LANG AND SQUIRES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1909, Page 11

LANG AND SQUIRES.

« ! HEAVY-WEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP. Australian papers to hand give details : of t,he Lang-Squires fight at .Melbourne. I Right up till the last few rounds Squires I was leading on points. Then it was a | case of give and take. Both men were fagged out, and although they came together frequently they never managed to land a telling blow. However, w ithin two minutes of the end of the twentieth round, when victory was assuredly within the grasp of the New South Welshman, a lucky right by Lang dazed his opponent, and another knocked him out. It was bad luck for Squires, for right through the encounter he did all the leading, and seveial times narrowly missed accounting for his burly opponent. The first blow of the fight was struck by Squu-es, who landed- lightly on the face. This he followed with a light left to the jaw. The men clinched, and when they broke Squires drove left and right to body. A miss with Squires' right gave Lang a chance of landing his left on the j body, and Squires retaliated with a left and right on the face and ribs. On the gong sounding for the second round, Lang jumped in and started to force the pace. Squires managed to reach him with % a lelt in the face, but this did not stop the Victorian, who banged his left on io the jaw. Then he landed another on Squires' eye. A right from Squires on the body brought Lang's left sharply on the jaw, and Squires i rocked. He managed to keep his head, ! and drove a right into Lang's face as lie ! rushed in. Just as the bell went Lang planted a hard left on his opponent's chin. The blow appeared to daze Squires. When the third round started, Squires surprised the crowd by rushing an.d swinging his right to the jaw, staggering Lang, who received a heavy blow on the body before he could recover from the shock. As the round closed Lang got one on to Squires' body. Rounds four, five, and six were all in favour of Squires, who managed to get several heavy blows home. He showed fine form in evading Lang's swing 3, and finished up the sixth round by drawing blood from his opponont's nost>. The seventh, eighth, and ninth rounds were a little more even, although Squires still 'did moit of -the leading, and gdt ■several nasty blows home. In the tenth round both men 'sought to evade punishment by clinching, but here again Squires proved the more clever of the two, and managed to reach Lang's face and, body with both left and right. Nothing sensational marked the eleventh round ; but in the twelfth Squires got to work fast, and drove his left and right repeatedly into Lang's fa-ce, with the result that he shook his opponent considerably. The thirteenth round was a repetition of its predecessor, and the gong found i Lang groggy. The^ fourteenth and fifteenth rounds were m fav»ur of Squires. In the sixteenth round Lang appeared to brighten up, and he managed to reach Squires' jaw with his left, and rattled him considerably. He was too weak, however, to follow up his advantage. At the end of the round Squires was given oxygen. In the 17th round Lang began with a hard right on the jaw, and Squires retaliated with a left and right in the face, and Lang rushed him to the ropes. There was a tierce rally, which ended in Lang sending Squires back with an. uppercut. Squires opened the eighteenth round with six lefts to the face in quick succession. Lang then got in two with the left on the jaw, and Squires with his left opened his opponent's eye. As the round closed Lang again , made* contact with his left on the face. In the nineteenth round both men were very weak, and clinches were frequent. Both tried for knock-out blows, but neither were lucky enough to land one. ' The final round opened by Squires slipping as he left his corner. He recovered himself, but had hardly got steady when Lang came at him, and in an interchange managed to whip hid right on to the point. Squires rocked, and, Lang following up, sent in another right, which lloored his opponent, who was counted out. j