Omaha daily bee., 1917-09-30
FULTON LOGICAL
FOE OF CHAMPION
Morris Foul Tactics Send Him
Into Pugilistic Discard and
Leaves a Free Field
for Fred.

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spotlight as the only logical opponent
for Champion Jess Willard in title
contest, by virtue of Fulton's victory
over Carl Morris at Canton, o, on
Labor da. on a foul, there is much in
the way IF hang over" that can be
written concerning the event which
brought about this result. Perhaps
the prin ,ipal thing that should be said
is that Fultor and no one else in the
heavyweight ranks deserves crack
at the titleholder, for Morris elimi-
mated himself conf pletely from the
running. Before their meeting the
Oklahoma scrapper was considered
just as strong a miller as Fulton.
Class was the main thing that stood
out in the Canton clash Fulton had
all the class. 4 better boxer, better
and harder hitter and cleaner scrap
per, he showed his supremacy. When
it became evident to Morris that he
was in for a lacing, he adopted foul
tactics which caused Referee Matt
Hinkel to disqualify him in the sixth
round. No more palpable fouls ever
were committed in any ring, and the
only wonder is that Morris was not
declared loser earlier in the scrap.
Hinkel declares that no less than
twenty times from the third to the
sixth round Morris deliberately but
ted his head into Fu,ton's chin.
Hinkel Considers Crowd.
When that number of fouls is con-
sidered, it certainly shows that Matt
Hinkel deserves a lot of credit for
patience. But Hinkel had something
else to think of besides stopping the
fight, for he had been a half partner
in the promotion. of the show and felt
that he should go as far as possible in
order to give the fans a run for their
money. AS there were something
like 1000 persons at the ringside, and
they had paid more than $4,000 for
the privilege of seeing what they had
thought would be real battle, Hin
kel's way of reasoning easily can be
understood.
Going back to the actual business
of fighting, it is necessary to say that
Fulton, although the winner, did not
give the impression that he is pos
sessed of wonderful gameness. He
made the mistake of nearly jumping
out of the ring in the fifth round
when the referee had temporarily
stopped the boxers to warn Morris
against fouling. If he had managed
to get out of the ring he would have
been disqualified instead of Morris,
but his chief second Harry Wills
yanked Fred back through tFe ropes
and, with the aid of Manae Mike
Collins, got Fulton to return to the
battling.
Fulton's Teeth Broken.
There were quite 4 few ringsiders
who declared after the bout that Full
ton was ready to jump out of the ring
even before the fifth round. but that
is matter yet to be proved. In jus
tice to Fulton it must be said that he
was stung hard and often by the hard
butting of Morris. Such damage
was far worse than taking a punch
and Fred showed by the results when
he left the ring that he had been pun
ished. One tooth had been knocked
out and another broken off. He was
forced to hurry direct from the ring
to den list to have the exposed nerve
of the broken tooth covered.
Fulton, however, had an alibi for
his effort to get out of the ring. Il
thought l h rd the referee tell Morris
that he was disqualified, and | natur-
ally thought that the bout was over,
so ! started to leave the ring. | was
surprised when Wills grabbed ine by
the arm and pulled me back to my
chair.
Fulton Solves Offense.
1t was only matter of time before
Fulton would have been declared the
winner as long as he could assimilate
the butting punishment, for at the
time the bout was stopped he was
showing such marked supremacy that
Morris looked certain to be defeated
by the knockout route Fulton for
couple of rounds was unable to find
a way to prevent Morris from punch
ing him at close quarters. In the
third session he was tipped off by his
manager to grab both of Morris arms
just as soon as Carl got in close.
When the Minnesotan started to
hold Carrs arms, Morris main stock
in-trade was gone and defeat was in
sight. In the meantime, before al
lowing Morris to get in close, Fred
was pumping solid left-hand jabs to
Morris face and uppercutting with
hard rights to the chin. These hard
wallops hurt the Oklahoman and
slowed him, and it was then that he
resorted to the butting business
which meant defeat for him a few
rounds later