulton did not go out of the ring, but he stepped with one foot outside on the ropes, while the other one was inside, and was about to leave the ring, thinking think-ing that Eeferee Hiukel had disqualified disquali-fied Morris, as stated in my letter last week, but the moment he learned from . . his seconds that such was not the case, - he stepped back and immediately went i to his corner. Morris's seconds admitted after the fight that Carl could not have gone auother two rounds, so that Fulton's blows must have carried a-great deal more weight than appeared to the spectators. spec-tators. There is no douot that Morris was about all in when he began fouling in the fifth round, and his faco certainly cer-tainly gave evidence of that. It "would be a very different matter with TTiilfnn fi(rli in(T :i mnn like .Tpsr Willard. The latter is a very fair boxer and stojids up straight to his work. That is Fulton's style and the result would be a much better contest. To my mind Fulton would show to much better advantage. What the boxing fans demand now is for Jess Willard to get busy and either defend his title or turn it over to the man iu line for it-Fred Fulton. To Bar Morris. That eastern, sport writers are in favor fa-vor of having Carl Morris, the Oklahoma Okla-homa giant, suspended from the ring for a time, is very evident from the manner in which they all agree with the suggestion of Na'tt Binkel, president presi-dent of the American Boxing association, associa-tion, that he should be barred from further participation in bcxing matches. A Brooklyn sport writer says: The advantage of the presence of an organization like the American Boxing association is shown by the news that Carl Morris mav be barred from the rings of ani'liated promoters. Morris's offense has been repeated fouling, the turning point in his career being the Canton. Can-ton. Ohio, fiasco with Fred Fulton on Labor day. The bulky Oklaho-man Oklaho-man has disgusted every advocate of fair play, but until "the A. B. A. took cognizance of his way of doing things ho has got hv unscathed un-scathed and laughed his critics to j scorn. If the A. B. A. goes to the limit in dealing with him it w-ill earn tho thanks of every fair-minded fair-minded sporting man. This progressive pro-gressive organisation, by the wav, is the same that the New Yoik promoters can't see with the aid of the most powerful telescope. It will be seen fron this that New York writers are becininff to recor. nize the fact that the A. B. A. would be a great thing for the game in New-York New-York and had :he managers and promoters of the big city given their support to the organization when it was formed, instead of trying to knock it and prevent the officers from carrying carry-ing out its objects, the game in tlie Empire state today would no doubt be in a more healthy condition. It has been argued bv writers all over the country that champions have no right whatever to bang on to their titles for an indefinite period without even trying to defend them agair.st legiti-l legiti-l " mate challengers, but still little effort has been niado to uphold the stand of the American Boxing association in its effort to carry out just such plans. There are three champions who need frodding with a very sharp stick and t is up to the promoters and followers follow-ers of the game to make them real-ire real-ire that something must be done along : " those lines. Moran Fails to Show.- 'It has often been said that Frank Moran, the blonde Pitlsburg heavy-: weight, is an in-and-out fighter. ft certainly must hae been one of Frank '' "out nights'' when ho met Gunboat Smith in New York last week, for from all accounts tho Gunboat man handed the big blonde a nifty trimming. : Tt. was Generally expected that Moran would score a knockout over Smith and thereby come iflio the limelight again lor a match with J-'rcd i- iiltoa or .less Willard, but his doteat at the bauds of Smith puts a cloud over him once more and relegates him to the background. back-ground. Gunboat has been somewhat of an in-and-outer himscif. It is only a year or two ao since .lack iJilluu guce tiunbuat a lino tnniuiing in ten rounds, but that was ivncii uie Ji nosier was at his beat. It is evident that tne tiuuboat man has been improving since that tine. No douot ho will want a crack now at 1-ied Fulton and the chances are that the Minnesota giant will bo glad to give the navy uiau a chance to show what ho can do when up against a boxer. May liaise Feather Limit'. Keceiitly there bave been suggestions that Johnny Kili.ane, leattu-iweight champion, suould raise the limit Irom Ifi io l-d pounus. 'the American . weight li Lit it lor leathers was originally original-ly its pounus and was grauuaby jumped to iTi. iiowever, it iviibaue agrees to fi,ht for the championship at pounds, it will be niaKjng toe scale the same as the European aud Australian Austral-ian weights, it would also be practically prac-tically tue same as the scaie adopted by the .-iineriean Boxing association at its meetiug iu Cleveland two years ago. the Ufigat at tnat time was placed at 2o pounds ana word was received irom both the Australian and European leueratious that, u the American association asso-ciation would schedule the class of weights in vogue in these countries, they would agree to niaJve the featherweight feather-weight limit 1-5 pounds instead of 12o" pounds, which is tneir sca.ea.uled weight at the present time. The fact that the ..ineiican Boxing association was unable un-able to carry out some of its plans is the main reason why the featherweight limit was not changed. Of course, it Kiibane should agree to this switch now, it would practically make the scale of weights among the countries the same and that is what all lovers of boxing box-ing would welcome a standard scale for all. in tho event of Kiibane agreeing agree-ing to this change it is likely that he would, have two challenges on his hands immediately one from George Chauey, the Batlimore boy whom Kiibane defeated de-feated about a year ago, and the other from Eddie Camp?, tne clever San Francisco lad who had developed into a 126-pound man from a bantamweight. Here is a chance for Johnny to get busy. He said he had to go into the lightweight class to get matches, but by a.greoiug to jump tho scale ot weights he can be accommodated by two clever boys for championsnip contests. con-tests. Now is" the time for Johnny to act. Surprise for White. It is not always a good plan for a fighter, no matter how good ho may be, to hold an opponent cheaply. Charlie White had his experience last week in Philadelphia. Some time ago the Chicago Chi-cago knockerout met Johnny Tillman in Minneapolis in a ten-round contest and had no trouble winning the decision; that is, the popular newspaper verdict. Charlie was confident that Tillman was easy for him at any time and consequently conse-quently he made another match with the Minneapolis boy over the six-round route in Philadelphia, and according to all reports, Tillman handed Charlie one awful wallop iu the second round. It was enough to scare the Chicago lad and nearly put him out of business, but Johnny seemed to lack the experience at this point to gauge his man properly and put on the finishing touch. This part of the game was made the harder bv the fact that White brought his ring generalship into play and that was probably prob-ably what saved him from a decisive defeat. It will probably be a good lesson les-son to Charlie to be more careful in the future. |