The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-29
Demsey's Quick Defeat
 Of Fulton Is Surprise
Fred, However, Says It Was a Lucky Blow and Gives Manager $5,OOO to Bind Another Match With Dempsey.

Well Dempsey was a surprise, wasn't he? Talk about upsetting the dope! Here was the greatest topsy turvied sensation of all prize ring history. Dempsey's name by this time has raced around the world yea, even to the trenches.
 And it was a popular victory. No doubt of that, if you had seen men that had never looked upon this young Western stalwart before trying to get near enough to him to shake his hand in the Harrison ball park Saturday evening Men went frantic over this giant of boy with the bronzed torso. They might have just a touch of sor- row for Fulton, but 1t vanished with the thought. They almost tore the ring up by the roots in their efforts to sing the praise of the new fstic king in his royal highness's eaE
 Men will bow to a smashing hero until the end of time, and it is safe to say that in that mad crush of hu- manity that fairly swarmed about Dempsey after his remarkable victory there was many a proud staid and ordinarily naughty business man.
 And all because of Dempsey's mighty right arm. He willobe a pop ular hero, that boy. The pity of it is that he may not get the opportunity to fight Willard for the title. With Willard out of the way, who can deny that this smashing boy isn't the heavyweight champion of the world? If ever a man acted like one, Jack Dempsey does. He is worthy of the name he has adopted.
 Let Jack Kearns into the picture. He made one remark just before the bell Saturday evening that may have had all to do with Dempsey's remark able victory. When the men came to the centre for instructions they held hands momentarily, as is the custom for hundreds of years. Then as they were about to start back to their cor ners to slip off their bath robes to get ready for the fray, Kearns halted both men and said Shake hands now and come out fighting
 That was the cue to Dempsey's in tentions,, and no doubt it was the willy Kearns who had ordered a rip tearing assault on Fulton in the first minute of the bout. Had the men paused to tip gloves in the old and customary way, Dempsey's first great rush would have been checked even
 
 half a dozen determined steps for ward, rushed Fulton toward the ropes near F'ulton's corner, drove for Full tons body, and when Fulton fiddled in an uncertain way to block the ablow, he left his chin wide open, and then a left, a right and there was nothing left but for them to count Fulton out.
 Kearns was the man who figured that one best way to get at Fulton early was to go to him and keep go- ing. Dempsey evidently had been so instructed. Perhaps it is his usual way of doing things in the ring. His triumph came so quickly and so un- expetcedly he left us all wondering what he might have done had the bout gone three or four rounds, one way Or the other.
 He did what he had to do with such amazing dispatch that even now, those who saw him win have little knowledge of just how good he is, how he might have acted had big Fulton got started. The men may meet again. It isn't likely that Demp- sey could ever repeat his breath-tak- ing victory. And Fulton thinks the same way about it.
 Mike Collins talked of the tragedy last night.
 Fulton doesn't mean to take any thing from Dempsey. He won and he won in IS seconds or so, but when Fulton left for Minnesota today he left with me 5000 with these words:
 |" Mike, 1t was a lucky punch as sure as you're alive. He can't whip me in any such short order. This fr1 match with him. Any place, any time, Mike, just as long as he fights me again. I don't want to say a word that might make folks think I was be- Hitting that boy, but my record goes to prove that 1t couldn't have been anything but a fuke punch. If ] didn't think I ould whip him the next time I wouldn't be throwing e5000 away. In fairness, I deserve another trial
 And went on Collins, "I wan them to give my man his chance. Ht has always been fair with the others I'm sure Fulton can beat Dempsey"
 Johnny Eckhardt, the man who ref creed the bout in such capable style has this to say of Dempsey:
 'f~::r.Se my hat to Jack Dempsey, no only as a ->enuine fistic marvel--on of the greatest, in fact, since thu days of Corbett, Hall. Choynski. lief fries and others of like calibre---bu also as a clean. manly fighter, worth! the best traditions of the prize ring The fight was nightly brief 1t is true Just 23 seconds, but where most fight CTS lose their heads, Dempsey, follow ing the knockout punch, proved a cool as the proverbial cucumber obeyed me to the letter while I count ed out the prostrate Fulton, and con siderably aided me and the latter seconds assist the Rochester giant t his corner. This in itself shows
 head capable of cool, calculatin thought, 0 characteristic only of req ring generals.
 "The punch, or rather the tw punches, that earned Dempsey tn right to meet Champion Jess Willar were a left to the stomach and be fore Fulton could recover, a right { the jaw. The latter was terrifi blow which literally crushed Ere and shook the very foundations c the ring"
 DOUBLE VICTORY FOR TIGER!