THE BURNS-SQUIRES BATTLE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 444, 31 December 1908, Page 3

THE BURNS-SQUIRES BATTLE.

Foxicn, Saturday

At the Public Hall on Saturday night MessrsMcMahon and Carroll . will introduce to Fpxton their extraordinary successful living picture reproduced of the now historic Burns-Squires encounter for the heavy weiglt boxing championship of the world, which was fought in the presence of 20,000 spectators in the huge Stadium in Sydney on' tie 24th- August last. The preliminary pictures show the • warriors at iheir training quarters, ‘ punching the ball, skipping and generally getting into form. All the rounds' are shown with remarkable clearness an I it is . possible to observe the wonderful Way Burns has of getting on his feet, his splendid generalship and unusual coolness. The pictures give a clear indication of the tremendous force Squires puts into his work and seems obvious that he must tire long before his much smaller antagonist. The thirteenth round takes the crowd, who get and. scream with for Burns is seen to reallly fight

all he knows until this event,

which proved so the Australian. on the board three Did the blow that outs clearly be seen. The the champion,, apparently fresh and cool, nod cheerily to his trainer and walk to his corner as if he was out for exercise. It is certainly a triumph in the way of a picture. The Auckland Star, referring to the opening of the season iu that city, says; “At the Opera House Messrs Geach, McMahon and Carroll presented for the first time a really marvellous series of animated pictures illustrating the great fight between Tommy Burns and Bill Squires, in addition to a delightful set of subjects showing the various,'incidents and competitions at the Franco-British Exhibition, tbe opening of the Olympic Games by His Majesty the King, the famous Marathon Race from Windsor to the London Stadium, with the unlucky Italian Dorando collapsing at the tape, water polo, tches, high diving, physical drill of the Danish ladies, fete. Long before the advertised time fifle opening a great crowd had gathered round the entrance and a rust tor seats followed as soon as the doors were opened and at 7.30 p.m. the authorities stepped in and refused to allow the sale of any morei* tickets and consequently a very large number had reluctantly to be ; denied admission. The enthusiasm of the audfence throughout the entertainment was intense,

especially so during .the BurnsSqmres pictures, when many of the audience completely forgot that : they were npt actually witnessing the great encounter itself. A ' noticeable feature was the large percentage of ladies present. Fox-: i ton-can be visited on this occasion ' The box plan is at Devett’s.