The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-22
HAS REAL PUNCH
FuItOn's. Jaw Is the Only Thing
That Worries His Backers.
Ii It's Not Glass He's Real
Match for Jess Willard.
BY Jack VEIOCK.

New York. Feb 22=When Jess
Willard and Fred Fulton eventually
face each other in the ring there will
be left-handed battle for the worlds
heavyweight crown
Imagine two giants, both toting ex
ceedingly mean portside mittens,
and you will get the idea of what this
battle will be, for it is only a question
of time until the big Minnesota plas-
terer will get his chance
Fulton southpawed his way a step
nearer to the coveted match with Will
lard when he met Charles Wefnert
tunder the glazing incandesce-ts at
Madison Square garden. Within the
course of two rounds Fulton had Won,
for the New Jersey Adonis was moth
ing more nor less than a toy in his
hands, and Referee Bill Brown did
the only thing any self-respecting
referee could do in stopping the bout.
Weinert, outweighed by thirty-nine
pounds, and at a disadvantage in both
height and reach, might just as we'll
have tried to batter down the Rock
of Gibraltar. Fulton was too big and
too strong, and the match was a poor
one from the spectators standpoint.
Fulton Real Hope.
But no matter how poor the match
really was. it proved to the satisfac-
ton of every fistic follower who saw
it that Fulton stands head and Shout
derS above any white hope" who has
been brought out since the untimely
death of Luther Mccarthy. And Full
ton is generally conceded to be much
better than Mccarthy was at his best.
Fulton works in the ring with a
machine-like set of motions. He sell
dom wastes a punch and he is cool
and collected as a cucumber. His
punches carry world of force and
his left hand works like a giant piston
rod. Fulton is naturally left-handed,
but he uses his right hand almost as
bidextrous fighter who can hit like
this big fellow from Minnesota you
have A real fighting machine.
The questions fistic followers who
have watched Fulton work are ask
ing each other can be summed up as
follows:S
Can this big plasterer stand stout
wallop on the chin ?"
Can he stand up under a heavy
punch to the midriff?''
isn't he built too much on the
lanky order to take much punish
ment?"
Here are the things to be consid-
cred in sizing up Fulton. If these
questions can be answered in his ia
vor look out for a change of seen
cry around Heavyweigh for if
Fulton can take punishment he stands
cred to date against Jess Willard.
Like Fitzsimmons.
Standing in the ring, waiting for
the bell, Fred Fulton is the nearest
approach to Bob Fitzsimmons of any
heavyweight who has ever been
brought out. He is lean and lanky,
well muscled about the shoulders, and
his arms are powerful. Fred also has
sturdy pair of stills to work on, and
with his terrific hitting power and his
long reach he is a formidable fighter
for any man to face.
But don't forget that Jess Willard
is every inch giant and a man. He
is much heavier. a little taller and
much better knit than Fulton. His
great left hand, adjudged by good
many of the critics who saw him
defeat johnson is a better left than
Fulton possesses, carries sledge ham
mer power to the target, and the
Fulton jaw will get the acid test
when they meet.
If Fulton is built to take punish
ment, therefore, his chances against
Willard are brilliant, for he is a.