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4 COLUMN sein “1 Forgot to Duck One,” Says Fulton—Dempsey Proclaimed a Great Fighter ty Experts. Gowrriaht, 1918. by The Prem Pubiishine Co, (The New York Evening World.) ‘ACK DEMPSEY rushed back fo Long Branch training quarters Saturday night after polishing off Fred Fulton in eighteen seconds st the Harrison bali park. Ho spent yesterday battling the waves. Fulton jounged around the Hotel Endicott in town here. fo will start back home to Minnesota to-day. “L'il admit that I feel despondent,” he told me “but I suppose I'll get over it. I forgot to duck’o1w and that’s all the exp! tion I can make. ‘There was only one punch that burt me. It was hard enough.” Masager Mike Collins broke in to say that “Saturday's battle was nothing to go It was *too short.” Fulton re- sumed: “1 haven't an excuse to offer. Dempsey is a great fighter and looks like a champion. There is nothing for me to do now but go home and rt all over again. I have no immediate The fight is still being discussed. All who saw it are unanimous in the opinion that Dempacy is probably one of the greatest fighters since John L. io his prime. “He's another Ketchel,” said an enthusiastic admirer of tho late Stan- jell do the same thing to Wti- volunteered another. B® would have beaten Jack Johnson at his best,” insisted Promoter Jack Curley. “I have seen many a good fighter in my time, but he is the best I ever looked a “He's tho same in the gymnasium, as he was in the ring with Fulton: He drops bis sparring partners in jig time, no matter how big, doesn't make any difference whether they are white or black. Sam Lang- ford couldn't stand three minutes with him. He has won his fast nine fights in less than # round. “There's @ suspicion that I yave an interest in him,” went on Curl wish I had. I'd give $26,000 for part of bim any tim IM O'SULLIVAN, who brought Low Darcy here from Australia, and who barely got to the fight in time to Fulton-counted out, sald: ¢, what a fight he and Darcy would have made! Darcy had exactly the same style,” continued Tim, as he ilustrated the remark by shifting his Shoulders and working both arms, right and left, in driving fashion in and out. And 50 it was everywhere. The | Praises of Dempwey were sung inces- santly. HE fight itself was too short to be entirely satisfactory to the crowd at the ring. Not many saw tho few punches which ended it. Fulton never got started, because Dempsey finished too quickly, It was one of those hts that hardly repaid those who je the long trip to see it, still its very sensationaliam made it a notable event which the fight fans present will always feel glad they didn’t miss, e sudden termination of what Promised a nip and tuck battle gave ‘Re no opportunity to get @ good line on Dempsey. Three or four rounds would have shown whether or not he “take” it. We confess we wanted to see how Jack would act under fi what he would do if stabbed good ar hard by that long left of Fulton's which has been “poison” to many another ambitious heavyweight. Dempsey's speed, however, per- mitted of no such judgment. His style, as far as the Fulton fight goes, ‘was just that of a slam-bang, whale- away slugger, a type one might run cross any night ine barroom argu-| Butler's horses have not been setting | Pelievable, | Madden, has been, the! same downhearted fecling over his big ment or alongshore. We have it, wow-[any rivers on fire, In preceding | forenost breeder of thoroughbreds in | mame downlmarted fealing over bis big ever, from Jack Kearns, his masager,| years the good cherry and white |{os country for years, bred | Os! defeat a r an that Dempsey is really a good, clever bles Mte|horses to sell, It is hard, th e, | would