MURPHY DRAWS WITH WEST AFRICAN
BOUT ON TWENTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY LONDON. February 14. Bos Murphy celebrated his twentysixth birthday to-night by fighting to a draw over eight rounds with a west African, Richard Armagh. Both weighed list sJlb. . . Murphy pleased the crowd, giving Armagh a boxing lesson in the use of the left over the first four rounds. Armagh opened a cut over Murphy’s right eye in the fifth round and the fight degenerated into pulling ana mauling. , , . „ . Murphy recovered in the last rouna to force a drawPlane Wreckage Found.— Wreckage equipment, believed to be from a missing United States Navy Marti Mariner flying-boat, has been Jomidby Coast Guard cutters. The disappeared over the Gulf of .« It had nine men abosrd.—New York, February 14.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26039, 16 February 1950, Page 5
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