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Show Dempsey Entitled to Go W iih Fulton; High Bids for Willard Bout Special to The Tribune. MILWAUKEE, March 9. The principals in the three big fights February 23 ran pretty close to form, as Fulton defeated de-feated Moran, Jack Dempsey beat Bill Brennaa and Alike 0 'Dowd was given a shade over Harry Greb In- the St. I'nul papers. There was difference of opinion regarding the O 'Dowd-Greb match, reports being sent east that it wa? a good draw and one report giving Greb thc shade. The Twin City papers seemed to agree that Mike had the shade. The only way for these two lads to settle the middleweight title argument is to have a twenty-round battle in New Orleans or Denver, as it ilues not seem probable that Mike Gibbons Gib-bons will get into the argument as to which is champion. Therefore, it will be 0 'Dowd w ho will do the defending, with Greb as principal contender. Dempsey showed too much class for Rr-11 lironiian, and the contest was stopped in the sixth round to save the Ghicagoan from a knockout. Demp- Lsey has sliown that he possesses a lot of class and he is the logical man for a match with Fulton. A Terrific Beating. Few boxers have been cut or beaten up in a short space of time worse than Frank Moran was in his contest with Fred Fulton at New Orleans last week. There were just seven minutes and fifty fif-ty seconds of actual fightinc, but in that, short time Fulton administered a mo.-t severe beating, ending bv knocking knock-ing Moran down and out, just at a time when the referee was Hesitating about stopping the unequal battle. Ir seems as though every time Fulton let drive with his left to the face be cut his opponent or left a mark, ami his short right uppor.-uts wore jnr as dam-ngiug, dam-ngiug, but not of the cutting variety. Fred did not have a mark." although (Contmusd on Following Page.) DEMPSEY ElilRED 10 FMI MATCH (Continued from Preceding Page.) he took a number of healthy wallops about the neck and side of the face, especially toward the end of the first round and again in the second. It was these wallops that showed Fulton at his best, as he demonstrated his willingness wil-lingness to stand up under a rain of Wows and take the ;aff without flinching, flinch-ing, onlv to come back with greater force arid speed than ever. As Fred remarked to the writer after the fight: "I just wanted to take a few good wallops to show some of thein that I was not yellow, as- they claimed, ami could fight under any conditions. I was sorry to have been obliged to cut poor Moran up tlio wav I did, for he is a fine fellow and game as they make them, but it was all in the game and could not be avoided. . I was sorry lit was not Willard instead of Moran. Probably Willard will admit now that 1 did w hat he could not do stop Moran insido of ten rounds. I want to fight Willard as quickly as possible, but prefer twenty rounds, or even to a finish." Bids for' Match. Moran felt rather down-hearted over the result, but he -was a real sportsman sports-man and gave Fulton due credit for his victory. "Before the fight I was most confident con-fident of winning," said Frank, "and was willing to back myself with my own money. I did not figuro Fulton as hard as Willard, and I had no trouble going the distance with Jess. But, take it from me, this Fulton man can hit harder and from a shorter angle than Willard ever dreamed of. He is really a wonderful fighter and faster than' auv of the big fellows, besides having" a longer reach. To my mind, Fulton can whip Willard any time they meet. ' ' Tho crowd was one of the largest that ever attended a fight in New Orleans, Or-leans, there' being close to S000 persons in the big outdoor arena. Had the fight gone ten rounds there would have been 10,000 fans inside, as there were 2000 outside the gates, clamoring to get in, when word reached the front that Moran was knocked out. Fully 100 men paid their money to get in and reached the entry just in time to see Moran go down for the count. Immediately after the match and before be-fore Mike Collins, manager of Fulton, had a chance to get his hearings, offers of-fers began coming in for Fulton's services ser-vices and several clubs began bidding for a Fulton-Willard match. Colonel Palmer of Deming, New Mexico, was there w-ith forfeits and a straight offer of-fer of $100,000 for the contest, but Tortorich came to bat with an equal amount and with a privilege above a certain amount. The Cream City A. C. offered Willard $30,000 flat for his end to box ten rounds, Fulton to work ou a percentage. Baltimore clubs, also entered the bidding, but with no set figure. Kentucky's Governor. Too bad there are not a few more state governors about the country like Governor Stanley of Kentucky. The latter is not of the silk-stocking brigade, bri-gade, but of the real manly kind one who is not afraid to call a spade a spade and back up what he says. There was considerable opposition in the Blue-grass Blue-grass state to the boxing bill passed by the legislature last week, but Governor Gov-ernor Stanley came-out flat-footed for it and iu a "talk with Packey MeFar-land, MeFar-land, who has been teaching boxing at Camp Taylor, said: "I have heard much about your splendid work at camp, and I wish it were possible for vou to come to Frankfort for a while, iis there are a number of woodenheads aroui'.d there who need a good licking. I like boxing, and years ago did quite a bit of it myself. I certainly hope to see the boxing bill pass both houses." The chances are that the bill will go through and it is a certainty that Governor Stanley will put his O. K. on it. which will be adding one more state to the list, as New Jersey has already fallen in line with a bill for eight-round eight-round bouts. Kentucky will permit of fifteen-round contests. Then, too, Ohio is falling into line in fine shape. Commissions have been named in several sev-eral of t lie large cities and they are cooperating co-operating now, so that a boxer who : may be suspended in Cleveland will I get the same icy mitt at Toledo, C'o-i C'o-i iambus, Cincinnati and Akron. Spring-! Spring-! field is making a bid for a commission ! form of boxing and the leading business busi-ness men and those interested in sport there expect to have one named before long. I The death of Terry McGovern, the former featherweight champion, in the state hospital, New York, did not come as a surprise to the big majority of boxing fans, for it w-as known for some time that the famous little fighter fight-er had been in bad shape. Although only .'17 years of age, he went the pace and paid the penalty, as many others have done. When Terry McGovern first came to the front iu 1899 he was accounted a marvel, and he proved to be just what his backers claimed. He had a real knockout in eit her hand, and it took some walloping those days to beat such boys as George Dixon, Oscar Os-car Gardner, Tommy White, Kddic Lenny Len-ny and liddie Sautry, not counting such lightweights as Frank Krne. Kid Broad, Eddie Hanlon, Joe Bernstein and others he met later. His fight with Joe Gans in Chicago was one mark which some held against him, but from all accounts McGovern never knew of any agreement that might have existed between the Gans party and his own. McGovern fought what he. supposed was a square battle, but there has always al-ways been a strong claim that Gans was paid to lay down. The oue fighter fight-er who had it on Terry was Young Cor-bett Cor-bett of Denver. The latter sent word to Terry after they were matched that be intended-knocking his bJock off, etc., and it really got on Terry's nerves. When in Milwaukee McGovern showed that it did bother him, for he remarked: re-marked: ' v"That fresh kid will get his early. He's so fresh and full of gall that he won't get a chance to go a round." That was just what Corbett wanted, as events at Hartford, Conn.', proved, when they met November 28, 1900. It was then that Corbett repeated his taunts and Terry could n-.rt hold his temper, but threw all ctvle to the winds and cut loose at the Denver kid. Corbett had the. necessary kick in his mitt and in just one round and a half Terry was stretched out for the count. He tried again in San Francisco, but was beaten in eleven rounds. It was too much -for the Brooklyn iad and he was never the same afterward, alwavs fretting about his defeat, and that, probably, as much as anything, started him on the road to tlie easy life and his end. |
