The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-22
FULTON WANTS
DEMPSEY AGAIN
Believes He Will Have Better
Luck in Comeback Go.
BY RINGSIDE.

CHICAGO, Oct. 22.-The day of Won
uers is at hand. Fred FultOu-you
haven't quite forgotten him entirely
has come up for air.
The Rochester giant, recently squeleh-
ed in no uncertain terms by the man
eating Dempsey, is able to sit upright
n take n-ourishmsnt, il it is only
chicken broth. Also, as the warmth of
said nourtshment finds its way through
his vitals, he Is apparently willing TO
talk fight again-the usual custom Of
forgetting about the retirement talk
being followed in his case.
The day or so after a mar gets an
awful crack on the chin he hates the
world and says he never will face a
fist again. A few afternoons of bright
sunshine and sympathetic breezes and
the merry laughter Of a few wee ones
changes the whole situation. This Is
philosophy and history combined.
Fred, be 1t known, wants to fight,
and strangely enough he wants to fight
Dempsey. He says he does, at least
bu. 50, oh, Zarathustra, said Willard
WIS IT years ago, or when?
Denny Scanlon, of st. Paul, is the
nan who carries the message to Garcia.
Dempsey now in Uncle Sans dress suit
as athletic director of the aviation me-
chanics' training school of that city, be-
leves Fred means it. He was in Chi
cSgo the other day en- route for Camp
Gordon, Ca, to take a course in bayonet
practice.
Denny says Fred wants a return go,
most of the proceeds to be for charity,
perhaps Fred's charity. He wonders II
Jack will consent. Denny, who is an
old hand at the promotion game, wishes
this promotion to go through.
Fulton wants to box Dempsey a mat
ter of ten rounds. all of which will be
in st. Paul or Minneapolis, and he
hopes, Denny says, that they will last
more than the unlucky 23 seconds that
defeating battle in the East lasted. I'm
like Willard, he thinks Jack should be
given a nominal sum for his services in
facing him. After tina Is taken out of
the gross proceeds, along with such 9TH
er incidental expenses as may be in
Cured. the remainder is to 60 to ath-
letic funds for the aviation fund.
Nothing, we say, could be fairer.
Denny, speaking for Fred, says he
can be quoted as follows:
ut is my belief that l am just as
good a boxer as aver" Fred is quoted
by Denny. Further. 1t is my belief
that l can outlook any living man, and l
do not bar, in speaking in this vein, my
beaten down in a long, hard fight by
the fellow ! would not say such a thing,
but the result, while decisive, was not,
to me at least, convincing.
Always ! have known / could peat
Jess Willard, and | feel so sure of that
that 1t Is a laughing matter with me.
I believe at least six men in this coun-
try can whip him thoroughly inside OF
ten rounds. To him, therefore, l give
little heed, and in that stand the public
surely agrees with me.
at is Dempsey l want to attract. II
he will box me ten rounds in Minnesota
we can get a lot of money for the fund
l. speak Of. | would be glad to have
a chance to put this over, and to show
the WORLD I can come back"
What Dempsey will say to the propo-
sition is yet to be found out. but know
ing him to be a fighting man, with
marry a fear in his makeup, we would
not be surprised if he win accept these
terRns even more quickly than Bulgaria
recently accepted the terms Of the
allies.