The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-03
SQUIREs IS
AMBITIOUS
Australian Aspires to
Wear Heavyweight
Crown.


championship crown relinquished by
+! Jim Jeffres, is one of the most re-
markable fighters the world has ever
| seen. While not a giant in build,
| SQuires has every natural advantage
| a boxer should have if in line for cham
pionship honors. While one of the
greatest fighters ever developed in
Australia, Squires is an accident, so
| far as pugilism goes. Formerly
miner and Sunday school teacher, his
ability to fight was brought about I'M
| expectedly, and from a novice he went
| to the front in jumps. Squires expects
to face Philadelphia Jack O'Brien in a
| battle for worlds honors in No
| vember.
| That Squires is today boxer bidding
| for the worlds championship is due to
chance A sober, quiet man, whose
only interests in life were to bring
heather to, the fold of socialism and
truant youngsters to his Sunday.
school, Squires was one who had never
an opportunity of finding the power of
his potent fists. When disputes would
arise in the mine and Squires' fellow
miners would jeer at him, they would
be received with quotation from
scripture. Still, at heart the man was
an athlete; and, though taking no
active part in boxing, he invariably
attended the fights put up by visiting
pugs in Newcastle. Many times was
he seated at the ringside gazing with
admiring awe on second-raters whom
he has since knocked out in a few
seconds.
One night several miners prevailed
upon Squires % visit an athletic hall
kept by local pugilist named Bill
Smith. For the first time in his life
Squires pulled on the gloves and was
brought out as sucker" that Smiths
pupils were to practice on.
How'll I start?" asked Squires. as
Smith called on him to begin.
eco in as you like replied Smith,
hit him whenever you cam
The words were scarcely out before
Smiths pupil was out. Squires had
rushed in with d left swing, the like of
which Australia had never seen before.
Smiths other pupils came up one by
one, and had to be carried into the open
air and revived, and Squires' fellow
miners who had been accustomed to
giving him back-talk and scoffing at his
on the back and calling him "old man."
Smith lost no time in putting the
polish on this raw material of cham
pionship. Every evening that Bill could
spare from his prayer meetings he
would visit Smiths athletic hall which
became SO purified by his influence that
soon not a blasphemous word was
heard. Two months later Squires won
his first fight against a Balmain (Sid-
ney) quarryman, weighing $50 pounds,
and the gong sounded to reveal a new
style of fighting.
In the ring Squires is more like a |
seismic disturbance than a man. Hell
is San Francisco incarnate Vesuvius
concentrated into 172 pounds of fiery
manhood. He is the personification of !
the strenuous life adapted to pugilistic |
principles
So far. fighters have modelled their |
methods of combat on those of the fowl |
yard. Squires has abandoned the |
rooster and taken the bull terrier as
his model. He is not a rusher in the |
ordinary sense. He is rather a warrior. |
When the gong sounds he is at his |
man in an instant, firing in solid
punches at every part of him. The |
smother is no more defense to the |
Herr Doves bullet-proof coats would |
be to a bursting shell. squires beats |
down the smother and the man behind |
it as well.
Out of the ring, when officiating at |
picnic or in his Sunday school class, |
Squires has clean-cut, placid features
and might be mistaken for an actor or
a Gibson man. The moment he enters |
the ring he is TRANSPORTED. If ever
there was man who should sit as
model for Mars, the war god, it is
Bill Squires. When he looks at the \
man in the opposite corner Jim JEFF
fries famous fighting face is that of |
a simpering cherub in comparison.
Squires is compact mass of mus
Gle so well marked and prominent that |
an athletic expert would pronounce him |
muscle-bound. But his appearance
bellies him. He is as active as a feath-
erweight. He uses both hands with |
lightning dexterity, is a marvel in foot
work and possesses a perfect poise
No matter what position he may as
sumo. Squires' center of gravity is
always under his feet. His capacity
for taking punishment is superb. Hell
is as hard and invulnerable as the iron
bark gum trees of his native land
During his whole career only twenty
blows have reached him. Some of
these were solid enough to knock out
the average heavyweight, but Squires
gave no indication of having felt
them. He has been knocked down but
once in the course. of his twelve fights
and finished the man who did it in half
a round. His record has been such
that his admiring countrymen have
given to his name the honored prefix
Of 'Boshter," and Australians super-t
lative signifying magnificence Such
a title is harder to obtain in Australia
than a seat in the British house of lords
to an expatriated American million
aire.
Squires is twenty-seven years of age.
five feet nine and a half inches tall
and weighs 172 pounds in condition. He
has spread of six feet five inches be
tween the hands. his chest measures
forty inches in repose and his biceps