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...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...
Irish Bob came out of his corner like a windmill on a spree, uncorked a left which started from his shoe tops and sent Maxim reeling into the ropes. Someone brayed, "You got him already, Murph!" and the crowd was on its feet, roaring for the early kill. But Maxim bounced right back, set about giving Challenger Murphy a thorough lesson in the art of boxing. He began stinging Murphy with neat jabs, by the third round had Irish Bob's right eye swollen to a mere slit. When Murphy tried to close with the champion, Maxim tied...
...hour older, but much wiser, Irish Bob, the student whose cauliflowered face was capped by one of ring history's classic mice, gave the crowd a disfigured grin, climbed into his kelly green robe and jauntily strode out of Madison Square Garden's arena. Maxim's manager, "Doc" Kearns, invited other hopefuls to try deposing the champ some time: "We will fight anybody...
...leading contenders for a crack at Light Heavyweight Champion Maxim is Seattle Boxer Harry ("Kid") Matthews, who has squabbled for months with New York's International Boxing Club (TIME, July 9). Last week the deadlock was finally broken when the I.B.C. offered him a larger cut of the television percentages. I.B.C. Boss Jim Norris offered Matthews a bout in Chicago (an I.B.C. city) on Oct. 3, which had to be turned down because of Matthews' previous commitments. But it looked as though Matthews (who gave Irish Bob Murphy a resounding beating last March) would finally get his chance...
Light Heavyweight Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio and TV). Joe Maxim v. Bob Murphy...