New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-01-16
Says Boxer Who Is Being
Groomed 10 Meet Jess
Willard Is Poor
Fighter.

Fred Fulton. who has been groomed
10 face jos Willard, or better, VINO
has been picked as the lirst victim for
the heavy weight champion, mas been
disclosed iu all his :hreadbare great
ness.
In "a letter 20 william II. Recap,
sporting cdi.o~ Of The Philadelphia
Public Ledger" BILLY Mccartney writes:
Fulton is big man. but cannot
tight. and is being managed by Mike
Collins. The latter did not discover
him as Il blacksmith and develop him.
Three years ago Fulton was being eX-
plotted bv Frank Force. sporting ed
i.or OF THE Minneapolis Tribune |
took MIN 20 Fargo 20 box an exhibition
with the late Iuthcr McCarty when We
were on tour He tried 20 land a
hayinaker on McCarty in the first round
after having told NE, when | asked
Linn II he wanted 10 level with his
punches. that he merely wanted to box
friendly
"!mmcdiately NcCarty nailed him
with left nook and right hand upper
CIT and knochca him loose. After that
McCarty toycd with him through three
onc-mInltc rounds. lie did not 90 SIX
rounds with McCarty, as he publishes
in his record of his ring battles. He
was knocscd out BY Al Palzer. and
never won from P2=cr. as he says IN
his record. He was knocEed out by
Car! Morris In SIX rouRds after his
present manager. hen not connected
with him. hut promoting the show at
Hudson where Morris boxed. had
bccrcd me to hold Fulton up for three
rounds. Fulton spent The greater part
OF ,he four and ffth rounds on the
door. and was promptly shocked out IN
he sixth round. I'm his record ne says
ne lest - Morris on foul III four
rounds.
After Frank rorce turned him
loose Tommy Dixon. who Is here now
managing Youll Wallace, good light
irving % ct him started professionally
he GropI ed him in as an amateur heavy
weigh III tournament N This city be-
lore he Kansas City 4. c.. and a local
middlcwcirht knocked the tar out o.
him. This finished Dixon, and Fulton
ramhlcd back o. Minneapolis. Frank
Force then went 20 San F'rancso. He
still had faith IN Fulton, and he sent
for the big corrluskc.
Fulton got 20 san Francisco some
way. ana ! think was matched with
Harry wills, who spilled him by a
punch when trying 20 hold him up for
a round or ,wo. Futon came back to
Minneapolis and was taken hold of by
& saloonkeeper named Mcbride, who
was mans ,slue him when Carl Morris
boxed Fulton ~ Hudson, Wis, October
Q. 1914. offered TO wager Mcbride
$500. using Collins and Harry Bryant,
OF s.; Paul, rs agents. that Fulton
would no; 90 SIX rounds
"The chief claim 70 fame that Fulton
has 10 his credit j. that ne beat Arthur
Pelkey IN ten rounds at Eau Claire,
Wis. who afterward won over him in
five rounds AZ Oshkosh, Wis. Fred
Sears. OF Philadelphia, was managing
Pe.kcy. and he assures me on hrs word
of honor that Pelkey was sick man
al Eau Claire. but az that knocked
Fulton down several times and almost
put him out in the iirst and ninth
rounds. The shade decision vas given
&c Fulton. and they were rematcned
al Oshkosh. where Peikey. in no real
shape. was giving the big fellow a
merry milling when, in he fifth round,
Fulton hit Pelkey on nerve or muscle
in his right hip. and the leg refused
70 support Pelkey. He fell or was
pushed over no less than twelve times.
and even il his helpless condition Full
ton could not knock him out. After