New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-27

Fulton dropped, his face twisted with$
main and sat on his launches while
Referee Sim" Brennan counted him
cut. While the referee was tolling off
the seconds Fulton tried to indicate in
dumb s.sw that he had been fouled.
h,s the blow that made him drop and
uGit tor the evening was absolutely
fair.
Jack Dempsey was sitting at the ring
side and the result of the bout made
him change his decision to draw the
color line.
a wanted to get return bout with
Fulton" he said "Rut if people think
ought TO fight Wills Iii be glad to
do it, and / will knock him kicking,
too"
Scenes of Disorder
There were some stormy. scenes in the
aImory. Every inch of space was
taken ard they were pounding on the
walls outside during the preliminaries
The aisles were crowded and the place
was in riot during the main bout
Wills demonstrated that he was the
master of Fulton frsm the start,
though the plastered plasterer seemed
able 70 hold his own when he stood off
and boxed at long range. In the Soc
ond round Wills caught him twice in
the body just before he bell, and Full
ton showed that the blows hurt him.
He never has oeen able to stand much
OF beating about the body.
In the third round the plasterer
seemed TO grow desperate and rushed
the negro to finish or to be finished.
He ran in and cinehed with the brown
giant, holding his hand under Wills's
armpit. Wills whipped long, snakey
RICH. to the body and raised Fulton to
his toes. Again he whipped the right
in. and once again. Fulton was be-
ginning to wilt.
Then Wills pulled a trick that he
had learned in his many bouts with
the venerable Sam Langford. He pushed
Fulton back and shot short right to
the body, just over the heart The blow
did not travel more than few inches,
but it had Fulton's solar pleXus for
target and it landed on the mark.
Drops on His launches
The big plasterer toppled like tall
tree that had been chopped through.
down on his launches and remained
there gasping while Referee Brennan
stood over MN shouting off the num-
bers and indicating them with his
hands. Fulton, white as a sheet made
some futile motions with his hands
as though he were trying to claim q
foul but the referee SHOOK his head
ard continued the count.
There was q tumult in the place
when the big plasterer dropped His
seconds shouted for him to get up, but.
Fulton was not going to fight any
more that evening. Wills looked down
at him for 4 moment and stood off
until the final count was made. The
crowd was not wildly enthusiastic over
the victory of the negro.
Dempsey watched every move of the
fight with his fists clinched as though
he we're eager TO hop into the ring
himself. When Fulton dropped there
vas something of sheer on Dempsey's
face. It was something of disap-
pointmens for the champion, who felt
that Fulton should have been saved for
q return match for him. Now it seems
he must fight Wills.
Fulton's weight was given as 30
pounds, while Wills weighed 204. 1t
was a battle of giants, Fulton being
six feet four inches and Wills six
feet two.
Call for Ambulances
Thirty thousand tried to jam their
way into the armory and the police
were busy. In one crush at the main
entrance several people were knocked
down and trampled and ambulances
were sent to the armory. Inside there
was the biggest jam that ever as
sembled for boxing contest in Jersey.
In the opening bout Jack Britton,
the welterweight champion, had an
easy time with Marcel Thomas, the
French welterweieht. Britton seemed
able to drop Thomas whenever he
pleased and after he sent him down
once or twice in the tenth round
Thomas fell without being hit and
Referee Slim Brennan stopped the
bout, automatically giving Britton the
bout by a technical knockout.
1t was evident in the first round that
the American welterweight had q soft
job. He loored the Frenchman with q
right to the jaw. Thomas vas up
without taking a count and Britton
toyed with him. From that time on
Britton would drop him about every
other round and the Frenchman would
bob up again without listening to the
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