Kansas City journal., 1897-11-11
IN THE REALM OF FIsTIANA.
Murphy, of Salt Lake, Lands a Chance
Blow That knocks Out Cas-
sidy. of Frisco.


Walla Walla. Wash. Nov. 10.-A prize
fight for n purse of $3.50 took place on a
farm near the state line, six mics south
of here. between Cassidy, of San Francisco.
and Murphy, of Salt Lake, before large
crowd from Walla Walla. Pendleton and
Lagrande. The affair was kept very quiet.
The men were evenly matched, Sassidy
weighing 145 and Murphy 15o. Fifteen
round Cassidy had the best of 1t. knocking
Murphy down In nearly every round: In
the fifteenth round when Cassidy had Muir
ply almost done for, he gave Murphy an
opening. and the latter landed terrific
ing him out; Murphy was badly p punished shed
Soon after the fight ended the principals
disappeared and the officers are now look
ing for them.
The Chicago News says: If Australian
Billy Smith, who is to meet Kid Mccoy
in the Tndu of next & o
hiding, wherever he Is preparing for the
contest, he will oblige the local sports, who
are anxious to get line on the Australian
of Johnson, is following unusual methods
i'll keeping his man from the eyes of the
sports, who want to see Smith, as none OF
the local sports have ever seen him put up
his dukes. He has not been downtown
since the match was first made, and 1t is
an enigma to even the managers Of the
show where the boxer is doing his prepara-
tory work.
gland. has offeerd $500 purse for a bout
between Jem Carney. the English light
weight. and Jack McAuli1e. the ex-light
weight champion of America.
Tom o'Rourke and Billy Layigne are
at length. Walcott's manager stated that
he would make a match at 40 pounds and
SsS Hn eha his brother e Wou
lI) pounds o'Rourke replied that Walcott
whom who he had met. and that he had gone
against middle and heavyweights even. He
hao also matched Dixon against men eight
claimed 1t was impossible for Walcott to be
strong at 1876 pounds. as had been proven
far the superior Of any man in his class.
| sonable concessions: The manager OF Wal.
to ii light at Is5 pounds. and as Lavigne could
| easily make that weight, there was no
reason why he could not c9neede ns s.,i iiye is,,
| Walcott twice. Lavigne would not give an
answer. except to say he would talk the
matter over with his brother.
Frank Craig. the Harlem Coffee e Cooler" :,
ecnfidence. asnf 3 e' The M Cooler" Claims that he
made several bets that he would stop
| in irving to finish the Boston boxer quick
| ly he gave a chance to the latter to knocs
| Elm out. Craig has issued challenge tc
| OBrien for another fight, and oilers tC
back himself to the extent of $1,000
The latest among the boxers to arrive
from foreign shores in search OF the al
mighty dollar is Bill Henerman; OF s9utt I
who bears a remarkable resemblance t.
the present heavyweight champion: Bol
Fitzsimmons and he comes here with ;
tie scalps OF nearly all the middle and vel
terweight topnotchers of Africa. although
| ali his fighting has been done in Africa AM
Australia he is a thoroughbred Irishman
having been born in bi pEriys here hi
manager Johnny Mack. entered into nego
tiations fol. a match with Tommy u Ryan, ;,, o
Syracuse. for the welterweight champion
| shin of the world. The battle, IL arranged
will be held in Buffalo in the near future
and will virtually settle the welterweigh