Norwich bulletin., 1917-04-04
FREo FULTON MEETs REAL rEs1
Must Stop Morris and Moran Before Taeklina Champion Willard Over
 Lonu Route.

Big Fred Fulton will be seen in ac tion again Wednesday night. when h, hopes to f1atten Carl Morris, and by 30 doing arouse interest in a Fulton to gain the confidence of the mar from Minnesota polished off Charle. | Weinert so easily his performance sel | the fans talking, but interest soor died out again and Willard signed III with q circus without being severely 1 roasted for his pacif1st attitude toward l his lanlxy rival.
 Plans are under way to stage a VII 1 lard-F'ulton match over the long dis But in order to make the match wortf while 1t is necessary for Fulton te gain the confidence of the sporting public, as Willard is not anxious to fight and will not do so unless forced into action by the public clamor Just at present there are only three con- tenders worth matching with Fulton They are Morris, Frank Moran and Jim Coffey. Both Morris and Moran are willing to tackle the big pIasterer but Coffey wants more time to think it over.
 In his last two bouts Fulton has
 shown such good form that neither
 Moran nor Morris appears to have
 anything like an even chance of win
 ming. However. the bouts will serve
 to show how greatly Fulton mas inn
 Morris stopped Fulton in four rounds.
 This time it will be something of a
 surprise if the Sapulpa engineer does
 not take the count.
 Fulton will have to stop Morris to
 gain any credit, because the latter
 has been outpointed so frequently that a decision on points would not en-
 nance Fulton's standing greatly. But if Fulton should fiatten Morris he would have done something worth
 while During all his stormy career Morris has failed to go the limit only once. The late Luther McCarty claim ed a knockout over Morris, but there is considerable doubt as to what hap pened on that occasion. Morris de- clared that he received a hurried count and that he was down for not more than seven seconds. Many of the spectators were of the same opinion. when he stopped Joe Bonds a few weeks ago. but he is said to be train ing hard and to be confident that he will put stop to Fulton's ambition to meet the champion. Having once felt the force Of big Carls fists Fulton may be trif1e gun shy. this time un less he is made of the right metal. Morris is game and enduring and can be counted upon to force the fighting to the best of his ability
 If Fulton gets away with Morris in good style there @il1 be no reason why he should not do the same to stopped but once and then he was not actually put to sleep. When he was more or less of a novice Jim Saw age cut him up so badly that the ref cree stopped the bout, although Mo- ran was on his feet at the time and still strong. Since then Moran has gone the limit with both Jack John son. and Jess Willard. so that if Fulton can knock him out it will furnish him with plenty of ammunition for his campaign against Willard.
 Whether Willard means to fight again is probably known to no one but the champion himself. Even Will lard's managers admit that they uo rot know what his intentions are in regard to the matter. If Willard does fight again it is certain that he will demand huge sum, particularly if the match is over the twenty round dis tance to a decision, so that it be- hooves Fulton to bestir himself in order to create sufficient demand for the match to draw bids from the pro- rnoterS