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Clipped from The Detroit Tribune September 1907...Fighting before a good crowd at the Chicago Coliseum, Harry Wills emerged the winner and new United States heavyweight champion, defeating the number one aspirant Fred Fulton of Minnesota...Fulton led the fighting in the early going behind a telephone pole-like straight left and a bone-crushing left hook...Things turned around in round five when Wills weathered a new assault and started landing his own artillery, repeating the same in the next round and the next...Wills sprang at Fulton in the eighth, straightened the lanky Minnesotan up with a left and then curved a right to the jaw that spilled Fulton on the canvas...He rose to his feet at the count of nine, only to reel into a smash that again settled him on the floor...He was struggling gamely but futilely to rise and face the slaughter again when Referee Ed Mahoney stopped the fight and awarded it to Harry on a technical knockout...The McCarty-Brennan world championship fight was plagued by problems from the start when a prominent backer proved to be a con man and was arrested and charged with fraud...then Bill Brennan was taken to bed with what seemed to be some sort of influenza with serious complications...then one of the main preliminary bouts was scrapped when Carl Morris, who was scheduled to box Jack Dempsey, was arrested for brawling in a public house...The whole show was cancelled and moved to November and Hazard's Pavilion outside Los Angeles promoted by Tom McCarey with Jess Willard as Luther McCarty's new opponent with a co-feature of Tom Cowler meeting Billy Miske, preceded by Jim Coffey facing Al Palzer...In Pittsburgh Colin Bell squared off with Frank Moran in a boring-in slugfest that nearly exhausted referee Bill Munro as he worked to pry the combatants apart...Bell managed to outlast the former dentist, and put Moran down three times in round nine, once from more of a push than a punch, but Munro allowed it and gave a TKO win to the burly Australian...Deprived of any other prospective matches, Bell told friends he was taking passage on the next ship home...