have done if the same misfer- boxer. “He sparred with Mike Gib- of the track's popular owner were in| to imagine his retaining an interest tune had happened to his batuer. Bons recently,” sgid Kearns, “and the | front more often than not. ‘Their vic. |in racing without having something | wie, an Evening World reporter Bt. Paul wizard couldn't do a ihing| tories, too, adways supplied a thrill! to sell, Madden, however, has worked Sar : 4 with aim.” ; ard for , und while he is con- [called on Collins at the Hotel Endi- Aa the track's patrons, for be it/aidered a man, probably feels}eott to-day and asked him wnat he nown, the Yonkers track has a pat-| that arest. Ile, however, is ‘ aif, he ad to sa a 0 Fulto & Fulton says bimscif, he has no} ronage all its own, It docs not have | too y and vigorous a man’ to] ad to say in bk garde to Multon’s excuse, and he hasn't, uniess it} to depend on New York or Hrooklyn, | (ink of retiring. quick knockout, Collins said Was that he made a mistake in map-| Horse racin # Ko ther -—- “Fred forgot to duck Dempsey's sping out his n of battle or ja un- | from the up, » Tuckahoe, Mt,| Criticism of young Drusch, who} Bed = derratin. his opponent He # arted| Vernon, Hastings, and Yonkers itveif| rode Valerious in the fifth race Sat- [3 PP i} out by pawing his left lazily toward] and they always tnd pleasure in| urday, was heard on all sides. ‘The ace, idently with the| backing Mr, déutler's horses Phe | boy Was beaten a head by 1 ut his m. or possi-| habit has been costly to them this} ridden by Walls, Valerious bly with the hope ating an open. | season ubtedly best and shoul mg for his ponde s right. \/hat Spur's winning of the Empire City! by hinself. The yvouns 7 eae Hf rs ever Fulton had in mind didn't get a| Handicap on Saturday served as balm| him did all that could be expected of | Charley Doesse matchmaker of hance to work out. Anyhow, Demp-| fr Mr. Butler, It was the first vic jan xperienced boy, ‘The trainer of|the Amory A. A. of Jersey City, will wey very quickly demonstrate) wat the horse is the one that should have ae atte ae Fe inn out" waae waste of time. dae lbeen criticised. Why he put Drusch fe three eight-round bouts at the} swung his head out of the way ef|Went the right, alinost straight, to] Up, When he might have ry n Walls [regular weekly boxing show of his elub Fulton's arm and dug left and right|the other side on bulton's protruding | is @ mystery, The public wagered on | to. ‘ht. In the main event Jack Brit into Fulton's stomach. Those two|chin, Fulton Vaterious and lost, when with a com tron, the former welterweight champion, iercee forced Fulton eh up to ps rider in the saddle ouldn’t wil take on Willie Ryan of New Bruns wey didn't want to ec, but puneh had va loiee oN athee ea While in close he tried desperately to ‘ly. = Reh Bets 0 re SURE ea Sat get in a punch somewhere tom rope Looks aa if Lond Brighton is one |.aer Bnarkey Mmoeta Harvey Crosby Fulton at first tried to block thess|as he tried to noteh removed from the stake class, | Bayer and Johany Drummie tack attempts, and when he couldn't, be-| body once and t opped too badly in the 000 |Joe Mooney gan pinioning Dempsey's hands, Jaca] stretching out . View to be seriously considered —_ tried to fight himself loose, jBuve away and his body \hereafter when opposed by good two- | Marry Greb, the rug Pittsburgh om @ouldn’: until he managed to get tis| while Referee Johnny Eckhard year-olds NV. T | evshec wae how oF ‘z right free enough to send it over Ful-|!im a slow count. When Johnry | > tho m both ton’ ns to his jaw. This punen “Nine and out,” Fulton a lance y ils on Balas Bn ciaa. Shantit even ih Die nour. fourteen’ secones,| YANKS+INDIANS BOX SCORE. |" ray file on Rtuntay