The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-05-15
SQUlRES HAS
HIS HANDS FULL
Of Challenges All Want to
Meet Australian Dead and
Live Ones in Line.

The arrival of Bill Squires the Aus
tralian heavyweight has brought
many fighter who has long since
been forgotten out of his hole. Pugs
who some years ago dropped into OBJ
livion have taken a temporary new
lease on life. and are out with chal-
lenges to the Australian. The Ameri-
can pugilist has come to look upon
all foreigners as easy game, and
Squires is not an exception They be-
lieve that to get match with Suuires
Is like finding money, and the Kanga-
roo boxer will find himself buried in
challenges before he has had a chance
to get good breath of free American
atmosphere.
Jack Root of Chicago is the first
one of the has-beens to come out with
achallenge. He wants to meet Squires
whether or no. He doesn't care what
the conditions are, nor how the money
Is split up, just so he will be given an
opportunity to defend the title for his
country. OF course, Root doesn't care
how the money is divided, so he gets
his share of it. To hear some Of these
fighters make their bluffs one would
suppose that this great country was
in danger of losing its champions.
johnson May Come.
There is no reason for alarm. Mr..
Squires will be accommodated before
he returns to Australia, and, incident
ally, it might be added that there is a
chance of his getting everything that
he expects and then some.
AS Squirese has decided that he will
lie low for couple of months to get
his land legs before tackling any of
the American boxers, Jumping Jack"
Johnson may slip back from the land
OF the kangaroo in time to claim first
whack at him.
johnson should have it, although he
is not likely to get it. Beyond doubt
he is the best Of the heavyweights out
side of Jeffries, in spite of the fact
that Marvin Hart has registered de-
cision over him. Squires has never
hid behind the color screen, and that
is in Johnson's, favor.
But Squires has wise manager,
judging from the reports that come
from San Francisco, and the chances
are he does not want Mistah John
sons game any too soon. He has
William lying low, but saying a whole
lot, which means money. 1t gets
folks guessing, and the more they
guess the more they are interested in
Mr.. Squires. and the more interested
they become the more will they put
up to see him, and the more will fight
promoters pay for Mr.. Squire's ap-
pearance. Case of Oliver Twist all
around.
Squires wants to meet the winner
of the Jack O'Brien-Tommy Burns
bout, but as Mr.. O'Brien is proving as
coy as usual, and must be coaxed with
a sure-enough big end for Joseph Ha-
gan, real estate dealer and athelete, it
may be that Squires will be obliged to
take on some one else first.
Are Plenty of Others.
There are plenty of others. There
is Al Kaufman for one. There is N.Y.
kell Shrek for another, not to mem
ton Tomasso Burns. incidentally
there is. Robert Rufus F'itzsimmons
and also Peter Maher and others who
are headed for the cemetery, If not
already there. But leaving out the
jokes and Tom Sharkey, who will no
doubt advertise that he is still alive
by sending out challenge, there are
plenty to try out Squires before call
ing on James ]. Jeffries to hasten to
the rescue. although the Australian
looks pretty good at that.
They have developed good boxers in
Australia, as the names of Robert
Fitzsimmons, Jim Hall, Peter jack
son, Steve O'Donnell, Frank Slavin,
Australian Billy Murphy. Young Crit
70 and host Of others passed out of
the limelight recall Squires may not
have met really great man in Aus
tralia, but the fact that he is at the
top OF the heap there, and that COM
petent judges pronounce him good. is
enough for any east of Missouri.
Many Australian boxers have come
over to this country and fought with
much success. Peter Jackson. Bob
Fitzsimmons, Dan Creedon and Jem
Hall are some of the most noted.
Here is a list, made up at Random,
giving some of the kangaroo boxers
who are we'll known to the Yankee
sports: Peter. Jackson, heavyweight;
Tom Leeds, heavyweight; Dan Cree
don, heavyweight; Jem Hall, heavy
weight; Joe Goddard. heavyweight;
Billy Mccarthy, middleweight; Billy
Smith, middleweight; George Dawson,
welterweight; Arthur Walker, welter-
weight; Tom Williamss welterweight;
Jim Barren, welterweight; Tim Hag-
gerty, lightweight; Otto Grips. light
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