Show J r 4 K KI Kv Q v IR I Robert Edgren FU PULTON bULTON TON is being rapped all Uh the e country because of ot his record o out Weinert and other heavyweights eights in the clever on looked like a v Worlds world's chain chain- rr m s roughed him savagely in do hd Fulton unable to stay stayn n 1 rid Ie clumsy Oklahoma giant 1 to make malee his skill count s doped fighting If U he had had a fighting man as Jeffries Burns John- John hard lIard he would at least have havea a Morris at his own gamete gameter game ter te this Fulton swung b be back e ei extreme beating dangerous ford rd and making him quit Inam in Sam am was unable to get et to tens with Fulton who stopped nd Id d floored him with left jabs jC r rl Morris again Morris bet be- be UVe t ed for fouling pt pJ up his high class show show- p ng Gunboat ap- ap never letting Smith do any Ing l l he e few rounds the fight me this foolish affair with L second rate heavyweight df dJ ding g to accounts rushed wildo wilda wild- wild o a and all landed swings whereon where where- 0 on f slammed away Just as shoved Tate through theng the nJ ng the referee a chance If It He hie game to disqualify him COMPARES WELL if iC Fulton had a first to e he would be able to toly fally ly IY great fighting skill more I am inclined to think he heas as as could be expected I Ui tie average of his perform- perform pa PiU-es PiU res very well with that of weights in their time i ered d among amon the champions tot st have fighting intelligence of not have become such a ast I st r. r wit with ith tho those e long arms His resourcefulness when hurt In n his first Eastern fight t Fulton outclassed Reich L a that seven Reven rounds Reich hit ba Landers handers ders on Fulton's jaw e groggy Each limel time lime l le through the dangerous f few w w stopped Reich Reich's s sk ck k with I a hard jabbing left peal eal al that night I important time when time when he hesly hesly sly sIr dazed Fulton's Fulton s fighting avI av- av t I hat o of former topnotch 1 its daddY of them all aIt flat ed on his back bj by little rebel In Madison Square Gar- Gar ii Hell Ill 11 was no more than a midland mid mid- land a a. little middleweight at a thirty thirty round round nine Ion n ring rules with this thishel hel in France and took sev- sev to beat Kilrain Sulked Sul- Sul ke ked tred d out scores of men in aI a a. two wd but he had his bad I v s skillful quite as game as eds to be and had Intel- Intel Jut Juthe he fought a few poor W before fore and after winning theun the up un Sharkey when a raw out eso elso etso near putting Corbett round four bout in San Fran- Fran 11 the last round was cut short Ej minute to save the cham- cham key kev could not box at all Bute But the e boxer all aIt over the ring pave gave ve Corbett a chance chanc to do second fight with ass ast asS another flivver In the orbett was so 50 nearly done onnie McVoy McVey his second o he ring to let him lose on he wa was Vai the greatest heavyweight ever had Yet Jeffries was ellow at first Ills IIII initial ap- ap ew York Tork caused him to be beo gJ o sharply that he went back He was matched to tA Armstrong and Steve O ODon Don Don- o Armstrong in ten yh to go o on with the thet thel t l because of a dislocated his 11 was Jeffs Jeff's only really poor the he affair at Reno The lat- lat lr wn out of the reckoning 8 Ie d been out of the ring r 3 rs had to take off ocr pounds raining r and there is a strong hat at he was drugged to make betting a sure thing i It FLIVVERS ought fought many poor ring bat- bat was that he was I forced Met let men n stay to ge get t matches ld 1 Id t hardly be an excuse for posing losing JoSing to Marvin Hart in ini i ds 3 lie lost on a a. foul to towo two wo rounds striking stoking Jean- Jean he Jeanette was rushing him Sk He fought flat footed with en art in Philadelphia a poor six Champion IW down at Colma but he ability here flash ash of his great J p dazed daze l and met Ketchel's knockout punch a crushing o g Battling Jim Jimas u d' d draw with a aas as hardly a champions champion's s per- per Ii Burns did some reallY great For a small heavyweight he hei fp that i The miscalculation I. I n I when he tried I Johnson off oft his fet feet can cans s scored red ored against him He was a notion that tha t he could eon on quit Ho lIe simply ran head- head where h he might have speed peed to win a decision on lS chance to do that would o d In ht Australia I ELL DOWN l far lara r furnishes the greatest exa exa ex- ex a In and out boxer of real realIs Is record is far less Impress- Impress Fulton's Before he became Billiard lard was as uncertain a aall aas cig all as could be found among the f he tie ring H lie He quit In a a. bout pox oX never much of a heavy- heavy ard says he quit under chucked into jail in inco co town where the fight nd le-nd cl d told he would bo be kept months on a a. charge of prize he agreed to lie Ie down ark ork he knocked out Sailor rr und Soldier Kearns in el eight ht l ten rounds each with McCarty In these thes early carlY si wed a lot of ot ability But fought a i round four draw wed I-wed Ii 1 Miller a motorman who take or of thinking he was wis a aH as H 8 s b beaten aten by little Gunboat 14 nty rounds This last af- af ng g Willards Willard's huge bulk i. i e C Ie bored the poorest ten l 1 seen In a a. New Vew York ring f Apparently each eh of 0 the giants was desperately afraid of ot each other Tom McMahon a small heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight took a twelve twelve round decision another over Willard Villard in Ohio This was another Joke Afterward Willard knocked nc ed out Dan Daly a a. giant like ilke himself in nine rounds and little George Gcorge Rodel in six Then under control of foxy managers who would not risk having him im lose what what reputation he had bad by some poor r fight fight that would kill interest t i in his Johnson match he laid off oft for a year Trained under skilled men well coached he appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap at Havana a really great heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- ay- ay weight fought a cool skillful defensive e fight with only occasionally flurries of hard hitting until Johnson was worn down and then knocked Johnson out Willard was great that day Ho JIe met Johnson as mast master r of or Johnsons Johnson's own fighting style and won because he had youth and strength and recuperative power and anti even speed that Johnson lacked I INo No Fulton's Fulton s occasional lapses lapses from from topnotch form torm cannot be taken as pi that he will never be a dangerous championship championship championship cham cham- cont contender Copyright 1 1918 1118 18 by th the Press Pre Publishing Co the New York Evening r V. 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