Evening star., 1915-11-21

Fred admits that when they stepped to
the center Of the ring to be given in
structions by the referee he was so
nervous that he did not know whether
heFwas looking at the referee. Morris
or the church tower in Rochester. It
was very evident that 1t was a home
strike, for Fulton went on with Morris
and boxed worse than he ever did in his
life. Then came the mix-up in the
sixth round and Fulton became so ex-
cited that he lost the battle on q foul.
He says he does not know to this day
what happened, as he was thinking all
and not of the fight. 1t required q
number Of battles after that to put Full
ton wise to the fact that Mccartney had
simply been playing to get his goat.
Fred Kay, the Australian lightweight,
has gone into the welterweight divi-
sion and now is champion Of that coun-
try. Kay and Herb Mccoy (the latter
being lightweight champion, having
defeated Hughey Mehegan some time
the welterweight championship of Aus
tralia. and after a hard battle of twen-
ty rounds Kay was declared the win
ner on points. It is evident that Nc
Coy has gotten too heavy for the light
weight division. The week following
Joe Bonds. the American heavyweight,
who Is in Australia with Jack Kearns,
was defeated n'twenty rounds by Har-
ry Reeves. the English heavyweight
Frank Thorn, featherweight champion
OF Australia, made a wonderful come
back in match against Jack Clune,
we'll known lightweight over there,
scoring clean-cut victory by putting
Clune out in nine rounds.
Young Ahearn, who holds a Euro
pean championship and also is after
the American title Of middleweiKht
champion, Is very anxious to get on
a match with Mike Gibbons, and he
also would like to meet Jack Dillon,
pounds for him. 1t is all right for
some Of them to talk about Dillon
making 158 pounds at o'clock to fight
for the middleweight championship,
but a man who is boxing around 40
and It's pounds, always in pretty fair
condition, will find it next to impossi-
Bile to get down to 158 pounds and be
at to put up a battle, especially for a
championship. There was a time. about
two years ago, when Dillon could make
is pretty good bet that he could not
do SO now and do justice to himself
Therefore, Dillon should be content to
wear the light heavyweight crown.
and let the others fight 1t out for the
middleweight championship.
Harlem Tommy Murphy, who was
supposed to be out Of the game for
good. made his temperance in the
ring against Willie Jones of Brooklyn
derbilt Athletic Club of New York last
week. Murphy is still able to do the
lightweight limit very nicely, having
scaled 1873 pounds without any trou-
Bile. Tom showed that he has not for
gotten any Of his cleverness by de-
feating Jones without a great deal of
trouble. His long absence from the
ring, however. made quite a difference
in his judgment of distance, but at
that he was too much for the Brook
lyn. boy. Murphy is well fixed fnan-
cially. and tits not likely that he will
linger much longer as a star of the
roped arena. although he may be in
duced occasionally to enter the ring,
for he seems to like 1t as well as any
of the top-notchers. He was consid-
years ago, but he is past that stage
now, and must be content to remain
with the same class as Leach Cross, Ad
Wo1gast and others.
It is very likely that Les Darcy and
Eddie McGoorty. the middleweight,
who was defeated recently by Darcy
in Australia, will get together again
in Sydney some time during December.
have just received word from Sgd
ney that McGoorty has agreed to make
$50 pounds. ringside, for return bat
tie with the Australian champion, and
it will not be surprising if the contest
is arranged for boxing day at Snowy
Bakers stadium. If McGoorty Is prop
erly trained, he should be able to make
100 pounds very nicely. providing he
has not taken on lot of weight since
he left this country. for he made 158
pounds very easily for Mike Gibbons
In fact. he weighed only 155 at the
time. If McGoorty Is strong at the
weight. there are many here who think
he will defeat the Australian in their
second meeting. Darcy has been COM
ing along at top speed following his
defeat of McGoorty. by whipping Billy
Murray. Jimmy CIabby and Fred Dyer,
the English middleweight.