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the Syracuse Athletic Association. Later it was 

 known as the Craftsman's Building and finally passed 

 to a telephone company. The building was still stand- 

 ing in 1930 on South State Street. 



MURPHY'S GALLERY 



There is an old saying that if a man has a fad 

 you will find evidence of it in his home and thrice 

 fortunate is he whose hobby is in line with his pro- 

 fession. No better evidence of this fact can be found 

 than what Thomas Murphy gathered around him at 

 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. One night in the winter of 1918 

 when the wind was making the snow and ice rasp 

 against the glass enclosed porch, I made a round 

 of the gallery of champions which decorated the 

 walls of the living room. As I moved from one paint- 

 ing to another, Mui-phy's remarkable career in the 

 sulky passed by like pictures on a screen. In a corner 

 near the door to the hall Hetty G., rather thin and 

 angular but high headed as a hawk looking for some 

 one to have a scrap with, peered from her frame 

 at Susie N. She brought Murphy on the mile tracks 

 in 1904 and was followed in 1905 by the Moko filly. 

 The name of the latter also recalled how Edward 

 Thompson happened to purchase her. 



One evening during the winter of 1905, he was 

 going from New York to Brooklyn on the ferry. As 

 the boat pounded its way through the ice in the 

 slip he got a glimpse of Tommy Murphy among the 



