The Washington times., 1907-06-30
BURNS-SQUIRES
CONDITION FIT
FOR BIG SCRAP
Good Habits Greatly
Help Both-CanuckS
Not Betting.
By w. w. NAUGHTON.


SAN FRANCISCO. June 29.-No brace
OF fighters ever looked filter on the eve
of a battle than BIZ Squires, of Aus
tralia, and Tommy Burns, the Canadian.
Each has trained under conditions
which were exactly TO his liking and
neither has met with the semblance Of
Il mishap. The two sturdy ringsters are
stripped of everything IN the shape of
sUperfiuous flesh. They are clear pip2d
and muscular looking and they are as
brown skinned as gypsies from swim
ming and sun bathing beneath summer
skies.
On the face Of II, il looks as though
the worlds championship at Ocean
View or the afternoon of the 4th Of
July should be one Of those stubborn
tussels that live in memory. 1t is not
a case Of couple of careless-habite6.
easy-going heavyweights being reached
up for the occasion. as Is frequently the
case with modern gladiators-
Good Habits Help Them
Squires and Burns are natural born
athletes. and in the matter OF clean
living each of them Is one man in a
thousand OF his kind. The petulant pop
OF the wine cork has no charms for
Tommy or BIZ. Squires couldn't tell
Manhattan cocktail from a jolt OF ST
Jacobs oil If his life depended on It.
and Tommy is said TO be equally un-
acquainted with the taste and form Of
up-to-date appetizers. Smoking a cigar
is an indulgence that either man goes
in for at long intervals. and then only
20 stife the suspicion that he is utterly
without fads or faults
Such abstemiousness may mean Moth
ing in the way Of better health or
steadier nerves for the ordinary citizen.
but the chances are fellow who makes
his way in the world by his suppleness,
strength. alertness, and activity loses
nothing by hewing to the line of the
simple life
No Chance for Crawl.
The very fact that Burns and squires
are such disciplinarians in their habits
will at any rate lessen the chance Of
argument as to which is the better ring
man when Thursdays match is fought,
Each Of them is a monument Of health
and strength, and with these things as
equal as they seem to be the test ap-
pears to narrow down 70 a question OF
fighting ability and fighting spirit.
To put the case in a nutshell. Squires
and Burns have been so well taken care
OF by nature in the matter OF athletic
endowments and have taken such care
of these gifts that there is little 10 fear
OF the wrong man coming out on top
when they get together.
Australia VS. Canada
. Promoter Cofrroth. with an eye to the
4 international aspect Of the thing. has
3billed the worlds championship as
rontest in which Australia is pitted
Ta aTFr hot
but il is not a case OF Australia against
the United States. Burns is a Canadian.
The fact that the countries named are
opposed to each other in a prize ring
Invent awakes "reminiscences. II is prob
ably the first time that Australia and
tCanada have We'd with each other for
the blue ribbon Of fistdom, but IL isn't
by long odds the first time the two
British dependencies have striven for
supremacy in other departments OF
sport.
Many q time during the past thirty
years Australia has been a thorn in
Canada's side in connection with the
worlds single scull championship. One
( has only to recall the victories Of
{ Beach. SearIes. and Towns over Hanlon,
{ o'Connor. and Gaudaur to verify this.
Canucks Not Backing Burns.
The affair between Harry searles. of
Australia. and Billy O'Connor, of To-
1 ronto. on the Thames seventeen or
eighteen years ago Vas the medium of
heavier betting probably than any row.
ing match that has taken place before
or since. And the Australians got the
COIN"
Canadians. as a people. are not as in
fpra Cd in
ing. and there is little fear of Burns
being as heavily backed by his country
men TO defeat Squires as O'ConnOr was
20 out-row Searles. But II the Canucks
cared for another betting tilt they would
probably find that Jack Wren. promoter.
OF Squires and other Australian sport
ing men. would cover every dollar that
would be put up on grounds.
Suspicious of Nelson.
The Britt-Nelson match which was
scheduled to take place on the night OF
July 3, has been postponed until July 81
Whether or Lot it will take place then
is question The ostensible cause of
postponement is an abscess in Nelson's
ear, although people who ought to know
say that the change OF date was really
being brought about by the attitude of
the sporting public toward the affair.
To begin with. NoIan's shamelesslv
frank announcement that the contest
had been arranged for the purpose of
splitting Coffroth. who is to handle the
Squires-Burns bout on July 4. placed
the match in bad odor with San Fran
cisco's fight patrons In the next place
the folks here were puzzled to think
that Battling Nelson, who has striven so
hard for his prize ring prestige, should
be content 10 risk his reputation with
Britt after ten or twelve days Of train
ing. for that would have been the ex-
tent OF the Danes preparation If he
had been required 20 enter the ring
Wednesday night
Nolan Four Flushing.
There Is an Undercurrent of feeling
here that the whole business partook Of
the nature of a -four flush" Nolan's
object being TO coerce Coffroth into
settling an old dispute about picture
money. Coffroth, who is firm In his dec
lSration that he does not owe Nolan or
Nelson a cent, refused to be mulcted.