Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-29
II the Australian Wins it Means
He Must Meet Jim
Jeffres.
AN UNCERTAIN QUANTITY.
For This Reason There is a Great Deal
or Speculation aud Comment as
i To Ability of Big Fellow.
Special Correspondence,

Special Correspondence.
San Francisco, June 2S,--Local au-
thorities here have forbidden the use
of firecrackcrs or other explosives on
Independence Gay for fear that tho
great fire Of April, 1906 might be re-
peated so those in search of excite
ment will have to travel just across the
: borders of the county to a little town
called Colma. There the struggle in
augurated July 4. lT76. Will be re-
hearsed in miniature by two ring
champions, one wearing the Stars and
Stripes and the other the union-jack.
AS the whole sporting world knows
Tommy Burns Is to meet Bill Squires.
of Australia, for the heavyweight
championship OF the world. But q
shadow hangs over the title. due to
the looming figure of Jim Jeffrles, who
will guide the men in the ring. Should
Burns win ne will remain In undis-
puted possession of all the glory he
can get out of the match. Should
Saures win he will have to fight JET
fies before he can carry the title back
TO the Australian bush with him.
JEFFRIEs NEXT.
II isn't because Squlres is going to
fight Burns that he Is interesting but
because he may fight Jeffrles He ~
the only man IN the world today with
whom the big alfalfa farmer will don
the mitts and should the two meet IL
will be the battle of the age. Jenries
has said that lie will allow no foreign
er TO carry away tho championship
while he remains unoslorixed ana while
Squires is more like cousin of ours
the relationship is sufficiently distant
to make good the word of the conquer
or of Corbett and Fitzsimmons. Ii
Burns Is beaten. as many are coming
to believe he will be, match will cer-
tainly be signed between Jeffries aud
Squres. 1t win be worth watching.
Even out here where he's been train
ing nobody knows much about Squires.
So far as America goes he is an I'M
known quantity for the advance no
tices he got while his ship was on the
way over and the fans were longing
for a big event We're SO Wild as to be
worthless. Little by little the husky
miner has been winning his way In
the confidence OF the public, for he IS
quiet and business-like, but he doesn
care TO talk much and who he is and
what he has done remain for the most
part unanswered questions. An answer
to both OF them is given herewith.
WANTED BETTER JOB.
Bill Squlres was born rs years ago
according TO this manager, though
others pl ace the date earlier)
" Nsrrabri little bush
town IN the Australian back
woods, His father was a farmer and
the son has continued more or less OF
a farmer all through his life. He grew
mp as rough country boy fighting his
childhood fights and generally winning
them. AS soon as he was sufficiently
well developed, which was early, he
began to work on the roads as a team
ster. He took great loads OF wool and
wheat to market in the larger towns
and usually drove teams of from six
TO eight horses. But wages are small
when you are working for your father,
especially in the Antipodes, and Bill
began to look around for more remu-
nerative employment
WORKED IN MINES.
So he became a miner while still In
his teens. Every sort of mine he has
worked in--diamond, opal, coal and
gold mines-and in almost every part
of Australia. He tells, with some
pride. how he was the first man in
Australia to operate the lngersoll com :
pressed air coal cutter and he was the
more anxious tc do II because he got
double wages for running the new
American machine, The big fellow
wears a rather serious and care-worn
expression and his friends who came
over with him say II is due to his
years In the mines. The same express
sion was noticeable in Jack Monroe
and is said to be characteristic OF men
who have lived much underground
FOUGHT AT SIXTEEN,
squires commenced totfght when he
was l6 or Ii years old. He battled un-
der the old London prize ring rules with
bare knuckles In the Australian back
" GODS they still fight that way and
scorn the Marquis OF Queensbury rules
which they refer to as 1.-THE ballroom
system For q beginner Squlres was
fairly successful and added consider
ably to his pocket money and local rep
utation.
There was a certain "townie" of his.
as the Britlshers refer 10 their towns
folk, named McColl. who was after
ward champion of Australia. He was
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