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Show BiE a il FUTON 1 BQIII I Wages Great Battle With Giant Opponent Critic Give Miske Draw or Better. ST. PAUL, Minn., Jan. is. Fight-ing Fight-ing Billy Miske tonight waged itii greatest battle of his career by boxing Fred Fulton to a stand-still In ten rounds before tho largest crowd that ever saw a fistic entertainment here. Virtually it was a victory for the Six Paul boy and a serious setback to IJfi championship aspirations of Fulton, whose widely-heralded hitting and boxing were not sufficient to defeat tan opponent whom he physicallj dwarfed and outclassed j Misko's fighting spirit was neve; better exemplified and his skill losl nothing in comparison with that & his giant opponent. J. Every newspaper critic at the riap side gave Miske a draw or better. ' Fulton's showing, however, vrai belter than many ring followers expected ex-pected as some "jinx" always bas ap! I peared to be following him when hj appeared in the ring in this vicinity; But Miske's showing was an ev greater surprise. Fulton's inabilitj'Tci outfight his smaller opponent has coil him much prestige, and his stock ai a championship aspirant took a decided de-cided drop. J There was not a knockdown scored during the ten rounds, and as the gon( rang at the end of tho contest, Mfskt was standing toe to toe with his adversary, ad-versary, and trading wallop foi wallop. When Fulton sluggod, Mlsfi was always ready to discard sclenci and slug with him. f The crowd "booed" Fulton repeatedly repeated-ly for his failure to do more damagj to his more agile opponent, and this seemed to some extent to rattle tffs big fellow. I. |