The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-08
FRED FULTON
 TO GET EASY
 MONEY ABROAD

oOSlOli, Aug. o--dOIt15 Ico 1T oltOll meeting Jack Dempsey in this coun- try for the worlds heavyweight title, say about next March IT or perhaps on July 4 sounds somewhat like gathering moon beans in a quart can.
 It is fairly possible, however. In fact, in view of all of the strange things which happen in the world of sport, and ring sport in particular. 1t requires no great stretch of the fn1- agination to see the ex-plasterer in- side the hemp again in this coun- try.
 And r1ayflap, Fred ma- yet collect the handsome purse which nowadays goes to a loser; we cannot dope him at all as collecting the winning end if he again faces Dempsey.
 On the afternoon of July 27. 1918. at Harrison, N. J., Jack Dempsey crashed Fred Fulton into temporary oblivion with Q left hook to the jaw, the same happening in the short space of less than one minute. Many thought that Fred must have had on his diving trunks instead of fighting togs that day; few at that time were willing to give Dempsey the credit of carrying such a mighty wallop. We all know different now; so does
 
 story of mismanagement, Fred. real izing that the public was somewhat creiulous concerning his upset at Harrison, turned loose a story that the short fight was a. fake and he had taken 1t on the chin for the pur- pose of making a cleanup.
 Now such stories from ringsters are neither new nor novel; Fred's yarn only backed up on himself and fon tr,oa a pulled the gravel in after him. In polite and rigorous sport circles Fred was officially dismissed. It was back to the plaster trowel and hoe for him.
 In early June or late May-,twas spring of 1919. in any event, Tom O'Rourke of New York got the idea that Fred was not all done. The idea developed into the form of a contract between Messrs. ORourke and Full ton, and when all had been duly ed, the aforesaid O'Rourke, the party of the first part, purchased two tickets for dear old London. While Am erican fandom was exclaiming, T told you SOL on the evening of the late July 4, and morning of July 5, ORourke and Long Fred were on the briny deep, their Departure having been quite unnoticed by the press in the general excitement incidental to two ringstcrs collecting $127,5OO from one Tex Rickard.
 --ORorl1e and Fulton saw Carpen- tier defeat Dick Smith in Paris in an eight-round fight, and in behalf of Fulton, ORourke challenged the winner.
 Tom has also challenged Joe Beck cit, the British heavyweight cham pion; also several others of the French and British fistic leaders. None are being neglected. Nothing
 may come out of it all but those who know oFai Fox Tom, also his success es with Tom Sharkey, Joe Walcott, George Dixon and other ring lights, have a hunch that the veteran man. ager knows what he is doing and will land some of the fish he is after.
 Joe Beckett, Carpenter and the rest of the foreign clan of heavies and light heavyweights may be all that the fans on the other side think they are, but here in America they are not rated as very formidable. With Fulton in any kind of form against any of them he would find plenty of supporters There are those who opine that he could defeat the whole bunch
 If Fred succeeds in getting on with Beckett and Carpenter and defeats them, not only will he have upset the beans into the chowder for any pickings as regards the British and French leaders which Dempsey may have in mind, but as the slaughterel of foreign champs, who can offer a word of real argument against Fred meeting Dempsey on the formers re- turn from abroad? 1t would be but 8
 natural sequence.