BOXING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 437, 20 February 1909, Page 12

BOXING.

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The discovery of Australia's -new heavyweight champion, pugilist Ikst : at. Sydney St'4diusn, i:W'ais nbt a thrilling opisd.de. •When' tang and/Squireis other the: most- obHo'us fact was-jthat each, wss. afraid t)f the. other. ; aiid- nsither wa's ' looking for trouble.' SijiliroS. made, the.saiaS .miatate ;aS Tornmj Burnfe. . He held. the .'championship, and the", bther fellow was .after.. it; : .and , in- .■ stead of letting him coiiie aftet ity .alid do tie - 'bullocking,. Sguires' sailed in to polish-off;tno' • 1 aspirant. '■!,' Napolebii's ■ idea about tne.best defence dofes uot always apply .in bosiig. ..' Sqtiires..-Ms. of: a M<J wdlnuii hue, while LaSg WiS ai vmto.aia 143y, and sfeSfflfd ''SBSffito: Tbi rounds showed!that;.Mtflbdlh^S^ffifiS' Eds HShe .h'is gained gbniwfiat in skill, biit. f ■ftßetner the'. gai;i , Wuiiferjjala&c'eii the loss is'.iaoirfe thai doiibtful. -now, hjs gain ija ot pause i- bifiii tb|;b& fe'rioilsly regarded .a's % fignfer of. .the. ~«ev§r at Afif time, in l spite,; of.the - ;'a'dulatM .of:Meiboiirii'e, . scfibfeS,- Was -SquiJes,' • but. 'a: ffi§h6t" of the type that J? oiilj 8b Knj? as it meets.iiilefl wn'd alldS'.tMrdSilV'eS! id be; rushea. \ThSit Squir'eS ihe't onb frhd one', named Burns, Woii' 'ilsb bhritM, ■ thfe. #la b§gin; and it has Beeft goihg on %YSe sliloe. Barriiig 'a, ttfr fihb, .fist ralliSsi wfi%n ISn|; lost his tteinper aid ftideS. iii' t& do suddehlyl 'the fi'ght. a flrfeary f hustUhg match. It \vds• fought'todfer IW.W : which'absolutely bar- iitßghiiiig aia for a tlean: hreali-,': in ' which both '.ttSfi- inuat step : right . M6k; Mafiy 'of tli'e 'spectators hboted . Ilahg. for' hitting Squires while thb jitter .Wis: Biaging. ott! But 'a^. h6 :• jbafl bdth hafids Hfe;fie- Ws fentStled tft xlo: 86 t ' jmH oScaaiftnally he gbt .si : sisffl& labs d'tfriig tfte fiiigsv lAngJS ii liubh fetronger fas than Squires; yet; the latter .did the- forciflgj just as he; did against Burns; and wore, himself out doing it.' Although lie. 'wis fihdlly pushed: (not: knoclred) dowhi SquitbS. was hot knocked out in the proper . Sense r>f the term-. It : was a' case of sheer exiiauStidh', ihiiscular attrition:: ; Eveh then he might have ootid up again but for the fact that in falling the. ba.ck 'of his : head hit '.the bdttom, rotie-, and, the min's hect was' badly .- ftrehchei'.- ■ Iji fafct, thb fend - of Squires, wa? pathetic — he waa more lianged than lniftckcd out. . • ! Both men missel opportunities by the scSro. Squires .would daVite/about, lookiug for an -burning for his. heavy rigllt, STriil§, and \ra&tfe ,: much valuable : .dodging aWund the ringvivßen' a -strhignt left youla have dono .c'oi'sidefable "dimage, and all the .whiles:iie ..was signalling,, as plainly as ttfuld bp '■'W'atcli my hj-ht.l And-.in .the fend JAng would rush, him-, and instead kndek-out theS-e..wouid bo a shuffle Which always feiided with Squires catching-Eaiig soln'ewherS roufld th 6 calvcfe, an'd. h'oldilig tight. Lang woiild probibly" hive Sbwi. a lot .of rbshihg on .hii owii- account, buti-like the Devil's .congcieiice, the voice .o^fiasiri&iteter .liu&j^er.rSMlWSick. was- 'alwiys. whisperiilg in-his . ear; to . let Squires : knock hinisfelf to. pieces: agairtst a solid defence —: and did .it-. Fitzpatvick told writftr that .hb .tionVemplatea taking Amfeffta to put against Kauffmann. He will :have to'teach, him a lot before he lets hini intp a ring with any thoroughly accomplished boxer. . The ttah will get wallobed to.'a, he ihbws fat .mof-o -. skill,' 4ifd ability tp; "tilke a'dvftiitage. Of bpehingS thali lib shbwed •oil Tiiosclay'iiight. .Thc two iiii ! coiftpotehts iiouiiderwl roiihd. thfe -Virig tJiie Wond# if hb ;#as feally in Ao|tfiTißj; tjib tboiilihg toother of sb mahy .thbinpionS.ih tllb past. ..... .... '