Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-10
ENGLISH FIGHTER
APPEARS GOOD
In His Bout with Tommy Murphy at
Philade Ipl1ia He Showed That
He Is Not of the Jack
Palmer Type

New Workers who saw the fight be-
tween Johnny Summers and Tommy
Murphy in Philadelphia say that there
is nothing bogus about Summers.
He came over from the Old World
unheralded and practically unknown
and put up magnificent fight with
one of the best men New York has
produced in the fighting line,
Summers fought under strange con-
ditions in a strange land and won the
esteem of athe fight loving public. with
one single l4stroke of his master hand.
This naturalization of the English
mans fighting ability, coming as it does
in the wake OF Jack Palrner's ignom-
inous defeat at the hands of Jack
(Twin) Sullivan, and the suspicious ad-
vent of Bill Squires, makes Summers a
doubly welcome guest among the light
weight class of American pugilists.
Looking back over the way the tide
of battle ebbed and flowed it appears
that Murphy possessed more stamina
than the Londoner. Tommy pulled him
self together like wild bull in the
third after barely escaping a trip to
dreamland in the second.
Thought to BE Live One
On the other hand, Summers slowed
down perceptibly when Murphy got
busy with his body punches in the
third and fourth rounds. The Harlem
boy had the condition of Summers.
But an attempt should not be made to
judge Johnnys fighting qualifications
very accurately at this time.
This, his first real American fight,
took place before he was really accli-
mated to the United States. When he
fights Murphy again-and in all prob
ability he will-then he will have be-
come accustomed to his new surround
ings and can be judged for what he is
really worth.
Murphy's marvellous recuperation
after being practically knocked out and
his wonderful uphill fight after that
was too much for the syInpathies of
the men who have always liked him.
They permitted their admiration of
his grit to move their judgment. But
fights are not won by gameness alone.
1t is true that Murphy was, despite the
terrible right swing that landed on his
Jaw in the second, as strong. If not
stronger than Summers at the finish.
When the gong sounded for the end
OF the sixth he got out of the ring and
went to his dressing room without aid,
while Summers remained in the ring
some minutes to recuperate.
. Johnny OllVeT lWdlhSu dCIOo5 anu
peered .over the heads of the crowd at
the Englishman. Look at that" he
said. "Our man didn't have to be
helped out, and now they want to call
1t draw"
But the man whose sympathies are
not we'll under control has no business
to offer opinions on a fight. The yell
lowest boxer that ever put on gloves is
entitled to a decision If he wins. This,
however, does not mean that there was
a streak of yellow in Summers.
lie is as game as Murphy; there was
not the slightest suggestion of cow
ardice about him. But he did not have
the dramatic opportunity of exhibiting
his nerve as did Murphy. What Muir
ply might have done had the contest
gone ten instead OF six rounds is be-
side the question.
Summers might have fought differ
emily had 1t been a ten-round contest.
In fact. Charley Harvey, his manager
said when his man was yet in the ring
after the fight: 1--WE would like to
fight him ten rounds the next time, and
then Summers will try another style. /"