Confident Bradley Says “I Eat Murphies"

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30559, 30 September 1964, Page 19

Confident Bradley Says “I Eat Murphies"

[By Our Boxing Correspondent]

“I feel confident, mate. If I don’t leave this Murphy joker horizontal, then me name’s not Bullet, sport,” announced Arthur Bradley, a 24-year-old Queensland farmer and professional boxer, last evening. Bradley breezed into “The Press” office “straight from Kingaroy—and that's 200 miles north-west of Brisbane.”

Bradley is to box Murphj’ at Canterbury Court tomorrow evening . . . “and I’ll guarantee the crowd gets their money’s worth.” “I can manage my 700-acre, dairy, pig, rnilo (that’s pig tucker, sport) and maize farm, and I reckon I can manage any Murphy. I don’t grow me own spuds, but I eat them, and I’ll eat him. “Ten rounds suits me. It will be action all the way. You don’t dance round for four rounds like you do when it's a 15-rounder. In a 12-1 rounder, you need a spell-ho, in the middle. Give me eight) to 10 rounds—that’s what all

fights should be. No jokers have enough time to train now so that they can go 15 rounds flat out. “They say Murphy can box —he can draw crowds. More than EAIOOO when he fought Cobblah, that’s some kale. I usually knock 'em out with a left hook. Murphy can read that, and Hl knock him out with a right "I won all me six fights last year—four by knock-outs. I lost me first one this year—disqualified in the fourteenth round. They reckoned it was for head butting. It was the only way to stop me winning I—disqualifying 1 —disqualifying me. 1

“That was against Johnny Fooks. On Friday, I k.0.-ed him in the fifth. Had all me pro bouts in Brisbane. “If I can’t catch Murphy I’ll use kangaroo brute strength—throw them against the ropes and hit them before their feet touch the ground again. “Well, so long sport. If I don’t beat Murphy, I’ll be good enough for the crowd to want me back—that’s the way the money comes. You can put a ring round that, mate.” Impressive Record Bradley, sft 6in, lithe, wiry, pale, keen face and bent nose, with a handshake like a mechanical grab, was whistling “Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport” as he departed. He left behind his impressive record: Began boxing when aged 14; 109 amateur bouts, 95 wins. Queensland light-weight champion for five successive years; four times runner-up in Australian amateur championships (twice light-weight twice light-welter). Fourteen professional bouts, eight wins by knock-outs, two wins on points, a draw, two losses on points and a loss by a fouh