BOXING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 137, 9 June 1917, Page 14

BOXING.

Says an American writer:—Frank Force, manager of Fred Fulton, if he is as smart a fellow as those who know him think he is, and if he really thinks the fouling of Morris was accidental, will start right away to get Fulton a twenty-round fight with Morris at New Orleans or any other place where a tight of that length can be held.

The money part shouldn't matter to Force; money will come with the world's championship, and if Fulton can whip Morris he has five months to get him in the ring and do it. Jess Willard says that his engagement with a show will not permit him to even discuss fight for five mom-_>.

Right now if an opponent were to be selected for Willard, for an early scrap, the preference would be given Morris over Fulton. And, unless Force and Fulton bring about a change by whipping Morris, the situation will be no different five months hence.

Jimmy Ferguson, a San Franciscan who recently returned from Panama, told an American writer of the killing of Jim Bam*.

Barry, according to Ferguson, was at Colon by a gambler known as "'Tex," who arrested that Barry doublecrossed him in the Sam McVey fight at Panama City and caused him to lose a pile of money.

The story, as it came to Ferguson, who was a SDectator ait the McVeyBarry fight, is that before the fight Barry went to "Tex" and told him that be was certain to stop McVey in a few rounds.

Tex, accepting the tip, plunged heavily on Barry, and McVey, as announced in the dispatches, scored a knockout in the sixth round, dropping Barry several times before he put in the decisive wallop. The fi _nt was held on March 12 Three days later, when Barry and the tight fans had returned to Colo#, " Tex " was standing in front of a saloon when Barry started to pass him on the sidewalk.

.i _ „ ew hls P' stol and pumped three bullets into Barry's sto__a_h. Barry fell and died instantly.