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Originally Posted by Cusick
Thank you, prewinter, for the link to the St. Louis University team photo containing the image of Joe Murphy. I think you meant to say he was in the front row, second from right rather than second from left. The caption and numbering system reads that way. Furthermore, the fellow second from right looks like the only image I have of Joe Murphy (see below) which comes from The Sporting News of May 24, 1886.
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"Right. It's the other left."
Yep, should have been second from the right. And I even mentally checked myself twice to make sure I got that correct... oh well.
I found another image of him as part of a sketch of a Chicago Commercial League club in the early 1890s. It is a composite in the Inter Ocean of the Whitings on May 7, 1893, shown below. Jim Murphy (#3) is actually Joe Murphy, who had moved to Chicago and taken a position with the Tribune after a messy incident involving a death at an amateur boxing match, at which he was the referee. He wound up being charged as an accessory to murder, but wasn't convicted.
In that same sketch I think Charlie Hallstrom is #7. Thomas Barrett (#2) went on to become Sheriff of Cook County.