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“UP TO DA Murphy ana McFarland Will Be the Big Noises To- Night) All the Way From Harlem! to Old Philadelphia. Philadelphia. This won't stop Harlem, ;@oes over at 6 o'clock on a special ‘train to see Harlem Tommy Murphy } fight Packey McFarland. It’s the common tip that this wiil it will. Tommy Murphy never takes {@ back step. Neither does Packey |McFarland. Neither ever stops | punching for a second. It will be the j drresistible force meeting the im- ! movable body—the ancient scientific j Puzsle—and it will take a savant jot prize ring affairs to pick the win: | ‘ner before the fight 1s over. They say McFarland {s a cinch. But I j@an’t see it just that way. Tommy Mur- } Phy up to date has always arisen to the | Occasion. The harder they were, the harder he fought. His only setback oc- jSurred just as he was about to finish :Terry McGovern, He had Terry toppling | When the Terror winged over one of the| ‘old-time wallops and dropped Tommy instead. At that Murphy got up again | stiff by the first punch, and was on his ter. Murphy Is Game. Murphy 1s game as they make ‘e Johnny Summers nearly had him with t@ fierce swing in the first round, yet ! Tommy got strong again after a couple Of terrible knockdowns, and finally tore| the lining out of Summers before the! bout was over. Bert Keyes dropped Tommy twice, but Tommy never hesitated. Murphy has| Knocked out a lot of good ones him-| felt, It was Murphy that gave Bat-| tling Hurley the beating that put him| ‘ably for good. They never get over the sort handed out by Murphy. Tommy didn't make Leach Cross run quite as hard as Pacley did, but he came near it. hard a trimming. Murphy ts in splendid shape to-day. And when in shape he's a dangerous man for any of them to tackle, not even excepting Packey McFarland, of Chi- aggressive fury in the ring, and is fast and clever, and can punch. Th chance that he may put Murphy away in less than six rounds, But it isn't any cinch. Whoever wins, this will be a rat- tling fight. The “Fight Bug’ announced his in- tention of visiting McFarland at his quarters yesterday, As he has a good line on fighting men, I asked to wire The Evening World some real Gope, hot off the griddle, as soon as he had seen Packey work. What “Fight Bug” Thinks. Here's the "Fight Bug's" opinion: PHILADELPHIA, Noy. 18.—Philadel- phia {s indeed a lucky city, for good o!d {New York is not ¢ iB to see the 'Packey McFarland-Tommy Murphy bout, which comes off here to- night. That is to say, the rank and file of New Yorkers will have to be satis- fled with newspaper accounts of w jwill unquestionably be the |foughest and most fiercely bout between evenly matched men tha ‘has taken place in the East for many years my Murphy 1s conceded by Mest Judges of boxing to be ca class of all Eastern 1i ithe write { given his full credit, as ‘great figh b } Which fs simply never been but, sent good Pack route, out he the first time ublic T am t his ‘Pare “cond day } o'clock. { fasted at 1 to 12, then had his | his training quarters a 2 P. M.. and is putting ham Hotel, in Philad Welghed yésterduy 13 resence of Ha ational Athletic Club, where the be tgkes place. This accounts for his day Test, as the weight the boys are to make fs 133 pounds at 8 P.M. hence tt will not be necessary Packey to dry out—somet! hat he has been com: pelled to do on several occasions in the past. McFarland in Fine Shape. It will not be necessary in this case, | gp he has been in constant training if ce coming Hasty He is a genule gic wel with ‘several pounds to Markey’ never losked patter Gh eve of a battle. His brown eyes are ia his skin is glowing with perfect Bealth. He is absolutely confident, a Bi ease, and seems to be no more agitated er the hg battle than a man play a me of