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From the afternoon edition of The Detroit Tribune May 16, 1905...The aspirations of another "American Hope" were shattered here last night when Carl Morris the Tulsa giant was stopped in the seventh round of a 12 round bout by Luther McCarty of Springfield, Missouri...McCarty, the reigning Pacific Northwest boxing champion, took charge in the first round and retained control throughout the fight before a thunderous blow put Morris down for a count of nine in round seven...The hulking Oklahoman rose on shaky pins, dazed and unable to ward off the swift punching McCarty, at which point referee Charlie Eyton stepped between to halt the action and award the win to the former cowboy...McCarty came in at 205 while Morris was a bulky 238..."I can knock McCarty out in four or five rounds," opined Gunboat Smith, who watched the fight from ringside in the crowded Mission Street Arena, "I am willing to bet something that I could put either of them to sleep in less than ten rounds. I watched the fight closely and all I got was encouragement. Morris was out of shape or he would have put up a much better showing against this fellow McCarty."...Fighting at the venerable Hippodrome in New York, Tom Kennedy gave a boxing lesson to the bull-like Al Palzer yesterday despite taking a degree of punishment in the early rounds...Palzer's face was a mangled mess from the repeated left jabs that snapped his head back from the third round on...A right cross buckled his knees in round eight but he recovered and rushed at the curly-haired New Yorker til the end, enduring a rain of stiff punches that had spectators flinching...In Minneapolis lanky Fred Fulton continued his sweep through the lesser ranks of the heavyweight division with a first round technical knockout of New Jersey's Joe Costello...Fulton, in his second year as a professional, followed his dynamite left hook with a short chopping right that sprawled his smaller opponent on the boards where he lay as his corner threw in the towel...Jeff Clarke won his second South American bout with a knockout of Eduardo Herrera, but will have his next delayed as his expected opponent Angel Rodriguez lost his Latin American championship to fellow Uruguayan Valerio Ruelas in the main event...Joe Jeannette has signed to defend his US championship against sixth ranked challenger Jess Willard of Kansas at Trenton A.C. in New Jersey next month...