El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-31
DECISION Of FIGHT PROMOTERS
IS HARD BLOW FOR FRED full TON
Cancellation of Bout With lizard, Into Which Fulton
Agreed in Good Faith to Enter, Seems Hardship For
the Aspirant; Promoters Saw Too Little Money
in the Match, 1t Now Seems Certain
BY DAMON RUNYoN.

{ had their chance to get either Moran
I or Coffey before thev took Fulton. but
1 Moran and COffey wanted fair share
l Of the receipts Fulton came cheaper.
and so they grabbed Fulton.
The promoters crossed themselves.
! They wanted a cheap man. and got him.
and then confronted bv a cheap fight
they looked for an out We don't be-
lieFe that the winner of the Moran
Coffey fight would have any better
chance against Willard than Fulton.
just at present. but he would make the
New Orleans affair lbOk 4 lot better to
the prospective ticket buyer
Inside advices from New Orleans are
to the effect that of the firm of Dom
mick Tortorich and Tommy Burns
former heavyweight champion. the lat
ter is inclined to the economical side in
the business Of fistic promotion. Tor
torich, we are told. is a Dlunger. He
believes that the better the card. the
better the gate. but Burns is said to
be mighty cautious not 10 say con-
servative. Yet il was Tommy Burns
who established the price of $4,000.
win lose or draw. for his ring services
when he was champion
The silly Side.
In some Of the dispatches from the
crescent city we have seen a sugges-
ton that the promoters were annoyed
because the newspapers failed to Sup
port the match They might Just as
well expect the newspapers to support
an organized attempt to loot the town.
They ought to be tickled to death if
the newspapers lust maintain disiu-
,terested attitude and not start tearing
the whole affair limb from tree. The
box fight element is generally ridicu-
lous. but never more so than when it
IS trying TO give the impression that il
has anything to offer that ought 10
meet with the support OF anybody
We have not seen any of the New
Orleans papers recently. but we know
that there are number of very high
class sporting writer's in that city, and
we presume they are taking the VIII
lard-Fulton thing no more seriously
than sporting writers throughout the
country. This attitude is probably the
lack Of support" complained of by
the promoters
Would BE an Insult.
The fight promoter is generally
around trying to insult the intelligence
OF the sporting writer. and so he thinks
the sporting writer ought to insult the
intelligence of his readers That's what
any pronounced support Of the Will
lard-FultOn match would amount TO.
We confess 10 a decided fondness for
the fight game as sport, but the
bloviations of some Of these promoters
and managers, their profound match
making processes. their interminable
conversations. their nonsensical asser-
tons, and all, frequently give US a ter
rible pain
s1HeIping- n Town.
Take another angle of the Willard
Fulton match that the promoters think
ought to be supported" by the papers
According to the articles Of agreement
Willard will get S32.500 and Fulton
$500 Judging from the absence of eX-
element over the match at other points
most Of that money will have to come
from New Orleans people, and all Of il
will be carried out of the city. If that's
to hear how. The outside money that
viii be attracted to the city by the
match VIII not amount to enough TO
pay the day shift of bartenders in the
various cafes.
Fistic promoters sometimes like TO
tell you that a championship fight is a
great advertisement for a city New
Orleans needs. advertising, Of course.
New Orleans one of the best known
and and most popular cities in all the
world. with more natural attractions
than any town we can think of at the
moment. needs the advertising that a
thick-Witted. loud-mOuthed. sharp-deal-
ing fight followers can bring. Isn't that
a laugh2
We're not opposed to the Willard
Fulton match. On the contrary, we had
been rather fondIy anticipating a little
jaunt to the wonderful Crescent city
to see II contaminated. We are not
even opposed to the promoters chang
ing their plans and substituting some
one else for Fulton. because that would
make the contemplated journey seem
more worth while. but we do say that
it would be a mighty raw deal on Fred