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Show IRITCHfE IS 10-G FAVORITE IN BOUT Murphy Enthusiasts Quickly Cover Large Sum Offered at Odds. 8 AN BJRAIs'OISCO, April 11. Bot-tinff Bot-tinff on the Jlitchie-Murphy match, scheduled for Coffrota'a Eighth street arena on tho night of A"pril 17, took, e redden spurt this aftornoon, -when a commission, of $150Cr was sent in on Ititchio to ' bo -placed at the opening odds of 10 to G. Tho money was immediately im-mediately covorod by a .Murphy enthusiast. enthu-siast. ... "Whr don't you bold on for the I to 1 that will bo laid within tho next few dnysi" interrogated a bystander. "BccauBO," replied tho Murphy man, "1 think it is a 3 to 1 proposition that thoro will bo no such prico laid. ICurphy has done ovcrything aakod or him in this part of tho country. It is all right to talk of 2 to 1 and 10 to 4, but when it comes to putting down the cold, hard cash, it is another proposition. proposi-tion. I think 10 to 6 is a liberal price on Murphy and I am going to fhave come or it." Murphv'fl work in tho training camp apparently justified tho opinion of this speculator. It is apparont to all who have watched his work that ho is showing show-ing hotter condition than he has during dur-ing the training period of any of his fights horo and his ovory movement move-ment indicates that he is fully alive i to the important iob beforo him and that he is going to lcavo nothing undono to realize an ambition ho has harbored for ten vears to bring tho championship champion-ship homo to tho Murphy family. Ititchio realizes that he lias a hard fight on and is making his preparations accordingly. "I am coing to tako no chances with Murphr," declared Ritchio today. "I am confident I can bent him, but I want to do it bo decisively that there will bo no question about my victory. Murphv is tho only dangerous man in tho lightweight division that T haven't ( disposed of. When I got through with j him there will be no donbt nbout who 5s ontitlcd to wenr tho lightweight ; crown." j |