The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-25
1T WAS HOTLY CONTESTED. ).
MURPHYSTOOD UP PGAEELYBEY0RH
 BILLY PLIMlIER.
They Knocked Each Other About the Ring and Dealt Out Grest Deal of Punish- mcnt-In tho Last Round They Shook Hands and Again Wont at 1t.

clubs carnival opened tonight with Q
 light between Johnny Murphy of Boston and Billy Trimmer. the English bantam,
 weight champion. The contest was 2
 25-round go with gloves, under the Mar
 quis of Queensbury rules for purse of
 s2.500 The attendance was large and
 sporting men were present from all
 parts of the country. Murphy this
 evening tipped the scale at 113h and
 Trimmer weighed 1l3. At 9:05 Plimmer
 entered the ring. He was followed by
 his seconds and Denny Needham as his
 tmekeeper. Murphy crawled through
 the rope two minutes afterwArd and
 was greeted with applause. He tooN seat In the lucky corner and con.
 versed with Kilrain and his seconds and Mike Doyle of Newark, his time- keeper. Frank Corambat of New Or-
 leans acted as official timer. Johnny
 Eckhart of New York was referee. The gong called the men to the mark at 916.
 Trimmer opened the first round with his left in Murphy's stomach and fol- lowed 1t with another. Trimmer jabbed his right over Murphy's heart and land- ed right and left on the chest. Murphy got his left in on Plimmers jaw, but Trimmer came back with hard jab over the heart Trimmer kept pumping his right over Murphy's heart and the latter clinched repeatedly. Thinner had the best of it. In the second Plim-, mer planted his left on Murphy's left eye, but Murphy came back with his right on Billy's neck. Trimmer ducked several leads and poked two hard rights into Murphy's bread basket. In the third round Thinner planted his left on Murphy's neck. Murphy pumped his right in hard on Plimmer's side. Plim- mer caught a hard left in the stomach, but landed hard on Murphys jaw and got in answer several good left-handed jabs.
 In the fourth round Trimmer gave his man a vicious upper cut with his left. Murphy caught Trimmer in the stom- ach. Trimmer forced the fighting and landed several good body blows. In the fifth round Murphy caught Plimmer's left hard in the stomach and then caught another in the jaw. Both men were wary in the sixth round. Trimmer
 drove his right hard on the stomach and staggered Murphy with g rapid
 right and left op the chest followed by 8 hard right in the stomach. In tho seventh round Trimmer repeatedly laid himself close on Murphy's, chest, Mur- phy got in a corking left upper cut. on Trimmer in the eighth round, and Trimmer got his left in Murphy's stom- ach. In the ninth Murphy upper cut Trimmer and Trimmer hit Murphy In the stomach and side, Murphy getting in on the Englishman's stomach and ear.
 In the tenth round Trimmer tried to clinch and Murphy upper cut him with his right and left and nearly threw him down. Trimmer landed right and left swing on the jaw. In the eleventh round Trimmer got in a good one On Murphy's jaw with his right, but Mur- phy came back with hard one in the stomach. Murphy landed three left- hand blows on Plimmer's jaw in the lWGllLl duu gave IllflltlGF v vicious upper cut with his righ-. Mur- phy was wide awake in the thi"+eenth round, and got the best of ra1'l ex- change of half-arm blows p'lamer weakened Murphy with a hard right hand punch in the stomach. in the fourteenth round Murphy landed hard left on Plimmer's stomach, and follow, ed with right and left on Pllmmer'n ear and chin. Trimmer got hard right on the stomach and left on the chest.
 Trimmer hit hard right on Murphy'u left ear in the fourteenth round. but caught vicious upper cut from Mur- phys left. A rapid exchange opened the next round, and Trimmer landed right and left. Murphy landed hard jab in the stomach. Each man landed two hard blows on the stomach In the seventeenth round, and in the eigh- teenth Trimmer caught Murphy undev the chin and he went down, but quick ly jumped up for his punishment plim. mer then hammered Murphy all around, but could not get him out. Murphy came up gamely in the ninea teenth. Billy drove his right hard in Murphy's stomach three times, follow- ing with hard one in the side. In the. twentieth Trimmer got in several good ones on Murphy's stomach, ear and, neck Trimmer forced the fighting ip tho twenty-first round. He sent in a telfi- ble blow on Murphy's mouth.
 Murphy began to weaken and stag- gered around the ring. He was almost gone when the gong sounded.
 In the twenty-second round Murphy came up weak. Trimmer got in good left on the stomach. Murphy ran into a hard left hand swing and was nearly; but he came up gamely and Trimmer under the chin and fioored him. Trimmer staggered up ;tnd hugged Murphy. There was noth- ing but sparring in the twenty-third, with both wary. While sparring in the twenty-fourth round Murphy stops, ped to scratch his head. Murphy plant. ed his left hard on the chin as the gon1 sounded.
 In the twenty-f1fth round the men, shook hands. Trimmer tried to get his left on Murphy's stomach, but he land.; ed short. Murphy drove hard on Plim. mer's ear with his right and followsR 1t by his left in the stomach. The round ended with the men sparrina and the contest was declared a draw. to the agreement, as bptA men were on their feet at the sound of the gong. Murphy was badly marked, 4 put Trimmer had scarcely a bruise, Mth bo oxconffny1 of o axun1lon,, Ny,