Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-06

fought Mike Glover of Boston. The
two boys had battied along until the
tenth round, and it was during the Sec
Ond minute of this round that Glover
put over the X. o.
ut seemed very queer to me at the
time" remarked Kramer. in discussing
the matter the other day, land for the
life Of me I cannot imagine what hap
pened. as ] never felt thing when
Glover landed the knockout, and after
I came to my senses L did not know
that I had been hit at all. All I re-
member at the time was the referee
counting six, and then there was moth
ing but sweet music in my ears. Some
of the boys were trying to tell me aft
er / came to that l had not been
Knocked out, but that the bell had
saved me. doubted them all the
while, for ] did not remember thing
Metric. one of my seconds, swinging a
towel in front Of me.
THE blow that put me down and out
was left hook to my chin. for 1
know I tried to put my right over on
Glover's jaw and he beat me to the
getting up as the papers described,
and taking a second blow. from Glover,
SO you see that l must have been
knocked out while / was standing up
and probably sustained the second
knockout when he put me down the
second time. However. the sec
ond blow was not very hard one, so
l was told. and it did no damage. The
boys tried to keep the fact away from
me. that I had been knocked out. but
it was just my luck to be in restau
rant after the fight and when / was
about to drink a cup of coffee. along
came a newsy who opened the door SO
that everybody could hear him: Eek
ira paper-all about Kramer being
knocked outv That settled 1t with me.
and my friends, who had been trying
to make me believe otherwise, were
forced to admit the truth. l would
like to meet Glover again. for / have
no dread of the knockout whatever,
since the only effects ! had the last
time was of hearing sweet music"
Fred Fulton's efforts to fight his way
to chance for the championship bat
tie with Jess Willard was given a
though he defeated Porky Flynn in a
twenty-round battle. Fulton was given
the decision at the end Of the twentieth
round by Referee Tommy Burns. but
the critics down south wanted to see
more than that-they wanted to see
Flynn before they could consider him
as legitimate opponent for Willard in
title match. Some of them have criti-
cised Fulton for failing to stop Flynn
and alleging that he is not yet of cham
pionship caliber. The writer has seen
Fulton in a number of contests in the
north, or rather northwest. and in all
these battles the Minnesota giant GER
tainly looked like very promising
candidate for Wizards crown. From
information received from New Orleans
it is evident that Fulton went into the
contest when he would have been bet
ter off in a hospital His manager. Mike
Collins. telegraphed me right after the
battle as follows:
Fulton won the decision over Flynn
here. but do not think he was given
the deal he deserved. 1t was well
known that Fred was sick for five
days previous to the match. The doc
tor advised him not to go on, and did
not want him to fight, but he was
short Of money and insisted that he 60
through with it. OF course, this was
contrary to my wishes, and even ut
that felt that he would stop Flynn.
The trouble IL Fred took the chance,