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Show Fight Fans Expect Keen Sport When 1 Ritchie and Mitr phy Come Together As 'thoy will appear in the rin g at San Francisco Docombor 10 Loft, Tommy Murphy; right, Willie I New Yorker Works Methodically Methodi-cally for His Bout With Champion Wednesday. By HABEY B. SMITH. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 6. "Harlem" "Har-lem" Tommy Murphy is one of those jewels .in the boxing gamo who can he de-dependod de-dependod upou to do hia training train-ing just as conscientiously when he 1b alone as when Manager Jim Buckley iB on the job or there nappens to be a large turnout of apectators. Alsof the New Yorker practically superintends hiB" own conditioning, and, aside from a coupjo of boys to don the gloves with him, the eaatorner is not inclined to call for much assistance. Tommy has been at the gamo of give and take bo long that thero is no longer any novelty to sotting up a training camp, nnd when ho does have to get down to tho grind, he goes about it as methodically as if he were a business man looking after the routine of some largo corporation. Shannon's gymnasium today resemr bled "The Deserted Village." Manager Jim Buckley, Gunboat Smith who wanted to seo Bome lots that he had purchased on tho "unsight, unseen" scheme and Billy Shannon had taken themselves to San Francisco for the afternoon, aft-ernoon, and there was not more than a handful of sightseers. It didn't bother Tommy Murphy, howevor, and ho went through a programme that was oven moro extended lhan had originally boen his intontion. Murphy Is Methodical. . Murphy, bo it remarked, is very much of a philosopher, and the fact that he is training tor a bout with tho champion cham-pion of the world bothers him no whit more than if ho wore against a second-rater. second-rater. "I always go on the theory," ho remarked, re-marked, "that the match ahead is al-wayB al-wayB the toughest one for me, and I train accordingly. Of courso, I know that Ritchio is a good boy or he wouldn't be the champion, hut I don't think that ho hits any harder than Frankie' BurnB or Packey McFarland, and I wot both of those" chapa and survived sur-vived the ordeal. "Ab you know, I don't take a long training siege. I don't want to leave my fight behind me in the gymnasium, and I am working just theame f or this bout as I would for any other that might come ray way. They say that Httchio is a hardpuncher. Well, I'm going to be there all the time and will force the issue just as much aB I can. When I met Packey McFarland in New York I didn't figure that I could out- foiui aim, so j. dwjjjou puunuM vvibu ho Chicngoan, And you better beliovo he can hit some. And that is one roa-son roa-son why I havo so little fear of Bit-chie." Bit-chie." Sparring Partners Busy. Murphy's sparring partners are FranMe "Edwards and Eddie Miller, j and you can tako it for granted they ! havo no sinecure The easternor stepped 1 three rounds with each of them yesterday yester-day afternoon, and they T7ero mighty glad "when ho signified that the programme pro-gramme was ended. Edwards's wind was far from being in good shape when he was through, and more than once Murphy shook Miller up with a left hook so forcibly that he was obliged to tako things easily for a moment. Millor of course, hasn't the -weight of Murphy, but he ib a fast youngBter, but showed up' no faster than the man who will contend for the title next -week. Murphy's speed is one of his assets, b.ut if appearances count for anything', he is working on a harder punch. At all events, he is shooting in the left to the jaw and body with far more force than ho displayed in some of his training train-ing sessions. His programme lnclndea work right up to and including tomorrow afternoon. after-noon. After Sunday, however, there will be no boxing &t tho San Bafael camp. The weight, of oburse. doesn't bother Murphy. Ho says that ho was down to 1,3614 ponnds aftor ho took his first run on tho Marin county roads and is now cloao to tho 185-pound mark if not already arrivod, Betting odds show Ititchio is continued contin-ued as a 10 to 6 favorito, although s a matter of fact thoro has boon lifrie or no bnt.tinr up to the. propnt time. |