Show AUSTRALIA LIA WONDERS WHY BILL BILLu SQUIRES WAS SUCH EASY MARK Australian exchanges anges Just to hand show that the defeat of Bill Squires the champion cham chain pion of ot that country was wal as much of a knockout to the average Australian as It was wu to Squires himself As a a. matter of ot fact tact the Australians are still dazed from the blow and cannot understand the thing at all The Sydney Morning Herald on one of the biggest and most influential papers in inthe inthe inthe the colonies has lisa this to say about bout the catastrophe Squires failure comes as such a a. surprise surprise sur cur prise price to Australian followers of boxing that they are disinclined to believe that the Newcastle man could have been in his bis ordinary health That he should be beaten was but that he should be beaten with such ease and be described described described de de- de- de scribed In terms of contempt by Journalistic journalistic Journal journal- experts Is ls Inexplicable His Australian Aus Aus- record was wonderful not only by its success but the ease with which such uch success was attained He invariably and exhibited Ib compared p- p great t f favorably courage tTy and with he endurance the r Australian Aus Aus- n champions of a a. dozen years ago who held their own wIt with the world A heavy blow on the temple is of course sufficient to disable the greatest fighter Though these rarely occur in fi fights ts they are e recognized eo d in the sport as belonging o dr to the class of knockout o g hits It which ft Its s those on the point of the jaw I the heart the solar plexus an and the throat The only excuse that can be advanced ce for r Squires Squires' q poor o showing a as assuming assuming as- as l' l lo grit rn suming that n no suspicion c of hocusing o or other foul foul pl play y attaches to anybody conneCted connected con con- netted with the affair is that the blow was a a. chance one But the private Cable cable cable ca ca- ble message received In Melbourne rl does not even en suggest this tide Australians generally will regret Squires Squires' Ig defeat car not only f from patriotic ao but from n personal motives o By his manly conduct In the ring and clean living in private life Ufe he was a model athlete and made warm friends of all who met him A Melbourne paper the Age had this to say the day after ater The feeling of ot disappointment In Melbourne Melbourne Mel Mel- bourne at the result was very keen Ev Everybody thought the fight a good thing for r Squires q the only question s n was keon nt whether fh I It would take him more t then than one round to win When word came cams through ro g that t Squires h had been beaten gul f In a round u t this news could scarcely rc be I credited credited- That Squires Squires' poor showing I with Burns represents his true form foin no o noone noone one who has followed his his- career thinks for a moment Boxing experts here agree that the mo most mOlt t reasonable explanation explanation tion of his disappointing nt form is that he lost fg t ills his sh head e J He has f in invariably I 1 been e excited so 50 excited at times that he has hall appeared for a time not to know what hat he was doing A cable received today by bv J J. J Wren from his agent Barney ReYn Reynolds Reynolds' Rey Ry- n states tates that Burns won cleanly in advises that Squires one round Reynolds be recalled Squires 1 is under engagement engage ment nent to Mr Wren for twelve months Mr Wren WrenT said tonight he would wait walt for for a II few tew days for further developments A good deal of money changed hands in Melbourne over the fight Squires being harked backed at 6 to 4 on Mr Wren ten was no doubt the principal loser He Tie Is stated to o have lost 5 JOO He is naturally nat rat veT very much disappointed but hut still sUII regards Squires as a great fighter and thinks he lie will some lome day retrieve hi his hll reputation reputation rep rep- |