Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-04-13
$4,000 To Be
CHAMPS SHARE
FOR MURPHY CO
Richie Gets Big Amount to De-
fond Title Against Fastener
Friday Night.
By II. NJ. Walker.


Richie, when he steps forth
from his old blue and white
bathrobe in the Eighth street arena
Friday night, stands TO earn in few
minutes what some men would con-
slider a fortune
For boxing Harlem" Tommy Muir
phy in the San Francisco ring the
champion is to receive $4,000 on
win. lose or draw basis. What the
New Yorker or promoter, J. W. Cot
froth. will receive for their labor $
more or less of a gamble. Richie Is
the party who takes no chances.
And if Willie is a young man of any
imagination at all. he must smile
when he considers the present situa-
ton and looks back upon his plight
of a few years ago. Month AFTER
month Richie plodded along the four
round path when hundred dollar
purses were all that he could nope
for.
Since taking the title on a foul de-
cision over Ad WOlgast the Calltor-
MAN has put by d bulky bank roll
If he can box in winning form lor
another year or two, his fortune Will
be Of such fabulous proportions as to
astound even those who have followed
the game long enough to realize that
the lightweight division is the richest
of all classes
At conservative estimate Wolgast
received 100000 for his services
while champion Battling Nelson,
Freddie Welsh Packey Mcfarland,
Leach Cross, Joe Rivers and Jimmy
Britt are but a few Of the l33-pouna
boxers who have taken fortunes from
the ring.
Verify the lightweight class is the
mint" Of the Queensberry game,
ID ITCHIE will be muchly chal-
N lenged youth when he gets IN
the ring.
course, will be the whipping of Muir
ply, whom many Of our best people
regard as having a lighting chance 10
outpolnt the title holder.
Freddie Welsh, the man most emit
tied to a championship go, will be IN
the Eighth street arena to hurl the
loudest challenge at Richie. just
how Richie can evade the British
belt merchant much longer is a ques-
ton not easy to answer.
Leach Cross. too, will be there for
the purpose of tossing his hat in the
San Francisco ring. And should cross
heat Welsh when the pair meet at
Vernon on April %, his challenge is
one that Richie can not well ignore
Joe Rivers, Charlie White DUTY
and Wolsast all are trailing the
rhamp. Certain it is that Richie will
have a fine large assortment OF pro-
spective opponents to pick from
TN All probability, the next heavy
L wight event of any Importance
will be a clash between sam Langtord
and "GunbOat' Smith.
While in San Francisco last week
the writer received a straight tip
that Jim" Buckley was considering
an offer from London OF $4,000 ioc
his big protege to come there ana
meet T,angford This looks like big
money" for mediocre man like
Smith.
The Gunner was credited with
shading Langford i'm twelve rounds m
Boston last November but the popu-
lar idea prevailed that the Weymouth
black was only saving smith for a
later date
THE Welsh-C cross battle Of April Is
and the June banlamWeisAt
event between Coulon and WlIlamS
are the only cards now signed by Pro
moter T. j. McCarey, of TINS city. p1l
several more shows probably Will he
announced inside the next &C."
hours, v..
CAST. Charlie White. Jimmy DuiI(.
Mike Gibbons and Billy Murray are
some Of the names ON the Me'areN