The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-17
WHY BILL sQu|REs was
SUCH An EASY MARK
All Australia Is Wondering How 1t
Happened-Can't Understand
1t At All, At All.

Australian exchanges just to hand
show that the defeat of Bill Squires
the champion of that country, was
as much of a Knockout to the average
Australian as it was to Squires him.
self. As a matter of fact, the Aus
tralians are still dazed from the blow
and cannot understand the thing at
all.
The Sydney Morning Herald, one
of the biggest and most influential
papers in the colonies, has this to say
about the catastrophe:
"Squires' failure comes as such a
surprise to Australian followers of
boxing that they are disinclined to
believe that the Newcastle man could
have been in his ordinary health.
That he should be beaten was pos
sible, but that he should be beaten
with such ease and be described in
terms of contempt by journalistic ex-
perts is inexplicable. His Australian
record was wonderful, not only by
it's success, but the ease with which
such success was attained. He inva-
riably exhibited great courage and
endurance, and compared favorably
with the Australian champions of a
dozen years ago, who held their own
with the world A heavy blow on the
temple is of course sufficient to dis
able the greatest fighter. Though
these rarely occur in fights, they are
recognized in the sport as belonging
to the class of knockout hits, which
comprises those on the point of the
jaw, the heart, the solar plexus and
the throat. The only excuse that can
be advanced for Squires' poor show
ing, assuming that no suspicion of
focusing or other foul play attaches
to anybody connected with the af-
fair, is that the blow was chance
one But the private cable message
received in Melbourne does not even
suggest this.
Australians generally, will regret
Squires' defeat, not only from patri-
otto but from personal motives. By
his manly conduct in the ring, and
clean living in private life, he was a
model athlete. and made warm
friends of all who met him.
A Melbourne paper, the Age. had
this to say the day after:
1.-The feeling of disappointment in
Melbourne at the result was very
keen.
Everybody thought the fight a
good thing for Squires; the only
question was whether it would take
him more than one round to win.
When word came through that he
had been heated in a round the news
could hardly be credited. That
Squires' poor showing with Burns
represents his true form, no one
who has followed his career thinks
for a moment. Boxing experts here
agree that the most reasonable eX-
PLANTATION of his disappointing form
is that he lost his head He has in
variably been excited; so excited at
times that he has appeared for a
time not to know what he was doing.
A cable received today by j. Wren
from his agent Barney Reynolds,
states that Burns won clearly in one
round. Reynolds advises that Squires
be recalled. Squires is under en-
gagement to Mr. Wren for twelve
months. Mr. Wren said tonight he
would wait for few days for fur
Their developments. A good deal of
money changed hands in Melbourne
over the fight, Squires being backed
at to on. Mr.. Wren was no doubt
the principal loser. He is stated to
have lost $4,000. He is naturally
very much disappointed, but still re-
CARDS Squires as a great fighter, and
thinks he will some day retrieve his
reputation