1917-04-04, Fred Fulton loses by DQ to Carl Morris

Boxrec says
"According to Mike Collins and many others, this was a fixed fight on behalf of Morris' handlers, allowing Morris to foul without penalty from referee Brown, and if in trouble by Fulton, to disqualify Fulton for foul tactics. However, according to more than one wire report, Morris had the better of the battle, especially the infighting, going into the fifth round, and had to be carried back to his corner after the low blow was struck"

The funny thing is there are tons of easy to find, next day local reports. Morris seems to have been fighting a very rough fight on the inside, and battering Fulton with those tactics, until the latter lost the fight by being dq'd for hitting Morris low. Morris's rough tactics don't seem to detract from the consideration in the reports that he derserved the win.

The Evening World
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The Sun
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (report by "Rice")
"Morris made no pretense whatever of boxing in the ordinary sense of the word. He dashed into a clinch as soon as they had exchanged one pass at the opening of the round, or after the very infrequent intervals when Referee Bill Brown seperated them. He was on top of Fulton every minute and Fulton could not get away, try as he might. It then came down to a case of slugging and roughing at close quarters, and there Morris was immeasurably the superior of the plasterer. He pulled and hauled and mauled Fulton like a terrir shaking a rat, or almost as bad as that, and Fulton could neither fight nor run awat, which is always a distressing situation, and very disturbing to both mind and body"

"Those in a more favorable position declared that Fulton deliberately and with malice hit Morris low. Pretty much all were agreed that three blow went low, but some said they were rights and some said they were lefts. The advocates of the left were in the great majority, but a small group of dessenters daid there were two lefts and a right"

The Brooklyn Daily Times
"In the middle of the fifth round, with Morris' head against Fulton's chest and whaling both hands to the center of the plasterer, the losing battler drew himself free and swung wild. Three time he unloosed three vicious drives, all low, but unaimed. The first found it's home on Morris' belt, the second just below in forbidden territory and the third square in the groin."

The Daily Standard Union
"The round had gone just 1 minute and 28 seconds when Fulton rushed Morris and started to play for his body with left hooks. One of these crashed into Morris' groin and he slipped to the floor in evident agony. Referee Brown terminated the bout then and there. Fulton was hissed by the crowd"
Morris completely surprised Fulton by his style of battle. Instead of standing off and allowing the Minnestota plasterer to soak him with left and rights at long range, he rushed Fulton and fought for his body, with telling effect. Fulton was tired after the first round. When the fifth round started Morris landed a right to the wind and Fulton claimed he had been fouled. The claim was not allowed. A little later he himself committed the foul that ended the contest"

New-York Tribune
"The giants were battling head-on in the centre of the ring, both fighting with one arm free, when Fulton shot two rights to the stomach. The first punch was plainly below the belt, but did not carry the force of the second.
Morris sank slowly to his knee, crumpled up and lay sprawled like a wounded hippopotimus in mid-ring.
Bill Brown, the referee, declared Fulton had fouled Morris.
The announcement was greeted with cheers, and Carl was given a great reception as his seconds helped him from the ring.
It was Fulton's gore that painted both men in sunst colors. Morris fought exactly the kind of battle to beat Fulton. He kept on top of his man every second and he did terrible execution in the clinches. Most of the damage he did with vicious uppercuts to the face, but his bull-like head did Fulton almost as much harm"

The Brooklyn Citizen (by George Maggiore)
"It was one of the most deliberate fouls ever seen in a New York ring. Fulton was on the short end of the milling all through the bout and must have realized that he could not last more than a round or two more with Morris. Both me were infighting at the time and Fulton was getting a fine pasting when he suddenly hit Carl three times in quick succession in the groin. Carl slowly sank to the floor and had to be dragged to his corner. Referee Bill Brown then disqualified Fulton, automatically giving the bout to Morris.
After the first round Fulton realized he was due for a lacing, and his action in fouling Morris proved conclusively that he is not game enough to take punishment. Morris kept on top of his man from the lap of the opening bell and proved himself a master at infighting. Carl had the Indian sign on his opponent from the very start and forced all the fighting. Fulton tried to stab Morris off with his long left, and although he slammed Carl on the jaw several times, Carl always managed to get in close and made Fulton pay dearly for the wallops."