The evening world., 1911-04-14
Tommy Murphy Doing What
Other %Lightweights Won't In
Meeting Packey Mcfarland,
and He Is FIRMLY Confident
He'll Beat Him.
COPYRIGHT. 1911 :, Ths lrsr. PHSi.hans o.

Tommy Murphy yesterday after
noon In the gymnasium OF the
Fa!rmont A. c.. where he Is training
FOR Tuesday nights bout with Packey
Mcfarland.
Tommy looks IN splendid shape. His
anus les are thlck and We'll rounded.
HIS skin Is clean and his eyes have los;
all Of tina yellow malarlai tinse. Bes,
Of all. he Is cheerful as a man abou;
10 be presented a million dollars, In
stead Of a boxer abou, 10 &c, into a
ring with the redoubtable Psckey.
saw him box eight fast rounds. four
with Al Greenwood. a welterg weight. OF
perhaps a m!ddleweight. and two eac,
with Frankie sneehan and Bud White
OF Canada. Sheehsn furnished the fss.
work. and Murphy was faster. Green
wool and White did the roughing. and
Murphy was rougher. Tommy Is chuck
full Of energy. speed. strength and con-
ndence.
Give Tommy Murphy credit for this
Hes very willing to hght any Hight
weight, and he doesn't haggle over a
couple Of pounds more or less He
doesn't, and he never did. bar any one.
He is no more nervous ABOUT boxing
Mcfarland than IL his opponent were
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CRPHY will do what other i!sht-
lNy weights won't. Champion VOL
Ava sast refuses TO meet +
Fnriand. Danny Morgan won't pl;
X. o.. Brown. against him. In fact, he
. makes no secret OF the fact that he
thinks Mcfarland would box the
Du;chmaa's eye out TO use his own
words. lie wfnts 10 rave Brown learn
quite a i..tle more about boxing before
no lets hlm hght such a fG!Ss,d master
o. fence as Mcfarland. Moran fought
Pa-key. but never again HOGAN Is
satisfied TO walt a few months. and he
says 80. He links Mcfarland a box
Ing marvel FREDDY Welsh H'ihouSh
ms ios.-s OF the Ens!'h championship
J. Iett MIN IN o position "here no
sNould De more ANXIOUS to NUM- matches
than TO sIdestep. quibb!es over a couple
OF pounds Of weight And az for the
res, OF ,,e .lgbtwelghts. they want none
q, packey's game. And | don't, blame
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But TINS ollnss me mack 10 Iomihy
land can make him look silly IN the
ring.
Lets See" Tommy said, 81 boxed
Mcfarland. In 1908. six rounds down IN
Philadelphia. and | guess Packey will
tell you | gave him a fight. I've learned
q lot since that time, and 50 has he,
] don't thlnk he has improved any
more thar | have. And | was a 10.
smaller then. weighed ~ pounds ard
Packey weighed 1871. lie was smaller,
too. | would rather nsht him than any
on. else except Wolgast, because people
..v paekeys the he.t. I think | have
a eIain on tina, h,npio, shin and tho
v.v I can nroye i, is by heating the
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