Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-08-12
MURPHY DOPES
HIMSELF TO WIN
PULLS STATISTICS TO PROVE
HE is RIGHT
SAYS FIGHTER ALWAYS CAN
WHIP MERE BOXER
Cites Successes of Bat Nelson and
Stanley ketcheII as Proof That
Clever Man Never Is clneh
Against sIueser

The fans are asking the question,
us Johnny Murphy to graduate into
the ranks of the near champions Fri
day night, or is he always to remain
a good trial horse for ambitious light
weights on their way to the top?' This
question will be answered Friday night
by Freddie Welsh, and unless the Eng
lish boy is sadly mistaken negative
reply will be Forthcoming.
Welsh has seen Murphy in action
only once, and that when the Frisco
lad fought a grueling ten-round draw
with Eddie Hanlon. II can beat either
of those boys" said Freddie at the con-
clusion of the performance, and
straightway he was offered a chance
by the Jeffries club to tackle Murphy.
The match was easily arranged.
"Will fight him?" said Murphy. 1.-The
surest thing you know, and under any
conditions. l saw Welsh fight Brock,
and no boy with a punch that can't
break an egg is going TO beat one
Murphy. l can wear him down, for
little taps like those he showed on
Decoration day can't stop me for a
minute"
Now 1t is up to each boy to make
good on his talk, and one Of the hard
est matches of the season can be
looked for when they get together. In
Welsh the fans will see about the cleV-
day, while in his opponent they will
have a chance to gaze on slugger,
pure and simple.
The fact that the boy with the
punch and endurance can beat the
fighter with an ordinary kick and plen-
ty of science is exemplified in the pres
emit day champion and former cham
pion, Bat Nelson and Joe Cans. Bat
does not know enough about the finer
details of the game to outpoint an
apple woman, but anf time it comes to
a long fight he has it on anything
produced in his division. Cans was
able to stand Nelson off a long while
in their first encounter, but when they
met in Frisco last Fourth of July the
Dane showed the negro up and whipped
him through his ability to take all the
punishment offered and keep his arms
going until the other man dropped.
Stanley Ketchell is another sample
of what smuggling will do. Ketch was
up against the shiftiest boxer of his
weight when he faced Hugo Kelly, but
at that things broke right for Ketchell
and he retained his championship hon
ors after going less than three rounds
with the Italian. 1t was case of
punch and endurance against clever
ness, and again the wallop won.
Murphy figures all these little things
into his dope, and is confident that he
against Welsh. All his work at the
East Side Athletic club has been laid
out along rough lines, and from the
time he is handed the gloves until his
trainer calls halt johnny does moth
ing but slug with Dick Sullivan and
Willie Fairbanks.
Billy Snailham, the San Francisco
featherweight, who is to meet Danny
Webster in a twenty-round bout the
night of august 81, arrived from the
north yesterday and will train at the
South Side Athletic club. Snalham is
considered the best man at his weight
on the coast. and in Webster he will
find a formidable opponent, for the
local boy has done everything asked
of him and has lacked only the chance
to show his top notch caliber.
It is the plan of the Jeffries club
people to match the winner of this bat
tie with Ad Wolgast, the Milwaukee
boy. who recently fought a six-round
draw with Owen Moran in New York.
Wolgast was to have met Snailham in
Frisco. but the eastern lad injured an
arm and the match was called off.