The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-15
AND SQUIRES MEET
AGAIN, AND SQUIRES LOSES

ring and you ought to have heard that
crowd shout and holler for good old
Sullivan and his patriotic act. The
lighting world and the followers of the
fighters are, l think, as stanch sup
porters of the gold old red, white and
blue and the Stars and Stripes as
any other body of men in the coun-
try. You can take that from me, Kiddo.
Have o heard the latest? All the
way from Paris comes the astonishing
news that Bill Lennon Squires nearly
had Tommy Burns out in their fight
there last night. The battle went eight
rounds, at the end of which Burns put
his sleeper over on the Australian.
IT was in the fourth round, so the
cablegram says. that Squires got one
on Burns's jaw, staggering him and
sending him Keeling across the ring.
The gong, says tho same report, saved
Burns from a knockout.
The blow which settled Squires was
in the stomach, and it took five min
utes for the Lemon to come to. It is
too far away to judge the merits of
this battle. and the least said about
the game Of boxing.
Jdth JOllllSOH WIS at the fllSSlue
and saw the affair, and now we must
wait and heal what Jack has to say
about it. From the accounts of the
fight Paris must be fight mad.
Women, the society women as they
are called, but no better than n
other set of women, jumped from their
boxes and Rugged the Canadian. Burns
is certainly having a rosy time of it
in gay Paree, and all the time Johnson.
the oolored gentleman, who thinks, and
so do others, that he has a sleep-pro-
ducer far better than Burns's, must sit
around idle and watch Tommy and
such a hippodrome artist as Squires
make easy money.
Now, if Johnson is sincere and is
wise he viii go and get Squires. The
French people would pay well to see
Johnson working in the ring with n
one. Johnson certainly Pust know
this, and he and Squires should not
daily long over terms. If the colored
man put Squires away with a punch
then johnson could go out in the
streets of Paris and make Burns do
one of two things-6ght or get out of
the French capital.
If Squires showed better against
johnson than he did against Burns,
then the people of that country would
stand by Burns as their champion and
would not listen to the criticisms Of
Sam Fitzpatrick or his portege, Jack
johnson.
In other words. fake fights are not
taken with any good feeling at all. 1t
was fakes that killed the game in New
York State and this State as well,
and down in California the game vent
by the boards there for a time because
of fixed mp affairs.
Newark at one time could boast of
it's boxing clubs. The game paid so
well in those days that one of our po-
lice captains resigned his job to look
after the interests of "Freckled Bob"
In other cities in this State the game
was allowed, but not any more. In
one city which know a couple of men
were banking $1,000 every month from
these affairs. The club signed up
Mysterious Billy Smith and Young Ma
honey to fight ten rounds.
They started in all right, and then
began to play Castor and A|lphonse.
They were taking, and thought they
had struck a jay city. They went four
rounds and were ordered out of the
ring. and the crowd was so incensed
that many of those who had paid to see
a good bout went to letter writing. and
the chief Of police put a quietus on
the boxing game, and from that day to
this it is a crime in that city to have
a ring erected in your own house, and
all because two outsiders came there
and tried 20 5efoozle the public.