Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-27
THE PUGILISTS DICK INLAND
 HAS A RECORD
Is Hatched to Meet Tommy Mur' phy in New York - Cans
 and Memsic Matched.

Fighting Dick" Hyland, the boy | from the far west, with record for | knockouts, has signed to fight Tom- | my Murphy.
 Hyland says he came 2,800 miles to get this match, and is tickled to death to clinch it.
 T saw Murphy fight Bert Keyef the other night, and he's cinch for me. He fights just as like 'em to go. He will find in me lad who en- joys that slam bang style of fight ing"
 The battle will probably not take place until September and will be at club yet to be decided upon.
 Hyland came by the name of Fighting Dick" after winning something over fifty-five fights in the amateur ranks at San Francisco. He won the title of amateur feather weight champion at the Olympic club in Frisco in 1904. The only time he was ever beaten on the square was when Frankie Neil won from him on the occasion of his first professional appearance.
 Since his first defeat at the hands of Frankie Neil, Hyland (whose right name is Willie Uren), has been climbing steadily up the pugilistic ladder. until now, the topnotchers are none too anxious to give the boy chance.
 The youngsters last five battles were all won on good. clean knock outs. Leaving San Francisco after the earthquake and fire, Dick &C., hieved fame in Denver by knocking out three tough boys on the same | night. His next opponent in that city was Martin Devany, whom he put away in four rounds.
 Young Corbett was his next vic- tim, and Hyland surprised even his most ardent admirers by flattening the former featherweight champion in five rounds. This battle was fought at ogden. Tommy Mowatt, the fighting conductor" was then trimmed in Denver, after five rounds of fighting.
 Then Fighting Dick" received a setback. He was handed lemon in Los Angeles, he says, when a referee declared that he fouled Cyclone Thompson. More than one who wit messed the mill claim that the boy was jobbed and that Cyclone" could not have gone much further. | After this battle San Francisco promoters sat up and took notice and Hyland was matched with one of the toughest lidghtweights in the busi- ness-Eddie Hanlon. Hyland won in the thirteenth round, beating Eddie so badly that he could not go on. It took Battling Nelson nineteen rounds to turn the same trick.
 Final articles were signed last night for the Gans-Memsic fight which is to take place in Los Angeles in September before Billy McCarey's club.
 Tommy Burns looked after Mem. sic's interests in drawing up the agreement.
 Jim Jeffries is to referee and de. clared that in the event, he saw the least thing that suggested flake" he would stop the fight, declare bets of and call 1t no contests.
 Dave Sawyer, of Rockland. Me, fought fast six-round bout with Jack (Twinl Sullivan of Cambridge Mass, at Bar Harbor, Me. at the skating pavilion on West street, and the honors were about even.
 It was a hard fight from start to finish, each man trying for knock out. judging from the earnestness with which they fought. Sullivan had the advantage over Sawyer in weight but this fact did not deter the husky Rockfand chap from landing many hard body blows on the Twin Nearly all the leading was done by Sawyer. and in the fourth he forced Sullivan to the ropes. If any decision could be given under the Maine law all conceded 1t would be good draw.