The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-02-07
MURPHY WAS KNOCKEDOUT|
It Required Seven Rounds fol
Griffin to Finish Him.
A HARD FOUGHT BATTLE.
Both Men We're Badly Punished and
Murphy's Wrist Was Broken.
In the Seventh Round the Rushed at Each
% Other Like Demons, But Griffin
Shot Out a Left Which Set
tied the Fight.

CoNEY ISLAND. Feb. 6.-Despite the
stormy whether there was large and en-
thusiastic crowd of sporting men at the
Coney Island Athletic club tonight to see
Johnny Griffin, of Braintree, Mass, and
Australian Billy Murphy fight for the
featherweight championship and purse
of $4,000. In addition there was twenty
round contest between Kid Hogan of
Brooklyn and Dolly Lyons of New York,
hot scrap. Then came the fight. Muir
ply was accompanied by his seconds
Martin Murphy, Charley Koran. Charley
Hogan and A. F. Murphy, with Snapper
Garrison as timer. The seconds of Johnny
Griffin were Jimmy Carroll, Phil Conway
and Jack MCGEE, with John McGrath of
Boston as timer.
The first round, which was of hurri-
cane order, made it plain that Griffin had
more science, but when Murphy hit it
was for keeps. In the second Griffin
forced the fighting and the liveliest kind
of smuggling followed. Murphy, In one
rush, Knocked Griffin clear through the
ropes with his shoulder, and on another
occasion knocked him to the floor with
his body.
In the third Griffin forced Murphy to
his knees and when he got up began
pounding him, but got singing left on
the nose which started the blood, and
the fight was bulldog-like during the
balance of the round. They clinched, and
punched while locked together and did
every thing but kick and bite. Murphy,
instead of fighting squarely, would run
his head into Gritfin's chest, but Griffin
stopped that by an upper-cut. Murphy
was now bleeding from the nose
In the fourth the game was a trif1e hot
for Murphy and he adopted shifty tactics,
only closing in when he got good open
ing. Griffin was fighting hard. In the
fifth Griffin gave Murphy some terrible
jabs and had him groggy, forcing him to
the floor four times. Murphy was groggy.
He would take blow after blow square in
the face and wait an opportunity to get
in his right, but Griffin was eqally sharp
and did not get in its way. The round
was not fair, Murphy continually fouling
with his head.
In the sixth Murphy tried for knock
out blow with his right but in doing so
received many left hand upper cuts that
made him bleed profusely. He had his
nose knocked all out of shape and was
pounded SO hard that he was groggy at
the call for time. It was the most rapid
kind of fighting. Murphy landed couple
of right hand swings without much ap-
parent effect.
In the seventh Murphy started in to do
some heavy work but Griffin met him
with hard left on the mouth and landed
on his nose with his right. They came
together like mad bulls and Muir
ply forced Griffin to the floor.
When he arose Murphy went at him
swinging his arms like windmill. They
rushed at each other like demons, when
Griffin shot out his left, which settled in
| the pie of Murphy's stomach. Down he
went grooming and completely knocked
out. When Murphy was carried to his
chair he fell off and was held in position
until he recovered his senses. When the
Knockout blow was received the round
had lasted fifteen seconds. Murphy broke
his wrist early in the fight.