BOUT WITH MURPHY
TOMMY BURNS’S STIPULATION
NEW ZEALANDER “ HEAVIER THAN
BILLED "
(llec. 8 a.m.) SYDNEY, Feb. 19. The Australian welter-weight, Tommy Burns, said that he would "not fight the New Zealander, Bos Murphy, unless Murphy reduced to 10.9.
“ There is no doubt that Murphy is lighting well over list,” said Burns to-dav “My advice is that when lie fought Willie .Tones lie was much heavier than billed. He is too crood a lighter for me to give him half ,-Tstone or more. I am keen to meet him, and if he can make 10.9 I will rush the match.”
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Evening Star, Issue 26031, 20 February 1947, Page 10
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99BOUT WITH MURPHY Evening Star, Issue 26031, 20 February 1947, Page 10
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