soliiaire Several of oki close friends have tipped him t ne. h hat he is going against the in Tommy Murphy. that he umerent opponent than the timid Cross. He |s aware of the fac to-nigh is going to fa 5 Py 8 opponent r alt aia vt not AND NEWSY_ | MURPHY-M’FARLAND WILL BE “ALL THE FIREWORKS” } O-NIGHT the fireworks! But they come off over in | which {be the hottest fight of the year. And! ‘and again, although practically knocked | , feet when the sponge ended the slaugh-| out of the game for months, and prob-| He gave Leach fully as|t cago, As for McFarland, he's a wonder, of| cours He is the personification of} e's al at | fastest, | contested | the | Te) fue) —— co © Tomax Mave LEACH CROSS RUN WVEARLY AS FAST —— AS PEFARLAND DID. | i, HuReey’s FINVSHED VANGER — 4TH ROUND. | Dorando Is Confident He e Can Outrun Hayes turned down the rugwestion He ex- plained that he will do all the rubbing necessary himself, as he always has done. All he wants during the running of the race is a dash of water from a sponge every now and then. He says if he had had some one to do this in the | Olympic and Marathon he would have jWon ‘beyond a doubt. In the Garden |event an Italian physician will look af- ae Dorando, ‘The race promises to be one ot De PIETRI—not Pietri Do-| biggest sporting events ever neta in Italian Athlete Will S Will Start Train- | ing for Re-Run of Big Mara- | | thon Race To-Day. rando—is the name of the plucky| the Garden, for, as one member of the | committee which welcomed Dorando ex- plained, there are half a million Italtans \in Greater New York, and all that can Pletri, or Dorando, as he willl afford the price of admission will want to see the race. When Hayes's army of admirers {s taken into consideration | it may easily be Imagined what kind of Uttle Marathon runner who {a epending his first day in this country to-day. probably be known during his stay here, arrived yesterday from London to re-run the Marathon with Johnny|@ crowd will tax the Garden Thank Hayes at Madison Square Garden| S!Ving eve. | Thanksgiving eve. To-day, while scarce-| ly off his sea legs, he Is up at Columbia College finishing up his training for the long race. Dorando ts a little chap, like Haves and Sherring, another Marathon winner, | not more than five feet four inches tall| and weighs 130 pounds. He is ane some, too, his face showing the deep olive coloring of his race, His eyes are ijarge, gray and of expression, | id there is a rosy tince on his chee! any girl m envy. A small cur of a moustache seems to add to his! good looks. He dresses quictly, but e cently falls for f: n's decrees, affects the great rakish alpine a: ries a monogramed stick from which he, won't be separated for an instant. j Italians Greet Dorando. | The Italian colony ts wrought up lover the little athlete, id there ts no |¢anger of liis lacking attention or en- 1 . > Golirsgementheretineiananiielicassna He Harvard squad, which leaves here to-morrow for F }Shepherd’s Sush last July, when, with-| Conn., out attendants of any kind, jinto the stadium in the jonly to collapse a q from the fin! Dorando is no r running game #ames he hadr he struggled ed of Lis ni rter of a cious, coaching can do toward season at Cambridge has opened wit presen ° at the dl the Olympi thirty races, Bane expects. To dasa FAST weet h less favorable prospecis ¢ nor has drawn to a close with such an encouraging outlook. \F TOMMY GETS THIS OUD LEFT WORKING IT KNOCKED Ouy Tone cena Pacttey SANS RELL STAY “RIGHT ON Tor of NWRPHT, THS GS WHat CLIVER SAYS Tommy Witt co IN THAT CASE. Bune Tommy OUT OF THE RING. Percy Haughton Has Worked Won- "ders With Team That Did Not Appear to Have a Chance (Special to The Evening World.) Cambridge, M. ngton, which will be headquarters until the Yale game, is a re- a! markable example