The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-12
BESTS
HYLAND In
6 ROUNDS
Fighting Dick" Puts Up
Game Battle, but Lacks
the Punch.

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12.-"Fighting'
Dick Hyland, of San Francisco, in his first
appearance in the East, at the National
Athletic Club last night, was forced by
Tommy Murphy, of New York, to chalk
up a defeat alongside of his long and i'm
posing array of victories. The Westerner
was only particularly dangerous in one
round. although he kept the fastener
moving all the time.
Looked at from any angle the bout was
a good one, and Hyland demonstrated
that he was a fighter. but he was no
match for the boxing skill of his oppon-
emit. His blows had power and he did his
best to get one in that would uphold his
reputation as a knockout artist. Murphy's
ability to block and dodge and jump away,
however. worried the Californian, and try
as he would he could not place a blow
where it would do the trick. That does
not mean that Hyland did not land, for
he did, and the blows did some damage,
but he either caught NTommy jumping
way or at long range.
The men met at catch weights and Hy-
land ooked to have a few pounds on his
opponent. Both were In tiptop condition,
and although the fight was fast neither
was ever distressed. The rules of the bout,
as announced by Referee McGuigan, called
for the men to- box straight Queensberry,
to break as soon as clinched. and II not the
referee would separate them. Despite that
there was considerable hanging on, the
men often going clear around the ring
clinched, each trying to get In some upper
cuts.
After the first round the boys got busy
and Hyland forced the fighting, seemingly
paying no attention to the frequent jabs
and punches that Murphy landed with great
frequency. When Murphy brought the
blood in the third round 1t sseemfd to spur
the Westerner on and he pushed right in
for more. He never broke ground once and
the jumping in and out of the boxer was
not in his line, for when he led he went on
in the manner of all fighters. He took
whatever punishment there was coming 10
him. no matter whether the blows landed
on his face or caught him in the stomach.
While Murphy rocked his head several
times and landed Il number OF slashing
smashes on his wind, they did not slow
Hyland up a particle.
The only scare Murphy's seconds had
was In the fifth, when Hyland did his most
effective work, landing numerous straight
punches on Murphy's mouth and chin that
sent his head back, and blow on the
stomach that made the Harlem boy grunt.
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as he was jumping aYay after connecting
with Hyland's face or body. AS it was, he
had Tommy bleeding at the mouth.
Tommys seconds kept yelling to him to
jump away and outpoint his opponent, for
they feared that too much of that sort of
medicine would weaken their man. And
Tommy did show the effects of the punish
ment,a for he slowed up; his. blows were
wilder than they had been. But in the
final round he came back fast and jabbed
continually and did not give Hyland a
chance.
Hyland has Nelson's habi of. using his
head to hold an opponent away III a clinch,
while he keeps his arms on the go, upper
cutting sand pounding away on the body.
He is rugged apd In a longer fight than six
rounds would have caused Murphy trouble.
His sobriquet Of Fighting is well given,
and when he gets some speed after bouts
in which he meets Fasteners who are
used to the short distance he will I'M
doubtedly have more points to his credit
than he got last night.