Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-09-11
MURPHY INLAND
 BATTLE TODAY New York Sports Much In terested i'll the Eastern Boys Efforts With Ma tive Son of Golden Gate
BURK-JOHNSON BOUT
TOmOrr0w-Murphy and Hyland Will Weigh 139 Pounds at the RingSide The West Against the Eastern Pride-RecOrd of Two Fighters.

New York, Sept, 1l.-Harlem Tommy Murphy will be heavily backed by the hundreds of New York night fans who journeyed to Philadelphia on a special train to- day to witness his six round battle tonight with Fighting Dick Fly land, the California lightweight. While it is generally believed that the native son of the golden west is about the niftiest little man that the pride of Harlem has ever been mp against, few sports of upper Broadway doubt that Tommy will make clear showing of superior 1ty. Both lads are trained to the minute and are expected to fight like little wildcats. Frank Erne will second Murphy. Hyland has been training at Stratford, Conn, with George Decker and Johnny Burdick as his trainers.
 Tonight's battle will open the season of the National A. C., in Philadelphia. The bout will be for six rounds, no decision, at each weights, under straight Queensbury rules, the men protecting them- selves at all times. The purse will be $2,500 to be split even. The rule of a clean break vii be observed strictly, as it will in all future scraps in the City of Brothely Love, the municipal fathers having sound ed warning to the boxers against what they style rough and tumble that for a fighter to pummel anoth- CT when the latter is not in a posi- ton to defend himself is not proper sport and is conducive to a free hSht. Many fight fans who are fond of pummeling match and keep their thumbs persistently turn ed down during a battle, are op- posed to this rule. but their defect ion will probably be more than made up by the patronage of those who desire to seen clean contests of eleverness and skill with all ele- ments of brutality eliminated.
 That too. is just the kind of a battle that Murphy and Hyland may be expected to put up. It is a ease of the pride of the East meet ing the one of the best of the West with sectional as we'll as personal pride at stake. If both little fellows don't travel so fast that it will keep both eyes busy to follow them, then all signs are on tn, blink New York sports are an- Xiously awaiting the result, which will show whether Harlem Tommy is really the wonderful little man We have thought him. Tommy has put the hooks on many famous fighters. but nearly all were on the down grade through dissipation or age and he gave them a final shove down the greased toboggan.
 One of the elements of Murphy $ strength nas been that he has avoid. ed all the pitfalls that usually be- set the pugilist, abstaining from liquor, the excessive use of tobacco late hours and other things that saI the vitality and becloud the mind In Fighting Dick he will meet an. other man. Friends of the Cali fornia lad declare that he is the DO. sessor of the gold watch that be- comes the property of every young man of 21 who has neither drank intOXicants, used tobacco or in dulged in profanity.
 Hylands record shows that he is no slouch as fighter. He was born in Grass Valley, California October 12. 1885, and therefore lacks month of being 22 years i'd
 He began his ring career when he
 was IT, and has taken part in >
 battles, of these he has won 52
 including 39 knockouts, and lost only three. Frankie Neill knocked
 him out in fifteen rounds on Jan
 uary 31, 1905, Billy Sailham wor
 the decision in twenty round con
 test ata Sacramento, May 1905
 and Johnny Thompson won iron
 him on a foul in the ninth round il