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Show sPlan to, Teach Boxing in Schools Has Much Merit Results Obtained in Army Camps Example of Benefits Accruing From Regular Instruction; Fred Fulton Lacks Fighting Heart. By T. S. ANDREWS. MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Nov. 30. With demobilization already in progress at many of the army and navy camps, It will not be long before all the boxing tournaments tour-naments which have been weekly features fea-tures at the camps will also end, and thn youns men wNl pet back to the norma! nor-ma! pursuits of life. Many of them, how-over, how-over, will not furpet their boxing experiences, experi-ences, and no doubt they will continue the practice for their own benefit. If the boxinff pa me was of such great benefit to the boy.s in camp, why not for the youne men at hit-li schools and colleges? col-leges? There has been a great deal of lalk about installing boxing into the regular system of athletic training at the public schools, as is the custom in Australia Aus-tralia and some parts of England, yoo lierrick, former middleweight of X;wance, III., who has been army camp uoxiny instructor for some time, says: "During my stay at Camp Grant I have been deeply interested in the boxing game. I know its value as an exercise, for It niade a strong man of me when I was put down as a weakling. I have watched the young men at camp for months, and saw many of them, weak and more fit for a sanatorium, built up through the regular outdoor life and boxing box-ing into strong men. They all took to . boxing because there was more snap N. and go to it than in other sports, and "hat is what the Yankee boys like. It has taught the young fellows to be game, to be able to hold their tempers under all conditions and to take care of themselves them-selves when called upon. We have given certificates of graduation here the same as in other branches of school or army work, and, to my mind, the same system would work well In the schools not only high schools and colleges, but in the grade schools also." Work for Porky. Dan (Porky) Flyrm, the Boston heavyweight, heavy-weight, has probably fought more of the big and supposedly classy heavyweights tiian any other boxer in the profession, and still he has never been near the top of the ladder himself. Porky has been fighting for the past ten years at regular regu-lar in tervats, and he has put up some mighty good scraps. One of the best battles the Boston boy ever engaged in w;is in Hi 11, when he fought Bombardier "Wells twenty rounds at the big pavilion In London which Hugh D. Mcintosh, the Australian promoter, started. In this' contest n-'lvnn showed real class at times, but ho lacked aggressiveness and permitted per-mitted Wells to take the lead toward the end and gain the point decision. He followed fol-lowed this by meeting a few other mediocre men in England, but soon returned re-turned home and began meeting the best on this side. He tackled white and black mid never asked anything about color. He met Jack Dillon. Battling Levinsky, Tommy MeCarty, Charlie Weinert, Cnrl Morris, Al Reich, Sam Langford, Sam MuVea, Tom McMahon, Colin Ball, Tom Cowler, (Junboat Smith, Joe Jeannette. Iid Norfolk, Fred Fulton and dozens of .CUiers. Porky never knew what the 'knockout felt like until he met Fulton, f nfter they had battled twenty rounds In New Orleans. It must be said, however, that at that time Fulton was a very sick man and had no business in the ring. Later Fred met Flynn and stopped him In four rounds in New York, Now comes Jack Dempsey and hands Porky the k. o. twice first at Atlanta, Ga., July 1, in one round, and again at Philadelphia the other night in the same time one und which means that the fat boy win yve ,to look around for a new job and forget the boxing game. Fred Fulton, the Minnesota giant, de- 1 featerl "Willie Meehan, the fat boy of the Pa cine coast, in an easy manner, but still he is far from being considered a dangerous contender for the heavyweight I crown, even though the same critics gave Meehan a victory over Jack Dempsey a few months ago. The fact is that these , same critics do not hesitate to say that the big fellow from Minnesota is lacking In gameness to such an extent that he loses hfs battles before game men before be-fore he reallv starts, and there is a lot of truth In what they say. If Fred Fulton Ful-ton had the grit and confidence of Jack Dempsey he would be the greatest boxer In the world and unbeatable while lie kept his strength, but that word '"IF" Is In the way. Fulton has proved at times that he is a crreat fighter, but the sameness same-ness is not there, and that spoils all as far as championships are concerned. Fred fs naturally left-handed, and this gives him a great advantage In jabbing an opponent, but lie seems to be unable to realize or take advantage of what nature gave him. In his flcht with Meehan at San Francisco, the Minnesota giant just jabbed Willie to pieces and gave him a worse beating than Harry Wills, the colored col-ored wonder, did some time ago, and still the boxing judges say that Wills would whip both Meehan and Fulton in the same ring. Fulton certainly has a wonderful build for a fighter, but there must be "gray matter" and real nerve and grit to go with it. We have seen Fulton in fig tits where he showed as much gameness as any man, and again when he has shown the opposite. The fact that he wants to fight Dempsey again shows that he has a feeling in Ills heart that he is not a dead one yet, but he was surely a dead ono that afternoon at Harrison. N. J., when Jack landed the righ flush on his jaw. Probably it was the means of putting put-ting some nerve Into Fred's system. If so, it may have been a good thing after all. Boxing in Australia. Snowy Bakpr, the Australian boxing promoter, sends word that he is going back to Sydney to get things in shape for a resumption of the boxing game on the basis it occupied before the world war began. Sydney was one of the greatest great-est cities In the world for boxing and some of the biggest matches were held there, but the enlisting and drafting of the young men for war shot everything to pieces. While the game was killed for the time being, there were thousands of young men who had never before taken an interest in the sport who became strong for H, owing to the fact that they I were given boxing in their military train- I ing, as in America. It will mean more I boxers when the boys get home and many i more fans. That is why Baker, who has been doing moving-picture stunts with i Douglas Fairbanks for some time In Los ; Angeles, is hurrying back to Sydney. He j will continue in the picture game in j Australia. Baker will find some opposi- ' tion when he returns, for the owners of I the new Hippodrome building in Sydney j have been promoting ten-round bouts for I some time and making quite a success i of it. However, the Stadium jn Sydney i is the real spot for fights, seating more than 18,000 people, and, besides, they permit per-mit tli e twenty-round contests there, which is something the Australian sports ; want. As soon as Baker gets things in ! shape he intends to have some of the American boxers go over for a tour of the country, such as Jimmy Clabby, Eddie McGoorty and others have made in the past. Clabby is still there, having enlisted en-listed with the Australian contingent when the United States entered the war. He has been recruiting officer and made a big success of it. It is probable that Jimmy will get back into the boxing-game, boxing-game, for he has had some good training train-ing while with the arm v. |