Show SQUIRES MUST UT WIN N Nr TO GET fiET JEFF BACh AC Alfalfa King Will Not N Burns If He Beats Australian NEEDS LONG TIME TO TRAIN TRiiN t Jim Says Foreigner Has to Conquer Before He Quits the F Farm ani I H f BY fly W W. W. W v. v NAUGHT OX San Francisco May Ia IS Some Some of Jim friends al' al are amused nt the tho retired champions champion's announcement that h he will require a n few months of or t trial training to determine whether 11 he can get t himself into proper toper condition for Cor or a light with Dill BUI Squires Jet Jef fries app appears ar to ho bo such a monument of oC health and physical power JUt Just t now nov that his hi cronies consider the tho ultra caution cau- cau Hon tion on his part In the matter of shap shap- Jill ing his plans a Joke joko and the badinage the tho big fellow has been subjected to has placed place him on the defensive c the tho matter with you tel fel lows h he lie blurted tho the other othel day haLs tinny funny about a fellow looking ahead Dont Don't you OU know kno that Its It's three years carn since I pulled oh 1 oi n a glove glo and dont don't you think Its It's wise iso for a man who has been l that long long- out 1 or harness to look himself over O before making any contracts No matter what Jeff J rr says MS in the way of or explanation the reservation ht lit makes is regarded as a bit of 2 lou humor Friends who hio have ha fol fol- lowed loed his career for COl years rears think he lie looks Jools just as he looked when training for his hla Coney Isla Island nil lights with FItz- FItz Simmons Immons 1111 and and the ques lion tion of oC a Jeffries Squires i match Is beHoved be be- to hinge not 01 on the result ro of an any preliminary training on OH Jeffs Jeff's pal pail t. t but bUl on the thc outcome of Squires' Squires affair with Tommy Burns July 4 at Colma Coma This because Jeffries has made it cleat that he will not nol att attempt to molest Burns If It Tl Tommy wins Wills Will VilI Ot PJ lIt Hum I i have had all tho the lightIng fighting I want I said Jeff and an Im I'm not hot Itching itching- to gel i back Into the game Iam as many seem to think I So when I r retired that Ill Id como come back Into the ring if a foreigner ner came camo here ansi and d defeated our 11 best mCH aj and Ill I'll keep my WOI word l. l But Dut if It Burns DUrn i b bests Squires that ends it Tomm Tommy can go right along enjo enjoying Ing Ingall all II the HIP championship privileges and the tile al alfalfa al- al falfa will be good good enough for fOI m inc me p w Make ak I this particularly strong t ong please t 0 I sume people may mar think that Ill I'll want to lo meet Burns If JC ho makes a Rood good oo showing Ill I'll not fight tight him him un Un- I dee der un any circumstances S Jeffries visited San Francisco for the purpose of looking Into u b proposition that was waI made wado to him It Jt had to do o with assuming assuming- the malir man mali f r of n It cafe recently opened to tho busIest portion or of Fiji FIU- tor Tho rho u t in fell I rpm t I II li G r r IJ buck Ck t fj lb Ho he W will vIll 11 come north forth a again aln in a couple of or weeks s be- be I A 7 tho tUo Squires Burns match mutch Lull t I ii I s i tn iS U r pay visits lo to both holh mon men at L t. c v training KO so o that a n thor thoi- v ough may be be Im had as 05 t t i it iv c t breaks clinches ls fn arm free m e hitting am lurid and andall all an that 1 kind ln ot or tiling I d. d I 0 ts t's HI Ills Big Jeff leff 1 Talking of oC pr present enl condition comB condi iou Hon there is one man who considers tim tho man from flum ruin Burbank a tower of or strengths This is Barney Reynolds c manager of Bill Squires When hen hen Hc was as Introduced d to lo Jeffries at Los An Angeles I s the day a after atiT the Burns OBrien nightmare the lIt lIt- tic llo gentleman from Australia Australla spent fully ten minutes 1 sizing up from toni possible view point H Ic shifted his position in the group with which Jeff was conversing conversing- and he looked stealthily at Jeff from the had back nut find and front an and from both sides This l is what he ho ha had to shat s. say What hat clown was it circulated the tho 1 report that Jeffries was big and pussy II and In no shape to train Wit Why hy that iIan's inan's nans in splendid shape shap Ills His e eye e 1 i. i 13 clear cIonI hi hf hd color colot Is a goo good he healthy tan find and I see that his athletic line lutes have havo bulged In such a wa way vay as to su suggest sug- sug gest esl loss Joss of oC force or slowing up Ho lie HoIs Is lii a marvelous No matter which angle anglo you ou look at him from Iv h. Ivis I is as symmetrical and lIHI as solid as a lighthouse If It ho he cant can't bring brIng- himself into perfect trim an and give g as good oo an all 5 account of or himself as over o I am itoL no ito Judge L S a ti TV I no IW Au ral hati The Tho po postponement of the SquIres SquIres- Burns championship contest conte t from May lay 30 to 30 to July 4 suited stilted Squires who was forced to lo let lot up ill in his training training- owing to a n. slight cat ca case c of cit blood poisoning It 4 appears that some dye ye from a new now pair of oJ socks bocks got into an abrasion on one of oC the Australians Australian's toes and set up upun tin un Inflammation The Injury Is such thru that Squires will rest from from Crom alt all wok k for or an entire week A As S might be expected the question of oC nationality is being discussed dis ulis- ulis cusse cussed thc there r being a u curiosity to learn lean earh Just how th tho Antipodean champion is lined Here I Is what Squires has to say sayi i nn un the subject C J t am a native of Australla Austral Austral- m. m la Ia