OUT IN FIRST ROUND

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 68, Issue 186, 19 May 1948, Page 3

OUT IN FIRST ROUND

Turpin Beats Murphy ( TITLE CHANGES HANDS • - - » • ./ ' • CN.Z.P. A.—Copyright). (Rec. 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, May 18. The coloured boxer Dick Turpin won the Empire middleweight championship at Coventry to-night before an open-air crowd of 30,000 when he knocked v out the titleholder, Bos Murphy, of New Zealand, in the first round. Murphy opened . forcingly, buf ran inio a right hook and went down, for seven. Turpin landed another right hook to the jaw and - put . Murphy V down for the final count. / Turpin, Vho is 28, caused the year’s boxing sensation , when he , knocked Murphy out. V The fight lasted two minutes 55

seconds. | The end came as a surprise because Murphy seemed to he boxing well within himself -when he took the first right hook to the jaw which virtually ended the contest.

Murphy began , shooting out _ a straight left, keeping Turpin backing around the ring. Turpin, however, „ coolly covered up and countered once / or twice: lightly with his left. These blows probably lulled Murphy into ,a false sense of -security. Then Turpin turned on the pressure. Murphy miss- - ed with a left lead and took Turpin’s right hook flush on the jaw, Murphy folded up like a jackknife and hit the canvas.with a-resounding bump. Miytphy\rose at seven, his eyes glazed and; his mouth sagging. Turpin then feinted with a left, causing Murphy to drop his sguard:* Turpin whipped over another right hook, which caught the champion on the point of the chin, r Murphy went over backward, his head striking the boards with a crack. Murphy, bravely tried to rise and succeeded in getting on one knee, but left a glove/ still touching the ring floor when *lO was _ counted. ; ; . Murphy had, no,excuses. He said: “Turpin hits very hard., I ran into that first one and I didn’t get. a . chance to .find my feet afterward.” In a preliminary bout to the Bos Murphy-Turpin fight, Rie Sanders, of , Leicester, outpointed the New Zealander Billy Coloulias. • -:Q ;