The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-09-18
STORY Of THE
BURNS VICTORY
Writer Describes Fight
and Pays Tribute to
Tommy.

cICpuHI VI the
Burns-Squires fight is taken from
Sydney paper. 1t goes to show that
Squires has gained much in science,
but that he was unable to hand the
sleep medicine to his brother colonial.
1t is remarkably well written story
and goes to show that the Australian
papers pay careful attention to sports
and engage the best writers to cover
events of this kind:
Tommy Burns retained the boxing
championship of the world Yesterday,
when he knocked out Bill Squires, the
champion of Australia, in the thir-
teenth round, surrounded by the dole
full countenanees of $4,000 Australian
spectators.
'The fight was one of the most ex-
citing that Australia has seen for
many years. From start to finish it
was full of movement, bright and will
ing, and both men fought with a pune
tilious fairness that won the admira-
ton of adverse barrackers. The for
tunes veered to and fro, and though
Squires prevailed during the first ten
r0unds-at times almost overwhelming
ly-Burns showed such marvellous re-
operative powers that at no time did
the contest appear one-sided.
GAS he stripped off Burns did not
look too well facially, He was pale,
and the statement that he had been
under medical attendance suffering
from a cold was easily realized.
Squires, much winter in the skin than
when he left, seemed fully fit, but on
the light side
"'The Stadium was well filed, over
$4,000 people being present A crowd
numbering almost $4,000 persons clus-
tered outside the enclosure, and on the
eminences nearby, from whence
glimpses of the ring could be obtain
ed On the apex of the telegraph poles
nearby stood three men, silhOuetted
against the skyline, enjoying view
equal to that obtained from the five
guinea seats. Dozens of American of
ficers were present, as well as many
leading citizens of Sydney and other
Australian capitals.
"The issue leaves no doubt as to the
respective merits of the two men.
Barring accidents, Squires would be
beaten by Burns every day in the
week. and that in spite of the fact that
the Australian prevailed during nearly
the whole of yesterdays fight, and at
every stage was the undoubted winner
on points The difference between the
two men is that Squires is pugllist-
pugilist who has developed his pow
ers to a high degree, but still only
pugilist Burns is a scientist, who has
applied his brain to solving the prob
lem of the knockout. That he did not
become an eminent bacteriOlOgist or
chemist is merely the accident of cir
cumstances. The factors which have
made him a champion fighter might
have won him the Rumford medal-ail
but one. Added to his scientific precl-
sion of boxing is a capacity for TAX
ing punishment which is almost super
human. 1t may be possible to hurt
Burns with battle-axe, but most of
those who witnessed his performance
of Yesterday would be inclined to
doubt it. Squires rained upon the APP
parentlv soft, boyish face of the cham
pion sufficient blows to satisfy any
three followers of the game whom Aus
tralia can remember. But they did not
trouble Burns. After the nervous
shock following the first impact they
seemed to pass entirely out of his
mind, and two minutes after the spec
tators expected him to fall IN state
of collapse. he was entering into the
fight with the cheerful vim of man
answering the first crash of the gong.
The contest between Squlres and
Burns was the contest between the
bull and the matador-with this eX-
ception, the Latin countries have yet
to produce a matador willing to tire
out the bull by allowing it to toss and
gore him for half an hour. That IS
what Burns did When he stepped IN
to deliver the final stroke, Squires was
already a beaten man-beaten by the
awful exertion of banging his fists
AGAINST the basalt countenance OF Mr..
Noah Brusso. True it is that there
was another matter which passed I'M
noticed by many, but which was ap..
parentIv brought under the notice OF
Souires in a marked manner. Every
time they hit in holds Burns continued
10 invest his blows with the prepon- |
lerance of weight. and to direct them
IN more vulnerable points. Squares