ti | made Fulton wince rdt slapped Fulton | ee in Army le & tan-round Weel each ks be Letter im Know it was was fought at Fort Sheridan, i, Greb had so the jump with him he was still help- Ach Lira aha watiae’ ofthe aniias thas tbe tatoos ly and then moved in| les: 2 Ol cave bim tho verdict amid much applause, toward Dempsey again, working Sis} Dempsey, stan near the fallen oo dis, left in jerky fashion in the direction |foc, stretched his right arm straigat OD] psectigl aaa ina’ tenia nana Of Dempsey’s nwarthy face. He really |in the air, announcing himself win Bal ane vane tel dose ot sean: tee er ever got a chance to get this afi |Ner, and then bent to help lift 1 AT secars Oly 1 extended to its full length. bDempsaey|to his chair, a few feet away. In P08 8 OR lenses r batt no attention to it, but agiin|bis corner Fulton was still bleaty | ee Bey eet awinging his body to the left as He must have known he had|. es | Bt seen tia were on hinges at the waist hoo! n knocked out, but the expression Toes, 2 Ob 690 8 Totaie mM 990 17 4 ain event at the wee @ right wrist deep into Iultoa his face denoted neither sorrow | (ii, 1 by stomach. He we like & man awak Fulton back across the ving a against the ropes. While Ful Anstinctivel: Sisa e HIS was 2 crusher and’ forced SPO BEST S WHEN FULTON’S LIGHTS FurToN MiEHT AS WELL HONE BEEN AIT WiTH A JZ AAMMER - TWAS ALL THE SAME 7-TO WM. | i | | GEE WHI2, LON INTENDED TO i: LET HIM STAY IN Wie RING EIGHT SECOMeS = pow | tare FOR - DEMPSEY PROBABLY HAD A DATE Y FREDERICK FULTON ro | —-— PASTERER. —*—— | fauten | ALL WORK NEATLY DONE Get BUSY | Yonkers Ends Wednesday, Then It’s On to Saratoga | RACING SELECTIONS. YONKERS. Tipp! Most of the Good Horses Are! Already atSpa Becoming | oned., Keene n, Valerius, Wood Violet, Jack of Spades. Three morg days and thero will be} ‘ining’ itace=Tendrie, Dorcas, no racing in New York for a mon.hi Rhino Maiden. The meeting at the Yonkers track Fourth Raee— Elmendorf, winds up on Wednesday and Sa:a Whimay, Green Gold Fifth Re Decision, Ap- toga begins its annual mocting on] Cit Wine Gaatrny, Thursday. As for years past the ding Star, Won- sport at the Spa lasts the entire] month of August. The remaining} a aaa three days at the Empire course are tory of his stable on his own track promising if one can be satisfied with during the meeting, and naturally he seeing horses of the cheaper variety Was pleased The whole family was . alle 0 or. |ON hand too, and the elation was run, The so-called class of the so eet, Gotoh sencen Whaat oughbred world is already at Satu-|the trainem must have felt as it he toga, and has been some time, going ace to Ko on drawing had to win th through the seasoning process for big his ut blushing, and all events to be decided there, Few good hee d ald, ones aro left here, excepting those |, huis which have been held over and poin.- ed for certain of the stakes which 1e- main to be decided. Racing at Empire hasn't been up ¢ the standard of other seasons, ‘Ther may b reason for this, in that Mr, a Wonderful ride and din getting up in the last rides to beat out ‘Tom McTag The announcement from Lexington that John Madden is to sell out his entire breeding interests 1s hardly TWENTY FREDERICK DIDNT KNow WHETHER oR NoT HE HAD BEEN EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, JULY 29, 1918, RTING PAGE IN NEW YORK WENT OUT Copyright, 1918, by the Press Publish!n DId THe PLAT FORM CONE He “THREE SECONDS AF © © « Co, (The New York Evening World), TER THE FIGHT BEGAN IN A RAILROAD ACCIDENT-AND CARED LESS. Dempsey and Fulton Each Received $9,000; Fight Drew $17,654.50 Despite Quick Knockout by Dempsey, Fulton Says He Will Keep on Fighting. By John Pollock. Jack Dempsey did not receive