Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-28
JACK DEMPSEY C0NQUERs !
FULTON IN FIRST ROUND.
Big Plastercr From Minnesota Down
and Out in Brief Space of
Twenty Seconds.
DIDN'T LAND a SINGLE BLows
Surprised by Terrible Onslaught ocr
Salt Lake City Man, Fulton Didn't
Strike Once in His Own Defense.
Both in Pink of Condition.

RINGSIDE, HARRISON. n. j.. July
27:.one brisk furry of brown gloves
Fulton, the tall plasterer from Mnne-i
sofa. can remember Of his meeting with
jack Dempsey mere, Tonight. Il
In twenty seconds after the squal1 I!
blew up. Fulton was lying stretchedi
out or the canvas floor of the ring in
the oil: Federal League baseball park.
at Harrison. an inert. pasty faced{
giant. whose long limbs refused to-:
hft his ponderous trunk upright. 1t was
one of the shortest fights on records
1t was so short it was scarcely fight:
At the bell, Fulton walked out of his
corner and extended his reachy, bony
DARK Skinned beetle-browed oppo-
nent. Dempsey rushed in and winged
MS right for Fuitons body. Then he
ripped his left to the same mark They
broke. Fulton Tented with his right
Dempsey threw his left over with an
overland motion as old Nap Rucker
Fulton on the point of the chin. Down
went Fulton. His legs caved up under
MIN with stratlng suddenness: his
tremendous bulk fell into the ropes
and hung there an instant Then 1t
sagGed down slowly until finally it fell
imply to the floor.
GREAT CROWD SETS
UP TREMENDOUS DIN
Johnny Eclhardt; the referee. began
counting. Five thousand persons set
UP tremendous din. Some of them .
ana mot not even we, see a blow struck, so I
were settling hack in their seats after
the preliminIres.
\ bluejacket danced around the ring
me my money!
old-time ring followers sprane uu
n sss miant lo9 bd first At the help
swarthy youth from the Ear West VINO
nag knocked him where he lay.
and 'n n mar". went on counting slowly
study. The result had quite apnarent
astoniShed him much as any ono |.
:. Presently he reached the final "ten ~
NO one heard him. The crowd heg.,
swarminE into the ring. as EuiI6n'a h
hi hin, ~, Geht over him and tried TO lift
upright. iiiih
DEMPSEY HELPS FALLEN
OPPONENT TO RISE
,,a dempsey ii,p went over and helped. AS
the arms of the Colorado fighter and
ono OF his seconds, his eyes were
few Wor Sst h staring; He mumbled a
knows SCI" HooouS
81 dempsey came here heralded as a
i INTO rnitSSn fsnit ,h but he did not go
rociousness. He just marched at tho
GU; am nn ,gna both gloved hands with
fashion. ''e''oa'eai
nc pioWS mat passed were not at
an SPectncular-only the finish. After
IL was all over. there was as usual in
such cases. a hint that il was cooked
up. and that Fulton had taken the
Iall Tor the money, but just what Full
Ton could expect to gain by such an
arTangement is not apparent.
lie has been rcga rded as one OF the
logical contcndcrs for Jess Wizards
titie--in fact, the only contender until
Jack Dempsey flashed across the fistic
horiZon this past year. He has beaten
good men in his division and vet he
blow. ~
Dempsey did not even have an OBJ
portunity to show what he can do eX-
cept punch, Ii the wallop that toppled
me Alinnesotan was all that it seems
20 oe. For days all OF the men who
nad seen the Colorado man box out
vest had been predicting Just such an
outcome They did not believe that
fulton could stand before the Young
tornado more than i've rounds at least
NOT ENOUGH OF IT TO
MAKE 4 GOOD FLASH
Moving pictures were taken OF the
aHair. Certainly the fight could NOT
nave been for the pictures, because
there was nsS enough of it TO make a
good flash The promoters announced
that each man received Slo.5o0 as his
guarantee. The crowd was uneXpect-
ediy small, and the fight was probably
i loser.