Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-01-22
FULTON BLUNDERED
IN MADDEN FIGHT
IS FANS OPINION
Brennan's Manager Refuses
Match to Lanky Plasterer
After Garden Mill.
BY SPARROW M'GANN.
Special CORRESPONDENT Of Great Falis Tribune

Copyright 1922. by The Great Falls Tribune
New York, Jan. 21-All the fight
fans are satisfied toda ythat if Fred
Fulton pulled a stall against BARLEY
Madden at the Garden last week he
didn't get away with his stuff. In 9TH
er words, Leo Flynn, Bill Brennan's
manager, has refused to match his
big knockout against the lanky plaster
er. So all Fred gets-assuming he was
holding back against Madden-is the
reputation of being the biggest mis-
take that ever tried to make people
think he was championship con-
tender.
The way insiders figured out that
Fulton Madden battle was that Fulton
couldn't possibly be as bad as he look
ed Why, honest, he gave the best
imitation of a crude amateur that has
been seen in New York this year. He
seemed not to know how to shoot his
right, and his left was little better
than a ham hanging in a delicatessen
window.
No Rush Yet
So the wise guys figured it out that
Fred had stalled and would show some
thing as soon as the rush of big fell
lows to get into the ring with him be-
gan. But there has not been any
rush.
Il don't think Fulton was stalling,"
said Tex Richard. Il think he was
simply bad that night-bad. just the
same, Leo Flynn won t match his big
fellow, Brennan, against Fulton. l
tried and fell down. What's the an
swer?"
The answer may be that Flynn. who
is nobody's fool, is going to make cap
ifnI ,f In oh Madam OnaHp
against Fulton by matching Brennan
against BARLEY Now Madden is a
fine, game, trial horse. but what Bill
Brennan is likely to do to the New
Yorker is plenty. Thus Brennan by
plastering the man who plastered the
plasterer named Fulton can, as it were,
kill two birds with one stone. In such
cases as this we see where the clever
matchmaker has it forty ways from
the ace on managers who don't use
their bean.
Rickard Not Worried
Announcement that Georges Car
pentier had signed to met Ted kid
Lewis in London in April did not seem
to disturb Richard today.
You. don't blame Carpenter for
picking up all the easy game he can
find. do you?' he said. He will beat
Lewis easily and get well paid for it,
do you think" Tex was asked,
that this agreement means that
Georges won't come over here to fight
Tommy Gibbons?"
This question was all the more
pointed because of the fact that Tex
wired to DesCamps and Carpenter
congratulating them upon the victory
over George Cook, and saying that the
fans were anxiously awaiting their ap-
pearance in this country.
Neither man has answered Tex's
cable. This might look as though
neither wanted to commit himself
about a trip to this country to fight
the St Paul walloper. But Tex does
mt figure it that way
Expects Frenchmen
II fully expect that DesCamps and
Carpenter will arrive here next month
prepared to fight Gibbons in March, y
he said THE big money is here and
there viii be the biggest money Tor
the Frenchmen in, that fight that he
ever dreamed of earning-outside, of
course, Of the big Jersey City battle
against Dempsey. No, l don't doubt
their coming at all"
If Carpenter does come prepared to
do battle with Gibbons there is small
doubt that interest in the contest will
be almost as keen as that manifested
over his fight against Dempsey. Fans
already are preparing to bet: that. i
they do meet. Carpenter will find it
much more difficult to lay his right on
! Tommy than he did on Dempsey.