any more money for knocking out Fred Fulton in eighteen and three-fifths seconds at the baseball grounds at Harrison, N, J., on Saturday after- noon than did Fulton for getting ce- feated, Thoy each received a guar- antee of $9,000. The gross receipts of 654.50. positively that the above figures are authentic, as the managers of the fighters signed articles of agreement calling for them to battle for a purse of $18,000, of which each was to be paid $9,000, Mr. lester Burdick, Secretary of the New Jersey Boxing Commission, the following report, which he fi! with the commission: Gross receipts $17,654.50, State tax (10 per cent.), $1 ickets sold were as follows 1,130 at $2, 1,779 at $3, 183 at $7.50, ¢ at $10 and 1,139 at $5 Mike Collins of Minneapolis, man- ager of Fulton, did not display the ening from a trance. After the fight. sone Dempsey what he hit Full “With my fist,” replied Dempsey, “what kind of a punch was it? “Ok, I don't know. I never do.” Tait fork. 2; Rane Mie Ot en te w nd White have already fought sev eran Joe Welling, the crack Chicago lightweight arnounced today that be had engaged Jack | Bulger of Brookim as his new manager and (tet be eapyectead to do consklerable boxing, iv ‘the future, Welling also stated that he had eet signed Say contract with Bulger as he has never deme that with hie other managers bat ee ae eee cine the show amounted to exactly $17,-/ © By Th a HOOK YoU HEARD - THAT TO LL FREODIES Jaw- (Gora, LIGHT THERE GOES THE OPENING THe 42° SEAT BOYS WENT RUSH AND CARRIED THE VAC | right swing and that tells the tale. | Of course it was certainly a iermble piece of misfortune for Fulton and me | to have the bout end so quickly, but | we have got to be good sports. He- sides I am forced to admit that to the| victor belongs the glory and spoils. “Fulton is on his way to his home to-day, but I will stay around b for several days. Since last abor Day Fulton has cleaned up $50,000 out ore of his ring contests, As I ha reiving 50 per cent, of his er have managed to save a lot of | money, and besides I have bought a home out West Mike Collins said on doesn't mean to take any- |thing from Dempsey, He won and he won in eighteen seconds or so, but when |Pulton was leaving for Minnesows he jleft with me $5,000 with these wor | 43 a lucky punch as eure Jas you're He "t whip me tn |any such This money goes jas a binde; jhim. Any so long as want to. ss folks think I boy, but my record goes to prove that it | couldn't Nave been anything but a fluke was belittling that une f I didn’t think T could whip m the next time I wouldn't be throw- |tng $5,000 away. In fairn 1 deserve nt them rm sure Fulton can beat Dempsey. Demp Knocked out Fulton in hteen and three-fifths sec- r After the bout there wus a dif- ference of opinion at the ringside as to the exact time of the actual fight- ing. Robert Edgren, recently retired sporting editor of The Evening World, who always holds an accurate split- second stop-watch in his hand at im- portant bouts, is authority for the time, | i timed the fight In eighteen and |three-fifths seconds,” said Edgren, | "and Fulton was on the floor exactly | fourteen seconds, He was lifted up by Dempsey Just four seconds after being counted out.” that he will go through with whatever m Bulger secure for him, Dan Monn paid a visit to 9 {Saturday and was surprieed he |e of tickets for the big owen air show to be held at Shibe Park in that city Dan says that matetenaker riers for wate amounting | The oularod mparting men of ‘Philly vady purchased $1,000 worth of eeats as ford Jack negotiations with beth men and fign u coother pair fur the main event on Aug, 9. Howard wants the weight to be It pounds and Smiib is holding off for 1U0 yx Joo Mooney of thie