of what a single season of rigoro the development of a football t the ti were th down mn tie comp the ¢ from nt in the decis: In the ball eigh HARVARD TEAM A REMARKABLE EXAMPLE OF WHAT VIGOROUS COACHING WILL DO je resulted from the fact that they not trained to as high a point as nents, 1g a question. t improvement has been he wn game was en- . tlashes of power were evi- nen the eleven carried n yards for a touch- dians, and w y-sev Since | ye defeat inflicted upon | Kaufmann and Barry Matched tor 45 Rounds jJim Flynn, the Western fighters, Umited round bouts at Los Jeffries’s Los een Club cal, They were signed up last night | a by Baron Long, matchmaker of the Jef- Will Be Battle-Ground for res a. C. of Los Angeles, Cal., engage in a forty-five round bout on in Heavyweights. New Year's Eve for 6) per cent. of the gross receipts. This will be the first Nght of this distance that has been Oi» at that club, and the winner will °4°** BY JOHN POLLOCK. most Itkely be signed up to meet the | Coach s FTER much trouble a match has Winner of the Johnson-Burns battle for 4, inte at last been clinched between Al the heavyweight ttle. A Kaufmann, the clever heay 5 weight of San Francisco, and Teck oWelehed Barry, the Chicago fighter, who | suddenly spri into prominence son and his victories over Eattling Jot wonderfully at tackle. McKay lacked | aggressiveness the first of the year. In the Indian game, however, come to fight, PapK he seemed to gure before the ¢ and since his own, have mi an when the forward pass ed. He has shown great skill both ake or Ket in catching passes from his own quar te, as onan turn battle h t order to stop | and blocking passes and punts of his in Dartmouth game, they | 8°, bo that they were capable of con-| © tb ee p | Cutler Shows Improvement. re is also a general impression; One would hardly realize to-day Harvard has at no time been! Cutler Was a made over back ins sd so hard that Haughton has been | Of @ veteran quarter, His generalslip | elled to show his hand by dis-| proved in the last three trick plays held tn reserve for oming game. The Crimson line, ta to tackle, !s the best of | ground- . year, Nourse, at tinue, In outside of Linguff, ely and follows the ball closely. ) and McKay have both de’ HORSE BREEDERS brother proudly boasts that he won all) The spirit of enthusiasm manufactured | Bro None of these men, with the but tWo, and in these two he finished sn previous years by such slogans as/ exception of Burr, was a star. second. He does his t Are we downhearted?” has been spon-! Few Stars on Team. to his own ide fe diets hin taneous, The materia) which Coach| In fact, the team this year ts not jHeving this to be the most i Haughton found in his hands on Sept. | composed of stars power ts due! Pee ee Ee prepa ta lent ron 15 was fair. The intelligence with which | to two things lacking in previous years on short steps and has been drilled has been above the|—team work and aggressiveness Hayeninectuata ratte Res crainary. ‘There were four H. men on| Whether Harvard took a slump at the| hind, swinging his legs almost at right ‘%¢ Savad- Burr, Fish, Hoar and G..time of the Navy game, or whether angles to his body It was suge jmassage ar aining her lat he have + rubber dur Dorando it or but Bond ‘RUTT AND STOLINSHAPE | FOR BIG SIX-f DAY RACE. | Walter Rutt an d John § | Se 2835 rather 1 riders who c d the Germ lio: the ath TABS LAL WISH Gankue honors, Captain of Old Eli in Uniform | fet on Square Garder ron and Coy Returns to their entries for this year's grind, De : 6 to 12, Both Rutt nal t Backfield. iding in great form dur son on the Eur ‘ ——— mugs RY BURCH, of Ya! ie ineup at New Haven n took Hal fh is prot @ states ever able at he big game of Tomm as de t position Dis ae Leach Cro tthe fight wil tar will oni; better