and ana my father anti and mother arc are natives na na- na- na 1 tives of or Maitland l My 1 forebears forebears fore torp- bears were English an and my 1 mothers mother's folks s wore were Irish 2 11 that's necessary to add acId Is that Hills Hill's old ohl grandmother was a South of or Ireland woman and that It was vas through her that the fighting blood down to DIll Bill added Barney y S 4 Tommy Burns Burns who delayed at Los Angeles longer than lie he Intended upon J learning that Unit his contest with Squires I had been po postponed until unlit Ju July 1 I 4 will vIii i arrive III In San Sail Francisco today Burns that thai ho hr- would cover coyer coy cov wired la last l er side bet just as us soon c AS he lie reached San Situ Francisco Burns Buru claims to t b be backing him him- elf r-elf H but there 18 Is a n rumor afloat that v ral I Los Ios os AngeLs sports are arc t In Ini InIn InIn the thc wa cr They butted In 11 wager th the chance to back i In III the belief f that not hot occur occur oc oc- Burns urns at oven even mon money might I cur LUv again Will Burns BUMIS Be He I 1 at that whether It Is a L question ue lion 1 Hums nurn will bo ho favorite to any extent Tho Time sports of or San Sani over or Squires 8 Francisco generally judge e a man from i they have s seen en of or him and amI what I is remembered he hero here ro chiefly chien Durns at with nave Dave Barry his 1119 go b through couple of years ears ago a n Woodward won but it too took him a long rong Burns Burn of or Irish Dave Dav The Tho Th J to dispose e iJ time Omo Burns Dums 1 fight fans arc are suing sizing up Burnim 4 local form nt at that time and arc mo moi m tl from rom rent hl his allowances for tor tho the tact fad not lot making i C i. i 1 i. i oh 4 10 t i 1 iA that lomm Tommy has ell t least 5 G i per cent since S S S The Time Ix Los A s Angeles 8 reformers mn made n r determined tl effort r to pa pass paM an box anti ing lug ordinance ordinance- while hile tho the general dIg dis I gust over the hums Burns scandal I was wn at nt its height Strange SHungo to SO say however the enort was defeated Ii remains to be he s seen en whether pugilism I In the southland will vill he be conducted on or a n higher plane in future futuro In Jn view of ot recent happenings it looks as though It would be Je a wJ- wJ wise course for tho the promoters down that thal n way to refrain from rom match making for Cor a 11 while i R Reynolds rols manager of or hns won voit his IsIs first b lPt t In Ame America On the d they y of oC signing 1 articles les for or the S Durna match n who vu then themi In Jo Los Angeles bet het a 3 i friend one nw dollar that Burns Durns would not covI coyer cov- cov I er r Squires Squires' s' s aide side bet Jet and a 3 forfeit of oC by 0 tho tile date lato agreed upon namely May 15 Sure enough Burns hull hud To live H HeIP up IP to the articles Ih di the matter mailer mattern In n question and IB is one dollar richer through Tommy's Tommys Should Burn Burns on oa his Ills arrival In San Francisco feel In iii the tho mood fo for o making excuses he may claim that nUlt It was the postponement of time tile ditto date of or the tIme match from toni roin May Ia 30 31 3 to Jul July 4 that caused himo him to o be derelict with wIttI his hla mone moRel money lie He undo made arrangements to leave O Los Angeles Angeles An- An An An- geles for San Francisco a 0 11 day or two I mutter after his affair with OBrien O'Brien but hut on or learning earning of or the change of or slate date ho lie tar tar- noel led In the southland Of or course this Is not a a. Ill edge excuse at that Burns Burn is anything but bu buta a green hand at the match making game ame g-ame amid and he knows that a plea of or ron Ton arrival does not nut hold where a clausIn clause claus In the time articles calls for tor n a posting o. o forfeits on a a. certain da cia day There Is In no occasion for Cor a tt pugilist to act as con o convoy or guard body to his forfeit money In Iii events e which rise riKu to the tho dignity of or worlds world championship m matches lar large e sums sculls are frequently forwarded to the forfeit holder both hoth b by mall ansi anil tele graph When wired to concerning hl his forfeit Burns Bums replied that h he would leave lea Ix JAms 1111 s Angeles Saturday alit and post the tile money on his imis arrival A A. later Inter dispatch says sas Burns urmi will ill not leave for Francisco until Tuesday Should ho dla delay no further it Jt will be Impossible guile sible tom for him to cover r Squires Squires' s' s money at time the office until May Ia 22 ora ora or ora a week after tIme the slate agreed upon So far Im as ns can be learned no suspicion exists In tho the minds of or Squires SquIre Reynolds Rey Rey- folds or Promoter Coffroth that lint n wishes to withdraw from froni his match with the Australian Reynolds Renolds says as a's It was as merely a ru L whim that th caused him lo to lobet bet ru n. big h Iron i dollar that thal Burns would not nol be on time limp with the cash The writer feels to refer ICer to the time matter because of oC th the number num of oC times ho lie has been asked risked within the tho thelast last few Cew days clays whether Burns Burns' forC forfeit H lias has been posted It Is to be he presumed that hat Burns Burmis will straighten out the tho affair af nf fair rah just as soon ns as he lie gets g-ets hero here htmL but In n n the time m meantime if IC somo some other a aspiring I heavyweight heavy weight were wre to say to Manager R Ill cover Squires Squires' Corf forfeit lt at nl I minutes minute's s 's notice and take tak Burns' Burns I Tommy would have hn only onh himself I Io o o blame for or losing tho match maceli I |