The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-04-11
Gossip Predicts II Will Fail #
\ Ten Round Bout Is Staged
at Minneapolis,

- With iess than three months 90 20. tho
|. .oroposcd championship ring contest be-
ktwssn Bsshful Jess Willard. titlcholder
ond Ferocious and Finicky Frederick
4 Fulton, the challenger. IL meeting with n
44sftnctly apsthetlc spirit on the part of
DseAe great American public, Although he
n ~ both BOXERS signed 10 an agreement
enIlIRg for twenty rounds 10 a decision.
'ycoL joseph Carson Miller Of Tulsa, IN
~ said 10 be dickering with boxing
In Minneapolis, MINI, where
y 'vAe law allows only ten round bouts with
J, cut decisions. n willard climbs through
'1Nt ropes for q ten.round declrlonlcss
'r>Dntest with Fulton. somebody will be
due 10 lose a wad OF money.
g Ths unpopularity OF Che worlds heavy
voight champion 10 proving a big stun
Ming block 10 the ambitions Of Colonel
MllI9r, good sport that he H. Baltimore
.Would have been an ideal place for n
: tventy -round championship contest, but
= tAe anthoritIes. claiming 10 speak for the
= 4omsnt II was suggested. Connecticut
= Allsys boxing between small fellows, but
'-pDoA not countenance a willard-Fulton
nttle.. With Connecticut and Baltimore
efepping out. all chances Of the bout TAX
Ang place In the east vanished Now tho
aT6hdulum has swung 10 the middle west,
S0t N seems destined 10 20 even A. far
II like Baltimore" Colonel Miller stated
rooenfiy, hut I've also received fine
oeSer from Denver where the boys are
roal red bloods and the law allows n
nr1W0ty-round bout for championship, In
|be2y wsys prsIssr Denver ,6Ss but ,h.N haven n.
est has quit bidding and Colonel Miller
. - hiksd 10 Minneapolis
"a d New Orleank would agree 10 stage
Ne bout on July 4, a. called for In the
serttcles Of agreement signed by both WI.
lofd and Fulton. the Crescent City would
: hAvs H.
Colonel Miller 10 Surprised.
n Colonel Miller 10 greatly surprised at the
lAck OF interest being shown In the pro-
Z Doeed contest. Hf expected that the mo.
!, Dont n was known that Willard would
x 6ofsnd his title a flood Of bona flde Of
n Iogo would pour In upon him for the bout
Z 1hs offers did pour in but not one was
! worth anything, II was then that ho be-
4 4an 70 think Of making Il a private AT
hlr' on HE own ranch IN Oklahoma.
'st(ncs then. however. Denver has begun to
IN business. which means money In ring
lnortance, and Colonel Miller VIII 10 To
b ~ mile high city some time this week
NfR 3 conference with the Denver pro
j Nov that the furry In the eas, has died
V Aewn. nobody east Of tho Mississippi
seems 20 care n hang whether Willard
. fIahts on the Fourth of July Of goes fish
4 ing Indeed, some cruel folks have hint
- ~ that " both big buns wnnt 10 fight
+ ut them fight the Germans.'
gspeet q Small Gate.
Eastern followers Of boxing believe thR'
there will he small attendance whei
y willard and Fulton meet. The shrewdes
~ promoters along the Atlantic coast sa'
that, where Jeffries and johnson drey
:, oo7o,eeo. wilhrd and Fulton will be luck
sl u draw Sf0o,eea
IN the first place. there was no counte
?, attraction when the Reno bout wa
4 staged. Then. too. Jeffrles was Call
= fornian meeting a negro boxer, thu
!, bringing IN native SON stuff and rncia
n animosity.
~ down 10 a en-round, no-declslon affair
snnthefe won't be M much Inherent In II NJ
thar win be In an ordinary baseball gnm'
ID IrranyIhere Right now there's no telllnl
what Colonel Miller will do with hit
7. agreement.