Evening star., 1911-05-29
TOMMY MURPHY. TELLS
WEIRD TALE OF FAKE
Says ''Big Gambler" Offered
$4,000 for Him to Let
TX. O." Win.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May c3-For several days
in fact. ever since the Knockout Brown
Tommy Murphy fight at the Madison A.
C. last Thursday night-there have been
mutterings and whisperings among the
alleged wise guys that the fight was a
fake Yesterday afternoon Tommy
Murphy. the picture of physical health,
added the fire to what had until then
been only a faint and discredited smoke
when he gave out the following signed
statement:
"John Oliver came to me before my
second fight with Knockout Brown and
offered me $4,000 to LAY down to
Brown. / refused. and after I got into
the ring l felt ''dopy." l know that
was not right, and am sure that I was
doped. How they did it to me 1 don't
know, but know I was doped. They
wanted to get the money. I ate dinner
at my home In F1atbush that night be-
fore coming to New York to take part In
the fight. I ate at about o'clock and
felt all right. Then I came over to New
York. I don't remember any one giving
me anything to eat or drink between the
time OF my eating dinner and the time
entered the ring. But I was dopy.
don't remember anything about what
happened just before the fight. Oliver
offered to put up the $4,000 in any
THOMAS F. MURPHY.
Tommy then proceeded to enlarge upon
to him a few days before the fight and
told him that he had been offered $4,000
to get Tommy to LAY down" for Brown
and would give Murphy $1,000 Tor his
end. Murphy, of course. Indignantly re-
fused to listen. much less be party to
such a dastardly deed.
So says Murphy. He adds:
Johnny Oliver has been trimming me
all along and I'm wise to him. refused
to be trimmed any more. Why. he only
gave me $1,000 for my end for fighting
Brown. and he kept $1,000 himself.
When asked who in the world would
put up $4,000 to have Murphy lay down
to Brown. Tommy declares that some
times he declared that Morgan and Brown
were in on the deal.
Johnny Oliver, when asked for his side
OF the story. merely said:
II took Murphy and made something
Of him. liked Tommy very much. but
Of late he has been acting queerly. and
I-well, all l. can say Is that I'm very
sorry for Tommy. His story OF an Al
legged big gambler would be very funny
If it came from somebody else. Coming
from the source 1t does, it is merely pitt
full Tommy said to me the other day,
when 1 told him 1 could no longer be his
manager, that did not think he should
ever fight again, that he would get even
with me. What for. I don't know. but he
seems to think by circulating such an
absurd story he can hurt me.
He intifhates that the mythical I'M
aginary person could get back the $4,000
that Tommy dreams was offered him by
betting on Brown to win by knockout.
All New York knows how much was bet
on that fight And Just think for an In
slant how much would the big gambler
have to bet in order to make 1t worth
his while to give away SIS, 900?
Now. about that doping. When,
where and how, from his own story. was
Murphy doped? Who did 1t? And-oh.
we'll, what's the use?
THE story is ridiculous, and some OF
these days you'll know that it is really
pitiful. That's all"
Later, Danny Morgan, manager of
Knockout Brown. called up on the tele-
phone:
whats that? The fight q fake? Quit
yer fooling. Murphy said all that? Well.
he's prevaricating. Brown can lick any
lightweight In the world on the level; he
don't have to get EN- to lay down
Then K. o. Brown was approached.
Said he:
"Fake7 vos! Sure It vos fake. !
faxed Murphy NIT my right und den
faxed him some more init my left, und
den faxed him al the way ouidt."