Fight 6- Tommy Burns vs Lee Q Murray.
Burns crouched and countered at every oppurtinty against Murray.
His wide hooks and lunging blows shaking and backing Murray up.
In the 3rd and 4th Murray was able to mount a good offensive,
catching Burns often. From their on, it seemed the Burns stayed the
fresher, utilising an unattractive yet effective hugging and slugging
style to gain him the lead.
Burns UD12.
Very Unrealistic. Burns has no shot against Murray. Ray Arcel Called Lee Q Murray the best puncher of the era outside of joe louis. Murray was 6'3 206lb of two fisted power and modern skill vs a midget 5'7 168lb brawler Tommy Burns. No way can little tommy out slug murray, Murrays too big and strong. Turkey Thompson who is comparable to Burns in height and style except turkey had more power than tommy, lost almost every round when he faced a prime version of Murray. Tommy was tough and could take a licking, but I think Murray puts tommy away in around 7 or 8 rounds, and wins every round. Were talking a genuine big strong dangerous heavyweight in any era vs a tough game 5'7 supermiddleweight. NO contest.
Cleveland Promoter Believes Murray Can Take Joe Louis:
BY JACK CUDDY
NEW YORK, Dec. 7—(UP)—
Larry Atkins of Cleveland,
America's second ranking
prizefight promoter, believes
that Lee. Q. Murray, big Connecticut
negro, is the most
dangerous potential threat to
Sgt. Joe Louis' heavyweight
crown.
"If the war wuz to end to
morrow,"says promoter Atkins,
"
I'd say the man most
likely to lick
Louis wuz Lee Q. Murray."
This Atkins' praise of Murray
was so entirely unexpected
that a startled reporter inquired
of the visiting Cleveland entrepreneur
last night, "how
come you boost, Murray, when
he almost'ruined Jimmy Bivins,
your meal, ticket, last week?"
Atkins, a youngish, broadshouldered,
black-haired chap
of 41, fixed thereporter with steely eyes, and remonstrated,'In our Cleveland promotions,we have no meal tickets. We have cards. A Cleveland fighter is a card as long as he can lick anybody we bringin. When he loses to an outsider, the outsider becomes the card." In the case of Murray vs.
"Card" Bivins of Cleveland,
promoter Atkins was doubly
fortunate. Little Bivins won an
unpopular 10-round decision
over Murray last Wednesday
night, after Murray had the
Cleveland negro staggering
about the ring and dripping with
gore. The fans booed the-decision
so long, and so lustily that
a re-match was as necessary as
if by royal command. They'll
tangle, again in late February
— after both principals recover
from their wounds.
Atkins, who in four short
years changed Cleveland from
one of the country's worst fight
cities into a promoter's paradise,
said, "I knew Murray was a
good fighter before I matched
him'with Bivins. But during the
first two rounds, I thought
Murray would ruin me. He
never let loose with a punch.
Disgustedly, I left my seat at
the ringside, and walked to the
rear of the arena. But Murray
was just mouse-trapping his
man. He knew Bivins was a
cutie and he was sucking him
in. Bivins left himself open in
the third round, and Murray
hit him. Bivins rolled with that
right-hand punch to the chin;
but the force was so terrific
that Bivins wasn't the same for
the rest of the fight.
This part still needs some cleaning up, as the background noise and whatnot on the paper registers as text when you copy off an old newspaper.
"Murray hit him so hard over
the left brow in the sixth round
that you could have stuck your
thumb in the cut; but Bivins is
not the duration heavyweight
.champ for nothing. He managed
to put-smark' Murray for the
distance; and I honestly thought
he won the fight; although it.
didn't matter to me who won—
as
I had Murray tied up on a
contract, too."
Atkins, who drew" $360,000
with his Cleveland bouts'jn'1942,
and who has provided bouts
that drexv $413,000'this year, concluded,
"I don't .know whether
little Bivins, who '.weighs' only
about •• 187 ..pounds, or Murray,
who has 200 on six. foot two.
frame, is 'the better fighter.
But Murray is the most' dangerous.
He's .the most" terrific
puncher I ever saw; he hits as
hard as. Louis. He's • still a little•
awkward —being, a converted'
Southpaw. But being a Convert-
ed Southpaw ' makes 'him': a
switch hitter, who .can, knock'
you dead with either'hand.'And
:he's only 23."
•Atkins, in New York on a business
trip, said it seemed
a dream that he — an under
study to Mike Jacobs — 'should
have the two best civilian
heavyweights in the world tied
up on contracts He hoped he
still had .a contract on Murray
.when Sergeant .Louis got out of
.the Army. .
