Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-12
ATTEMPTS TO
QUEER DEMPSEY futile
His Efforts to Have Challenger APP
pear as False Alarm Meeting With
Cold Public Reception.
CLAIMS FIGHTS WERE FAXED
Battling Levinsky, Carl Norris ana
Gunboat Smith, Some OF Utah
Mauler's" Victims, Declare That
They Were Whipped Fairly.
BY JAMES j. CoRpETT.

They Were Whipped Fairly.
By JAMES j. CORBETT.
Apparently Fred Fulton is very. very
angry with Jack Dempsey and has re-
Y solved 20 do everything possible to
make the Utah Mauler" appear as a
false alarm.
Not content with Hrst making the
charge that Dempsey whipped him af-
ter double crossing on an ALLEGED
frame-up, Fulton has just broken forth
with statement tending 10 show that
a lot OF men that Dempsey has whipped
have; been set-ups. Just what Fulton
expected to gain by such tactics is
hard to understand. Certainly il is
not going 10 help him any or increase
his popularity and. so far il hasn't
concentrating TO detract from that OF
Dempsey.
naspie all that Fulton has to say
about Dempsey. the sporting world has
come to. regard him as wonderful
fstic performer. Through the past year
and a half he has done practically
everything that was asked OF him in
every contest. He has whipped every
and whipped him in decisive fashion
No man can do more
Fulton Makes Statement.
Fulten's statement is a rather drawn
follows:
"Answerips P'smEpstSx's reported 2
the ring, | would like TO say that those
who live In glass houses should not
toss any stones.
When saw Jack Dempsey box for
the first time IL was in Denver with
my ppoi pt,, Of ,obseryyalion pemPsey
went down and stayed there. Out in
Milwaukee thcre was a fellow by the
name Of Bull Saydie. He was not even
a good sparr!ng partner. But Jack
Hearns. the manager OF Dempsey, sent
him South and then Dempsey went
,here and knocked him out in one
kearns sent 20 Reno, then rechristened
him Jack Moran, and Dempsey knocked
MAT G sans one ev yGnHd VAS hes aou fso
crossed in Philadelphia and threatened
trouble. but the thing was hushed up
and the boxing game in that tow, was
Everybody remembers the big howl
Wieh Car 9p or afser DeSm .s gh
Dempsey didn't hit Morris hard enough
TO hurt anyone. but Morris went down
Of those Wonderful one-round victories
that Dempsey and his crowd are talk
4 guess II all o. Dempseys nights
were looked into people would And
something wrong with them, as most
of them were one round knockouts.
which were 10 make Dempsey look like
wonder"
Claims DoubIe-CrossinE.
Fulton is an odd creature. And his
whole Altitude since the Dempsey fight
contest his Conversation led everyone me
TO believe that the fight had been de-
had ms nIop bss its merits and that
better man. Then. Just 81 soon as
Dempsey nIpy was matched with Willard
2 a, bout that Fulton wanted for himself
stated that he was double crossed by
enpsey IN Newark that the affair
vas WAS TO have hay, been only nice sparring
nRtch with both men on their fee:
and things about even at the end Of
the eight rounds.
insisted Fulton, and rushed out and
nnoSked me out when 1 wasn't ex-
fession had reached lis height. Full
Ton denied confession and then a
little while later Fulton denied his
And now ne comes forth in an enor,
10 Smuage the reputation OF Demp-
sey, by in,imaItag, that, many, of Demp-
pure and simple; that Dempsey was
sicked on 70 lot OF dubs and was
permiit'ea 10 knock them out in one
round; so as 10 make his record ex-
tremely Impressive.
Dempsey's Fight. on Level.
fuion may be firmly convinced that
pempsey is 'faker' and that most OF
men who were framed" But il is nv
belief, supported by statements from
various manager. that the most i'm.
Won on the level.
Dan Morgan, manager Of Battling
bhevlnsky, has freely asserted since
mat the battle was decided solelv on
Us merits and that victory went 10
sne oei her man and almost as soon
out, Lev!nskY uttered the same sor,
Of speech Carr Morris and those con
n,eraea wNh ms management have dc
clared that Dempsey won because he
actually MT Morris a Knockout wallon
Ierrihc bio" 10 the stomach.
Gunhoat Smith is another or DENIM
eey's victims, who halls the younssiar
as marvellous ring man and Who
never has SAID word aGains, Demp-
being a "frame-up."
Flynn Did Not Make Excu.e.
No yell came from jim Flynn about
rake since Dempsey Knocked him
put in one round in Philadelphia. Terry
keller was knockout victim at the
hands or Dempsey in FIVE rounds. and
dempsey knocked him out fairly and
sqn , . re ForkE Flynn, Bob Devere
Miller also were pounded to sleep by ,y
Ie elmSsey fa in enc GGnG ne They haven't
was knocked out in six rounds; Dan
ketcher, who was put 10 sleep in Two
3 and all OF the others who were oropped
just a few rounds "
Fulton may, as ne claims. have basis
for his charge that Dempsey has scored
most OF his Victories through frame
ups" But the public doesn't svmna
thize with his attitude and apparently
doesn't believe his stories. Al ann
rate, II gladly recognizes Dempsey for
what ne seems 10 be, one OF the best
heaYywe!shts OF all time, and A pros
pective king OF pugalism-Copyrich h,
1919. by King Features Syndicate, Inc
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