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Show ! FRANKIE MURPHY, Franklc Murphy arrived In town last night to put in the last few days here before the big bout Wednesday evening even-ing at Armory with Lee Morrissoy. Fran'kie is in the best of shape at this time and expresses confidence that he can put Morrlsscy away long before the last gong. Morrissey arrives Monday from. Long Beach and will train for twoi days at the Eagles' gym. Our inform-' ation from Lee's friends is that the j Idaho boy has gained a lot of valuable! experience on the coast and taking J into consideration that he fought Mur-j phy 15 rounds to a draw at Denver last I year, they argue that he should be; able to marie the Irishman holler 'miff'! ia not over ton rounds. Well, we hopr ' it shall come to pass, hut the cards' don't seem to read that way. Morcj than likely the set-to will cover the long route and the victor will have to' bo up and doing from teh first tap to score a winning. There has come to our sanctum the whisperings of a disagreement over' the referee. It is said that Morrissey j will have noue of the old-time dicta-J tors. He wants, as he says, a cleaji shuffle and a fair deal, or he will go back home to the old folks. Murphy has not outlined his policy towards the third man yet, but it is understood that h will be satisfied with any selection the promoter, Billy Glasmann, may make, so long as he Is familiar wilhj the game and has a good past rep. ' The squabble will not bo straighten-, ed possibly before Morrissey arrives. but there is no reason to believe that tilings will not be in ship-shape on the afternoon of the match. The promoter states that everything will be 0. K. ard that Lee will bo given every opportunity op-portunity ,, to bag the Irishman if he can find him. i 1 This match seems to be warming up to the point where the fans are going to come in for a joyful bunch of entertainment. enter-tainment. With the principals in the main event sputtering over nothing and two good, livi- preliminaries, thei Armory should bulge with the loyal ones Wednesday ni-.'ht. net . ! |