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Show WILL RITCHIE DEFENDS TITLE By II. M. WALKER. San Francisco, April 17. Lightweight Light-weight Champion Willie Ritchie administered ad-ministered a twenty-round beating to Harlem Tommy Murphy in the ring here tonight. But the veteran harp stood up under un-der punishment that would have discouraged dis-couraged an army of lightweights. As early as the fourth round the old-time ringsiders were saying that Murphy would surely drop during the next exchange. But at the finish of the twentieth, Murphy, his face an ugly smear of blood, and his tired legs sagging under him, was standing by his guns, fighting back by Instinct only. Ritchie must have reached Murphy's stomach fully a half hundred times with a terrific right, but at no time was he able to send the veteran chal lenger to the floor. In the ninth aud tenth, Murphy got what tho ringsiders called his second wind and began fighting back In splendid splen-did little spells of milling, during i Which he reached the champion's face with a rapid fire but harmless fusillade fusil-lade of blows. Ritchie continued to punish his man at will. Indeed, so thorough a Job did the champion make of It that he himself tired in the seventeenth. But he came back Htrong, and In the twentieth and last round had the badly-punished New Yorker reeling about tho ring like a drunken man. Referee Jim Griffin, as the final bell sounded, raised the champion's hand in token of victory, and there was none to dispute tho official word. The "old harp" has played her last tune, and considerable music sho was. |