The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-01-30
MORAN OUTPOINTS
 TOMMY MURPHY
Briton Gets Early Lead.
Both Men Battle Like Gamecscks and
 Bout Was Fast From Bell to Bell.

l Score another for John Bull. The | red faced. rotund old gentleman whose | lions tail the Yankee athletes twisted at the Olympiad certainly seems to be getting back with vengeance. Night before last Jim Driscoll. that mastery little StrategiSt from across the b-g pond, put it all over Johnny Marto,
 and last night at the National A. G., New York. Owen Moran another little scrapper from Old England. outpointed one Tommy Murphy of Flatbush. once called the Pride of Harlem. M 1rphy came strong in the stretch. but the lead the Briton gained in the earlier rounds was too much for him to over come. and if decision had been rend- cred it would have been given t3 the sorrel-topped Britisher.
 It was a battle of gamecocks. Neith- CT of the boys displayed any os the f1asky footwork and lightning speed which Jim Driscoll uncorked in his setto with Marto. Both, however, stepped at a fast gait and fought like bulldogs from bell to bell The men were so evenly matched that. as usual with mills of the kind, the bout to some did not appear as fast as it real ly was. Murphy evidently had trouble in making the weight. for when he stripped prior to the opening of hos tilities he looked pale and wan ard far | IFOIl UGIIlS III HIS DC0I l 11O Briton. however. looked to be in the pink of condition.
 Moran had the better Of the first five rounds. The sixth and seventh were even. The eighth belonged to Murphy. as we'll as the ninth. The last round was even. some. however, you give Murphy shade the better Of the final session. Moran showed gr eater superiority in the. rounds credited to hom than Murphy showed in the ses- siuns in which. he had the better of the milling When Tommy cut loose in the closing rounds he found tke lit tie Britisher ready for anything he could hand out and willing to mix it at all times.
 The bout showed that the members of the National Sporting Club of Eng land certainly will see a great fight when Moran and Driscoll clash there next month The go will be a contest between two of the fastest littlre men that ever donned gloves. Driscoll will have to call forth aall his wonderful cleverness to offset the bulldog ag- gressiveness and hitting power of Moran.
 The men wasted no time in sparring, jumping in right off the reel and mix ing it at the centre. Neither one did any damage. Moran started to rough Murphy and in a wrestling match the Harlemite slipped to the floor. He vas up and at Moran like a flash. The men both tried to bore in and get to close quarters and clinches were fre-. uuent Tommy had a shade the better of the infighting, but Moran's hooks and iabs as long range gave him the round.
 Owen put two lefts to the jaw at the opening of the second round and the men went to a clinch. They exchanged lefrs and Murphy hooked wicked left to the jaw in a clinch. Both scored with Iefts and Moran got in a hard richt to the head. Tommy was back ed around the ring. but stung the Priton with occasional lefts to the jaw. Toward the end of the round Moran swur,g a right and left to the jaw and chased Murphy to the ropes.
 Both men rushed out of their corners in the third and met at the center in a hard inix-up Tommy nut a loft and right to the jaw and Owen laced left to the head and right to the stomach Tommy got in a nice right over the heart and then rushe7 Moran to the ropes Owen hooked Murphy with his right and then fooled the boy from Harlem with a shift. crossing his right to the jaw and shaking Tommy from head to toe.
 Tommy swung with his rieht. but Owen ducked and rushed Murnhv to the ropes. pouring in lefts and r'ohts, most of which Murphy blocked. Tom my. just before the bell started grand rally, and at the gong was cer- rying the fight to the Rriton. The round. however. was Moran's.