The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-26

vicious jabs and swings to the body and head. With his face covered with blood from the wound over his eye and with his right eye closed, Moran appeared in distress when the bell sounded. With Moran hanging onto him shortly after the opening of the third round, Fulton landed numerous rights and left uppercIts After breaking the clinch, Fulton sent hard right across to Mo- rans jaw and the latter dropped, help less. Two minutes of the round had passed when Moran's seconds threw up the sponge.
 Moran had several cuts about his face besides the wound over his right eye. Fulton was scarcely marked. Sammy Goldman of New Orleans was referee
 Fulton weighed 215 and Moran 19S Moran is boxing instructor at Camp Wadsworth, s. C.
 Fulton probably will be asked to meet the winner of the Jack Dempsey-Bill Brennan fight tonight in Milwaukee, ac- cording to advices received here today | from Chicago. &r
 | Fulton tonight issued no challenge, all | though he has several times during the past year challenged Jess Willard, holder 1 of the worlds heavyweight champion- ship
 Moving pictures of the fight were taken especially for use in army train | ing camps and set of the films will be | turned over to Dr. Joseph Taycroft of | the commission on camp ground activi- ties. The pictures, it was announced to- night, will be shown free at all army camps in the United States. l The fight was held tonight at popular prices, no seat being sold for more than ,,s3. The attendance was about $500. , The betting at the opening of the bout was to l and to 5, with Fulton the favorite.
 1 Moran stated after the fight that the blood flowing from the cut over his right eye blinded him and left him al- most at Futons mercy. The punishment administered by Fulton in the second /, round, he said, was possible, because of his being unable to see and the blows left him weakened when the third round opened.
 Fulton said he took punishment from Moran in the second round wilfully, just
 ''to show the fans I can stand all the punishment that can be handed me" He said he would be glad to meet the win- ner of the Dempsey Brennan fight. St. Paul. February 25.-Newspapcr critics gave Mike O'Dowd of St. Paul, claimant of the middleweight cham l pionship. a shade over Harry Greb of 1 Pittsburg at the end of a 10-round bout here tonight.
 Greb did most of the leading but
 could not get inside of O'Dowd's left hand
 4 Philadelphia, February 25-Opinicn was divided as to who had the bet
 ter of the six-round no-decision bout
 here tonight between Ted Lewis. the
 welterweight champion, and Soldier
 Bartfeld. Many thought that Bartfield
 had the advantage because of his az
 gressiveness, while others considered
 the bout good draw. Phil Franchini, Brooklyn, had the
 tetter of the six-round bout with Joe
 Mendel, Philadelphia Jack Thompson, Missouri knock ed
 out Andrew Johnson, New York. in the
 second round. Both are negro heavy
 weights.
 Milwaukee. February 2o. Jack
 Dempsey, the San Francisco heavy.
 weight, won from Bill Brennan here
 tonight in the sixth round of what was
 to have been 10-round bout. The ref
 etee stopped the bout to save Bren
 nan from a knockout.
 Detroit, February 25-Corwin Illus.
 tor of Detroit defeated David McAnd-
 less. Jr.. of Chicago. 300 to 201. in the
 in the opening game here tonight oi the Class A national amateur billiard
 tournament. The game went 21 In
 nings. Illusions high runs were "A. Hs
 and 45: his average, 14.2S. McAndless had high runs of 49. 34 and 24, and ar average of 957.
 The game was featured by Illusions work in the tenth. twelfth and thir-
 teenth innings when he made hi:
 three high runs for total of IT