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Show I MURPHY TO QUIT RING IF BEATEN BY RITCHIE The acconj jjan ing illu rations how Willie Ritchie. Light eight champion (at right), and Tommy Murphy his most persistent chai ! lenger, will shape up when they face each other In their off post poned twenty round bout, that is now expected to take place next month. Los Angeles, Cal . Jan. 24 Tommy i ; Murphy has announced in the event (of losing to Willie Ritchie, when the first chance comes to him for hL-awalted hL-awalted championship crack he wil, retlrp from the ring for all time to come. Naturally should he win, Mur phy wouldn't think of retiring bu. would aim to go ahead anil clean ui as mur-h money as possible. Other fighters have made the same Jeclaratlon in advance of matches and have as promptly forgotten all about -lit if plans, even when the defeat has been a crushing one. 'Harlem Tommy,' Tom-my,' however. Isn't particularly given to making declarations, and in his case, since he is nicely situated from a financial standpoint, the anhoum e ment usually means more than wou1lj ordinarily appear "I have been in the game since 190'J whleh means just fourteen years,' m Murphy said. "I sincerely believo that I can beat Willie Ritchie, and if I lose I will quit the game. " The New Yorker is keenly alive to the fact that he can't go on forever and since it Is not absolutely neces sary from a standpoint of making a living, the chances are that Murphy will be pleased when he can retire from the active ring work |