Evening journal., 1915-12-21
BOWLING
QUOT PITCHING
STARR NOT IMPRESSED BY
ABILITY OF FRED FULTON
By GEORGE L. STARR

Fred FULTON. who is slated to box
less willard in New Orleans. March
6. is a comparative ring novice, has
latle otheI. than size. height and reach
10 recommend him. These might be
real assets if the champion were
smaller person. but in every depart
ment-size. reach. weight experience
and ring skiil-wnlard is Fulton's su-
perior.
Willard has never been knocked out
An his hve-year career, whereas Full
ION has been ON the receiving end of
the three knockout punches. AL Pal
xer knocked out Fulton in hye
rounds: Carl Norris disposed Of Full
ION in six rounds and Harry wills, the
negro ~Black Hope" is said to have
aattened Fulton in twenty seconds.
Fulton's record Of accomplishments
shows he has scored knockouts over
Arthur Pelky. Tim Logan. Terry kel-
lar and Andres Anderson, tenth string
boxers. an,
However. the coming contest VIII
be "A battle between giants. The MS
tory OF the prize ring offers no paral-
,cl ~ the battle for the worlds heavy
vcei-ht championship in which VII
lard and Fulton will engage in at New
orleans. Big men have fought lot
.h,s n,eu,ier title Of dstiana since the
osrl,, davs OF the eighteenth century,
,,rt never through the long list OF
rhamnions. from James Figg TO jim
Ieffries. have two fighters OF the phy-
~ical proportions of Willard ana ful-
ton crossed arms in the roped arena.
Monsieur Frank Moran pronaoly
,,,ld give willard a real workout but
as for Fulton --!
cunboat smith is unquestionanly
n,-h as top-notcher. That
Knockout punch dealt TO MN py Siui
coffev a few weeks ago mas written ven
the word "fnis" on Smiths nasny ca
reer. 49,. so.,n Grade
oyer since he ran into that "a,lop
Ssnded out by Sam Langford, IN hos.
.on about a year ago. The strauges.
oo,1cident Of Smiths career IS thal
~ svvift descent started just when ne
Mad risen almost to the pusils'ie
crest. A.. az ,,rocls-
out smith scored victory on points
over Iangford. His achievement wa
4,e~a,ded far and wide. He was named
then fhe leading white hope '--as tne
man sure TO take Johnson's measure
with the padded mitts.
The "Cunner" made the greatest
hl6nder of his career by agreeing 10
r,oot the negro again. He felt he was
ansford's master Il was the chance
sam wanted. The Tar Baby" hadn
trained for that first Smith battle. bu'
be ala train for the second He aimee
to wipeout that first victory by Smlth
The white man went into the SECOND
hattie with the negro confident, eager
almost over-conhdent.
And Langford simply made a punch
ing bag of him. After hammering
smith al will in the first two rounds
Sam finished the battle by sending
smith to the mat for the full count in
the third.
smith never has been the same
since. He agreed TO meet Cofey IN
the hope that he could remove some
Of the stain on his record by beating
Coffey. But Coffey finished him-the
Gunboat is now shuffled to the dis
card
And. in the meantime. the folks
around Manhattan town are yearnine
for Frank Moran 20 come back and
show 'em whether that victory over
Coffey was on merits or by accident
Moran's friends feel that Willard OF
Fulton aren't real scrappers and thai
the Pittsburgh boy could easily TAX,
their measure.
COLDS CAUSE HEADAcHE AND enIr.