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Show iiisem era IS BARRED FROM FSISGO MIT !IS; May Be Seen in Action in! Oakland, April 14, If Plans Mature j SAN FRANCISCO, April 6. If Fred j Fulton is to be seen in action in the; bay region, il will have to be else-' where than in San Francisco. The! ukase has gone forth from the powers' that be and Ferocious Fred will not be! accepted as a card by any of the local f clubs, l'oppiano and his associates of; the New Coliseum club had some idea' ol matching Fulton against Bill Tate, J but they were speedily disabused of the idea. - The order, of course, comes from : police headquarters. At the Central' station they will not forget for a long time how Fulton ran out of a benefit; match in which the authorities were' interested. As a result O'Rourke and h'is heavyweight will likely give the city a wide berth. There is a possibility, however, of Fulton's being matched by Tommy Simpson for Wednesday. April 14. O'Rourke has written Simpson, asking him to reserve that date -and stating if Fulton can cancel certain middle-western middle-western dates ho will come to Oakland. Oak-land. Also there is the problem of an opponent. op-ponent. Gunner Smith might hae been used, but signed for Fulton In Portland. If either Clem Johnson,, the colored scrapper, or Tiny Hermau shows any form this coming week,1 Simpson will land such a card for Fulton. Ful-ton. Leonard in Movies. According to word from Los Angeles, An-geles, Benny Leonard will do no fighting fight-ing until June 15. His moving picture' serial, "The Evil Eye." -which has been liu the making for six weeks, will take another two months to complete. I ! Gibson would like to take as his first match a bout in Portland. The Shriners of the United Slates will hold ! their Imperial conclave In the Oregon metropolis the middle of June. Benny himself Is a Shriner and could kill two birds with oae stone attend the conclave con-clave and enrich himself with a good-sized good-sized purse. Following that Gibson wants to come to San Francisco for a four-! round match, after which it is likely tho lightweight champion will return to the east. For the present, however, and until lit is definitely known just when the film -work will be-ended, no definite engagements are to bo made. |