The Washington times., 1921-11-13
FULTON TAKES
ANOTHER FLING
AT RING FAME
Big Pfasterer's Return Note
worthy Because of Scarcity
of Heavyweights of Ability.

nIG FRED FULTON, one of the
N few heavyweights with any real
class in the ring, has come to
life. He met Jack Hefnan at Roches-
ter, Mimi. Friday. Heinan was one
OF Jack Dempsey's sparring partners
when he was training for the Car
pentier contest last July at Jersey
City. Heinan is a rank third-rater
and does not begin to compare with
Fulton in ring ability, though he has
far more courage.
Heavyweights that can fight at all
are SO scarce just now that Fulton's
return to the ring is worthy of note.
The tall one has been idle for many
months. and he probably viii find II
difficult to round into shape. for he
no longer Is as young as he was
This would be good time for one
OF the alleged contenders to take him
on and gain a big reputation cheaply,
but none has the nerve to take a
chance.
VIII Find II Hard.
Now that Fulton has lost the serv.
ices of Tom O'Rourke as manager. the
plasterer probably viii find it more
difficult than ever to obtain big
match. No one cares to fight this
freak of the ring. although his faults
are serious enough and are known
to all Even Dempsey himself shows
no laundering for another match, al
though he bowled the faint-hearted
piasterer over in something like
eleven seconds on one occasion.
Fulton has an imposing record of
knockouts to his credit, among his
victims being the formidable Sam
Langford. IL is an undisputed fact
that all the white contenders are
afraid of him. That should be ma
terial enough for Dempsey to build
him up as an opponent in a big
match, but Jack evidently is not over
looking the fact that Fulton possesses
poisonous left hook and that some
thing might go wrong.
III the Dempsey Brennan match was
on the level IL would not be strain
ing the imagination to think that
Fulton might be as big a surprise as
Brennan was when ne stuck II out
for twelve rounds last winter. There
is no chance of getting Brennan into
the ring with Fulton. He wants no
Wills Boosts Fulton.
Harry Wills. the giant negro, who
knocked out Fulton almost as easily
as Dempsey did. thinks very well OF
the plasterer. THAT boy Fulton could
beat Dempsey just like breaking sticks.
and he could beat me. too, IL ever no
got 1t into his head that he had some
thing on us. He's got enough stuff to
lick any heavyweight there ever was,
but he Just can't show Il when he
knows the other fellow is tough"
said Wills recently when discussing
Fulton.
Wills was basing his opinion a great
deal on Fulton's performance in stop
ping Langford. Wills and Langford
ore bitter enemies, but Wills IL fsir-
minded enough 90 recognize and ad-
mire Sans ability. Wills says that
when Langford was right he was AZ
good fighter as ever lived.
Langford was far from being at his
best when Fulton met him nearly five
years ago. but he was a mighty dan
gerous man. He seemed to be the last
fighter in the world that the faint
hearted Fulton would face with any
degree of confidence, yet something
must have made the plasterer feel ex-
ira courageous that night, for he
fought like a champion and Langford
never had chance.
He's Not Popular.
Fulton Is not at all popular with the
fans, and for that reason he is not
much of card except when matched
with a top notcher Then he draws
well enough. II he were matched with
either Tom Gibbons or Jess Willard II
would be a great attraction