BOXING BOS MURPHY BOXING HART AT LONDON TO-NIGHT

Grey River Argus, 5 April 1948, Page 6

BOXING BOS MURPHY BOXING HART AT LONDON TO-NIGHT

LONDON, April 3 Bos Murphy is expected to beat Marx Hart ac the Eo>al Albert Hall on Monday night. He will be meeting a tough opponent and will not by any means have a walk-over. Murphy regards it as a "training” fight, out at the same time realises that it will have an important bearing on his prestige in British boxing circles, which cannot at the moment said to be too high. Should he lose, it will not be the best advertisement fox’ his meeting with Dick Turpin, a much tougher customer, who is picked to beat Vince” Hawkins when they meet in Birmingham, probably on June 28. Murphy is confident he can win. He declares that he is much fitter than when he fought Hawkins for the British Empire middle-weight title.- He is looking fox' another fight . before meeting Turpin. Sam Burns, his manager, apparently is having difficulty in making up his mind as to an opponet. The logical selction would be Randolph Turpin, who recently beat Mark Hart. If the New Zealander does well against Hart he may meet this younger brother of Dick Turpin before he climbs into the ring at Whitsun.