city defeated Tommy NJ. in the umn go of show of the Patemon A, A on Satuntay night, ‘The ba 1°, with Mooney doing phe tar bout of eiglit rounds on Saturlay night. Kid will lash with Tommy | Henry of Newurk, N. J, Ivy Tewis, matchmaker of the Armory A, A of Boston, to-day closed another attractive bout for the wind-w) at the club's bexing show ou has ale | H ‘Tomalay evening, Aug. 13, The battles who will clash tn {t are Jack Britton and Tommy Rabson, the hard-hitting fighter of Malden, Mass, who has been boxing in hie best form during the last sebaen ‘They will moot for twelve rounds to . ” . A 7 e BY SToRM. Wright and A lexander . Win Fast Tennis Match — I. B, O’Boyle and Alexander ller Victors in Longest Match on Record. par ALS C. WRIGHT and Frederick | B, Alexander defeated Natha NAY BoY! vHar Wasnc ornton Fisher “THE GUN at Savoy PICTURE OF & GUY WHo PaAId IO Bucks AND MISSED THE KNoek out CVER THE ToP WITH A ANT SAND #10 SEATS with the tn openin ith the 1H. Hod adiness 3 the of mixe ch Miss Molla nor Goss, Miss and others took ( Baseball Briefs CLEVELAND, July The Si ve~ KOKOMO, Ind, J .—-Warren K nd Indians and. the York Yankees| wood, former We amateur go! attled thre ten gripping innings to| 00d | foriner mateur golf a draw. A downpour of rain drove the | ¢hampion, ad paired foams t cover when t Bore stand seainst Charles “Chick’ tied at 2 all, The game could not bel , aie oharsnlon, continued, and the second game which ur champion, See Rhaduiel war 1 oft lao. wards, finished with the low score in a _ | Red Cross by fit golf match. Approxi- MONTREAL, July 29.— The Boston | mately $1,000 was raised for tho Red Braves de ted the Chicago Cubs by a! Cross as a result of the exhibition, seor game between major league clubs ever played in this city, wood's single wil of 3 to 2 in the first exhibition | over uy Sati We BRIDGEPORT, Conn., July 29.--Sher- ith the havea filled in e Bri rn fe tot A! victory ‘of to ‘The match was played in two rounds Wood's score for the two rounds was 76, | strragde abet 79, rane $4, and Daas r the nine-hole course at the Coun- Club, and owing to heavy rains urday night the play waa slow, | Osw f Os | White ited James Maiden and Aff B | Geo heringham, the “pros,” at 4 WAS JACKS RIGHT |the thirty-seventh hole at the Nase \ |sau Country Club, It was Kirkby *: Who won the extra hole, the metro- worova L~ politan champion driving the green, 2) MEAN THE ; a matter of 306 yards, and getting A / ‘ a 3. - Figur’s OVER. / So fast did the amateurs play in | 2 x the early hours that their best ballgy Y eatias going out was 32, but even at that | pace they were able to gain only aay} advantage of 2 up at the turn, Kirk- P by got a halt in 3 cleverly at the ninth after his drive bounded out of . bunker. The Englewood man Iald the second Hshot up close and brought off the putt. |The 1 ‘hela home It w the pr the el inghan pond but Kirkby won by sinking the putt for a 2. A few moments later both he and White drove the ninth green and, met- | ting 3's, won there, so that they turned for home 4 up. After halves at the tenth and venth, Fotheringham got going, wins the next four holes and squaring match for his side, Had Maiden been able to bring off a one-yard putt on the sixteenth green he would have won tl in 4, but as it was ty® amateurs got away with a half. "aoe nteenth and eighteenth also ‘were halved, and then Kirkby won the extra hole as told previous In th rning Fotheringham had a 7 and Maiden getting 75 and Later on Fotheringham to hia credit. White was with the other two a orse, Maiden Was really too ill y, but he did not want to dis- ort Briefs The nis nT n & popular feature of the season's ramme, On t oceasivns sides will be chosen and every cricketer