Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-18
FULTON LOCATES
LULLABY;J.FLYNN
FADES IN SECOND
Pueblo Fireman Meets With N,,s..
tune Right at Start In Bout VIII.
Minnesota Giant.
GREEN PREDOMINATRs AT pxo
Ticket Sale for Willard. Moran R...,.
Now Reaches siO0,OOo-Jess Sim
Working Hard.

Milwaukee, Wis, March 1s.-r,.
man Jim Flynn of Pueblo, the ola 49,,
horse Of the heavyweight div,.,o.
last night met misfortune with a can,
tai M when he went up against r,sa
Fulton. the Rochester giant. who h..
ambitions to meet Jess Willard
Flynn was knocked out in tina "a.
ond round. 1t is the first time n.
trick has been turned on FLYNN /.
years. Fulton was in tip-top form and
went to his work like a championsb,,
Apparently there Is good and suf,c,sn,
reason for Wizards reluctance vb.,
the subject Of boxing this guy Fulton /,
mentioned.
Charlie Metric. Milwaukee favorits
was lucky enough to hurt his hand N
training, preventing him from boxing
Walter Jacobson, the Chicago exama.
teur champion. Advance notices n,
the prowess Of jacobson had led us IA
expect a good boy, but nothing like tina
whirlwind he proved against Eddie
Biehme, who substituted for Metric.
Jacobson allowed Boehme to tan
him three times and then put 1t over.
just the same as he has done in eleven
Of his fifteen private fights since hs
turned professional. Harry Stout prop
erly stopped the contest in the first
round, as Boehme was practically out
and had no chance
Irish Holiday; Green Boys.
Green bottles, green fans, green
gloves and green boxers paid tribute
to the Irish holiday in the prelimin.
airy. Kid Squinty and Young Leon.
ard shed red blood, however, and were
even up after six hard rounds.
Ned Carpenter, likely looking 200
FOUNDER from Burlington, took a nas!y
tumble in the first round, assisted by
a short right-hand punch from Bud
German, 1S5-pound Neenah boy. Car
penter's head hit the floor hard and
staid there until the round ended at
the eight count Carpenter freshened
up during the rest, but took an awful
lacing until the eighth, when he took
another tumble German was too clev-
er and tough for the big Carpenter and
won by big margin.
Ticket Sale Big.
New York, March 18.-At Madison
Square Garden, where the Willard
Moran bout is to take place one week
from tomorrow night, 1t was stated
yesterday that the advance sale of tick
cts for the contest now amounts to
more than 100000 The management
announced that the s. and 50 seats
will be put on sale at 10 a. m. next
Thursday and that no more than two
of these seats would be sold to any
one applicant.
Willard did no road work yesterday
morning, but used the pulleys and
spent a quarter of an hour in bending
and setting-up exercises yesterday AFT
ernoon. Then he took on Jack Broad,
a local heavyweight, but the new
conner was handled so roughly that be
quit before the expiration of three min
utes. Jack Hemple was unable to take
part in the boxing today, as his face
was sore from his previous bouts with
Willard, but Rodel went three fast
rounds with the champion and Mon
ahan two.
Moran Is 90 Today.
New York. March 1S.-Frank Moran.
who is soon to meet the worlds cham
pion heavyweight in 10-round bout
here, is % years old today. He re-
ceived many congratulatory birthday
messages expressing wishes for MS
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