The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-07
A GREAT BATTLE.
johnson and SquireS Are Match
ed In Australia.
To Fight for a Purse and Side
Bets Of Some 100000.
ACCOUNT OF SQUIRES
Quick as q Terrier on His Feet
with a Terrific Blow.
Bout to Be Pulled Off Sometime
in Last of April.

!. New York, March Jack Johnson.
the negro heavyweight pugilist, has
been matched to fight for a purse and
side bet that will total $4,000 with
''Boshter Bill" Squires, champion heavy
weight of Australia, in Melbourne
within six weeks.
Word was received here today to
this effect, and the genuineness of the
news is borne out by the fact that the
Australian champion failed to sail for
this country last month. SQuires had
been offered a fight in the west and
had agreed to come here and fight any
man that could be induced to meet
him, not barring Champion James j.
Jeffrfes. >'s-.' - 90 =-s-- 49, -
The latter had EXPRESSED his willing
ness to face the foreigner, so fight
for the worlds championship seemed
SQUIRE sguifes changed Ais mind ON account
OF Johnson's tstkF uf@Squires' fear of
him. The AustraIian's friends told him
everything the negro said and the
champion made up his mind to square
accounts with johnson before sailing
for San Francisco.
Billy Wren, thef- horseman and
gambler, IS to promote the match. He
has guaranteed S2o,00o for the fighters
end of the money.
OF Squires' personality a noted sport
ing writer says:
Exceptionally speedy, and we'll bal
a terrier on his feetse possessing the
ability to strike a blow at weight, II
stone 6 pounds (173 pounds), that would
he accounted powerful in a man weigh
ing Is stone (210 pounds), the same ter
rible punch with each hand, and as
fast as a ferret after his Inan.-5In all
the fights 1 have seen him in he has
struck his opponent at least five to one,
and has never yet been knocked off
his feet. All his fights have been
knockouts, save one given against him
on foul-Arthur Crippslbut Cripps
has publicly stated that he would not
meet Squires again. as he considers he
is not in Squires' class.
"Squires is a quiet, modest, unas-
Stunning fellow, to whom boasting is an
abomination. He has never yet haz-
arded the opinion that he would win
fight. He merely says: My chance is
good. I'll do my best AS his hon
esty is as true as his courage his best
has always prevailed, and I think will
win over any one at present in the
Australian ring. I can not see how
any man of Cor aboatl. Squires' weight
is going to prolong a fight with him
through 20 rounds. The pace he sets
is far too hot for that. and one or the
other must inevitably go out in Cat
mosD half the time.
"Squires is a conscientious worker
and clean-living man. Unlike most
athletes, who, when strung up in high
training, want to tear around all the
time, Squires when he has finished his
work, conserves his energies. You
may always find him at home, loung-
ing or reading a paper. He doesn't
smoke, but usually takes a glass of
stout with his meals.
81 watched him train for his con-
test with Mike Williams. He hit the
ball at top speed for 20 minutes, COM
Inenced to box with Fireman Waldo,
who weighs IA. stone (196 pounds) J,
but had the bad luck to knock .Waldte
clear out in the first round. Squires
then went in for shadow. fighting for
a quarter of an hour, and then wres-
tied for 20 minutes with Constable
Hugh Gunther, a strapping athlete.
After that he picked up the skipping
rope. and using all sorts of fancy
com binations kept ats this branch of
exercise until his trainer, Jimmy Rus
sell, called a halt.
81 give you this impression of
Squires not necessarily for publication.