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IBC Plans Murphy-Maxim Title Bout Satterfield to Get Match With Victor Norris Continues to Dodge Matthews; Says West Coast Fighter Wont Accept Terms By BARNEY NAGLER Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, N. Y., June 28.— Sailor Bob Murphy, thoroughly becalmed after his stormy beaching of landlubber Jake La-Motta in seven rounds thats right last night, today looked forward to an inevitable shot at light-heavyweight champion Joey Maxim. Murphy, a victorious visitor at the International Boxing Clubs offices, smiled happily when interviewers informed him that it was certain he would fight for the 175-pound championship when Maxim becomes a fit subject for attack. "I sure want that, Murphy said, speaking easily through a crescent-shaped cut that ran down the right side of his lower lip. "Thats one I want." Before this comes to pass, however, Murphy must get past Joey Rindone, big-heade, balding Bostonian, in an outdoor return in Beantown, July 23. Murphy lost on an alleged foul to Rindone re cently and want to wipe out the undeserved stigma. Murphys right to a challenge of Maxim was underlined by promoter Jim Norris, who sat behind his big desk in his big office and said he had conferred with Jack Kearns, Maxims manager. "Jack and I have just talked about a title fight and he says he is willing to fight either Murphy or Sat terfield in the fall. The fight would take place here." Satterfield has a contract, on file with the Illinois Athletic Commission, for a title match with Maxim. However, Ike Bernstein, Satterfields manager, a man obviously beholden to Norris and the IBC, said he was willing to forego the title chance if the Murphy-Maxim winner signed to fight Satterfield next. "It all depends on what the Illinois commission does," Norris said, with Kearns concurring. Kearns will have to check on Maxims condition first. After the light-heavyweight champ was beat up by Ezzard Charles in Chicago recently the Illinois solons ordered 90-day rest for Maxim, who reportedly had been "doped." "Well take a look at Maxim in the gym and see how he is in the next couple of days," Kearns said. There was mention of Harry Matthews, the Pacific Coast slickster, who throttled Murphy in 10 rounds in the Garden last March 2. . Refuses Three Opponents "Weve offered Jack Murphy Matthews manager all kinds of chances to fight for us," Norris explained. "We offered him a return with Murphy and a fight with Satterfield or Archie Moore, but he turned them down." Hurley has been critical of the IBCs policy of televising its regularly scheduled indoor bouts and had said Matthews would not fight for the IBC if that system remains in effect. Instead, Matthews has been beating the brushes in search of work. Hurley has been talking of a 0,000 guarantee to Maxim for a defense against Matthews in Boise, Idaho. "So far, I havent seen the color green," Kearns said. Murphy, whose biggest previous purse was some 1,000 for the debacle with Rindone, got 2,659 from the 16,685 gross of Wednesday night. This includes 272 per cent of 0,898 net and the same percentage of 0,000 received for the theater television. LaMottas 30 per cent came to 9,882. LaMotta was not around yesterday, but there was every indication that he would not retire. There even was talk of the IBC looking around for-new opposition, among the light-heavyweights. It would not be surprising if he turned up vis-a-vis Satterfield, an erstwhile knockout victim. The controversy over which round LaMotta was knocked out by Murphy abted yesterday. Col. Edward P. F. Egan, boss of the New York Boxing Commission set on a seventh-round knockout, which contradicted the decision of two of his deputies at ringside. These two decided that Dr. Vincent A. Nardiellos decision to stop the fight with LaMotta on his stool between the seventh and eighth rounds, made it an eight-round knockout. It had been a rule in this state that if a fight was stopped before the bell sounded for the next round, the knockout reverted to the previous round. Eagan snafued this considerably in the Willie Pep-Sandy Saddler title bout last year. Ht made it an eighth-round knockout, when Pep quit in his corner at the end of the seventh because of an injury. Now he has reversed himself. At any rate, Murphy scored his kayo in the seventh. And thats official.
