| Show ABOUT SQUIRES what sydney paper has to say of the fighter australian exchanges just to hand show that the defeat of bill squires abo champion of that country was as much of a knockout to th average australian as it was to squires himself As a matter of fact the australians are still dazed from the blow and cannot understand the thing at all the sydney morning herald one of the biggest dmd most influential papers in the colonies has this to say about the catastrophe squires failure comes as such a surprise to australian followers of boxing that they are dis inclined to believe that the newcastle man could have been in his ordinary health that he should be beaten was possible but that he should be beaten with such ease and be described in terms of contempt by journalistic experts is inexplicable ills australian record was wonderful not onla by its success but the ease with which such success was attained he invariably exhibited great courage and endurance and compared favorably with the australian champions of a dozen years ago who held their own with the world A heavy blow on the temple is of course sufficient to disable the greatest fighter though these rarely occur in fights they are recognized in the sport as belonging to the class of knockout hits which comprises those on the point of the jaw the heart the solar plexus and the throat the only excuse that can be advanced for squires poor showing assuming that no suspicion of ho cusing or other foul play attaches to anybody connected with the affair is that the blow was a chance one but the private cable message received in melbourne does not even suggest this australians generally will regret squires defeat not only from patriotic tri otic but from personal motives by his manly conduct in the ring and clean living in private life 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 the feeling of ent in melbourne at the result was very keen everybody thought the fight a good thing for squires the only question was whether it would take him more than one round to win when word came through that squires had been beaten in a round the news could scarcely be credited that squires poor showing with burns represents his true form no one who has followed his career thinks tor a moment boxing experts here agree that the most reasonable explanation of his disappointing form Is that he lost his head he has invariably been excited so excited at times that be has appeared for a time not to know what he was doing A cable received today by J wren from hla agent barney reynolds states that bums won cleanly in one round reynolds advises that squires be recalled squires is under engagement to mr wren tor twelve months mr wren said tonight he would wait for a few days for further developments A good deal ot money changed hands in melbourne over the fight squires being backed at 6 to 4 mr wren was no doubt the principal loser he is stated to have lost pounds he Is naturally very much disappointed but still regards squires as a great fighter and thinks he will some day retrieve his reputation |