who » ; down to Livingston will be fel W. Niles and The ron | Roosevelt Pell in the final match of} jer Her a | the lawn ten doubles on the turf Li ag courts of the Field Club of Green- of the wich, 1—6, 7—5, 6—3, | New ne H © abandoned because the famous veter: rd iva abt were run off * and the Longwood Cricket ¢ victor the Alpha F hero of the t set. He p Park. Max Bo! the skyrocket shots, s ha ance run Beals Wright played it, so that he their rivals hard for every r r insuring the nto Wright's cross courts and vol ally the third set, which ¥ point trophy for his organization. in a way many times before the |won, In the rT, *) O'Boyle had The West Side Tennis Club team $ for thelr b: n overWhelming victory ov@ Terrace Club of Brooklyn in a Play for ¢t litan am match on the Wess championships courts by a § to The lturt ve ued . ° Athlet © Club men gained both of ther mbard | Club, Bay Ridge, at 3 o'clock this aft victories in singles. re the|noon, Arthur R, 3 Chairman of — re ses the Tennis Comm yesterday James J, Tully former smates Brilliant shots |that he had obta henys wel box hampion, was the narpest ngles ene | thy Among th » biggest fa athle triumph ng ames of the set,|are the pick of t experts in of the Ne A. C. ov (4 er national champions! thia section, includ Frank Anderson, fie ¢ Departme 7—5, {his Vincent hards, Har. m E New We ts Niles plainly showed that he had shot} Donalds and nis Club's track Sith Stree is bolt as the pairs started the third ther rald, Among ° the first e old d deciding set. Ile m it cht Walter Merrill Hall, red 4 on in maoy ually off his amazing re jocking | s: or, G. A, Nionne, Charley Cham- 16-pound shotput shots, Wright and Jer worked bers and Dr, William Rosenbaum, feet Je, p Anenee seaticvatlitnill ds cell acl aos Oh ae dash, MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS ro te aa aeht e a ° class that for the start in one VAL LEAGUE. | AMERICAN LEAGUE, pee ccc “Went aren UBS W. 1. Pe. | CLUBS W. L. J Ve, % forced 656) Cinein no 407 Out of st through mishaps, and tht ny before the other ten finished ana of yn. them retired because of a third aeal- Pitts 4g 42 Boston wont. » a ee of the Phila 41 47 406/81, 1... 3S) Phila ..37 5 aun Ps frat and GAMES TO-DAY. GAMES YESTERDAY. by 1 as ¢ fand, 2 ob >. rand at New York, ne #40. inalnge) hinee | Brooklyn, at Boston, CHICAGO, Jul. % F.C, Turner of ar HOW THE OTHER CLUBS MADE OUT, ‘ Without a single def es AMERICAN LEAGUE, ALAMEDA, Cal, July 29,—F’rances | O01! 1O%-8 WwW Y OOS000R08 1 second from the women's Hatierion = Ma Dra fuk shang; iuseed Verry "and erkive; = Cann y 1 mmin twenty-five ann] stall iret game a i ' Neptuno Reach, making tho ‘ an KIRKBY’S DRE. “WON EXTRAHOLE MA George Fotheringham. afternoon was well under way that Empire City Track w Wakelield Handicap All traing stop at 125th st Farm 4 olen? aie and eh ‘ bray 4 ion, Jerome" Ave. these ‘by. trolley, ‘Grand Stand’ & Ladies, 61,05, ‘including ‘Wer Tom, Wy ~\{. ‘ ) [= TH FROMPROS ald and Sergt. White De- eat James Maiden and 1 Kirkby and Sergt. Gardiner ead of 2 up which the amateurs t the turn was urichanged on the . both sides winning ra had a best 70 and the pros as not until the outward half in « began td slip back afain, At ahth hole both Kirkby and Fother- nm laid their mashie shots over the to within elght feet of the flag, which was for the Red ans of something lke ed Quite a gallery ially in the afternoon, _— _ Island Cricket and Ten- h successfully engineered national match for the benefit triotle Fund, has decided to its m practice mateies ursdays, Which in past years have Staten wh -we nce to bat. RACING & MT. VERNON) 0-MORROW YONKERS d 5 Other Thrilling Contests 4 ie ¥ ns or Lenox Ave. Subway to to Woatlawn Station,