Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-26
THE PUGlLlSTS BILL SQUIRES
 GOOD FORM
May Make it Interesting For Burns -Nelson and Britt Ready
 Other Fight News.

San Francisco, June 26.-When big Bill Squires enters the ring 1t Colma on July to fight Tommy Burns he will be 'sun baked, to a degree that would put piece of restaurant china to shame.
 Bill spends two days of each week Ut Santa Cruz, where he eau indulge in surf swimming and lie ill the sand, swept by the salt breeze and burned by blistering s,lt.
 Squires visits the beach twice daily, but seeks secluded spot and lies in the sun and takes what lie calls a ''sun bake," which, he says, is a new stunt in training for d light. He appears to be in perfect coalition and says that his daily plungss in the surf are doing him much good. With him V hen he takes his plunge in the salt water is his friend, judge peu- l ton.
 T never felt better Tn my life" l Squires says. These dips in the sea ! haze missed while at my regular ] quarters. This is my principal reason | for going to Santa Cruz. When l go I into the ring on July l will be i'll | perfect fighting condition.
 Squires is an expert swimmer. He engaged in match race vita Frel Swantou and led the Santa Cruz ex- pert homc. They swum ont to the pleasure boat Balboa and return, a distance of about half mile. One hundred yards from the finish Squires ] put on a burst of speed and finished first by many lengths.
 Seventy members of the Sharkey A. C. journeyed to Fishkill Landing yesterday to see Rouse O'Brien go through his training stunt for his coming bout with Tommy Murphy scheduled for Friday night at the Sharkey A. c. 0'Brien went a bout with Charlie Seiger.
 Murphy is saying nothing hut going along quietly at Stratford
 Conn, and says he will be .'on the
 job" on Friday night Tomorrow the same delegation that went to Fish
 kill will make the journey to Strat'
 ford ana watch Murphy go through
 his training stunt.
 The weight problem, which was ex'
 pected to be hard one for Nelson and
 Britt to solve, will cause them nc
 trouble Both are within reach of th'
 required weight, with the fight stil
 two weeks of. Nelson said he would
 have to call halt in his reducing ol
 he would soon be in the featherweigh
 class. Both men are following iden
 tically the same routine. going on tn road in the morning and boxing Il the afternoon. Nelson has swim ming rool near his quarters and dis
 ports therein when the serious worl of the day is done. Manager Billy Nolan is watchin; Nelson closely to note the effect O training upon him Some have claim ed that Nelson would not stand train
 ing again after all the hard work h has done in the ring during the las five years. Nolan says he has seel no indication of loss of stamina. On
 
 . the contrary the Hekewisch man | training nicely and will have ho ex cuse to offer on the score of condi ton. s.. as+
 Britt apparently is hitting harde than at any time in his career. Dav 7 Ernst, his sparring partner, has hal . to bear the brunt of his hard hittin } recently and was compelled to aban
 don that department of work. Brit will do a lot of wrestling. as 1t i s figured that when Britt and Nelso B get into action in the ring there vii . be consldeyable roughing in tn . clinches.
 f Britt weighs about 136 or lS
 pounds at the present time and want f to keep at that weight for anothe
 week. The hardest part of his wor f will be to take of the last pound s especially when he must retain all hi f strength and speed. <