Utah Heavyweight Defeats
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» SPORTING SECTION Baseball . Boxing . Racing SPORTING SECTION Jfet* ftnbtmc Tennis . Golf . Rowing PART H FOUR jtotfc PAGES SUNDAY, JULY 28, 1918 PART II FOUR PAGES ÍSJS^L?1100^ Out Fred Fulton thé First Round Utah Jn in Harrison Bout Heavyweight Defeats Hit The Days of Real Sport. By briggs Johnston's Minnesota Giant in 23 Seconds Beats Yankees Volley of Right and Left " Hooks to Jaw Ends AnnieOakley"BoysMoreEndangered In the Tenth Contest From Fragments of Shattered "Glass" Old Topsy Turner Puts By Fred Hawthorne JawThan Guns of Just twenty-three seconds after the by JerseyMinuteMen Finishing Touch on Game fight started. Jack Dempsey, the Utah With had knocked Fred Placid of the Single heavyweight, Pulton, Plasterer Proves Me¬ under Two-Dollar Boys trampled him the Minnesota Giant, flat on his back in foot. dium of New Method of Another excited militiaman the ring of the arena at Harrison Field, one of the stopped CLEVELAND, July 27.-Doc Newark, X. and it ringleaders of the enemy Johnston, J., yesterday afternoon. Reckoning Fighting Time seemed that he wa.i going to per¬ who returned to the big show a short Fulton was counted out by Referee Eck- sonally repulse until the time raider took his him, fresh ago just because his first basing hardt, never regaining his feet after he gun away from him. was in What can a member of the demand by the Cleveland Fohl- a Louis Lee Home Guard had fallen prostrate under storm of By Arms be expected to do without his gun? lies, won the game between the Indians right and left hooks to the and At the Hudson Terminal It was not and the jaw, Station I most of very long, therefore, until Yankees to-day with a double thus ended the much advertised bout purchased, for the modest sum of S3 the choice seats that had not. in the tenth j been taken .and inning. Old Topsy Turner for the cents, a excursion previously not a whole had a "heavyweight championship of fifteen-day ticket to lot of them were, for, in ,-ttendance, the bit to do with the outcome, for the world," a bout that it had taken Newark. It is evident that the Hudson bout was a bloomer.were it was his single that brought Johnston & When seated it is occupied. months to arrange and pull off. Manhattan Railway Company never difficult to »tell a Two across the plate. The "has beens" ap¬ The crown was so Dollar Boy from a stunned bv the thought the Fulton-Dempsey bout was the genuine, paid-from- pear to be in a fair way to th« sudden ending of the fight that for to hip $10 spectator. keep aj going last only twenty-three sec- The word somehow national pastime few seconds, as the lanky Fulton lay onda. leaked out of the booming despite the sprawling on his back, half Still, you never can tell about park that'the Home Guard had lost demands of war. supported these towns and cities its Aside from by the lowest ring rope, the sun beat¬ "glass" jaws. and this along entire front the big blow struck by ing down or. his pale face, there was Most of us are accustomed to re¬ encouraged the hoi polloi out Johnston the feature of the game was as side the gates to scale the battle of silence. Then, Fred's seconds ran membering ring batles by rounds, and descend the fence anc words waged by "Tallow frantically around to the side of the lucky to do that. It is an added hard¬ into the park without the cos' Ball" Joe Finncran and Umpire Bill of a Evan?. ring where the defeated man was ship when you have to recall a fight anything except little exertion Of course, it is unnecessary to swaying, half on the rope, half on the by seconds. My sole recollection of Crawling along the fence, they looket announce the winner. "Tallow Joe" fioor of the Mr. Fulton's not unlike running rabbits in the was ordered to make ring, there was a sudden twilight sleep is two ring but shoot himself scarce, increasing bedlam of sound, and men warriors, one in white trunks, the other ing gallery, the Home Guards hai and Herb Thormahlem came to th« in green. The been greatly mound for the started to rour from the box seats and Placid Plasterer looked of first discouraged by the succ.es Yanks. Thormahlen the grandstands, ail headed for. the not unlike a kangaroo, and he was the attack, and they took n« poved unequal to the task of check- ring. As Eckhardt reached the of more cautious. notice. ing