Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-03-18
THE PUGlLlSTe
  BILL SQUIRES . A GOOD ONE
Australian. Writer Says He Can Beat Any Man in This or
 Any Other Country.

will sail from Melbourne to-day, He is expected to arrive in San Francisco in about three weeks. When offered a big purse to fight Jack Johnson in 1 Australia, Squires declined and said he had made up his mind to go to America. where he intended to chal- lenge Jeffries as his first opponent. .i J. T. Beckett, well known writer on pugilism in the Melbourne Age, i gives this line on the Antipodean: I After a careful and conscientious study of Squires I am of the opinion that he has been perfectly furnished by nature with all the attributes necessary to excel as a boxer. l see much of the boxers and their methods and have schooled myself to criticise them impartially. I rarely enthuse over any of them. but of Squires I cannot help expressing admiration as type. Here is the way he ap- peals to me: k
 Exceptionally speedy and well . balanced in all his movements. Quick as terrier on his feet, possessing the ability to strike blow at weight, 12 stone 6 pounds (112 pounds), that that would be accounted powerful ] in man weighing Is stone (210): the same terrible punch with either hand and as fast as a ferret after his man. In all the fights I 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 victories have been knoekouts. He lost on a foul to Arthur Cripps, but Cripps has publicly stated since that he would not meet Squires again, as he did not think that he was in the latter's class.
 'Squires is a quiet, modest, unas- suming fellow who does not brag or buster. He has never yet ventured an opinion that he would win a fight. He merely says: My chance Is good. I'll do my best As his honesty is as true to his courage, his best has all way prevailed, and l think he will win over any one at present in the American ring. cannot see how any one of Squires's weight is going to prolong a fight with him through twenty rounds. The pace he sets is far too hot for that, and one or the other must surely go out in half E the time.
 "Squires is 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 find him always at home loung- ing or reading the paper. He does not smoke, but usually takes a glass of stout with his meals.
 T watched him train for his con- test with Mike Williams. He hit the ball at top speed for twenty minutes, commenced to box with Fireman Waldie, who weighs 14 stone G96), but had the bad luck to knock Waldie out in the first round. Squires then went in for shadow fighting for a quarter of an hour. and then wrestled for twenty minutes with a strapping big athlete. After that be picked up the skipping rope. and using all sorts of fancy combinations kept at this branch of exercise until his trainer, Jlhuy huSScIl, Sdllcu d nat.
 ''I have seen Fitzsimmons, Jackson. Goddard. Slavin, Farnan and Dooley in action, and I am sure that Squires would have routed any of them in short order. I was the first writer to proclaim Squires the coming cham pion. This was after saw him per form on Starlight. The other papers laughed at the opinion. but they have all taken it back since. and every professional here has had to grudg. ingly acknowledge that Squires pos. sesses undoubted superiority over any fighter that Australia has produced In his workaday moments he is vari. ously miner, axeman. teamster horse trader, stockman, shearer. and high grade workman at each. He is. in Tact. typical. self-reliani Australian. born in Narrabri. New South Wales. 2s years ago. He is g
 remarkable athlete in other ways outside of the ring"
 James ]. Jeffries will sail fol
 Europe on the Kaiser Wilhelm or June 10. His wife will go with hin
 and a tour of the Continent will b, made This does not look as if Jeff was all in financially or intends {,
 reenter the ring for some time [, come.
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