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Cap · 01-31-2026, 12:21 PM

From the Chicago Daily News January 12-15, 1909... As the boxing world anxiously awaits the upcoming championship contest between Luther McCarty and Sam Langford, fight fans content themselves with battles for lesser crowns...Thanks to a scarcity of willing opponents against whom to defend his American title, Harry Wills found himself in the ring against the once formidable behemoth from Oklahoma, Carl Morris. Despite receiving low blows, head butts and rabbit punches, Wills took the fight to Morris and inflicted terrific damage to his head and bulky frame. By the opening of the seventh round Morris was a bloody, stumbling mess. Short hard blows put him on the canvas for counts of eight, and when he rose the second time, Referee Barry stepped in and saved him from further mayhem. "The winner, by technical knockout at 2:02 of the seventh round, and still US heavyweight champion, Harry Wills!"...Fred Fulton's loss to New York's pocket heavyweight John Lester Johnson is an early candidate for upset of the year. Fighting in front of his own hometown crowd, Fulton (210¾) boxes Johnson (186½), landing hard left jabs to his face. Fulton is playing to the crowd, easily taking the first three rounds. In the fourth he relaxes his guard for a moment and Johnson strikes! A punch lands on Fulton's temple and his legs wobble. Johnson goes for the kill, landing punch after punch. Fulton stumbles across the ring with Johnson in hot pursuit. Johnson catches Fulton propped up against the ropes and smashes home lefts and rights, rocking Fulton's head until referee Barton leaps in and stops the slaughter. Fulton staggers back to his corner unaware the fight has been stopped. Official time 2:44 of round four and we have a new NABF heavyweight champion...According to United Press International, "Jack Dempsey of Utah knocked out highly touted contender Billy Miske in five rounds of fierce scrapping in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Dempsey used a shift on Miske with telling effect, landing heavily and forcing him to clinch or go to the canvas. Early in the fifth round Dempsey caught Miske a terrific clip on the chin with a left uppercut, lifting him a foot off the floor and depositing him on his back where he was swiftly counted out. Dempsey's dancing and rocking baffled the St Paul boy. The Gate was $18,523. Dempsey fought for a guaranteed $5,000 for this defence of his Pacific Northwest title. Miske drew down about $3,500...At Manhattan's Hippodrome last Tuesday evening, Kenosha's Bud Gorman (18-2-2) was carded for eight rounds with Philly's Honeyboy Wilson (20-4-2) as half of a co-feature. Gorman shaded Wilson so there could be little dispute at the close of battle as to whom would take the winner's share...

01-31-2026, 12:21 PM	#649
Cap Hall Of Famer Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Large Province in God's Country Posts: 8,070	From the Chicago Daily News January 12-15, 1909... As the boxing world anxiously awaits the upcoming championship contest between Luther McCarty and Sam Langford, fight fans content themselves with battles for lesser crowns...Thanks to a scarcity of willing opponents against whom to defend his American title, Harry Wills found himself in the ring against the once formidable behemoth from Oklahoma, Carl Morris. Despite receiving low blows, head butts and rabbit punches, Wills took the fight to Morris and inflicted terrific damage to his head and bulky frame. By the opening of the seventh round Morris was a bloody, stumbling mess. Short hard blows put him on the canvas for counts of eight, and when he rose the second time, Referee Barry stepped in and saved him from further mayhem. "The winner, by technical knockout at 2:02 of the seventh round, and still US heavyweight champion, Harry Wills!"...Fred Fulton's loss to New York's pocket heavyweight John Lester Johnson is an early candidate for upset of the year. Fighting in front of his own hometown crowd, Fulton (210¾) boxes Johnson (186½), landing hard left jabs to his face. Fulton is playing to the crowd, easily taking the first three rounds. In the fourth he relaxes his guard for a moment and Johnson strikes! A punch lands on Fulton's temple and his legs wobble. Johnson goes for the kill, landing punch after punch. Fulton stumbles across the ring with Johnson in hot pursuit. Johnson catches Fulton propped up against the ropes and smashes home lefts and rights, rocking Fulton's head until referee Barton leaps in and stops the slaughter. Fulton staggers back to his corner unaware the fight has been stopped. Official time 2:44 of round four and we have a new NABF heavyweight champion...According to United Press International, "Jack Dempsey of Utah knocked out highly touted contender Billy Miske in five rounds of fierce scrapping in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Dempsey used a shift on Miske with telling effect, landing heavily and forcing him to clinch or go to the canvas. Early in the fifth round Dempsey caught Miske a terrific clip on the chin with a left uppercut, lifting him a foot off the floor and depositing him on his back where he was swiftly counted out. Dempsey's dancing and rocking baffled the St Paul boy. The Gate was $18,523. Dempsey fought for a guaranteed $5,000 for this defence of his Pacific Northwest title. Miske drew down about $3,500...At Manhattan's Hippodrome last Tuesday evening, Kenosha's Bud Gorman (18-2-2) was carded for eight rounds with Philly's Honeyboy Wilson (20-4-2) as half of a co-feature. Gorman shaded Wilson so there could be little dispute at the close of battle as to whom would take the winner's share... Attached Images __________________ "...There were Giants in Those Days.."