The evening world., 1911-01-25
Johnny Oliver Says That lust as
Soon as Tommy Murphy Is
Well Enough He'll Go Into
Training and Knockout Brown
Can Have His Chance.

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COPYRIGHT. 1911. by Tn. Press Publishing u.
CThe New Yort World.
Johnny OLIVER, who manages
Tommy MuT ply. Is a worried man.
John fears that the public VIII
think Tommy called on his match with
Is. o. Brown because of n faint heart
instead OF an attack Of grippe.
Honestly. now" said John yesterday
afternoon. both Tommy n I hsure
Brown as a regular pudding for Muir
'.iy. I don't want TO noel Brown. He's
a great little fighter and all that. but
Tommy figures that his style Just nts
in light. and that ieatins Brown ought
TO be n pipe for him. We admit that
Brown had the best " the last night.
but Tommy had Just come back from
New Orleans q sick boy. and he wasn't
1T 20 fight a tough kid like Brown
Even at that Brown didn't hurt him At
all. Why. II Tommy wasn't sick now
he couldn't lose. But he 10 the sickest
boy you ever saw. II broke his heart to
call the match on. but he had to. Why.
he couldn'- fight the biggest lemon In
the country the way he IL to-dfy. II he
fought Brown. M weak a. he Ia. he'd
surely be knockod out. and In his pom
dition he'd probably pet pneumonia or
something afterwa-d and die of II. Just
as soon rs he is well enough he'll 20
Into training again end Brown can have
his chance.
Tommy never feared TO night anybody.
In fact he never sldestepped . match
IN his life. and he's had . lot Of night
crs sidestep him. He has fought Nc
Farland. wolgast. McGovern. Moran.
Atteli and all tho best Of them. He's
Wiling 10 night Mcfarland any time,
and there AREN'T many looking for
packey's game. are there? Brown
osesn't need to worry about losins.
Tommy has been unlucky. and to tell
the truth he has fought several times
when he was sic!; enough TO DO In bed.
In one night he lad such a fever thai
putting your hand on him wa 3ust
Ike putting II on a stove"
Danny Morgan, satisfied that Murphy
Is really sick. has refused 10 take his
forfeit Of $3.50.
LIVER Is right. Murphy a never
been a sidco,epper. and he has
taken on the toughest of them.
packey Mcfarland told me that Muir
pay gave him the hardest fght he ever
had. and many other fighters have
taken care to keep away from q seconA
engagement. wolgast is particularly
anxious to avoid Murphy. When Jack
o'Brlen went to Chicago to enGaxe
Wolgast for several matches Wolgast
told O'Brien that he absolutely barred
Murphy. and wouldn't meet him even
IN a slx-round bout.
~ GORGE HAcKENscHMIDT says
that he is very much pleased
with the stories printed In sew
ersl New York papers to the effect
that Gotch Is coming here to wrestle
him. Il wish 81 were true" says Hack.
but this is the first ! have heard OF It.
and I fear IL Is only a-what you call
it:- press agent story. Surely l would
have heard something myself. since
am one OF the interested parties. j an
quite sure that Gotch will not even
come to New York until l am far away
and next week. you know. l have al
Engagement in Denver"
- OMEBoDY has been talking q
Wolgast since he reached Phlla
delphia. WolCast signed TO fgh
X. o. Brown in o'Br!en's club on Feb
81 Incidentally Wolsast signed article
that called for a weighing in at Is
pounds at q O'Clock.
But wolgast notified O'Brien yester
day that Brown must make 1873 rim
side. o'Brien wired Morgan. who wire
back that Brown would make IN
weight. Morgan says that Brow
weighs 1914 to-day. ana a few days as
scaled i32h. 80 the rings!de weight wi
/, he Just as easy for him "a LBS at
O'Clock. woigast can now get a ntti
sleep.
IRON all accounts from train1n
quarters this Digger Stanley. tn
English bantam champion. WI
meets frankie Burns. OF New Jersey. q
the National A. c. Friday night. 10 r,
markably fast and clever.
Stanley 10 like . lot Of English bar
tAIiS diu tCatHcfB Wv
Especially In the two lightest class,
England can make a good shown
against the best produced In Americi
Many good bantams and feathers fro
this side of the sea have tr!pped aero
10 pick up easy marks In England ar
have some back sadder and wiser.
It's 4 curious thing that the big me
In England don't class with the sms
men. They have no cleverness and tn,
can't tight. The height of their amb
ton Is to become proprletors OF a
houses-and TO drink more ale than q
best customers. Gunner Moir. Bomba
disr Wells. Jewey Smith. all the lot
them could be cleaned up easily by ar
one OF q dozen good American middi
weights. Both Willie and Harry Lew
challenged NOR. who is now BIRTH
(. heavyweight champion again. and Mo
dsainsd gracefully and without hesit
fio0.
I'D ~ etAnisyv and the other Ire
fsliows-<hsy have s,asA