Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-20
LOCAL INTEREST
IS NOT INTENSE
LITTLE NOISE HERE OVER BILL
SQUIRES AND BURNS
San Francisco Promoters Divided Over
the Merits Of Two Battles Now
ScheduIed-Many Watch
Squlres Work

Judging from the noise made in the
northern papers, San Francisco and the
country around the bay must be head over
heels in love with the coming fight be-
tween Bosher Bill Squires and Tommy
Burns, but from all the interest, taken in
the affair locally 1t would appear that not
many Los Angeles sports will be among
those present on the afternoon of the
Fourth of July.
And speaking of the Frisco papers, there
seems to, be division of opinion among the
able scribes who air their opinions for the
benefit of the public. Most of the dailies
are boosting the Burns-Squires mill as
though 1t were the one and only event of
the decade, while the minority is there
strong with an opinion that Bat Nelson
and Jimmy Britt will put up the better
fight. If both mills go through this will
result in some more divided patronage by
the fans, and then things will begin to
stir.
But to get back to Bosher Bill and
Champion Tommy" For a long time
after he hit this country and started in
training the Australian kept his work
dark and refused to allow spectators to
visit his camp AT first 1t was thought
that he was another piece of citrus like
| Cox or Jack Palmer. but when the man
| from the antipodes uncovered what he had
the critics all agreed that he was some
| of a fighter in his preliminary work at
| least.
| The gamboliers will not take this ad-
vance stuff as final, however, for they have
| made the champion" a 10 to favorite
Those who are shooting their change on
the short end are doing so because they
| are willing to take chance and see if the
| unknown won't make good. He hasn't
| such an awful lot to beat at most, and
| If he is anything like Bob Fitzsimmons,
Young Griffo or any of that Australian
! bunch which came over in the good old
days of real heavyweight fighters Squires
| ought to cop.
| So the affair on July will develop into
| a contest between an unknown and So
called champion, and 1t causes no wonder
| that the local sports are not taking much
| interest In the affair. What little opinion
| is expressed is evenly divided, however,
and each side Is there with confidence of
| judgment
Joe Doyle and Molly Mcdonald are two
who are on opposite sides of the fence
| but while each decries or lauds the ability
of one man, neither side has much to say
about anyone but Squires
Doyle came down from Frisco couple
of weeks ago, and just before he left the
ruined city went out to watch Bosher Bill
work That Bill didn't impress Doyle as
being anything much can be CLEANED from
| the following:
"Yes, 1 saw Squires work out, and you
can put it down in the old hat that he's
a big dub. He moves around like a freight
| train on side track, and judging from
| the way he's built he ought to be piano
juggler and not fighter"
That's one side of it, but then Molly Nc
Donald comes along ana reclteS IKE thlS:
"Squires is all right 1 saw him work out
couple of weeks ago, and from the way
| he moved around and did his preliminary
work he ought to be the real jessamine."
There you have it, and it's take your
| pick in either case. Barney Reynolds,
| Squires manager, seems to be one of the
wisest foreigners who ever came here in
| a managerial capacity, and the fact that
he had $4,000 in real money to bet on Bills
chances ought to do something toward i'm
pressing the timid ones, who would take
a chance because they don't know what
feeble Burns efforts would be If there
were any real heavyweights in the ring at
| present