The evening world., 1912-03-11
rsmmy Murphy Would Undoubt.
eddy Give Ad WoIgast a Hard
Time In a Lonu-Dlstance Fight.

Time In a LONG Distance Fight.
osuvssss, 1913, b. rhs Pps PubliShiss @.
Crbs New Yosh World.
a BE ATTELL has been whipped ,
~ again. this time by Tommy Mur-
- ply. It's true that Murphy y .
iiGAtweixht, and that Abe Wal dvino
m Q weight handicap Of about ten or
eSovsn pounds. II was an uneven match.
Dut tbs one thing Of Importance 10 that
A1tsii lost. Every time he loses . night.
- matter what the conditions. he II Just
- much farther away from the come
eaek" h hopes for. II 10 had turned
assund and beaten Tommy Murphy. the
ooast 9sht fans IN all probability would
have started Q lost Of talk about re-
0atohing him WIKI kilbans.
Tsmmy Murphy likes California. lie
~ been lucky In his twenty round
00Ats there. He II telling the Caufor.
nlans that ~ soon ~ he can make A.
SanSements In the East he'll take his
fanily across the continent and settle In
~ land Of sunshine flowers for
good.
A. for Atteil. he'll ave to 20 on night
~. He may become . bush league
Ghamp!on like Battling Nelson. and 20
agound the country picking up q fsw
1Dndrsd dollars wherever he can. night.
NJ second raters who will 30 easy piok-
~ for him for = few years. Or he may
~ Q few good matches In the feather
weight class. He an whip most Of the
feathsrweightS still. Tho desperate nGht
~ ~ad~ agaluae Nsspnhv neova~ thai y
cent know Of any other featherwsight
10 the country who would b willing 70
tackle the same tough prooosauon. And
surely don't know Of one who could
~ away win Il Y ~ dA nv.
URrHY's career n ehs ~ ~
NV 6Ssn . Strangs ne He has hAd
W mors ~ and downs than ire
average aghtsr. His IN And cot wosk
was for . long time Asesebsd % ms.
lhHai aStacts. Tommy ~ feuSht some
Qsat Aghas. and . esw poo onss.
When . mere n0vSoe - = Knocked
sut 81 Terry N0oovseA. "a saly . few
! msnths aso By X. o. Brown. Doth Of
I These knookouts wsss u1axDsetsd. Nc.
0ovGn wa stAsgsstng aseuna sAe ring
90 almost ready 10 lfop when he
teassd . ths right hAod maeh that
dfuppsA Murphy Instead. Murphy GOT
- and was modksd down several
t6mo. and his manager toosd b the
0ongs 10 saw him from serious injury.
louFpAy having thoroughly whipped
xnockout Brown only . few weeks be-
~. In that nght Murphy outoAssed
z O.. and the quick one-rouud knock.
ct In the last engagement VA Q grsal
supsssa. Ths drcumstauces we q
Dooul1ar that many people sen think
~ Murphy sold out for beeang pur'
U0o and dsliberstsiy took the eount.
1Aees two are the only Knockout
0oseA against Harlem Tommy. HI
e04 Owen Moran In twenty rounds II
WITH oue-RouAa Hogan out there. No
ioag before that he fought twsnt,
younAs With pAoksy Mcfarland. Al
l>oagh Tommy lost the dscision, ai
Ooetatorv agrss that he was stronge
tkaA Ncrariand at the hnish. and the
n he tAst Two rounds he cut out q ter
~ pace and had Paoksy badly wor
~ With heavy body blows.
Tommy nay b m tn-and-outer. bu
Ne Q curious thing that he's the on
nm sSsoiutsiy barred BY Champion A
WOlgast Murphy CAV Wolgast
tsouncing Just before he won the tel
fssm Nelson. knocking woisast dow
ed nearly out In the sixth round Of
d1-roand nght In Pittsbwrg. From III
Va0 Murphy has been fighting thss
l~ong-0lstance hghts II would not BE- sui
pg11ng Y he could uvs wolgast q har
cmo ever the route
-HD suggestion that the use
oandagss b. prohibited In DO,
inG bouts 10 . little too swesl
Inc. A light. thin. soft bsndags doc
no harm and 10 . m~uch.nesded prote'
don to the hand Of the boxer using 1
The only dihscuity lies In rsEulatir
the ass and quality Of che bandag
Th1s u . problem that the busy Boxir
As succeeded in making rules to GOV,
abeut everything else II has tackled.
TACK 0KDLLY. the oh-time hghts
from time TO time writes very Q
t~srtainingly on sporting topic
Sksily has sent me q defense OF Jol
L. sullivan. e~ndeavoring to show a tina
that w are nearly all quite willing
concede-thst Sullivan was champion
the world. After mentioning Sullivan
battle with Paddy Ryan. Tug Wilso
Charlie Mitchell and Herbert sia
skelly says:
These three international battl
ana the defeat OF Ryan. were m
than enough TO make Sullivan the U
disputed champion Of the world.
l1eS All Greenfield. undisputed cha
pdon Of England. came here. met b
iivan At Madison Square Garden. q
laSted tust two swift rounds. He
fsated Greenfield In Boston In {.
rounds. BY these two battles Sulliy
had defended and won again the
title. Now. In not counting the era
knocking-out tours OF Sullivan all O.
this country. In which he put TO oil
some nifty husky opponents with
great punch. sullivan and Kiirain b
tied for the heavyweight champions
Of the woria and $4,000 side stakes
Nohburg. Miss. bare knuckles. July
~. sullivan won In seventy-nve roul
end was as--n hailed a. champion
exemptions. This was the last ba
knuekis heavyweight champions
pulled OF on this mother earth al oil