Show DEMPSEY SMASHES ALIBI OF FULTON ABOUT THE BLOW WITHOUT WITHOUT- TROUBLE I I. I I Salt Lake Boxer Says He Did Not Violate Rule on one Hitting Hitting in There Were N No Clinches Aug 17 out Out of or Minneapolis C CHICAGO oIls olis the other day when Fred Fulton Fulton Fulton Ful Ful- ton arrived there he sprung an alibi that the punch that knocked him him out was wan foul roul The tall Minnesota 1 plasterer claimed that he and Dempsey Dempse had agreed to break clean and not strike at each other after the referee had aId taid break Dempsey Demps y violated this agreement and struck me as we were stepping back i is III the way Fulton or somebody else put It for him liim Dempsey was asked about this t yester yester- day not so at all tha the young youn fighter tighter said dald To begin with we agreed to box straight rules rind tind to protect ourselves ourselves-at at all times That ex explodes explodes ex- ex his alibi right there therEl but if you want further proof that he is wrong I will say that there was never a clinch I during the fight and never on once did the referee tell us to break or address us in any way after the first bell |