the Indians, and count Most one George Mogridge "seven" Fulton slowly turned over and Dempsey rushed, yellow gloves flew every who can be counte« was called upon by Huggins to finish. lay face feeble through the air, and the upon to get into such an affair on the game. down, making efforts to suddenly free ticket was rise by pushing his right foot under Placid Plasterer was half on his back, there. That include Tho home team was two runs behind him. teetering on the bottom rope of the a lot of persons. Owing to the fact tha when their half of the ninth opened, the-light was fast and the Yanks were Dempsey Aids His Victim quadrangle, with a silly look on his tion failing and the mc packing up their mug. He continued to recline there pictures of importance, the core bats when the storm that eventually As the referee finished the count while Referee John P. Eckhart stood monies were curtailed, and there wer turned the tide in the opposite direc- over less than tion Dempsey, who had been standing a him and told off the seconds. one-eighth of the customar broke. Two triples, one poled few feet away, waiting for his fallen Fulton Sits.and Blinks introductions. The Hon. John S. Smitl from the bat of Evans, the Cleveland foe to rise, jumped around behind his After chairman of the New Jersey State Bo> third baseman, and the other issuing victim and awhile Fulton got up and ing Commission, was from the war club of helped Eckhardt carry Ful- . blinked and blinked introduced, an Chapman, the ton to his corner. Then Jack raised again, as silly as seemed mirftled to say a few word short stop, resulted in a sufficient his own hand j you please. At length he sat in his The Hon. John's voice was number of tallies to tie right above his head and corner, and none of not pitchc the score. shook his fist in his retinue sobbed to the outdoor setting, nor the The Yankees were in their gloved acknowledg- on his shoulder. He sat there switc helpless ment of the wild shrieks from those and simply enyines hard by, and in consequen« half of the tenth, but in the Indians'« who were the victor. blinked and blinked, as though this the audience muffed about half of the same frame Doc hailing was the most impossible of all worlds. he said. cverythir Johnston There were scarcely ten blows struck ¡ Meantime made his semi-annual hit, with the re- in the entire right. The first round Dempsey was rushing about, Mrs. George Alexander Wheeloc suit that the Yanks took a firmer grip making heroic efforts to his de- who is the on began with Dempsey rushing from his sire to repress | champion recruiter for tl fourth place. If the Huggins men corner «shout. He even forgot to shake are to win a and going to close quarters the hand of the Placid pennant before the first with Fulton at once. The giant from his Plasterer until September morn dawns they will have Minnesota, the man who was regarded manager observed the omission and to cet right busy. as sent him over to' the still The sccore: the logical successor of Jess Willard So blinking j until tried to the Utah kangaroo. they shook hands, which Fulton and NEW YORK (A. L.) 1 CLEVELAND (A. L.> yesterday, keep was one of the Dempsey, Willard Giants Go to ab few Down rhrnaf r times Fulton laid a No ah 11 po a . heavyweight away by sticking his long on Series, llamar, cf ...311 1 0 3 Defeat OIGraney, If_411 0« glove it Big left arm Dempsey. But was too late out, but he only pawed at to count. Shown in Statistics Caldw-nl!. rf. ..3 0 0 1 0 0!<iiapuiii:i, ss. .5 1 3 5 4« Dempsey, and Jack bored in, chasing Comparative Gllhooley, rf..l0 0 2 0 0 Sneaker, cf_512 4 00 his opponent around the The Home Guard at Harrison, N. J., Baker. 3b ...4 11 0 0 0 Roth, rf .412 111» ring. put in an arduous Pratt, 2b ...401 33 0 Wood. 2b ....511 162 afternoon. Along Jack Dempsey. Fred Fulton. Willard. Pirates In the Hyatt, lb 4 2 2 13 1 0 Johnston, lb .5111310 to about the Before If Rushes Fulton Ropes hour that the Slugging Itodie. _.-,0 2 3 0 0 3b .4 0 majority of our Age.22 Opinion Turner. 2 140 years 27 *32 ss. .5 1 1 c came in wide but his citizens were for for years years reckln'gh, 2 10 OlO'Nell. .200 140 Dempsey open, senrching sugar Hannah, c .. .3 0 2 . 3 2 0! Bagby, p .2 0 0 120 their iced tea the Weight.196 pounds 212 pounds 280 pounds .0 0 rush carried Fulton before it until the $2 boys in the centre feet Finneran.