BOXING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13390, 19 January 1907, Page 7

BOXING.

A Melbourne col 1,-),,.n0, nt writes lo the Svdlie-V Referee a- fo'low.- :-- " Not a blow ha- been struck i.i Melbourne -one Hill Sipiires -o (<iiivineingiv v. hipped Mike Williams for the championship of Australia: and, having ■ leaned up all 'he eligible heavy-weights in Australia, Squires appears to be doing ihe right thing in seeking for fresh men lo conquer in Kngland and America. Rill has long had a desire to shake the. dust of Australia from his fee,, and this can be understood when it i- stated that he hashad to submit to an even 'cut' of every purse, big <» ■small, that he has fought, for in this city. He and Williams divided £400 as the result- of Saturday afternoon'-. 45 .seconds' brush, while previously when lid slopped Rill Smith inside of a "round they each received £150, and so on. Squires and his friends have long realised that it was manifestly unfair for the champion to receive only as much as the loser, but there was no alternative Squires could never get' a man to face him in the ring hero before In. gave him his assurance that the purs*? or gate, receipt's would be cut oven."

Squires was lo have left Australia thiweck for America to light Jeffries for the world's championship, but at the last, mimile the, Australian revived word that, .Jeffries had refused to sign tin- article-. Squires will now most probably meet Johnson, she coloured champion, whom Jeffries has also refused to fight on tho colour question.