one from the spectat in piers He is not willing to say that he wil knock Tommy out in six rounds, ¢ does not hesitate in stating th id Sif the bout were of te n ment in Packey MceFa hnson will start $56 severe: e day I first sa min Both men are gna! pract Chicago, ubout two years ag hy. eengrusrray et present tine, is unde fy t @ chance in ¢t fe marvellous of any f e fal pun ta © ‘Doe yesterday was ight, 88 Sims hoy Was ' of saches were absent at- urtay, sporting publ he com homing of bia team box then it wa g the wedding of Jack Owsley, but @0N!Ag of bh come light see an army of them world eventu : ‘ii see am Aros of th pared for @ sjuad during the rest nd J think he fariand ts a composite of Abe at- | f° ! cleverness and £ g Nelson | the in wagressiveness and ruggedness ‘ |"MecFarland’s grand con tan be eredited to the watentul nce ar Ry yy ey ersevering attention of wood na to beat ‘the Quakers ured trainer, | writ nat “"Coruell has followed the sid-wrvie sume! West t ihenneal THE iGHT ae. Over ames the at “ Bobby Bobby Burch Geis Back higan Dad Ba f ket back Into line Western collenes. and N tend of the mn since Michigan ‘ $ trim the W 1 tere! the hands of Pennsyivania Saturday being the worst ever @ Yost took hold of th 4 the Wolverines. ani me immensely in the Middle that | Nourse {6 reliable, passes eloped EDITED BY ROBERT EDGREN | | | THREE TEAMS IN RUNNING FOR THE SCHOOL HONORS Erasmus, Poly Prep and Morris All Have Chance to Win Football Championship. school championship was cleared up by considerably by last Satur- day's results. ‘There are now but three possible champtons—Erasmus, Poly Prep and Morris, The Commerce ship was Ts situation with recard to the high Jeunk by the Boys’ High eleven, and lwhatever dim = pre Clinton had were snowed und Morris. The | fast present dope is this. ve {3 one more game to be played among the contend- ers, the mus-Poly Prep game on Thanksgiving Day. If is wins the buff and blue will be tied with Mor- ris for the champlonship. If the Poly eleven gets the verdict they will have an undisputed claim to t nshin, beat Boys’ High e char the only other 10-0 possible conten a score of jon Election Day Angeles, | 1%. to} & “TEMPLE NODS OUT OLD JE WALCOTT robbed of. one of r best Coach } ai d hard his place y 2 Bhs) line, and Dun! § shown up w referes, they out be at full and sub- men on were bet ed than they had any stitute Kennard, in order to ha right to weakens the k field, ile ner being much mo aggressiy “With the boxing game to be opened up draw with ag the latter o ton boy b There wa a big no ane Arh deli Gaaiverhae kick. W last’ round volt was It |4s probable that Bull will get in Satur- ore ie neran ear eae peters: it MAKE GOOD SHOWING. |dofetante, Wie le Tusufed emi WE oy onelinty tlhe Neat prevent him from playing his usual held are Pitts { game in the line. with that exception Suit. Lake City, the eleven is 111 excellent al cond a ea acre At the annual meeting of the Amerl- fon’ that the men Lave not been als peg ake™ recta ¢ can Association of ‘Trotting Horse lowed to play the ngelver stale haw been Depron. sotto a : 5 ue to Haughton's judicious use of subs New Yor Baltimore, Breeders, held at the Hoffman House O04 ‘trainer “Pooch” Donovan's dilly sin Francisco, J sealing feat night, there were present Senator | jer | Ban Srane Vailey, of Texas; William Russell Wine Pittefeld, Mass; C. C. Watts, Charleston, W. Va.; Arnold Lawson and Ww. D. 8. Gor- Into Line-Up at Yale :. Hunt, Boston, Mass.; F. AMUSEMENTS. on PAMUSEMENTS, AMUSEMENTS. n, Chicago; Samuel Walton, Falls eee e's "dior ‘staat HIPPODROME ‘sz assent: | NEW eer THEAT Z a; Frank J. Kilpatrick, San in BFUMLING Bird Mallet. f a 8, 10. Cline Ni at H. K. Devereaux, Cleveland, | HUDSON © (ist. 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