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Show FULTON-WILLS GO OFFERS ACTION Slashing Heavies Should Provide Pro-vide Real Spoil for Fistic Fans Bl .1 M K hock. International Kcws Sporting Editor NEW YMKK - Fred Pulton s. Harry Har-ry ills, fifteen rounds to a decision. Here's a slashing heavyweight "vatch that promters Un various section- of the country have been aniirlln for ever since Fulton returned from Europe. The Minnesota plasterer and his manager, Tom O'Kourke, turned deaf ars to all offers an til recently, however, how-ever, when the match was practically ollni '.ied by the International Snortinc J dub of N.-w York. nie I. S '. xho writer learns, has iSCd with both borers and will stage Jie bout In July or August aa one of Its first big fistic attactlons The date and the arena In which tho battle Is to be staged depend on later developments- the establlsnienl of the state Boxing Commission and the completion comple-tion of the club's palatial new home. The uncertainties connected with the bringing together of Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentler In a battle for the world's heavyweight title led tho officials of the International Sporting Sport-ing Club (0 look elsewhere for talent for their first big show and the Ful-ton Ful-ton -Wills affair will probably mark th club's Initial effort In promoting Cist 'cuffs OFFERS (TI( No match now in the realm of pos-ibJlity pos-ibJlity offers promise of more action thnn scrap '. ' tween Fulton ond Wills. The I antli plasterer and the black pi nther both stand well over six feet n their socks and bcth carry more than 200 pounds of bone and muscle tV will he no disparity In weights between Ihese two, such as there would be between Dempsey und Carpentler li will bo mastodon vs mastondon when they meet, and as Wills has everything at stake in h's efforts to break into the limelight and Fulton must live down his own admissions of faking, there is every reason to believe that a bout between thorn will be fought strictly on Its merits In such a case there Is but one conclusion their meeting 'ill be some collision. Under the rules that will govern boxing In New York henceforth two evidence of collusion between two fighters WjU result In the disbarment of both fighters and their managers from further participation In the game In New Yor! StatO. A black ball slipped Into the box by the International Interna-tional Sporting Club will menn that the fighter or manager acalnst w hom It is 1 asl will be slated for oblivion. So stilling or faking will bo fatal. T I LL PAIR D, To return to th.i match Fulton and Wills arc- splendidly paired. The plasterer is one of the biggest men who has ever donned ring togs In 1 this c-ountry. Fnlike most big men he Is fast and clever, and since starting start-ing anew to win ring laurels ho has apparently overcome his old weakness weak-ness a supreme distaste for punish- ; ment. At any rate, those w ho saw I 1 - M-.- bIma . . . rxmua Hwian iioo dioij uiiuft from Mary Ann to a left hook with all the Moran weight behind it. only to lose out in the end, arc inclined to that way of thinking. In Wills the Minnesota behemoth Will meet a scrapper who can deal out punishment in large, heavy gobs. And Wills Is clever, too. His left hand, like Fulton's, Is supposed to be his best bet, and like Fulton he is fast for a big fellow. Because of the qualifications of these big rnlttstens the officials of the International Sport Club believe they have arranged a match that will be well worth while, and from this dls- 1 tance It surely looks that way. no |